PromovareGoogle.ro vine in sprijinul propietarilor de afaceri pe Internet cu ultimele noutati legate de Google si promovarea site-urilor web in Google. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ Fri, 18 May 2012 11:32:02 +0300 contact@promovaregoogle.ro (Contact promovaregoogle) 115 15 http://www.seomaxim.ro/content/images/logo_seomaxim.png http://www.seomaxim.ro/ http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/de-ce-au-magistratii-romani-viza-de-europa/ de-ce-au-magistratii-romani-viza-de-europa Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:03:27 +0200 Eu nu cred ca magistratii romani merita aceleasi drepturi cetatenesti precum ceilalti romani. In 2007, ne-am integrat in Europa fara ei.De ce nu sunt trimisi sa stea la cozile non-EU alaturi de chinezi, africani, thailandezi, ucrainieni, turci, indieni si restu' popoarelor din afara Europei? N-ar fi motivatie mai buna decat asteptarea la o coada non-EU in aeroport. Mai ales ca vin sarbatorile si concediile de iarna, pe care Doamne-Fereste! niciun magistrat mai acatarii nu si le face in Romania. Numai la gandul vacantelor ratate si sa vezi atunci imbold pentru reformare si performanta in justitie.Europa ii respinge ca breasla inca de la aderarea din 2007 care s-a semnat cu conditia ca magistratii romani sa performeze cert si credibil. Dupa cinci ani, ei sunt in continuare monitorizati, netrecuti clasa, neintegrati. Ba mai mult, fiindca magistratii romani nu sunt deloc credibili, Olanda blocheaza abuziv intrarea Romaniei in spatiul Schengen pe motive de justitie defecta. Poti sa-i contrazici pe olandezi? Cu ce sunt eu vinovat de performanta lamentabila a unor procurori si judecatori?Pe pasapoartele lor ar trebui sa fie acolo o dunga ceva, un asterisc de clasificare drept "magistrat roman". La care vamesu' ungur, francez, englez, neamt sau italian sa ii trimita cu actele doveditoare la coada de non-EU. Sa umble liber prin Europa dupa ce aplica pentru viza, ca pe vremurile in care au ramas blocati. Sa stea acolo in aeroport la coada de unde apartin, printre papornitele africanilor si ale indienilor. Sa stea cu motoru' pornit in vama asteptandu-si locul dupa tirurile turcilor, nu sa treaca ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/eric-schmidt-google-va-lansa-in-cel-mult-sase-luni-o-tableta-de-cea-mai-buna-calitate/ eric-schmidt-google-va-lansa-in-cel-mult-sase-luni-o-tableta-de-cea-mai-buna-calitate Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:03:21 +0200 ​Google va lansa in cel mult sase luni o tableta de "cea mai buna calitate" a spus presedintele executiv al companiei, Eric Schmidt, oferind o confirmare intr-unul dintre cele mai discutate subiecte: o tableta sub brandul Google. Declaratiile au fost facute in Corriere della Sera, iar presa americana le preia si noteaza ca poate fi vorba de o tableta "stil Nexus", Google avand deja experienta fiindca s-au lansat mai multe telefoane sub acest brand, ultimul fiind cu Samsung.S-a scris si in 2010 si in 2011 ca Google va lansa o tableta sub brandul propriu, insa multe versiuni anterioare de Android nu erau optimizate si pentru tablete, iar aplicatiile nu functionau corespunzator. Google promite insa ca lucrurile s-au schimbat odata cu lansarea noii versiuni Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) care a fost prezentata in toamna si intra pe smartphone-uri, dar si pe tablete.  Android 4.0 este prezent pe cel mai nou telefon Google Nexus produs de Samsung, terminal cu ecran de 4,65 inch, camera video de 5 MP ce poate filma la 1080 p si procesor de 1.2GHz, caracteristici nu foarte slabe in comparatie cu unele tabelete prezente pe piata.Android este sistemul de operare cu cea mai mare cota de piata la smartphone-uri, trimestrul trecut s-au vandut 60 de milioane unitati conform datelor Gartner, dar tabletele cu Android sunt inca la un nivel scazut de vanzari. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-vrea-sa-scoata-pe-piata-o-tableta-si-ameninta-apple-cu-o-concurenta-brutala/ google-vrea-sa-scoata-pe-piata-o-tableta-si-ameninta-apple-cu-o-concurenta-brutala Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:03:15 +0200 Google vrea să scoată pe piaţă în următoarele şase luni o tabletă "de cea mai înaltă calitate" şi va concura "brutal" Apple pe piaţa smartphone-urilor, potrivit declaraţiilor preşedintelui executiv al companiei, Eric Schmidt. Într-un interviu acordat ziarului italian Corriere della Sera, Schmidt observă că "problemele Europei reflectă dificultăţile adaptării la o nouă realitate". "Cred că politicul din Italia, Europa, şi într-o oarecare măsură şi din SUA, nu a reuşit să se concentreze pe provocările viitorului. Iau în principal decizii tactice, în pofida importanţei chestiunilor: pensii, susţinerea euro. Însă problema reală este cea a competitivităţii globale, una din care nu ne putem retrage. Să zicem că eşti Italia şi produci ceva grozav, însă chinezii încep să o facă mai bine decât tine - atunci nu mai ai alternativă, trebuie să schimbi ceva", a comentat şeful Google. În privinţa noii tablete, nu este clar dacă Google va organiza o campanie de marketing pe o gamă de produse la care vor participa toţi partenerii hardware ai companiei sau dacă va apărea o tabletă proprie, similară sau chiar încadrată în gama de smartphone-uri Nexus, potrivit Engadget. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bancherii-americani-incearca-sa-demonteze-atacurile-imbecileimpotriva-bogatilor-nu-pot-intelege-mentalitatea-ca-oricine-are-succes-sau-este-bogat-este-rau/ bancherii-americani-incearca-sa-demonteze-atacurile-imbecileimpotriva-bogatilor-nu-pot-intelege-mentalitatea-ca-oricine-are-succes-sau-este-bogat-este-rau Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:02:49 +0200 Tot mai mulţi bancheri din Statele Unite încearcă să demonteze atacurile calificate drept "imbecile" din partea participanţilor la mişcarea "Ocupaţi Wall Street", împotriva celor mai bogaţi 1% dintre americani, relatează Bloomberg. "Nu pot înţelege mentalitatea că oricine are succes este rău sau că oricine este bogat este rău. Uneori există un singur măr stricat, dar denigrăm pe toată lumea", a declarat Jamie Dimon, directorul general al JP Morgan, la o conferinţă la New York. Dimon este cel mai bine plătit director de bancă, în rândul şefilor celor mai mari şase instituţii financiare din Statele Unite. În 2010, Dimon a primit compensaţii de 23 de milioane de dolari. Şeful JP Morgan s-a alăturat astfel altor miliardari, între care managerul de fonduri John Paulson şi co-fondatorul Home Depot, Bernard Marcus, în folosirea discursurilor, scrisorilor deschise şi a apariţiilor televizate pentru a se apăra de atacurile demonstranţilor din mişcarea "Ocupaţi Wall Street" împotriva celor mai bogaţi americani. "Dacă oamenii de afaceri de succes nu ies în public să îşi prezinte poveştile şi să vorbească despre problemele lor atunci îşi vor merita soarta", a spus Marcus, în vârstă de 82 de ani, fondator al companiei de consultanţă Job Creators Alliance. El a adăugat că nu se teme că va deveni o ţintă a protestelor. "Cui îi pasă de nişte imbecili. Vă bateţi joc de mine?", a spus el. Firma sa a acordat consultanţă în această lună lui John A.Allison, director al BB&T, a noua mare bancă din SUA, şi co-fondatorului companiei Staples, Thomas Stemberg, pentru apariţiile publice. Stemberg şi Allison au criticat un proiect de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/saxo-bank-cele-mai-socante-10-predictii-pentru-2012/ saxo-bank-cele-mai-socante-10-predictii-pentru-2012 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:02:22 +0200 Australia va intra in recesiune, 50 de banci centrale ar putea fi nationalizate in Europa, iar actiunile Apple vor scadea cu 50% fata de valoarea de varf a anului 2011. Acestea sunt doar cateva dintre predictiile socante ale Saxo Bank pentru 2012."Predictiile Socante au fost pregatite in spiritul incurajarii investitorilor sa gandeasca outside the box si sa se pregateasca pentru evenimente surprinzatoare. A gandi outside the box este rareori un exercitiu confortabil, dar la fel de neplacut este sa te trezesti cu o surpriza urata pentru care nu erai pregatit deloc", explica Steen Jakobsen, Chief Economist la Saxo Bank.Daca se vor adeveri cateva dintre ele, 2012 va deveni un an de cotitura. Ne dorim sa nu avem dreptate in judecatile noastre negative, insa asta se va intampla numai daca se va schimba ceva in paradigma manipulata de guverne si bancile centrale."În raportul "Predictii Socante", Saxo Bank se concentrează pe evenimente putin probabil să aibă loc, dar care sunt mai posibile decât îi place pietei să creadă. Predictiile nu sunt prognoze în adevăratul sens al cuvântului, dar sunt importante pentru investitori care ar trebui să le acorde o oarecare importantă. Oricare dintre ele s-ar întâmpla, ar avea un impact semnificativ asupra pietei.Predictiile Socante ale Saxo Bank pentru 2012 1. Actiunile Apple Inc vor scădea cu 50 de procente fată de vârful atins în 2011  Apple se va confrunta în 2012 cu o concurentă acerbă din partea competitorilor Google, Amazon, Microsoft/Nokia si Samsung pe câteva dintre cele mai competitive produse ale sale, dar mai ales pe iPhone si ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-fost-dat-in-judecata-de-operatorul-britanic-de-telecomunicatii-bt/ google-a-fost-dat-in-judecata-de-operatorul-britanic-de-telecomunicatii-bt Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:02:13 +0200 Operatorul britanic de telecomunicaţii BT a dat în judecată Google în Statele Unite, pentru încălcarea unor patente în domenii precum serviciile mobile de accesare a hărţilor. BT a declanşat acţiunea la un tribunal din Delaware. Reclamaţia se referă la şase pantente care ar fi fost încălcate de Google, potrivit BT, de servicii precum platforma Android, Google Maps, Google Music, servicii de publicitate, gmail şi alte produse. "Este vorba de protejarea investiţiei BT în drepturile de proprietate intelectuală şi inovaţie. Credem că avem un caz solid", se arată într-un comunicat al grupului britanic. La nivelul industriei de telecomunicaţii au loc numeroase conflicte referitoare la patente, în condiţiile în care mulţi operatori, producători de telefoane mobile şi furnizori de conţinut încearcă să ofere servicii atractive, cum sunt cele de accesare a hărţilor sau divertisment. Grupul Google este deja implicat în mai multe astfel de dispute cu companii precum Apple, Microsoft şi Oracle. Un purtător de cuvânt al Google a declarat că acuzaţiile sunt lipsite de fundament. BT a anunţat că deţine în total un portofoliu de circa 5.600 de patente şi aplicaţii, iar în anul financiar trecut a cerut protejarea prin patente a 62 de invenţii. Grupul britanic este a cincea mare companie care a dat în judecată Google pentru încălcarea de patente. În august, Google a anunţat că a convenit preluarea Motorola Mobility pentru 12,5 miliarde de dolari, cea mai mare achiziţie din istoria sa, în parte pentru a se proteja de atacurile agresive în justiţie. Motorola are unul dintre cele mai mari portofolii de patente din industria de telefonie mobilă. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-plus-aduce-google-retelei-sale-de-socializare/ ce-plus-aduce-google-retelei-sale-de-socializare Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:02:02 +0200 Google a anunţat câteva funcţii noi pentru reţeaua de socializare Google Plus, printre care un buton de "volum", care permite reducerea la tăcere a utilizatorilor enervanţi, scrie Business Insider. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-top-10-tech-trends-for-2012/ the-top-10-tech-trends-for-2012 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:01:03 +0200 Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about tech news and digital culture. He writes regular columns about social media and tech for CNN.com. (CNN) -- From the continuing rise of tablet devices to the daily-deals craze and the return of the Internet IPO, 2011 has been a transformative year for technology. The pace of change has become blisteringly fast, with traditional industries -- bookstores, video-rental chains, newspapers -- crumbling more quickly than we could have imagined. Predicting what will happen in 2012, therefore, is a shot in the dark: A year is virtually a lifetime in the digital era. And yet we can at least make a guess at what will happen in the early part of next year simply by looking at the trends that are shaping the latter half of this year. Here's my best estimate of some of the innovation we'll see in 2012: 1. Touch computing New input methods will be the dominant trend of 2012. Tablet computers such as the iPad might seem like a nice alternative to desktop and laptop computers, but I believe they're more than that: They're replacements. Just as the command line (remember that?) gave way to graphical user interfaces, so the mouse will be superseded by touchscreens. The signs are obvious: Windows 8 and Mac OS X Lion, the latest desktop operating systems, borrow heavy from their mobile counterparts. These new interfaces essentially impose a touchscreen-inspired interface over the traditional desktop environment. Over time, this half-step will become a whole one, and mobile operating systems will ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/zynga-compania-cunoscuta-pentru-jocul-farmvillea-strans-un-miliard-de-dolari-din-oferta-publica-initiala/ zynga-compania-cunoscuta-pentru-jocul-farmvillea-strans-un-miliard-de-dolari-din-oferta-publica-initiala Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:03:09 +0200 ​Zynga, companie cunoscuta pentru jocurile realizate pentru Facebook, a strans un miliard de dolari din IPO-ul de intrare pe bursa americana, compania fiind evaluata la sapte miliarde dolari, scrie Bloomberg. Zynga devine compania de internet care a strans cel mai mult dintr-un IPO in ultimii sapte ani, Google reusind 1,9 miliarde dolari la intrarea sa pe bursa in 2004. Actiunile Zynga sunt tranzactionate de vineri pe NASDAQ, compania s-a infiintat in 2004, iar datele arata ca peste 200 milioane de useri joaca "CityVille," "FarmVille" si "Mafia Wars".Zynga a pus pe piata 100 de milioane de actiuni a 10 dolari fiecare, reprezentand 14% din totalul actiunilor. Astfel, compania specializata in realizarea de jocuri pentru retele sociale, este evaluata la sapte miliarde dolari, suma considerata de multi ca fiind exagerat de mare.Zynga s-a infiintat in 2007, are 3.000 de angajati, iar jocurile sale devenite celebre datorita integrarii lor in Facebook sunt jucate de peste 200 de milioane de utilizatori. Multe voci din piata spun ca astfel de companii sunt prea "umflate" in ceea ce priveste valoarea si se intreaba daca valoarea actiunilor nu se va prabusi rapid, mai ales ca vorbim de o companie care a crescut foarte repede, dar poate sa si scada la fel de usor.Recent a intrat pe piata Groupon care a strans mai putin decat Zynga din IPO, dar toata lumea asteapta ca in 2012 sa intre pe bursa Facebook, evaluata la 100 miliarde dolari. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/producatorul-de-jocuri-pe-facebook-zynga-a-obtinut-1-mld-de-dolari-printr-o-oferta-publica-initiala/ producatorul-de-jocuri-pe-facebook-zynga-a-obtinut-1-mld-de-dolari-printr-o-oferta-publica-initiala Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:03:01 +0200 Zynga, cel mai mare producător de jocuri pentru Facebook, a obţinut 1 miliard de dolari printr-o ofertă publică iniţială, cea mai mare vânzare de acest tip efectuată de o companie americană de Internet după ce Google a atras 1,9 miliarde dolari în 2004. Oferta evaluează Zynga la 7 miliarde de dolari, de 6,8 ori veniturile anului încheiat la sfârşitul lui septembrie. Dezvoltator al unor jocuri precum CitiVille, FarmVille şi Mafia Wars, Zynga a vândut 100 de milioane de acţiuni la preţul de 10 dolari pe unitate, nivelul maxim al intervalului ţintit, care pornea de la 8,5 dolari. Tranzacţiile cu acţiuni Zynga vor începe vineri la bursa Nasdaq. "Zynga şi jocurile sale devin branduri de consum şi sunt anticipate perspective bune de creştere, care atrag investitorii", a declarat Colin Sebastian, analist la firma Robert W. Baird în San Francisco. Compania Zynga a fost înfiinţată în 2007 de către directorul general Mark Pincus, iar în primele nouă luni din acest an şi-a dublat vânzările la 829 milioane de dolari. Peste 90% din veniturile Zynga sunt obţinute prin intermediul Facebook, operatorul celei mai mari reţele de socializare la nivel mondial. Facebook analizează lansarea unei oferte publice iniţiale de 10 miliarde de dolari, care ar evalua compania la peste 100 de miliarde de dolari, a declarat luna trecută o sursă apropiată situaţiei. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rebecca-black-to-steve-jobs-201139s-top-searches/ rebecca-black-to-steve-jobs-201139s-top-searches Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:01:30 +0200 (CNN) -- Oh, Rebecca Black. You gave us a reason to reconsider our favorite day of the workweek. And, apparently, the Internet couldn't get enough. Black, the teen songstress who became a YouTube sensation with the bubblegum ear worm "Friday," topped the Google Zeitgeist list of hot search terms in 2011. Released in March, the largely reviled tune caused searches for the then-13-year-old's name to increase more than 10,000% over the past year, Google reported Wednesday. This year was the 11th for Zeitgeist, Google's look at search trends for the year. The report, rendered with interactive images and detailed infographics, breaks down searches by country and region as well as tallying global activity. "From local celebrities in Finland to Singaporeans looking for news on the revolutions in Egypt and Libya half a world away, people turned to Google to learn more about what was happening on the world stage," Google's Amit Singhal wrote on the company's official blog. The top 10 wasn't all breezy pop songs. "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn, who died in a car crash in June, was the third-hottest search, while Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who died in October, was ninth. Jobs was already an internationally known name. But searches for him still rose 982% over 2010, Google said, with traffic peaking the week after his death. It was a big year for technology overall, and Google's results show it. The company's own Google+ social network was second on the list. (If that seems all too convenient, note that Zeitgeist rankings consider how fast a search term rises. So something ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-android-takes-leap-with-galaxy-nexus/ review-android-takes-leap-with-galaxy-nexus Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:01:27 +0200 (CNN) -- The Galaxy Nexus, a smartphone that arrived in Verizon Wireless stores on Thursday, is huge -- and not just because of its unusually large size. The new Android phone, which has been available in Britain for weeks, is the first to run Android 4.0, the latest version of the popular mobile operating system that also goes by the adorable name Ice Cream Sandwich. This is a very significant update to Android for smartphones. I've tested the UK version of the Galaxy Nexus for about a week. It looks and functions about the same as the one for Verizon, except that the U.S. model uses different cellular chips to accommodate Verizon's legacy infrastructure and its fourth-generation LTE data network. The U.S. version also does not run Google Wallet, the mobile payment system. The phone costs $300 with a two-year service contract. The Galaxy Nexus' operating system takes many of the concepts that were designed for Android tablets, shrinks them and unlocks their great potential to an audience that will likely be much larger. Android tablets have not fared particularly well in the market, which means that this interface will look fresh to most people. (Amazon's Kindle Fire, which analysts say has sold well at $199, is a tablet based on Android but looks completely different.) Fewer buttons Perhaps the most significant change to the software is that Google has done away with the hardware buttons below the screen. These have become touchscreen buttons, which aren't all that different, but the direction they face flips depending on which way I'm ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/presa-in-diagonala-china-va-impune-taxe-de-import-punitive-pentru-masinile-americane-de-dimensiuni-mari-google-a-creat-un-fond-de-115-milioane-pentru-lupta-impotriva-sclaviei-peste-30000-de-femei-din-franta-au-primit-implanturi-mamare-cu-silicon-in/ presa-in-diagonala-china-va-impune-taxe-de-import-punitive-pentru-masinile-americane-de-dimensiuni-mari-google-a-creat-un-fond-de-115-milioane-pentru-lupta-impotriva-sclaviei-peste-30000-de-femei-din-franta-au-primit-implanturi-mamare-cu-silicon-in Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:04:09 +0200 ​China va impune taxe de import punitive pentru masinile americane de dimensiuni mari. Autoritatile de la Beijing au anuntat miercuri ca vor impune taxe de import de pana la 22 de procente pentru masinile americane de dimensiuni mari, mai ales SUV-uri. Aceasta mutare este parte a unei serii de masuri luate de autoritatile chineze in cadrul unor disensiuni economice de mai lunga durata in relatia cu Statele Unite. Motivatia oferita de guvernul chinez este prejudiciul pe care importurile il au asupra productiei locale. Autoritatile americane s-au declarat dezamagite de decizia Chinei, numind taxele “nejustificabile”, informeaza Reuters.Google a creat un fond de 11,5 milioane $ pentru lupta impotriva sclaviei. Compania americana Google a anuntat miercuri ca va oferi 11,5 milioane de dolari pentru zece organizatii de protectia drepturilor omului care activeaza la nivel global. Aceasta este cea mai mare donatie de acest tip facuta vreodata de o companie si va ajuta la eliberarea a peste 12.000 de persoane din intreaga lume si la prevenirea altor zeci de mii de potentiale cazuri, informeaza CNN. Pe langa acesti bani, compania va mai dona in aceasta luna inca 28,5 milioane de dolari pentru alte proiecte caritabile.Peste 30.000 de femei din Franta au primit implanturi mamare cu silicon industrial in ultimii zece ani. Un scandal medical de proportii se desfasoara in Franta, unde peste 30.000 de femei au aflat ca au primit implante mamare cu silicon industrial, in loc de silicon medical. Compania Poly Implant Prosthesis este acuzata ca a incercat sa economiseasca aproape un miliard de euro folosind materiale ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-au-cautat-romanii-pe-google-in-2011-de-la-rezultatele-bacalaureatului-si-vacante-ieftine-pana-la-oana-zavoranu-florin-salam-si-daniela-crudu/ ce-au-cautat-romanii-pe-google-in-2011-de-la-rezultatele-bacalaureatului-si-vacante-ieftine-pana-la-oana-zavoranu-florin-salam-si-daniela-crudu Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:04:00 +0200 Google a inclus pentru prima data si Romania in traditionalul sau Zeitgesit, bilantul de final de an in care anunta care au fost cele mai populare cautari pe internet. In Romania, divertismentul, social media si tehnologia au fost in topul listei cu cele mai rapide cresteri in 2011, Amy Winehouse si Oana Zavoranu au fost cautarile care au crescut cel mai mult la capitolul persoane, bacalaureatul a fost subiectul de stiri cel mai cautat, la emisiuni TV pe primul loc a fost "Romanii au talent", iar la filme conduce Limitless.Google a anuntat joi traditionalul Zeitgeist ("spirit al vremurilor"), realizat pentru prima data si pentru Romania. Zeigeist arata cum s-a vazut anul 2011 pe internet de catre romani, pe baza cautarilor facute pe cel mai utilizat motor de cautare.Cele mai mari cresteri 1.    romanii au talent2.    fb3.    iphone 54.    yahoo mail sign          5.    angry birds6.    bacalaureat 20117.    x factor8.    pe teava.ro9.    99010.  culoarea fericiriiTop Google Stiri Cel mai cautat subiect din acest an au fost rezultatele slabe inregistrate la examenul de Bacalaureat, care au starnit o dezbatere intensa pe internet. In plus, subiectele legate de educatie s-au aflat in topul cautarilor.1.    rezultate bacalaureat 20112.    romania3.    youtube4.    edu.ro5.    romanii au talent6.    stiri7.    loto8.    rezultate evaluare nationala9.    steaua10.  cluj Cele mai rapide cresteri din Romania pe segmentul calatoriiOfertele atractive pe litoralul din Romania, Bulgaria si Grecia au dominat topurile. Deschiderea Transalpina, soseaua situata la cea mai mare altitudine din Romania, a starnit dorinta romanilor de calatorie, harta Transalpina inregistrand cea mai rapida crestere intr-un timp foarte scurt, fiind ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cea-mai-populara-emisiune-tv-pe-google-care-sunt-cele-mai-populare-cautari-din-romania/ cea-mai-populara-emisiune-tv-pe-google-care-sunt-cele-mai-populare-cautari-din-romania Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:03:53 +0200 "Românii au talent" a fost cea mai populară emisiune TV pe Google, în România, în 2011, show-ul de la Pro TV conducând şi topul celor mai populare căutări din toate domeniile, în ultimele 12 luni. Google a anunţat, joi, tradiţionalul Zeitgeist ("spirit al vremurilor"), realizat pentru prima dată şi pentru România. În acest an, cele mai populare căutări arată interesul în creştere pentru emisiuni TV, reţele sociale, tehnologie şi filme, se arată într-un comunicat. Google a extras termenii cel mai frecvent căutaţi pentru această perioadă, în mai multe categorii, precum cele mai mari creşteri în divertisment, persoane, călătorii, dar şi topul filmelor, ştirilor şi tematicilor sportive. În plus, lista include topul celor mai populari 10 termeni de căutare care au avut cea mai mare creştere în România. Acest lucru a fost realizat prin analizarea a mii de căutări populare din 2011 şi conceperea unui clasament bazat pe creşterea popularităţii lor comparativ cu anul 2010. Zeitgeist arată că emisiunea TV "Românii au talent" de la Pro TV a devenit un fenomen naţional, implicând românii în găsirea şi selectarea celor mai talentaţi reprezentanţi. Emisiunea "Românii au talent", al cărui al doilea sezon va fi difuzat în primăvară la Pro TV, s-a situat pe primul loc în topul celor mai populare căutări pe Google, din toate domeniile, fiind urmată în acest clasament de: "fb", "iPhone 5", "yahoo mail sign", "Angry Birds", "bacalaureat 2011", "X Factor", "pe teava.ro", "990", "Culoarea fericirii". Show-ul "Românii au talent" conduce şi topul celor mai populare producţii TV pe Google, în România, în ultimele 12 luni. Topul ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-ce-au-cautat-romanii-pe-google-in-2011/ video-ce-au-cautat-romanii-pe-google-in-2011 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:03:24 +0200 În 2011, motorul de căutare Google a inclus şi România în statistica sa anuală, numită "Zeitgeist". http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/from-rebecca-black-to-steve-jobs-google39s-year-in-search/ from-rebecca-black-to-steve-jobs-google39s-year-in-search Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:02:09 +0200 (CNN) -- Oh, Rebecca Black. You gave us a reason to reconsider our favorite day of the workweek. And, apparently, the Internet couldn't get enough. Black, the teen songstress who became a YouTube sensation with the bubblegum ear worm "Friday," topped the Google Zeitgeist list of hot search terms in 2011. Released in March, the largely reviled tune caused searches for the then-13-year-old's name to increase more than 10,000% over the past year, Google reported Wednesday. This year was the 11th for Zeitgeist, Google's look at search trends for the year. The report, rendered with interactive images and detailed infographics, breaks down searches by country and region as well as tallying global activity. "From local celebrities in Finland to Singaporeans looking for news on the revolutions in Egypt and Libya half a world away, people turned to Google to learn more about what was happening on the world stage," Google's Amit Singhal wrote on the company's official blog. The top 10 wasn't all breezy pop songs. "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn, who died in a car crash in June, was the third-hottest search, while Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who died in October, was ninth. Jobs was already an internationally known name. But searches for him still rose 982% over 2010, Google said, with traffic peaking the week after his death. It was a big year for technology overall, and Google's results show it. The company's own Google+ social network was second on the list. (If that seems all too convenient, note that Zeitgeist rankings consider how fast a search term rises. So something ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/prada-si-lg-lanseaza-un-nou-smartphone/ prada-si-lg-lanseaza-un-nou-smartphone Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:03:13 +0200 LG a lansat miercuri un nou smartphone sub marca Prada, bazat pe sistemul de operare Google Android. Acesta este cel de-al treilea rezultat al colaborarii dintre cele doua marci si este numit simplu "Prada phone by LG 3.0", la fel ca variantele precedente. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-pot-ingropa-utilizatorii-gigantul-online-google/ cum-pot-ingropa-utilizatorii-gigantul-online-google Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:03:09 +0200 Este ştiut faptul că marile companii de IT recurg la spionaj pentru a afla secretele competitorilor şi a acţiona în consecinţă. Miza constă tocmai în tehnologia pe baza căreia funcţionează aceste tipuri de afaceri: ea poate duce la monopolizarea unei platforme şi, drept urmare, sfârşitul concurenţilor. În anii '90, Microsoft domina domeniul IT cu al său sistem de operare, Windows, ce se regăsea pe toate PC-urile. Astăzi, Google câştigă tot mai mult teren în America şi Europa datorită căutărilor online. Ceea ce puţini utilizatori de internet ştiu în momentul de faţă este că tocmai ei deţin controlul acestui gigant. Cum poate face asta? Google produce bani deoarece milioane de utilizatori caută pe motorul de căutare diverse informaţii ori lucruri pe care doresc să şi le achiziţioneze. Compania le oferă o listă de linkuri cu reclame şi pagini web. Reclamele sunt deseori relevante cu subiectul căutat, aşa că utilizatorii ajung să le acceseze, ceea ce duce la rotunjirea profitului Google. Citeşte mai mult pe www.incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-chrome-16-suport-pentru-profiluri-multiple-de-utilizator/ google-chrome-16-suport-pentru-profiluri-multiple-de-utilizator Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:02:52 +0200 Google Chrome 16 este de acum disponibil în versiune oficială şi aduce câteva funcţii noi pentru fanii web browser-ului Google. Citeşte mai multe despre Google Chrome 16 pe go4it.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-doneaza-115-milioane-de-dolari-pentru-combaterea-sclaviei-moderne/ google-doneaza-115-milioane-de-dolari-pentru-combaterea-sclaviei-moderne Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:02:52 +0200 Google a anunţat că va dona 11, 5 milioane de dolari pentru combaterea sclaviei moderne, informează Huffington Post. Banii vor ajunge la câteva asociaţii care au ca scop salvarea a 27 de milioane de oameni din toată lumea care sunt victimele sclaviei. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sfarsitul-succesului-google-e-aproape-cum-pot-ingropa-utilizatorii-gigantul-online/ sfarsitul-succesului-google-e-aproape-cum-pot-ingropa-utilizatorii-gigantul-online Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:02:47 +0200 Este stiut faptul ca marile companii de IT recurg la spionaj pentru a afla secretele competitorilor si actiona in consecinta. Miza consta tocmai in tehnologia pe baza careia functioneaza aceste tipuri de afaceri: ea poate duce la monopolizarea unei platforme si, drept urmare, sfarsitul concurentilor. In anii `90, Microsoft domina domeniul IT cu al sau sistem de operare, Windows, ce se regasea pe toate PC-urile. Astazi, Google castiga tot mai mult teren in America si Europa datorita cautarilor online. Ceea ce putini utilizatori de internet stiu in momentul de fata este ca tocmai ei detin controlul acestui gigant, noteaza Business Insider. Cum anume pot face asta? Google produce bani deoarece milioane de utilizatori cauta pe motorul de cautare diverse informatii ori lucruri pe care doresc sa si le achizitioneze. Compania le ofera o lista de linkuri cu reclame si pagini web. Reclamele sunt deseori relevante cu subiectul cautat, asa ca utilizatorii ajung sa le acceseze, ceea ce duce la rotunjirea profitului Google. Citeşte mai departe pe incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/razboiul-cibernetic-760-de-companii-au-fost-atacate-de-hackeri-din-china-in-ultimii-10-ani/ razboiul-cibernetic-760-de-companii-au-fost-atacate-de-hackeri-din-china-in-ultimii-10-ani Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:02:45 +0200 Google şi Intel Corp se află printre cele 760 de companii care au fost atacate de hackeri din China prin intermediul iBahn, un provider de internet pentru industria hotelieră, potrivit Bloomberg. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-motorola39s-xyboard-tablet/ review-motorola39s-xyboard-tablet Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:01:30 +0200 (WIRED) -- Motorola is taking another shot at the tablet game with the Droid Xyboard, the company's latest Android device to hit Verizon stores. After getting our hands on one yesterday, we found that it's a solid, well-performing slate that's easy on the eyes. Too bad it has such a stupid name. The 4G Xyboard is Motorola's follow-up to its pricey, not terribly popular Xoom tablet, which was released in February. Available in 8.2-inch and 10.1-inch versions, the Honeycomb-powered Xyboard enters the market hot on the heels of the super-hot Kindle Fire. It's on sale today for $430 (for the 8.2-inch) or $530 (for the 10.1-inch) with a two-year contract from Verizon, with options for 16GB or 32GB of memory on the smaller version, and up to 64GB on the larger one. The first thing that struck me about the Xyboard is its industrial design. Rather than being perfectly rectangular in shape, the 8.2-inch slate has clipped corners, which actually makes it fit more comfortably when you hold it one-handed. The back, too, shows some stylistic creativity. A rubberized outer rim houses a power button and volume rocker, while centered in the back of the tablet is a sheet of dark gray brushed metal held in place by six visible screws. Think robot chic. The positioning of the device's only two buttons makes for a clean appearance, but leaves your fingers searching when it's time to crank up the volume or send it to sleep. The 8.2-inch size, however, is a great compromise between the 7-inch 'tweeners and 10-inch stunners. It's ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-to-fill-virtual-stockings-with-e-gifts/ how-to-fill-virtual-stockings-with-e-gifts Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:01:27 +0200 (CNN) -- Digital gifts may be tough to wrap. But they can be more convenient for both givers and recipients. An album from iTunes or a Kindle e-book from Amazon have become viable gift options for shoppers, especially on the eve of a holiday or for people living far away. Digital items can be purchased with a few clicks and delivered instantly. And because they don't need to be shipped, they're environmentally friendly. Revenue from some virtual goods, including games and applications, will reach $2.9 billion next year, according to research firm Inside Network. Once you add digital music downloads, which research firm Gartner says will rake in $6.3 billion this year, and online video streaming through services such as Netflix and Hulu, the market becomes quite large. Gift cards are always a popular alternative, but for people who would rather give a specific present, many of the big digital retailers are providing ways to send downloads via e-mail. About a quarter of holiday shoppers plan to buy virtual gifts this year, according to a research report from e-commerce provider Elastic Path. Children may find themselves running to check their e-mail on Christmas morning or each night of Hanukkah. Apple: Through its iTunes program on a computer, Apple lets you give apps, music, movies and TV shows to be sent to someone's e-mail address or to be printed as a certificate at home. Click the down arrow beside the "buy" button on an item in the iTunes store and then click on "Gift This." The iTunes or App Store buttons on Apple's ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-joins-fight-against-slavery-with-115-million-grant/ google-joins-fight-against-slavery-with-115-million-grant Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:01:10 +0200 (CNN) -- Google Inc. announced Wednesday that it's providing $11.5 million in grants to 10 organizations working to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Gary Haugen, president and CEO of International Justice Mission, one of the grant recipients, called the move a "game-changing investment." IJM is a Washington-based human rights agency that works to rescue victims of slavery and sexual exploitation in about a dozen countries. "This is the largest corporate step up to the challenge that is beginning to apply direct resources to the fight against slavery," Haugen said. According to estimates by grant recipients, Google's support will free an estimated 12,000 people from slavery and prevent millions more from being victimized. Numbers vary widely, but policymakers, activists and scholars estimate the number of modern-day slaves at somewhere between 10 million and 30 million people worldwide. Google's director of charitable giving, Jacquelline Fuller, said the company chose to spotlight the issue of slavery because the topic of freedom -- "the most basic of human rights," as she puts it -- resonated with company employees around the world. "Many people are surprised to learn there are more people trapped in slavery today than any time in history," Fuller said. "The good news is that there are solutions. Google is supporting organizations that have a proven track record and a plan to make a difference at scale." Google made the announcement through a link posted on its web page. The gift is part of a total of $40 million the Internet giant is giving in charitable donations during the holiday season. The grant ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-gives-115m-grant-to-fight-slavery/ google-gives-115m-grant-to-fight-slavery Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:24 +0200 (CNN) -- Google Inc. announced Wednesday that it's providing $11.5 million in grants to 10 organizations working to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Gary Haugen, president and CEO of International Justice Mission, one of the grant recipients, called the move a "game-changing investment." IJM is a Washington-based human rights agency that works to rescue victims of slavery and sexual exploitation in about a dozen countries. "This is the largest corporate step up to the challenge that is beginning to apply direct resources to the fight against slavery," Haugen said. According to estimates by grant recipients, Google's support will free an estimated 12,000 people from slavery and prevent millions more from being victimized. Numbers vary widely, but policymakers, activists and scholars estimate the number of modern-day slaves at somewhere between 10 million and 30 million people worldwide. Google's director of charitable giving, Jacquelline Fuller, said the company chose to spotlight the issue of slavery because the topic of freedom -- "the most basic of human rights," as she puts it -- resonated with company employees around the world. "Many people are surprised to learn there are more people trapped in slavery today than any time in history," Fuller said. "The good news is that there are solutions. Google is supporting organizations that have a proven track record and a plan to make a difference at scale." Google made the announcement through a link posted on its web page. The gift is part of a total of $40 million the Internet giant is giving in charitable donations during the holiday season. The grant ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/romania-tv-autorul-clipului-basescu-batut-de-oameni-la-doljesti-e-campanie-antidezinformare-mihai-gadea-antena-3-un-trucaj-ordinar-care-ar-fi-putut-sa-ne-compromita-definitiv/ romania-tv-autorul-clipului-basescu-batut-de-oameni-la-doljesti-e-campanie-antidezinformare-mihai-gadea-antena-3-un-trucaj-ordinar-care-ar-fi-putut-sa-ne-compromita-definitiv Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:03:16 +0200 Un clip care a circulat de luni pe Internet, intitulat "Basescu batut de oameni la Doljesti", a fost asumat, marti, de Romania TV ca parte a unei campanii prezentate ca fiind "antidezinformare". Clipul, in care un ins care seamana cu Traian Basescu pare sa fie batut de un grup de persoane, a fost preluat pe cateva bloguri si site-uri, la Antena 3 si cel putin in versiune online la Realitatea TV, cu mentiunea ca este vorba despre un trucaj evident. Rtv.net asociaza clipul cu o campanie in care, marti, propune 10 "reguli ale informarii corecte" in online. Prezentate sumar, "regulile" ridica, la randul lor, semne de intrebare. Pe 11 decembrie a fost postat, pe Youtube, un clip intitulat "Basescu batut de oameni la Doljesti". Singura nota ce insoteste clipul este: "Filmarea cu Basescu cand ia bataie". Pe 12 decembrie, clipul a fost preluat de un numar mic de bloguri, site-uri si posturi TV. Printre acestea s-a numarat si RTV/Romania TV. Cu mici exceptii, inclusiv Romania TV, in toate preluarile se mentioneaza ca este sau pare a fi vorba despre un trucaj. Marti, 13 decembrie, Dragos Stanca a comentat, pe blogul sau, in legatura cu numarul mic al preluarilor in aceasta "incercare de viral": "Semn ca sensibilitatiile politice si mediatice sunt absurde, “productia” a fost luata in serios maxim de opozantii lui Basescu ["campanie murdara, gandita la Cotroceni"] iar fanii actualului presedinte s-au impacientat ["un atac la Institutia Presedintiei Romaniei"]. Motiv pentru care, cele mai multe redactii - cu mici exceptii - au preferat sa nu publice incercarea de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/primul-avion-supersonic-romanesc-aproape-de-finalizare-60-din-structura-iar-111-realizata/ primul-avion-supersonic-romanesc-aproape-de-finalizare-60-din-structura-iar-111-realizata Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:03:08 +0200 Asociaţia Română pentru Cosmonautică şi Aeronautică (ARCA) a realizat 60% din structura primului avion supersonic românesc, IAR-111 Excelsior, urmând ca structura finală a acestuia să fie finalizată în două-trei luni, iar avionul să fie testat la zbor la mijlocul anului viitor. ARCA a realizat structura tronsoanelor T1 şi T2 ale supersonicului IAR-111 Excelsior. Acest lucru înseamnă că, în prezent, este finalizată 60% din structura supersonicului IAR-111 Excelsior, iar echipa lucrează la tronsonul T3 şi la aripa avionului, au declarat pentru MEDIAFAX reprezentanţii ARCA. Tronsonul T1 sau cabina este unit cu tronsonul T2, spaţiul în care sunt dispuse rezervoarele de combustibil şi buteliile de presurizare. Între aceste tronsoane se află un sistem pneumatic care permite desprinderea cabinei, în caz de necesitate. "Structura supersonicului IAR-111 Excelsior va fi gata în două - trei luni, iar la jumătatea lui 2012 vor fi făcute primele teste de zbor", au mai spus reprezentanţii ARCA. Aceştia au precizat că testele de zbor vor fi făcute integral în România, de către ARCA, în colaborare cu mai multe instituţii ale statului. În 31 octombrie, ARCA a anunţat că echipa a finalizat matritele şi calibrele pentru toate tronsoanele avionul supersonic IAR-111. Acest lucru a permis echipei să realizeze o serie întreagă de structuri ale avionului. Cu toate acestea doar două structuri erau planificate la acea dată. Prima structură urma să fie folosită la teste statice şi să realizeze rulaje, precum şi zboruri de test la joasă altitudine. Cea de-a doua structură urma să fie folosită pentru zbor supersonic la mare altitudine, inclusiv la zborurile pentru Competiţia ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-controversatul-joc-google-shoot-view-a-fost-inchis-dupa-numai-patru-zile/ video-controversatul-joc-google-shoot-view-a-fost-inchis-dupa-numai-patru-zile Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:02:52 +0200 O agenţie de publicitate olandeză a realizat un joc în care aplicaţia Google Maps Street View este folosită pentru a străbate traseele cu o puşcă în mână, având posibilitatea de a trage în diferite obiective, notează Business Insider. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/free-movie-site-angers-producers/ free-movie-site-angers-producers Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:38 +0200 Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) -- Tomas Escobar created a website in his bedroom in rural northwestern Argentina hoping to help people locate free movies online in a more efficient manner. From that small start in September 2009, Escobar´s site, Cuevana.tv, has grown to one of the most popular entertainment sites in Latin America, attracting 15 million unique monthly users, according to Escobar. "It was a hobby, a small thing. And it exploded in my hands," Escobar tells CNN. But it has also attracted the attention of international media companies armed with lawsuits. The success has transformed the unassuming and unkempt 22-year-old college dropout into something of a cult hero in the Spanish-speaking world. It took weeks of negotiations to get Escobar to agree to an interview with CNN, his first-ever with an international TV news organization. "Cuevana has a lot of complications now that weren't thought of in the beginning, like servers and traffic. We are now trying to solve them in steps," Escobar says. Visitors to Cuevana can access thousands of titles -- the majority of them big-budget Hollywood productions with Spanish subtitles -- entirely for free. According to Escobar, Cuevana doesn't host the titles itself -- it simply serves as a content clearinghouse. "It's the same concept as Google. You have a lot of links and indexes, and the user searches for these, and you give them the links," he says. "So really, the legal compromise is on the other sites, not on Cuevana," Escobar says. But many companies and artists disagree. In November, HBO Latin America and Turner International Argentina ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-vor-arata-tabletele-in-2012-mai-puternice-mai-ieftine-mai-usoare-dar-si-cu-noi-sisteme-de-operare/ cum-vor-arata-tabletele-in-2012-mai-puternice-mai-ieftine-mai-usoare-dar-si-cu-noi-sisteme-de-operare Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:02:40 +0200 Tabletele vor continua in 2012 evolutia: vor fi mai usoare, mai subtiri si vor avea rezolutie mai buna, urmand ca la nivel de procesoare sa apara si termninale quad-core, arata o analiza a PC World. Estimarile arata ca anul viitor se vor vinde pe plan mondial peste 100 de milioane de unitati, iar pe piata apar noi sisteme de operare: Android 4.0, Windows 8 si un nou iOS.Pe piata exista in prezent mai bine de zece marci de tablete, iar la noi cele mai ieftine costa sub 1.000 de lei, iar cele mai scumpe, peste 3.500 lei. Exista atat tablete cu ecran de 7 inch, cat si multe cu ecran de 10 inch, iar pentru toate e de asteptat ca 2012 sa aduca schimbari importante de ordin tehnic.PC World noteaza ca tabletele vor deveni mai usoare, iar daca cele de 10 inch cantaresc acum cam 700 g, se va ajunge ca ele sa fie de sub 600 g. In plus, la grosime vor ajunge cam in intervalul 0,3 - 0,4 inch, fata de circa 0,5 inch in prezent.Modificari esentiale vor fi la procesoare: vor aparea incepand chiar cu aceasta luna tablete cu procesoare Quad-Core, intai prin Nvidia,  cu Tegra 3, iar apoi cu noua gama Snapdragon de la  Qualcomm, dar si cu procesoare Quad-Core ARM de la Freescale si Texas Instruments.Extrem de multe noutati vor veni la partea de sisteme de operare. Dupa ce versiunile precedente de Android au fost criticate pentru slaba compatibilitate cu tabletele, Google promite ca Android 4.0 va fi extrem de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-marca-84-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-inventatorului-robert-noyce/ google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-marca-84-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-inventatorului-robert-noyce Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:02:34 +0200 Motorul de căutare Google şi-a modificat logoul de pe pagina principală pentru a marca împlinirea a 84 de ani de la naşterea inventatorului american Robert Noyce, considerat "părintele" circuitelor integrate, care au revoluţionat industria computerelor. De altfel, logoul afişat luni pe pagina principală a motorului de căutare are forma unui circuit integrat, iar literele care alcătuiesc cuvântul "Google" sunt scrise pe acest microcip. Robert Norton Noyce, născut pe 12 decembrie 1927, supranumit "Primarul din Silicon Valley", a fost cofondator al companiei Fairchild Semiconductor, în 1957, şi al companiei Intel, în 1968. Împreună cu Jack Kilby, el a inventat circuitele integrate (microcipurile), care au revoluţionat industria computerelor. Robert Noyce a murit pe 3 iunie 1990, la vârsta de 62 de ani. Google îşi modifică frecvent logoul pentru a omagia personalităţi ale culturii universale sau pentru a marca momente speciale din istoria lumii. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/motorola-a-castigat-in-germania-o-interdictie-privind-vanzarea-anumitor-produse-apple/ motorola-a-castigat-in-germania-o-interdictie-privind-vanzarea-anumitor-produse-apple Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:03:39 +0200 Motorola Mobility Holdings, producătorul de smartphone-uri cumpărat în acest an de Google, a obţinut în Germania o interdicţie preliminară într-un proces împotriva Apple, care ar putea rezulta în suspendrea vânzărilor de iPhone şi iPad pe cea mai mare piaţă europeană. O instanţă din Mannheim a decis că Apple Sales International, subsidiara europeană de vânzări a companiei americane, cu sediul în Cork, Irlanda, trebuie să înceteze vânzarea şi distribuţia de produse care încalcă anumite brevete ale Motorola. Decizia ar putea conduce la interzicerea vânzării de produse Apple care folosesc tehnologiile respective, precum iPhone 4 şi iPad 3G, potrivit analistului german Florian Mueller. "Hotărârea vizează produsele comercializate de subsidiara europeană a Apple clienţilor germani", a afirmat Muller. Motorola Mobility a precizat că este în negocieri cu Apple şi "a oferit companiei, din 2007, condiţii rezonabile de licenţiere" a tehnologiilor pe care le foloseşte fără drept. Pentru a aplica decizia, Motorola Mobility trebuie să depună o garanţie de circa 100 milioane euro. Reprezentanţii Apple au arătat că vor contesta hotărârea. Apple are numeroase procese vizând drepturile de proprietate intelectuală în mai multe ţări, precum SUA, Germania sau Australia, cu rivali ca Samsung, HTC sau Motorola. Compania a pierdut recent în SUA un proces prin care încerca să interzică vânzarea gamei de produse Galaxy a Samsung. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-a-reusit-google-sa-dezvaluie-americanii-sunt-innebuniti-publicate-de-cea-mai-mare-televiziune-din-sua-aceste-imagini-demonstreaza-cat-de/ ce-a-reusit-google-sa-dezvaluie-americanii-sunt-innebuniti-publicate-de-cea-mai-mare-televiziune-din-sua-aceste-imagini-demonstreaza-cat-de Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:03:30 +0200 Google ar putea pune în pericol siguranţa naţională a tuturor ţărilor de pe Pământ, din cauza programului său Google Maps, scrie Fox News. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/motorola-a-castigat-o-interdictie-privind-vanzarea-anumitor-produse-apple-in-germania/ motorola-a-castigat-o-interdictie-privind-vanzarea-anumitor-produse-apple-in-germania Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:03:29 +0200 Motorola Mobility Holdings, producătorul de smartphone-uri cumpărat în acest an de Google, a obţinut în Germania o interdicţie preliminară într-un proces împotriva Apple, care ar putea rezulta în suspendrea vânzărilor de iPhone şi iPad pe cea mai mare piaţă europeană, transmite Reuters. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hp-webos-is-now-an-open-source-project/ hp-webos-is-now-an-open-source-project Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:04:17 +0200 (Mashable) -- WebOS may be more tenacious that we thought. The Linux-based OS with a rocky history has officially risen from the ashes of HP's TouchPad bungle to be reborn as an open source project. HP made the announcement Friday, in the wake of increasing speculation that we would all learn the fate of the beleaguered OS before day's end. Introduced by Palm at CES 2009, WebOS was on an upward trajectory, first with the launch of the Palm Pre mobile phone and then when HP scooped up a stumbling Palm for $1.2 billion in 2010. Excitement grew to a fever pitch when HP unveiled an aggressive plan to roll WebOS into everything from their printers, to desktops and laptops to new phones and, most importantly, the HP TouchPad. A few months later, after a somewhat tepid response to HP's 10.1 inch tablet, HP's then-CEO Leo Apotheker scuttled the tablet and, it seemed, the WebOS business. A $99 HP TouchPad fire sale over the summer proved that there was still interest in HP's tablet and, more importantly, the WebOS platform. But HP's new CEO Meg Whitman has kept her plans for WebOS vague until now. The company will now "contribute webOS to open source license" -- another way of saying that the code will be available under open source license. HP's role will be an active one as it continues to contribute development, engineering and support resources. Next steps include engaging with the open-source community to define the WebOS open source charter and develop a plan for how that will be ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-se-apropie-de-apple-in-batalia-cifrelor-s-au-descarcat-peste-zece-miliarde-de-aplicatii-android/ google-se-apropie-de-apple-in-batalia-cifrelor-s-au-descarcat-peste-zece-miliarde-de-aplicatii-android Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:03:24 +0200 Google a anuntat ca numarul aplicatiilor descarcate de pe Android Market a ajuns la 10 miliarde la nivel global, compania castigand teren in razboiul volumelor cu Apple care detine insa o serie de avantaje. In octombrie, Apple anunta ca s-au descarcat peste 18 miliarde aplicatii in istoria App Store, insa in ritmul din prezent - un miliard de aplicatii lunar - Google va continua sa castige teren. BBC si Financial Times citeaza insa analisti care atrag atentia ca cifrele seci nu sunt singurele care conteaza: Google trebuie sa mai elimine din aplicatiile mediocre si sa tina cont de faptul ca userii App Store sunt mult mai dispusi sa plateasca pentru aplicatii.Google a anuntat ca numarul aplicatiilor descarcate de pe Android Market a ajuns la 10 miliarde la nivel global si lauda viteza cu care Android Market a ajuns in acest punct in care se fac lunar un miliard de descarcari. In prezent, exista peste 200 de milioane de terminale cu Android activate in intreaga lume, peste 550.000 de dispozitive fiind activate in fiecare zi la nivel global. Apple anunta in octombrie ca a depasit 18 miliarde descarcari in istoria App Store, iar analisti citati de BBC estimeaza ca in ritmul actual, in 2012 mai noul Android Market va depasi App Store la numarul de descarcari lunare.Financial Times citeaza analisti care spun ca cifrele seci nu sunt totul, fiindca ecosistemul bine pus la punct al Apple genereaza venituri mult mai mari, iar posesorii de iPhone si iPad sunt mult mai dispusi sa descarce aplicatii si mult ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ti-ar-placea-sa-ai-un-astfel-de-job-biliard-jocuri-video-sala-de-forta-si-cafenea-la-locul-de-munca-foto/ ti-ar-placea-sa-ai-un-astfel-de-job-biliard-jocuri-video-sala-de-forta-si-cafenea-la-locul-de-munca-foto Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:03:20 +0200 Există un loc în care oricărui angajat i-ar plăcea să lucreze. Mulţi l-ar considera serviciul ideal, având posibilitatea să joace biliard, să meargă la sala de forţă şi să socializeze cu colegii de muncă într-o cafenea ultramodernă, aflată în interiorul sediului în care lucrează. Angajaţii Google au un nou motiv de a fi fericiţi. Noul sediu Google din Londra, L4, utilizat săptămâna trecută de 350 de angajaţi ai companiei, le pune la dispoziţie acestora numeroase modalităţi de relaxare şi de distracţie. În afară de o cameră de distracţie (cu masă de biliard şi jocuri video), cafenea proprie şi 4 restaurante, L4 este dotat cu canapele gigantice, pe care angajaţii le pot utiliza pentru a se odihni. Mâncarea şi băutura sunt gratuite la sediul Google, ca orice altă activitate, de altfel. "Angajăm cei mai strălucitori şi mai buni ingineri din Marea Britanie şi îi aşezăm pe toţi într-un mediu cât se poate de creativ, relaxant şi captivant", a declarat Nelson Mattos, vice-preşedinte al secţiei de Inginerie a Google, citat de Daily Mail. "Experienţa noastră a arătat că un mediu confortabil, deschis şi distractiv încurajează creativitatea şi sociabilitatea. Spaţiile deschise cresc posibilitatea de interacţiune întâmplătoare, iar interacţiunile întâmplătoare duc de obicei la cele mai grozave idei. Multe dintre produsele noastre au apărut de la echipe care au aflat întâmplător una despre munca celeilalte, iar apoi s-au întâlnit pentru a discuta", a adăugat Mattos pentru sursa citată. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fotografiile-tale-personale-sunt-in-siguranta-pe-facebook-cum-au-ajuns-imagini-private-ale-lui-mark-zuckerberg-sa-fie-vazute-de-intreaga-lume-foto/ fotografiile-tale-personale-sunt-in-siguranta-pe-facebook-cum-au-ajuns-imagini-private-ale-lui-mark-zuckerberg-sa-fie-vazute-de-intreaga-lume-foto Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:03:20 +0200 O serie de poze private ale fondatorului Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, au fost făcute publice după ce un expert în internet a reuşit să le acceseze datorită unei scăpări a reţelei de socializare. Eroarea, despre care reprezentanţii Facebook au declarat că a fost remediată, permitea utilizatorilor să vadă fotografiile altor persoane, chiar dacă acestea erau private, scrie dailymail.co.uk. În momentul în care o fotografie era raportată ca fiind indecentă, utilizatorul primea acces la alte fotografii ale persoanei în cauză, pentru a vedea dacă şi acelea sunt nepotrivite pentru a fi puse pe Facebook. Imaginile private ale lui Mark Zuckerberg au ajuns pe internet după ce Mike Rundle, un inginer software din Raleigh, Carolina de Nord, a postat un link către acestea pe un site de fotografii. În unele dintre imagini, fondatorul Facebook apare alături de iubita sa sau de prieteni, în timpul unor petreceri. Într-o fotografie Zuckerberg apare ţinând în mână o găină tăiată, iar într-o alta, care pare a fi făcută în aceeaşi zi, o farfurie cu pui prăjit. Fondatorul Facebook apare şi într-o imagine alături de preşedintele SUA, Barack Obama, în fundalul căreia se poate vedea directorul Google, Eric Schmidt. Un purtător de cuvânt al Facebook a declarat că eroarea s-a petrecut din cauza uneia dintre cele mai noi tentative de spargere a codurilor companiei, însă a fost remediată în scurt timp. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/galaxy-nexus-in-oferta-vodafone-romania-din-12-decembrie/ galaxy-nexus-in-oferta-vodafone-romania-din-12-decembrie Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:03:13 +0200 Cei de la Vondafone ne dau o veste bună. Dacă vreţi un Samsung Galaxy Nexus, îl veţi putea achiziţiona de la operatorul de telefonie mobilă începând din 12 decembrie, în premieră în ţara noastră. În ziua menţionată, telefonul va avea un discount de cel puţin 70 € dacă va fi comandat cu orice pachet smartphone pe durata de doi ani. Reamintim că smartphone-ul creat de Google în parteneriat cu Samsung are un ecran SuperAMOLED de 4,65" cu rezoluţia de 720x1280 pixeli. Procesorul dual core ARM Cortex-A9 la 1,2 GHz şi placa video PowerVR SGX540 sunt integrate într-un TI OMAP 4460. Camera foto cu senzor de 5 MP permite filmare full HD, iar bateria are 1.750 mAh. Samsung Galaxy Nexus rulează noul sistem de operare Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Citeşte mai departe despre Samsung Galaxy Nexus pe go4it.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/locul-in-care-te-duci-la-serviciu-de-placere-un-tur-virtual-al-sediului-google-de-la-londra/ locul-in-care-te-duci-la-serviciu-de-placere-un-tur-virtual-al-sediului-google-de-la-londra Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:03:12 +0200 Reprezentanţii companiei Google vor ca angajaţii lor să vină mereu cu idei din ce în ce mai bune aşa că le-au pus la dispoziţie un spaţiu de lucru cu adevărat la modă, informează Daily Mail. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-dos-and-don39ts-of-googling-people/ the-dos-and-don39ts-of-googling-people Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:01:46 +0200 Editor's note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind humor blog and book "Stuff Hipsters Hate." Got a question about etiquette in the digital world? Contact them at netiquette@cnn.com. (CNN) -- The other week, we covered the difference between searching and stalking online. We dusted off our hands, satisfied with our ample labors, and just as we were about to sink into the deep cave of hibernation/suspended animation that we enter between columns, we received the following inquiry: "This has been a hard thing to admit myself, but I have a problem: I am a total and complete Google stalker. I'll spend hours just surfing the Web, searching for details about old high school acquaintances, co-workers and potential dates. I am a machine. Seriously. I can find anyone. Give me a first name and an identifying detail, and I'll give you a whole freaking dossier. My friends make fun of me mercilessly, teasingly (I hope) calling me a creeper, and I've seen some sitcoms and movies lately that seem to indicate that Google stalking kills the mystery or whatever, but I'm just fascinated by people -- and the fact that our lives have become so public. (Also, sometimes stalking comes in handy -- a wedding ring can come off, you know). My question is: Am I really a creeper?" - Creeper(?) in Connecticut Well, Creeper(?), assuming -- as we did in the last column with Creepy Crushing in Chicago -- that you are not, in fact, out of your mind, allow us to parse this out ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/proposal-to-block-online-criticism-sparks-indian-anger/ proposal-to-block-online-criticism-sparks-indian-anger Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:00:57 +0200 New Delhi (CNN) -- Indians expressed outrage Tuesday at a top telecommunication official's push to get social media sites to screen content considered defamatory to religious and political leaders. Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters Tuesday that he is asking Facebook, Twitter and other online sites to regulate content before it is published. Sibal insisted such regulation would not amount to censorship, but Indian bloggers and online users posted a different view. #IdiotKapilSibal was trending on Twitter Tuesday. And blogger Shivam Vij urged Indians to use the hashtag and post it on their Facebook pages "because there may soon be a day when he may prevent you from doing so." Sibal said he first approached providers including Facebook, Twitter and Google several weeks ago. The New York Times reported that Sibal showed the service providers a Facebook page that maligned Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi and said it was "unacceptable." But he said that in a meeting Monday, those companies informed him they could not do what he was asking. "They pretty much said they cannot do anything," he said, adding that material that is incendiary or blasphemous has no place in India, where sensitivities differ from those in the West. Sites like Facebook already have built-in mechanisms to flag and filter defined categories of objectionable content. In a statement sent to CNN's sister network, CNN-IBN, Facebook said: "We want Facebook to be a place where people can discuss things freely, while respecting the rights and feelings of others, which is why we already have policies and on-site features in place that enable ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-s-a-deschis-primul-magazin-stradal-dedicat-produselor-cu-sistemul-de-operare-android/ video-s-a-deschis-primul-magazin-stradal-dedicat-produselor-cu-sistemul-de-operare-android Wed, 7 Dec 2011 00:02:50 +0200 ​Google a deschis la Melbourne impreuna cu operatorul australian  telecom Telstra primul magazin stradal din lume dedicat exclusiv produselor cu Android, scrie presa de la antipozi care noteaza ca acest magazin de 154 mp se doreste a fi un prim rival pentru celebrele magazine Apple. Androidland se vrea a fi un loc in care vizitatorii pot testa multe telefoane si tablete cu Android, insa pot si experimenta Google Earth sau pot juca Angry Birds pe ecrane uriase, scrie The Australian.Cei de la Telstra spun ca interesul a fost atat de mare in ultimele 12 luni pentru produsele cu Android incat s-a considerat necesar ca un astfel de magazin sa fie inaugurat.Ei mai spun ca nu este un simplu magazin unde produsele sunt expuse, ci exista oameni de vanzari bine pregatiti sa explice clientilor detalii despre produsele cu Android. In plus, clientii pot testa smartphone-uri si tablete cu Android dar pot sa navigheze pe Google Earth pe un ecran de mari dimensiuni sau pot sa joace Angry Birds pe un display urias.La magazin pot fi testate terminale ale unor companii precum Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson, Motorola si LG. Deschiderea tine foarte mult de o strategie de marketing, una care-si propune sa testeze reactia pietei la un astfel de concept de retail. Ramane de vazut daca astfel de magazine vor fi deschise si pe alte continente. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/xbox-upgrades-aim-to-be-39future-of-tv39/ xbox-upgrades-aim-to-be-39future-of-tv39 Tue, 6 Dec 2011 00:01:27 +0200 (CNN) -- An update rolling out Tuesday for the Xbox Live network aims to do what Microsoft has been teasing for a while -- turn a platform designed primarily for video games into one that will be the major hub for all television viewing. Microsoft promises the update, which it calls "the future of TV," can "transform every Xbox 360 into an all-in-one device to enjoy your entertainment." "The update is another huge step toward realizing our vision of bringing you all your entertainment, shared with the people you care about, in an easy way," Marc Whitten, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Xbox Live, wrote on the official Microsoft blog. The Xbox was the first gaming console to include Netflix and has since added entertainment partners such as ESPN, Hulu Plus, AT&T U-verse and last.fm. But Microsoft, hoping a bevy of new apps will up the ante, is adding content from 40 new partners while making existing content easier to view. One of the free update's key new features will be a voice-control interface that will let users retrieve videos, television channels, games or other content simply by asking for it. The feature combines the Xbox 360's hands-free Kinect system with technology from Microsoft's Bing search engine to hunt down the content. Primarily billed as a gaming tool, Kinect uses a 3-D video camera and voice recognition to let the user interact with the TV screen without a controller. The new partners, or updated apps, to be unveiled Tuesday include content from ESPN, Hulu, Netflix and MSNBC in the United States. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/brussels-homes-in-on-google/ brussels-homes-in-on-google Tue, 6 Dec 2011 00:00:56 +0200 (Financial Times) -- The European Commission is homing in on a list of concerns about Google's business practices that could form the basis of an antitrust complaint against the US internet search group. The narrowing of the investigation to issues red flagged by Brussels marks a turning point in an inquiry that has been running for almost two years. However, the commission has yet to decide whether to bring a formal complaint against the company or lay out its concerns in detail, said people familiar with the situation. News that the European case has moved into a more advanced phase comes just days before Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman, is due to meet Joaquín Almunia, the European competition commissioner. Mr Almunia last week played down suggestions that the meeting could turn into a showdown with the US company over antitrust issues, telling reporters that it had not been called to discuss the competition case "in detail". He added: "We are very keen to exchange views." People who have been in contact with the commission say regulators are paying particular attention to ways in which Google downgrades some rival websites in its search results, while playing up its own services. This has involved favouring its specialised, or "vertical", services for maps and shopping. Google has argued that showing more detailed answers high up in its search results helps users get to information faster and has denied deliberately disadvantaging any rivals. In recent months, a number of companies have filed fresh complaints to Brussels, claiming to have been hurt by Google's practices. But the regulator ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/steve-jobs-a-avut-din-nou-dreptate-google-se-transforma-in-microsoft-cinci-proiecte-marca-google-pe-care-microsoft-le-a-experimentat-fara-succes/ steve-jobs-a-avut-din-nou-dreptate-google-se-transforma-in-microsoft-cinci-proiecte-marca-google-pe-care-microsoft-le-a-experimentat-fara-succes Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:02:07 +0200 Primăvara trecută, când Larry Page se pregătea să preia conducerea Google, i-a cerut lui Steve Jobs câteva sfaturi. Jobs i-a spus să se concentreze pe mai puţine lucruri, dar pe care să le facă foarte bine. Pentru că, altfel, va ajunge să semene cu Microsoft, se va hazarda în multe proiecte, dar nu va avea niciun succes cu ele. Dar Google s-a transformat deja în Microsoft, în incercarea de a ţine piept Facebook sau Apple. Steve Jobs şi-a adus aminte ulterior conversaţia pe care a avut-o cu şeful de la Google şi i-a povestit-o biografului său, Walter Isaacson. Jobs i-a spus lui Page: "Gândeşte-te ce vrea să fie Google când va fi mare. Care sunt cele cinci produse pe care vrei să te concentrezi? Lasă restul la o parte, pentru că te trag în jos. Te transforma în Microsoft." Page l-a ascultat într-o oarecare măsura, lasând la o parte o mulţime de proiecte experimentale. Cu toate acestea, Jobs a avut dreptate: Google se transformă in Microsoft. Află de ce se transformă Google în Microsoft pe www.incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-vrea-sa-angajeze-mai-multe-mii-de-persoane-si-sa-deschida-un-centru-tehnologic-anul-viitor/ facebook-vrea-sa-angajeze-mai-multe-mii-de-persoane-si-sa-deschida-un-centru-tehnologic-anul-viitor Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:02:03 +0200 Facebook intenţionează să angajeze anul viitor mai multe mii de persoane şi să deschidă un centru de inginerie tehnologică în New York, pentru a atrage talentele din domeniul IT, în condiţiile în care se pregăteşte pentru o posibilă listare la bursă. Compania, care operează cea mai mare reţea de socializare la nivel mondial, are în prezent circa 3.000 de angajaţi şi peste 800 de milioane de utilizatori în întreaga lume. Facebook va deschide un centru de inginerie tehnologică la New York la începutul anului viitor, a declarat directorul operaţional Sheryl Sandberg, fără să precizeze exact numărul de posturi care vor fi create, transmite Bloomberg. "Baza de utilizatori şi de venituri creşte rapid şi ne bazăm pe acest lucru", a spus Sandberg. Facebook vrea să atragă profesioniştii din domeniul tehnologiei, în condiţiile în care companii precum Google şi Apple concurează deja pentru cele mai strălucite minţi. La începutul acestei luni, directorul general şi fondatorul Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, a vizitat Universitatea Harvard şi Institutul pentru Tehnologie din Massachusetts, pentru recrutarea de personal. Facebook analizează lansarea unei oferte publice iniţiale de circa 10 miliarde de dolari, care ar evalua compania la peste 100 de miliarde de dolari, a declarat o sursă apropiată situaţiei. Cererea de listare la bursă ar putea fi depusă înainte de sfârşitul acestui an. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-google-a-schimbat-radical-designul-youtube/ video-google-a-schimbat-radical-designul-youtube Sat, 3 Dec 2011 00:03:51 +0200 YouTube are de joi un nou look ce aduce un numar mare de schimbari, de la modul in care clipurile pot fi vizionate pana la modalitati in care canalele pot fi personalizate. Sunt cele mai mari schimbari ale aspectului site-ului in ultimii sase ani, ca parte a proiectului Cosmic Panda prin care Google vrea sa modernizeze cel mai popular site de video-sharing.O modificare importanta tine de "vopseaua digitala" aplicata, fiindca portiuni importante ale paginii nu mai sunt cu fond alb, ci cu gri. Apoi, in locul aranjarii clipurilor in lungi randuri orizontale, au aparut trei mai coloane verticale care, spun cei de la Google, vor simplifica modul de navigare si personalizare.In coloana din stanga utilizatorul poate alege la ce canale principale vrea sa aiba acces rapid si isi poate lega contul de YouTube cu cele din retele precum Facebook si Google+. Pe coloana centrala pot fi vizionate clipurile, iar in cea din dreapta userul primeste recomandari de clipuri ce l-ar putea interesa, in functie de ce a cautat si vizionat pana acum pe site.Cei de la Google spun ca acest "facelift" substantial face site-ul mai modern, mai simplu si mai usor de personalizat pentru fiecare utilizator in parte. Compania vrea sa obtina venituri mai mari din publicitate pe YouTuibe si semneaza diverse parteneriate pentru ca cel mai popular site de video-sharing sa aiba o cantitate cat mai mare de continut creat de profesionisti din TV. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-ar-putea-introduce-un-serviciu-de-cumparaturi-online-incercand-sa-atraga-vizitatori-de-la-amazon/ google-ar-putea-introduce-un-serviciu-de-cumparaturi-online-incercand-sa-atraga-vizitatori-de-la-amazon Sat, 3 Dec 2011 00:03:48 +0200 Google ar putea introduce un serviciu de cumpărături online care să promoveze livrarea în aceeaşi zi, încercând să atragă vizitatori de la rivali precum Amazon.com, potrivit Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Google poartă discuţii cu mai mulţi retaileri şi companii de curierat, potrivit unor surse apropiate situaţiei, citate de WSJ. Reprezentanţii Google au refuzat să comenteze informaţiile. Analiştii estimează că Google obţine circa 40% din venituri datorită vânzărilor efectuate de retaileri în urma unor căutări efectuate pe motorul de căutare al companiei. Astfel, Google s-ar putea simţi ameninţat de serviciul Prime al Amazon.com, care garantează livrare gratuită în maximum două zile în Statele Unite pentru orice produs pentru 79 de dolari pe an. Tot mai mulţi utilizatori care adoptă Amazon.com Prime renunţă la căutarea produselor pe Google, care devine tot mai des o variantă "de rezervă" pentru consumatorii care nu găsesc ceea ce doresc să cumpere pe Amazon.com, potrivit analiştilor. Google domină încă segmentul căutărilor online din domeniul retail. Serviciul de retail online al Google nu va vinde produse direct clienţilor, ci îi va direcţiona către cele mai avantajoase oferte sau către soluţia care oferă cea mai rapidă livrare, au afirmat sursele citate. Compania vrea de asemenea să creeze un serviciu de livrări care să asigure onorarea comenzilor într-una, maximum două zile, contra unui comision, potrivit WSJ. La crearea noului serviciu ar putea participa şi compania de curierat United Parcel Service (UPS), notează publicaţia americană. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-ar-putea-introduce-un-serviciu-de-retail-online-cu-livrare-in-aceeasi-zi/ google-ar-putea-introduce-un-serviciu-de-retail-online-cu-livrare-in-aceeasi-zi Sat, 3 Dec 2011 00:03:44 +0200 Google ar putea introduce un serviciu de cumpărături online care să promoveze livrarea în aceeaşi zi, încercând să atragă vizitatori de la rivali precum Amazon.com, potrivit Wall Street Journal (WSJ), preluat de Reuters. Google poartă discuţii cu mai mulţi retaileri şi companii de curierat, potrivit unor surse apropiate situaţiei, citate de WSJ. Reprezentanţii Google au refuzat să comenteze informaţiile. Analiştii estimează că Google obţine circa 40% din venituri datorită vânzărilor efectuate de retaileri în urma unor căutări efectuate pe motorul de căutare al companiei. Astfel, Google s-ar putea simţi ameninţat de serviciul Prime al Amazon.com, care garantează livrare gratuită în maximum două zile în Statele Unite pentru orice produs pentru 79 de dolari pe an. Tot mai mulţi utilizatori care adoptă Amazon.com Prime renunţă la căutarea produselor pe Google, care devine tot mai des o variantă "de rezervă" pentru consumatorii care nu găsesc ceea ce doresc să cumpere pe Amazon.com, potrivit analiştilor. Google domină încă segmentul căutărilor online din domeniul retail. Serviciul de retail online al Google nu va vinde produse direct clienţilor, ci îi va direcţiona către cele mai avantajoase oferte sau către soluţia care oferă cea mai rapidă livrare, au afirmat sursele citate. Compania vrea de asemenea să creeze un serviciu de livrări care să asigure onorarea comenzilor într-una, maximum două zile, contra unui comision, potrivit WSJ. La crearea noului serviciu ar putea participa şi compania de curierat United Parcel Service (UPS), notează publicaţia americană. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tv-isn39t-broken-so-why-is-everyone-trying-to-fix-it/ tv-isn39t-broken-so-why-is-everyone-trying-to-fix-it Sat, 3 Dec 2011 00:02:03 +0200 Editor's note: This is the latest in a series of Business Insider commentaries for CNN that debunk commonly held perceptions about technology. (CNN) -- The technology industry is absolutely bent on reinventing television. According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, one of his last big accomplishments was figuring out how to make a better TV. "I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use," Jobs told his biographer. "It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud....It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it." Since then, the world has gone crazy speculating about how great this iTV (or whatever it's called) will be. It will apparently be powered by Siri, Apple's voice controlled assistant that appeared in the iPhone 4S earlier this year. Analyst Gene Munster thinks it will come in several sizes, be controllable from your iPhone or iPad, and -- this is Apple after all -- cost twice the price of a normal TV. Apple isn't alone. Google just released the second version of its Internet-meets-TV software, Google TV. This is despite the fact that first version was such a flop that hardware partner Logitech had more Google TV returns than sales in the first quarter of 2011. (Not surprisingly, Logitech is not going to be on board for round two.) Microsoft is also getting into the act again, after countless failed attempts stretching back almost two decades. (Remember WebTV?) This time, it's teamed up with TV providers like Comcast and Verizon FiOS to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/siri-can39t-direct-you-to-an-abortion-clinic/ siri-can39t-direct-you-to-an-abortion-clinic Sat, 3 Dec 2011 00:01:53 +0200 (CNN) -- Siri can help you find drugstores and bars, but the iPhone 4S digital assistant is clueless when it comes to the locations of abortion clinics, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The advocacy group this week launched an online petition asking people to send e-mails to Apple saying that "if Siri can tell us about Viagra, it should not provide bad or no information about contraceptives or abortion care. Send a message to Apple: Fix Siri." "Although it isn't clear that Apple is intentionally trying to promote an anti-choice agenda, it is distressing that Siri can point you to Viagra, but not the Pill, or help you find an escort, but not an abortion clinic," the group wrote in a blog post Wednesday. "We're confident that the developers at Apple want to provide iPhone users with accurate information." Apple said Thursday the omission was not intentional: "Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information and while it can find a lot, it doesn't always find what you want," Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harrison said. "These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better and we will in the coming weeks." In an informal test by CNN, Siri was able to provide some information about reproductive health services, including where you can buy a condom, but she still could not answer the question, "Where can I get an abortion?" The digital assistant's reply: ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/justitia-italiana-redactorii-din-presa-online-nu-sunt-responsabili-pentru-continutul-comentariilor-postate-de-cititori/ justitia-italiana-redactorii-din-presa-online-nu-sunt-responsabili-pentru-continutul-comentariilor-postate-de-cititori Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:03:01 +0200 Curtea Suprema de Casatie din Italia a decis ca redactorii publicatiilor online nu pot fi considerati responsabili, din punct de vedere legal, pentru comentariile defaimatoare postate de cititori, potrivit IT World Today. Hotararea Curtii contrasteaza cu decizii anterioare ale autoritatilor italiene care s-au remarcat prin tendinta de a restrange libertatea de exprimare in spatiul online.Curtea Suprema italiana a anulat verdictele a doua instante inferioare, achitandu-l pe fostul redactor online al publicatiei L'Espresso, Daniela Hamaui, acuzat ca nu a prevenit aparitia unor comentarii defaimatoare.Judecatorii au argumentat ca publicatiile online nu pot fi tratate in acelasi mod ca si presa scrisa traditionala si nu se poate astepta ca acestea sa exercite control editorial preventiv asupra comentariilor cititorilor.Presa scrisa traditionala implica, potrivit legislatiei italiene, reproducerea unui text original pe un mediu fizic, reproducere distribuita apoi publicului, a afirmat Curtea. Publicatiile online nu sunt distribuite fizic publicului, chiar daca, teoretic, este posibila printarea unui text online si distribuirea catre o parte terta. Potrivit instantei, nu este corect, din punct de vedere legal, ca sanctiunile ce vizeaza redactorii din mass-media traditionala, care nu au prevenit publicarea unor calomnii, sa fie aplicate redactorilor din presa online care nu au indepartat un comentariu defaimator dupa ce a fost postat de un cititor.Hotararea Curtii contrasteaza cu decizii anterioare ale autoritatilor italiene care restrictioneaza libertatea de exprimare pe internet.In februarie 2010, trei directori Google Italia au fost condamnati la 6 luni de inchisoare cu suspendare din cauza faptului ca au permis postarea in Google Video a unei inregistrari in care un copil cu sindromul ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/euractivro-comisia-europeana-si-gigantii-tehnologiei-prevad-noi-masuri-de-protejare-a-copiilor-in-mediul-online/ euractivro-comisia-europeana-si-gigantii-tehnologiei-prevad-noi-masuri-de-protejare-a-copiilor-in-mediul-online Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:02:59 +0200 Comisia Europeana s-a intalnit astazi cu gigantii Apple, Facebook si Google, transmite Reuters, pentru a discuta despre imbunatatirea protectiei copiilor in mediul online.Coalitia, din care fac parte 28 de companii, va dezvolta un sistem de evaluare bazat pe varsta utilizatorilor si are ca scop imbunatatirea setarilor de confidentialitate. De asemenea, pana la sfarsitul anului, continutul neadecvat va fi mult mai usor de raportat, potrivit EurActiv.ro.Noile masuri includ imbunatatirea controlului parental si o mai buna cooperare intre institutiile judiciare si cele care se ocupa de supravegherea mediului online, pentru a indeparta orice material cu continut sexual. Grupul britanic Childnet International, care urmareste sa protejeze copiii in mediul onine, considera ca intentia Comisiei Europene este un bun inceput in acest sens. Multi copii devin activi online inainte sa implineasca sapte ani, in timp ce 38% dintre copiii cu varste cuprinse intre 9 si 12 ani au profiluri pe principalele retele de socializare, potrivit unei cercetari a Uniunii Europene. Peste 30% din copii acceseaza internetul prin intermediul unui dispozitiv mobil, iar 26% prin intermediul consolelor de jocuri video. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/28-de-mari-companii-itc-s-au-angajat-sa-faca-internetul-mai-sigur-pentru-copii/ 28-de-mari-companii-itc-s-au-angajat-sa-faca-internetul-mai-sigur-pentru-copii Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:02:57 +0200 28 de companii mari din domeniul IT si telecomunicatii au adoptat o declaratie de intentie in care s-au angajat sa transforme internetul intr-un mediu mai sigur pentru copii, informeaza Comisia Europeana. Coalitia, creata la solicitarea Executivului european, este formata momentan din: Apple, BSkyB, BT, Dailymotion, Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Hyves, KPN, Liberty Global, LG Electronics, Mediaset, Microsoft, Netlog, Nintendo, Nokia, Opera Software, Orange, Research in Motion, RTL Group, Samsung, Sulake, Telefonica, Teliasonera, Telenor Group, Tuenti, Vivendi si Vodafone. Printre actiunile vizate se numara facilitarea raportarii continuturilor periculoase sau oferirea unor optiuni mai variate pentru controlul parental."Membrii fondatori ai coalitiei sunt deja lideri in domeniul sigurantei copiilor pe internet. Conjugandu-ne eforturile, vom impune ritmul pentru intreaga industrie de profil si vom dispune de instrumentele adecvate pentru a oferi copiilor autonomie maxima in mediul online in conditii de siguranta", a declarat Neelie Kroes, vicepresedintele Comisiei Europene.Cele 28 de companii au adoptat o Declaratie de intentie in care au convenit sa intreprinda actiuni in cinci domenii: Instrumente de raportare simple si solide: functii usor identificabile si recognoscibile pe toate dispozitivele pentru a permite semnalarea eficace a continuturilor si contactelor care par a fi prejudiciabile pentru copii si interventia eficienta in astfel de situatii; Parametri de confidentialitate adecvati varstei: parametri care sa tina seama de nevoile unor grupe de varsta diferite (astfel de parametri determina in ce masura sunt disponibile informatiile utilizatorului; de exemplu, daca datele de contact sau fotografiile sunt disponibile numai pentru persoanele apropiate sau si pentru publicul larg); O utilizare mai larga a clasificarii continutului: pentru a elabora o ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/browserul-chrome-al-google-a-depasit-pentru-prima-data-firefox-si-se-apropie-de-internet-explorer/ browserul-chrome-al-google-a-depasit-pentru-prima-data-firefox-si-se-apropie-de-internet-explorer Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:02:46 +0200 Browserul Chrome al grupului Google a depăşit în noiembrie Firefox, la nivel global, pentru prima dată, şi continuă să reducă puternic diferenţa faţă de liderul Internet Explorer al Microsoft, care a scăzut, potrivit unui studiu al firmei de analiză StatCounter. "Putem privi spre viitor la o luptă fascinantă între Microsoft şi Google, întrucât ritmul de creştere al Chrome sugerează că va deveni un rival real pentru Internet Explorer la nivel global", a declarat directorul general al StatCounter, Aodhan Cullen. În noiembrie, cota de piaţă a Chrome a ajuns la 25,7%, aproximativ dublu faţă de aceeaşi lună a anului trecut, în timp ce Internet Explorer a scăzuut de la 48,2% la 40,6%. Cota de piaţă a Firefox, popular în Europa, a coborât la nivel global de la 31,2% la 25,2%. Locul al patrulea este ocupat, la mare distanţă, de browserul Safari al grupului Apple, cu 5,9%, iar pe cinci se situează Opera cu 1,8%. Statistica StatCounter se bazează pe date agregate de la peste trei milioane de site-uri web, cu o mostră de peste 15 miliarde de pagini vizualizate pe lună. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-celebreaza-ziua-nationala-a-romaniei-cu-un-logo-special/ google-celebreaza-ziua-nationala-a-romaniei-cu-un-logo-special Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:02:41 +0200 Motorul de căutare Google afişează pe pagina lui principală de joi un nou logo special, dedicat Zilei Naţionale a României - 1 decembrie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/aclu-raps-apple-over-siri-abortion-clinic-issue/ aclu-raps-apple-over-siri-abortion-clinic-issue Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:01:31 +0200 (CNN) -- Siri can help you find drugstores and bars, but the iPhone 4S digital assistant is clueless when it comes to the locations of abortion clinics, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The advocacy group this week launched an online petition asking people to send e-mails to Apple saying that "if Siri can tell us about Viagra, it should not provide bad or no information about contraceptives or abortion care. Send a message to Apple: Fix Siri." "Although it isn't clear that Apple is intentionally trying to promote an anti-choice agenda, it is distressing that Siri can point you to Viagra, but not the Pill, or help you find an escort, but not an abortion clinic," the group wrote in a blog post Wednesday. "We're confident that the developers at Apple want to provide iPhone users with accurate information." Apple said Thursday the omission was not intentional: "Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information and while it can find a lot, it doesn't always find what you want," Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harrison said. "These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better and we will in the coming weeks." In an informal test by CNN, Siri was able to provide some information about reproductive health services, including where you can buy a condom, but she still could not answer the question, "Where can I get an abortion?" The digital assistant's reply: ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-siri-can39t-direct-you-to-an-abortion-clinic/ apple39s-siri-can39t-direct-you-to-an-abortion-clinic Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:01:15 +0200 (CNN) -- Siri can help you find drugstores and bars, but the iPhone 4S digital assistant is clueless when it comes to the locations of abortion clinics, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The advocacy group this week launched an online petition asking people to send e-mails to Apple saying that "if Siri can tell us about Viagra, it should not provide bad or no information about contraceptives or abortion care. Send a message to Apple: Fix Siri." "Although it isn't clear that Apple is intentionally trying to promote an anti-choice agenda, it is distressing that Siri can point you to Viagra, but not the Pill, or help you find an escort, but not an abortion clinic," the group wrote in a blog post Wednesday. "We're confident that the developers at Apple want to provide iPhone users with accurate information." Apple said Thursday the omission was not intentional: "Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information and while it can find a lot, it doesn't always find what you want," Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harrison said. "These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better and we will in the coming weeks." In an informal test by CNN, Siri was able to provide some information about reproductive health services, including where you can buy a condom, but she still could not answer the question, "Where can I get an abortion?" The digital assistant's reply: ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cati-bani-aduc-in-economie-autostrazile-din-romania-terminalul-business-de-pe-aeroportul-baneasa-va-fi-finalizat-pana-la-sfarsitul-anului-visul-nuclear-al-lui-ceausescu-cate-centrale-atomice-trebuia-sa-avem-si-ce-s-a-ales-de-plan-giga/ business-report-cati-bani-aduc-in-economie-autostrazile-din-romania-terminalul-business-de-pe-aeroportul-baneasa-va-fi-finalizat-pana-la-sfarsitul-anului-visul-nuclear-al-lui-ceausescu-cate-centrale-atomice-trebuia-sa-avem-si-ce-s-a-ales-de-plan-giga Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:58:47 +0200 Cati bani aduc in economie autostrazile din Romania. "Ne-am obisnuit sa masuram kilometri de autostrada, dar investitiile pe care le facem in infrastructura sunt investitii care conduc si la crestere economica", spunea ministrul Anca Boagiu intr-un interviu pentru Capital. In conditiile in care s-a dat drumul constructiei, efectul se vede nu doar in taierile de panglici si inaugurarile de santiere, ci si in sectorul constructiilor, unde ajung circa 1,08-1,2 miliarde de euro. Daca se vor continua proiectele incepute, in 2012, Romania va ajunge sa aiba circa 590 km de autostrada, peste 8.000 de persoane angajate in constructia de autostrazi si o absorbtie mai mare a fondurilor europene care se va simti in PIB si ne-ar putea permite sa iesim pe plus intr-un context economic care se anunta dificil, scrie Capital.ro.Enel a finalizat un centru de comanda pentru zona Muntenia. Compania Enel Romania a finalizat un centru de comanda pentru zona Muntenia, partea a unui program de investitii de 90 de milioane de euro care include si lucrari de modernizare a retelei, a anuntat ieri subsidiara grupului italian de utilitati Enel. Noul centru de telecontrol, inaugurat ieri, permite tehnicienilor Enel din Bucuresti, Ilfov si Giurgiu sa opereze online manevrele necesare pentru a controla statiile primare si alte componente ale retelei de electricitate de inalta si medie tensiune. In plus, sistemul aduce beneficii in ceea ce priveste calitatea serviciului de distributie a energiei electrice. "Sistemul Telecontrol (...) permite tehnicienilor Enel sa execute manevrele de realimentare cu energie aproape instant, in cazul unor intreruperi care afecteaza zone extinse. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-marcheaza-cu-un-logo-special-implinirea-a-176-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-scriitorului-mark-twain/ google-marcheaza-cu-un-logo-special-implinirea-a-176-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-scriitorului-mark-twain Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:58:22 +0200 Motorul de căutare Google şi-a schimbat, miercuri, logoul de pe pagina principală, pentru a marca împlinirea a 176 de ani de la naşterea scriitorului american Mark Twain, autorul unor celebre romane de aventuri pentru copii. Acesta este cel mai lung logo pe care Google l-a postat pe pagina principală. Logoul obişnuit a fost înlocuit cu imaginea unui gard care este revopsit, pe care se regăsesc literele care alcătuiesc cuvântul "Google", pictate în culorile obişnuite ale companiei. În noul logo Google apar personajele Tom Sawyer şi Huckleberry Finn, surprinse în trei ipostaze, în timp ce vopsesc pe acel gard literele care compun cuvântul "Google". Mark Twain, al cărui nume real a fost Samuel Langhorne Clemens, s-a născut pe 30 noiembrie 1835, în statul american Missouri. Scriitorul american este autorul îndrăgitelor romane "Aventurile lui Tom Sawyer", "Prinţ şi cerşetor", "Aventurile lui Huckleberry Finn" şi "Un yankeu la curtea regelui Arthur". Mark Twain a murit pe 21 aprilie 1910, la vârsta de 74 de ani. Google îşi modifică frecvent logoul pentru a omagia personalităţi ale culturii universale sau pentru a marca momente speciale din istoria lumii. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-marcheaza-implinirea-a-176-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-scriitorului-mark-twain/ google-marcheaza-implinirea-a-176-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-scriitorului-mark-twain Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:58:11 +0200 Motorul de căutare Google şi-a schimbat, miercuri, logoul de pe pagina principală, pentru a marca împlinirea a 176 de ani de la naşterea scriitorului american Mark Twain, autorul unor celebre romane de aventuri pentru copii. Acesta este cel mai lung logo pe care Google l-a postat pe pagina principală. Logoul obişnuit a fost înlocuit cu imaginea unui gard care este revopsit, pe care se regăsesc literele care alcătuiesc cuvântul "Google", pictate în culorile obişnuite ale companiei. În noul logo Google apar personajele Tom Sawyer şi Huckleberry Finn, surprinse în trei ipostaze, în timp ce vopsesc pe acel gard literele care compun cuvântul "Google". Mark Twain, al cărui nume real a fost Samuel Langhorne Clemens, s-a născut pe 30 noiembrie 1835, în statul american Missouri. Scriitorul american este autorul îndrăgitelor romane "Aventurile lui Tom Sawyer", "Prinţ şi cerşetor", "Aventurile lui Huckleberry Finn" şi "Un yankeu la curtea regelui Arthur". Mark Twain a murit pe 21 aprilie 1910, la vârsta de 74 de ani. Google îşi modifică frecvent logoul pentru a omagia personalităţi ale culturii universale sau pentru a marca momente speciale din istoria lumii. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what-would-facebook-stock-sales-mean-for-you/ what-would-facebook-stock-sales-mean-for-you Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:56:06 +0200 (CNN) -- If Facebook and Wall Street become friends, will you like it? For the past couple of years, the potential for Facebook to go public has been bandied about a lot in tech circles, with more and more of the digital tea leaves suggesting that the social-networking juggernaut will, in fact, one day become a publicly traded commodity. The speculation has heated up again this week. And, amid all the chatter about financial disclosures and initial public offerings, another question has emerged: What would it mean for the average Facebook user? The Wall Street Journal this week quoted unnamed sources who said Facebook is "inching closer" to a public offering, in spring or early summer, that would value the company at more than $100 billion. According to the report, Facebook would look to raise a staggering $10 billion during its initial public offering. A $100 billion valuation would price the social-networking giant at more than twice the value of tech institutions such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and 3M Co., the Journal reported. A Facebook spokesman declined to comment for this article. For folks who have followed Facebook's now-iconic rise from dorm-room project to online hangout for more than 800 million users, the money talk may be all well and good. But some of them say they are concerned that, when the stock shares start hitting the market, the ingenuity that built Facebook could disappear. TechCrunch writer Josh Constine wasn't optimistic in a post bluntly titled "Why Greedy Stockholders and a $100 Billion IPO Could Hurt Facebook." Constine argues that if Facebook becomes beholden ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/samsung-defeats-apple-in-court/ samsung-defeats-apple-in-court Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:54:31 +0200 (Financial Times) -- Samsung Electronics will be allowed to sell its latest Galaxy tablet computers in Australia during the crucial Christmas shopping season after it won a rare victory against Apple and overturned a sales ban in the country. The decision by a federal appeals court in Australia comes after setbacks for Samsung in Europe, where Apple successfully sued to block sales of Samsung's tablets in Germany, Europe's largest market. Samsung has also had to modify some of its smartphone features for the European market following a temporary sales ban on its three Galaxy smartphones in the Netherlands. Samsung and Apple are locked in about 20 legal disputes in nine countries including the US, South Korea, Japan and the UK, and analysts said this latest verdict should bolster Samsung's position in these cases. "The ruling shows that Apple's claims on design are relatively weak while Samsung can fight back with its patents on 3G technology," said Jae Lee at Daiwa Securities. The intensifying legal wranglings between the two companies highlight their complex relationship. Samsung is an important supplier of parts for Apple products, but the South Korean company is also the biggest maker of smartphones based on Google's Android platform and therefore Apple's biggest competitor in smartphones and tablets. In Australia, Apple was granted an injunction in October, temporarily blocking sales of the Galaxy 10.1 tablet. Federal Court Justice Lindsay Foster on Wednesday reversed the sales ban but granted a stay until Friday. Apple will have to go to the High Court to extend the period further. The ruling provides ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/barack-obama-si-a-deschis-cont-pe-google-in-vederea-campaniei-electorale/ barack-obama-si-a-deschis-cont-pe-google-in-vederea-campaniei-electorale Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:08:24 +0200 Presedintele american Barack Obama si-a deschis cont miercuri pe Google+, reteaua sociala a gigantului american de Internet, adaugand-o listei ample de retele sociale pe care intentioneaza sa le foloseasca in campania electorala pentru alegerile prezidentiale din 2012, relateaza AFP."Incercam sa ne stabilim reperele, asa ca nu ezitati sa ne spuneti ce v-ar placea sa vedeti aici si sa ne dati idei despre modul in care putem folosi acest spatiu pentru a va ajuta sa ramaneti in contact cu campania", explica primul mesaj publicat pe acest cont.Echipa de campanie a presedintelui Obama s-a lansat luna trecuta pe popularul site Tumblr, completand un arsenal care include Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr si Foursquare.In cadrul campaniei sale victorioase din 2008, Barack Obama s-a sprijinit pe Internet pentru a strange fonduri si sustinatori si pentru a-si difuza mesajele. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-vrea-sa-cumpere-yahoo-din-nou/ microsoft-vrea-sa-cumpere-yahoo-din-nou Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:06:26 +0200 Microsoft a purtat negocieri pentru preluarea companiei Yahoo încă din anul 2008, însă a renunţat la idee câteva luni mai târziu, preferând să-şi concentreze eforturile în lupta cu rivalul Google, purtată pe piaţa serviciilor online. Citeşte mai multe pe go4it.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bloomberg-microsoft-va-analiza-yahoo-in-vederea-finantarii-unei-preluari-de-catre-alte-companii/ bloomberg-microsoft-va-analiza-yahoo-in-vederea-finantarii-unei-preluari-de-catre-alte-companii Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:05:59 +0200 Microsoft a încheiat un acord de confidenţialitate cu Yahoo! care îi permite să analizeze în amănunt situaţia financiară a companiei de servicii de Internet, în vederea finanţării unei posibile oferte de preluare din partea altor companii, a declarat o sursă apropiată situaţiei, citată de Bloomberg. Alte două surse au spus la rândul lor că Microsoft ar putea doar să contribuie la finanţarea unei oferte, în loc să încerce să cumpere direct Yahoo!. Astfel, Microsoft se va alătura altor investitori, pentru protejarea parteneriatului cu Yahoo! în domeniul serviciilor de căutare la web şi acoperirea unui eventual deficit de finanţare. Consultanţii Yahoo! au cerut ca ofertele de preluare din partea companiilor interesate să fie depuse săptămâna viitoare. Este probabil ca ofertanţii să propună doar preluarea unei participaţii minoritare la Yahoo!, în condiţiile în care nu au pregătit finanţarea unei preluări integrale, au arătat sursele. Fondurile de investiţii TPG Capital şi Silver Lake au semnat la rândul lor acorduri de confidenţialitate, au declarat persoane apropiate acestor companii. Reprezentanţi ai Microsoft şi ai Yahoo! au refuzat să comenteze. Yahoo! a cerut părţilor interesate să semneze acorduri de confidenţialitate a datelor, pentru a primi prezentări din partea conducerii şi acces la informaţii financiare detaliate. Cel mai mare portal web din SUA, Yahoo! a declanşat în septembrie o evaluare strategică a opţiunilor de afaceri, după înlăturarea din funcţie a directorului general Carol Bartz, ca urmare a declinului vânzărilor în faţa concurenţei Google şi Facebook. În timpul mandatului lui Bartz, Microsoft şi Yahoo! au încheiat un acord pe termen de 10 ani pentru colaborarea în domeniul tehnologiei de căutare ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/echipa-de-campanie-a-lui-barack-obama-deschide-cont-pe-google-in-vederea-alegerilor-prezidentiale/ echipa-de-campanie-a-lui-barack-obama-deschide-cont-pe-google-in-vederea-alegerilor-prezidentiale Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:05:58 +0200 Preşedintele american Barack Obama a adăugat miercuri Google+, reţeaua socială a gigantului american de Internet, listei copioase de reţele sociale pe care intenţionează să le folosească în campania electorală pentru alegerile prezidenţiale din 2012, relatează AFP. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-market-for-mobile-payments/ the-market-for-mobile-payments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:03:40 +0200 Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- The competition for payment processing services, especially mobile payments, is heating up. Last week Google kicked it up a notch by announcing that it's phasing out Google Checkout in favor of the new Google Wallet. This service supports in-store tap-to-pay payments from your phone via near field communications technology, as well as purchases on the web. If you log in to your Google Checkout account now, you'll be notified that you've been switched over to Google Wallet. Any credit cards or other payment information you've saved in Google Checkout will be available in Google Wallet. The catch: Google Wallet isn't yet widely used for in-store purchases. So far its NFC payments are enabled only for Sprint Nexus S users who also have a Citibank MasterCard or a Google prepaid card, and who are making purchases at MasterCard PayPass-enabled merchant locations. So this holiday shopping season, it's unlikely that many people will be waving their phones around to buy holiday gifts. But in the coming year, more U.S. smartphones will be equipped with NFC, bringing a variety of tap-to-pay or wave-to-pay options to consumers. A competing NFC-based mobile phone payment system, ISIS, is launching in some markets (Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City) in 2012. Why are U.S. retailers slow to adopt NFC payment technology? One reason is the expense and effort required to install NFC-enabled point-of-sale equipment in stores ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/intrebarile-la-care-nu-trebuie-sa-mai-raspunzi-ca-sa-te-angajezi-la-google-dezvaluirea-unui-fost-angajat-al-departamentului-hr/ intrebarile-la-care-nu-trebuie-sa-mai-raspunzi-ca-sa-te-angajezi-la-google-dezvaluirea-unui-fost-angajat-al-departamentului-hr Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:04:28 +0200 Business Insider scrie că Google renunţă la multe dintre întrebările "ciudate" de la interviurile de angajare. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-mobile-payments-haven39t-gone-mainstream/ why-mobile-payments-haven39t-gone-mainstream Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:03:43 +0200 Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- The competition for payment processing services, especially mobile payments, is heating up. Last week Google kicked it up a notch by announcing that it's phasing out Google Checkout in favor of the new Google Wallet. This service supports in-store tap-to-pay payments from your phone via near field communications technology, as well as purchases on the web. If you log in to your Google Checkout account now, you'll be notified that you've been switched over to Google Wallet. Any credit cards or other payment information you've saved in Google Checkout will be available in Google Wallet. The catch: Google Wallet isn't yet widely used for in-store purchases. So far its NFC payments are enabled only for Sprint Nexus S users who also have a Citibank MasterCard or a Google prepaid card, and who are making purchases at MasterCard PayPass-enabled merchant locations. So this holiday shopping season, it's unlikely that many people will be waving their phones around to buy holiday gifts. But in the coming year, more U.S. smartphones will be equipped with NFC, bringing a variety of tap-to-pay or wave-to-pay options to consumers. A competing NFC-based mobile phone payment system, ISIS, is launching in some markets (Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City) in 2012. Why are U.S. retailers slow to adopt NFC payment technology? One reason is the expense and effort required to install NFC-enabled point-of-sale equipment in stores ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/five-thanksgiving-apps-you-should-gobble-up/ five-thanksgiving-apps-you-should-gobble-up Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:02:19 +0200 (CNN) -- When someone says "Thanksgiving and apps," you probably think appetizers, not applications. It's not as natural a combo as, say, turkey and dressing or Detroit Lions and "losing in front of a national audience," is it? (We know -- those Lions are actually pretty good this year. Old habits die hard.) But in late 2011, if it exists, you can bet there's a host of mobile apps designed to help with it. And, let's be honest: Thanksgiving is a holiday with lots of moving parts. From ambitious cooking experiments to dealing with in-laws to mapping Black Friday shopping strategies, it can be a stressful day. Even if you're not a Detroit Lions fan. (Sorry ... did it again.) So, feeling prematurely full of holiday cheer, we've compiled a few apps that might help make your Turkey Day a good one. No need to thanks us ... just save us a drumstick. (Bonus: If, despite all this digital help, things go horribly awry, don't fret. Whether it's a scorched bird or a visit from Bumpus's hounds, you can still load up the family "Christmas Story" style, and head out for a Chinese feast or other dinner on the town, using apps like Open Table, UrbanSpoon and Foodspotting.) Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade The departments store's annual march through the streets of New York has become as much a part of the Thanksgiving tradition as pilgrims and pumpkin pie. While much of the app is geared toward folks actually attending the parade, there are features that can be helpful even if you're watching from home ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/galerie-foto-cele-mai-ciudate-imagini-de-pe-google-earth-plus-cum-a-ajuns-un-avion-de-lupta-intr-o-parcare-din-paris/ galerie-foto-cele-mai-ciudate-imagini-de-pe-google-earth-plus-cum-a-ajuns-un-avion-de-lupta-intr-o-parcare-din-paris Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:05:23 +0200 Daily Mail publică o serie de imagini inedite, surprinse de utilizatori pe Google Earth. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mexico-cuba-brazil-why-latin-america-matters-for-us-national-security/ mexico-cuba-brazil-why-latin-america-matters-for-us-national-security Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:03:27 +0200 Republican presidential candidates take on national defense, the economy, international relations and terrorism issues in the CNN Republican National Security Debate in Washington, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, on Tuesday, November 22, at 8 p.m. ET on CNN, the CNN mobile apps and CNN.com/Live. Washington (CNN) -- It used to be said that if the American economy sneezed, Latin America and the Caribbean would catch a cold. Not so anymore. Despite the great recession of 2008, the region has kept growing and avoided, largely unscathed, the troubles that still ail the United States. The 20 nations that informally make up Latin America boast a booming economy with a combined GDP of more than $6 trillion, according to 2010 estimates by the International Monetary Fund. Latin America and the Caribbean, with a population of over 591 million people in 2011, are a potent market in a region where the U.S. already has free trade agreements with Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Panama. But with 2,000 miles of a common border between the U.S. and Mexico (its third-largest trading partner after Canada and China), a complicated communist presence still in Cuba, simmering anti-American sentiments in Venezuela, and Brazil -- the largest economy in Latin America and the U.S.'s eighth-largest trading partner -- already a formidable economic powerhouse, the region is anything but a stable, sedate space in the Western Hemisphere. As the U.S. is actively engaged in a deadly drug war in Mexico, Colombia and most of Central America and the Caribbean, and an arms deal gone bad is threatening to consume a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/would-you-want-to-buy-an-amazon-phone/ would-you-want-to-buy-an-amazon-phone Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:01:55 +0200 (CNN) -- Amazon is rumored to be making a phone. Citing checks of the company's supply chain, an analyst at Citigroup has issued a memo saying the phone may cost less than $200 and likely will be available in the middle of next year, according to multiple news reports in financial publications. "With the clear success of the Kindle e-Reader over the past 3 years, and Kindle Fire possibly succeeding in the low-priced tablet market, we view this as the next logical step for Amazon," the investor's note said, according to a report in Reuters. The blog AllThingsD says it's likely the phone would run Google's Android operating system: "(Mark) Mahaney's note doesn't spell out that the phone will use Google's Android operating system, but it suggests that will be the case by positing that Amazon will need to pay Microsoft an 'OS royalty' -- Microsoft has recently been able to extract royalty payments from other Android hardware partners." Of course, all of this is completely speculative, and based on one report from one analyst. Amazon did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment on Friday morning, and no on knows for sure if the company is working on a phone. But it's interesting to tech journalists and investors in part because Amazon is creeping further from its roots as an e-commerce website and into new areas of technology, including hardware development. The company's Kindle e-reader has been a hit for years, and Amazon this week put its new tablet, the Kindle Fire, on the market for $200. Reviewers say the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cofondatorul-google-sergey-brin-a-donat-500000-de-dolari-pentru-functionarea-wikipedia/ cofondatorul-google-sergey-brin-a-donat-500000-de-dolari-pentru-functionarea-wikipedia Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:07:14 +0200 Cofondatorul Google Sergey Brin şi soţia lui au donat o sumă de 500.000 de dolari Fundaţiei Wikimedia, care asigură funcţionarea enciclopediei online gratuite Wikipedia. Donaţia a fost făcută prin intermediul Fundaţiei Brin Wojcicki, fondată de Sergey Brin şi de soţia lui, Anne Wojcicki, potrivit unui anunţ făcut vineri de respectiva fundaţie. Fundaţia non-profit Wikimedia a lansat săptămâna trecută acţiunea sa anuală de strângere de fonduri pentru enciclopedia colaborativă online Wikipedia.org. Astfel, vizitatorii Wikipedia.org pot citi un apel de la Jimmy Wales, fondatorul enciclopediei online. Potrivit lui Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia are 679 de servere şi 95 de angajaţi. Wikipedia este al cincilea site pe internet, fiind vizitat de 450 de milioane de oameni diferiţi în fiecare lună şi având miliarde de vizualizări ale paginilor sale. "Comerţul este binevenit. Reclama nu este ceva malefic. Dar nu aparţine acestui loc. Nu la Wikipedia. Wikipedia este ceva special. Este asemenea unei biblioteci sau a unei grădini publice (...) Când am fondat Wikipedia, aş fi putut să o transform într-o companie pentru profit, cu anunţuri publicitare, dar am decis să fac ceva diferit. Noi toţi am muncit din greu de-a lungul anilor pentru a o menţine eficientă şi simplă (...) În acest an vă rugăm să contribuiţi cu 5 dolari, 10 euro, 1000 de yeni sau orice altă sumă credeţi că ar ajuta şi susţine Wikipedia", spune Jimmy Wales în mesajul său. Lansată în limba engleză în 15 ianuarie 2001 şi disponibilă în prezent în peste 270 de limbi, Wikipedia nu publică niciun fel de conţinuturi publicitare. Wikipedia include peste 19 milioane de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/iconic-yahoo-billboard-coming-down-after-12-years/ iconic-yahoo-billboard-coming-down-after-12-years Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:02:51 +0200 (CNN) -- Since 1999, it has greeted visitors to San Francisco while standing as a symbol of the Bay Area's status as a tech hub: A Yahoo billboard, retro-styled to look like a 1960s-era motel sign, with the tag line, "A nice place to stay on the Internet." Now, it's finally coming down. According to a report in the San Francisco Egotist, a sales manager for Clear Channel Outdoor in San Francisco has confirmed the billboard space will be available for new ads starting December 1. Some bloggers are already speculating that a more of-the-moment Bay Area tech company, such as Facebook or Google, may take its place. The neon Yahoo billboard near the onramp to eastbound I-80 is a holdover from the dot-com boom of the late 1990s and inspired sister billboards in New York City and Los Angeles. It has outlasted four Yahoo CEOs, most recently Carol Bartz. The billboard's space entertained passing motorists with such messages as, "FREE E-MAIL. ALL U CAN EAT BUFFET" and "YOU LOOK CUTE TODAY." The inevitable Save the Yahoo! Billboard page has already sprung up on Facebook, where it had amassed more than 800 likes as of early Friday afternoon. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/actionarii-motorola-mobility-au-aprobat-tranzactia-prin-care-compania-va-fi-cumparata-de-google-cu-125-miliarde-dolari/ actionarii-motorola-mobility-au-aprobat-tranzactia-prin-care-compania-va-fi-cumparata-de-google-cu-125-miliarde-dolari Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:07:04 +0200 Actionarii diviziei de telefoane mobile a Motorola au aprobat joi tranzactia prin care compania va fi preluata de Google pentru 12,5 miliarde dolari, informeaza AFP. Urmatorul pas tine insa de autoritatile din domeniul concurentei care au deschis o ancheta si trebuie sa-si dea si ele acordul. Motorola estimeaza ca tranzactia se va realiza la inceput de 2012. Google a anuntat la jumatatea lui august ca va cumpara Motorola Mobility in ceea ce este cea mai mare tranzactie din istoria gigantului web.Actionarii Motorola au aprobat cu 99% tranzactia si compania e convinsa ca autoritatile din domeniul concurentei isi vor da si ele acordul. Autoritatile americane au deschis in septembrie o ancheta pentru a vedea daca o tranzactie atat de mare are sau nu impact negativ asupra concurentei din piata.Motorola estimeaza ca toate aprobarile vor fi obtinute pana la inceput de 2012, iar tranzactia va fi parafata atunci.Motorola Mobility s-a desprins la inceputul acestui an de grupul Motorola care acum cinci ani a inceput sa aiba dificultati importante in segmentul telefoanelor mobile si fiindca nu a reactionat destul de repede pentru a scoate modele touch-screen competitive.Motorola Mobility a inregistrat in 2009 pierderi de 1,2 miliarde dolari, iar anul trecut a obtinut profit operational de 76 milioane dolari.Explicand de ce a ales Motorola, Google mentiona in comunicatul de presa in care anunta tranzactia ca aceasta companie are 80 de ani de istorie, a inventat telefonul mobil acum trei decenii, iar in 2008 a decis sa utilizeze Android in toata gama de telefoane, fiind printre primele companii mari care ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-i-aduce-un-omagiu-lui-luis-daguerre-parintele-fotografiei/ google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-i-aduce-un-omagiu-lui-luis-daguerre-parintele-fotografiei Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:06:39 +0200 Google şi-a modificat logoul, vineri, pentru a-i aduce un omagiu lui Louis Daguerre, cunoscut ca "părintele fotografiei" şi de la naşterea căruia se împlinesc 224 de ani. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (18 noiembrie 1787, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise - 10 iulie 1851, Bry-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, Franţa) este considerat "părintele" fotografiei, prin invenţia sa numită daghereotipie - un procedeu de fotografiere, în prezent abandonat, care fixa imaginile cu ajutorul unei camere obscure pe o placă de cupru argintată, sensibilizată cu vapori de iod şi de brom. Daguerre a fost artist plastic, iniţial lucrând ca decorator de teatru, apoi pictor de decoruri. A executat decoruri remarcabile pentru Opera şi sala Aladin din Paris. Însă Daguerre a devenit foarte cunoscut cu ocazia unor spectacole "dioramă", împreună cu Charles Marie Bouton (1822), inventatorul acestui sistem, care consta în prezentarea unor tablouri de mari dimensiuni (22 x 14 metri, în cazul lor), alcătuit din diferite planuri şi care, sub aspectul unui joc de lumini, dădea spectatorului impresia realităţii. Logoul afişat de Google în onoarea lui Daguerre arată ca o fotografie de familie veche, în sepia. Google îşi modifică frecvent logoul pentru a omagia personalităţi ale culturii universale sau pentru a marca momente speciale din istoria lumii. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/peste-13-milioane-de-melodii-disponibile-pe-google-music/ peste-13-milioane-de-melodii-disponibile-pe-google-music Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:04:55 +0200 Magazinul de muzică online lansat de Google va permite utilizatorilor de produse care folosesc sistemul de operare Android să cumpere şi să păstreze fişiere MP3, informează BBC. Deţinătorii de telefoane multifuncţionale şi tablete informatice echipate cu Android îşi vor putea umple arhiva aparatelor cu milioane de melodii. Preţul de achiziţie a unei piese este cuprins între 69 de cenţi şi 1,29 dolari. De asemenea, compania oferă posibilitatea ca în fiecare zi o anumită melodie să fie descărcată gratuit. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-kindle-fire-a-worthwhile-bargain/ review-kindle-fire-a-worthwhile-bargain Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:02:47 +0200 (CNN) -- If you view a tablet as a guilty pleasure, like I do, then buying the Kindle Fire should make you feel a little less guilty. Amazon's new device doesn't replace a computer for doing e-mail or composing documents, but it's a fun hub for personal entertainment. And at $199, Amazon has managed to greatly undercut the price of Apple's iPad, the dominant tablet, and still churn out a good product. Apple calls its iPad "a magical and revolutionary product at an unbelievable price." Consider now that for the iPad's $499 price tag, I could buy two Kindle Fire tablets and still have cash left over for downloading apps and movies. However, except for price the Kindle Fire falls short of the iPad in just about every category. The iPad's processor is faster; its software is more abundant, capable and polished; its storage space is larger; its screen is bigger; and its body is more slender. Still, the Kindle Fire is a good Wi-Fi tablet, and the price is fantastic. After testing the device this week, I found the Kindle Fire is the most impressive iPad rival among the dozens of tablets that have flooded the market this year. Other iPad competitors have not sold well, but the new Kindle will likely have a different fate. The Nook Tablet, which also came out this week but which I have not tested at length, costs $50 more and has weaker multimedia offerings. Amazon and Barnes & Noble are squaring off with a new line of inexpensive black-and-white e-readers, too. Yes, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/anti-piracy-bill-meets-web-freedom-backlash/ anti-piracy-bill-meets-web-freedom-backlash Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:02:44 +0200 (CNN) -- A bill moving through Congress is intended, on its surface at least, to do something relatively simple: Crack down on the illegal pirating of movies, music and other copyrighted material. But a major online backlash has evolved, with everyone from lawmakers to Web-freedom advocates to some of technology's biggest players calling it a greedy and dangerous overreach that could have a chilling effect on free speech and innovation. Google, Yahoo and Facebook are among the Web heavyweights who have joined the chorus against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which backers hope to have ready for a vote by the end of the year. Its intent is to help put a stop to foreign websites that illegally post, and sometimes sell, intellectual property from the United States. Federal law-enforcement agencies would be empowered to shut down those sites, and cut off advertising and online payments to them. "The Stop Online Piracy Act helps stop the flow of revenue to rogue websites and ensures that the profits from American innovations go to American innovators," Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, chairman of the powerful House Judiciary committee and the sponsor of the plan, said when the bill was introduced last month. "The bill prevents online thieves from selling counterfeit goods in the U.S., expands international protections for intellectual property, and protects American consumers from dangerous counterfeit products. " Its supporters include some powerful lobbying groups, including the Motion Picture Association of America, the pharmaceutical industry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. On the other side are Web-freedom advocates, who were quick ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/noua-companii-americane-printre-care-google-facebook-si-yahoo-spun-ca-proiectul-de-lege-gandit-sa-combata-pirateria-online-este-exagerat-de-dur/ noua-companii-americane-printre-care-google-facebook-si-yahoo-spun-ca-proiectul-de-lege-gandit-sa-combata-pirateria-online-este-exagerat-de-dur Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:07:38 +0200 Noua mari companii de internet printre care Google, Facebook, Mozilla sau Twitter au trimis o scrisoare in care critica dur proiectul de lege inaintat Congresului american de catre grupurile din industria filmului si cea muzicala. Proiectul gandit sa diminueze pirateria online da producatorilor de continut puteri foarte mari si va afecta inovatia, aducand pe internet o epoca a cenzurii, spun cele noua companii.Gigantii din Industria de film si cea muzicala sustin intens acest proiect prin care site-uri care promoveaza continut piratat sau intermediaza vanzarea de astfel de continut pot fi scoase offline. In plus, motoarele de cautare vor fi obligate sa nu mai indexeze site-urile cu continut piratat.Intr-o scrisoare semnata de noua companii se spune ca un astfel de proiect de lege este nejustificat de dur si va impiedica multe companii sa mai inoveze. In plus, monitorizarea excesiva si controlul tot mai dur vor aduce o epoca a cenzurii, spun cele noua companii (Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo!,  AOL, eBay, LinkedIn, Mozilla si Zynga).Cei care se opun proiectului spun ca nici macar nu au fost consultate companiile de tehnologie si ca propunerea tine cont doar de dorintele caselor de discuri si ale studiourilor de cinema.  Exista teama ca daca prevederile legii vor fi vagi si vor lasa loc de interpretari, multe site-uri cu comportament corect vor avea de suferit, astfel ca e de asteptat sa se poarte negocieri aprinse in saptamanile ce vin. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-music-is-it-more-than-itunes-for-android/ google-music-is-it-more-than-itunes-for-android Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:02:48 +0200 (CNN) -- Google Music, an online music store and "free locker" for digital music, was rolled out to the public on Wednesday. On Thursday, however, questions abounded as to whether the service will amount to simply a "me too" move, following Apple and Amazon's well-worn trail through the digital-music forest, or a significant step toward making Google an e-music player. And while much of the always ready-to-attack tech blogosphere was less than enthusiastic, it's legitimate to ask whether that's even the real question. In a way, the product is just one more front in the battle between Android and Apple. Away from the desktop, iTunes users must have an iPod, iPhone or other Apple device to play the music, movies and other content they download. By selling more widely usable mp3s, Google Music will be viable across multiple devices. And, of course, Google would prefer you to choose a device running its Android operating system. "In the end, this isn't about helping Google 'catch up to iTunes' -- it's about filling the big, gaping, musical hole in Google's mobile business," Peter Kafka wrote for All Things D. While no single Android phone has approached the popularity of the iPhone, Android smartphones as a whole have become a serious force, capturing more than half the overall market during the last quarter. (Android phones amounted to 52% of the global market compared to about 15% for the iPhone, according to Gartner). Gizmodo's Adrian Covert, who it's safe to say was unimpressed with Google's offering, says that nothing that was rolled out on Wednesday would entice ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-opens-digital-music-store/ google-opens-digital-music-store Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:02:33 +0200 (CNN) -- Google opened an online music store and a free Web storage locker on Wednesday for listening to tracks from computers, tablets and phones, the company announced at a news conference in Los Angeles. The music store sells songs and albums for prices comparable to iTunes and Amazon MP3, but Google's catalog is smaller. The storefront can be found in the Android Market, an application and website where Google smartphone users can download apps. Songs purchased from the store are automatically uploaded to Google Music, a locker that can be accessed from an app coming to recent Android phones and tablets in the next few days, or from a website. They allow users to stream songs from their various devices. The Google locker service launched to a small group in May, and it opened to everyone in the United States on Wednesday. Google Music is free for storing as many as 20,000 songs. More than half of all smartphones sold worldwide in the last quarter run Google's Android software, according to market research firm Gartner. Google said more than 200 million devices have been activated. But in the music download market, Apple is king, selling more than half of all U.S. downloads through its iTunes Store, analysts say. Apple took steps to broaden its offering with the belated launch of iTunes Match on Monday. ITunes Match is similar to Google Music in that it allows customers to store their music catalogs, up to 25,000 songs, on Apple's servers and access them from their computers, iPhones and iPads. Match costs $25 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-permite-utilizatorilor-sa-blocheze-colectarea-de-informatii-despre-retelele-lor-wifi/ google-permite-utilizatorilor-sa-blocheze-colectarea-de-informatii-despre-retelele-lor-wifi Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:09:13 +0200 Google a anuntat marti o metoda prin care utilizatorii pot sa blocheze colectarea datelor unei retele WiFi pentru servicii de geolocatie. In prezent, telefoanele bazate pe sistemul de operare Android colecteaza automat informatii despre retelele fara fir din apropierea lor si le transmit inapoi catre Google pentru a putea imbunatati astfel serviciile de geolocatie ale companiei. Conform unui comunicat emis astazi de companie, utilizatorii care nu doresc ca informatiile despre reteaua lor WiFi sa fie colectate de catre Google trebuie sa adauge particula “_nomap” la numele retelei. Astfel, o retea numita “Network” nu va mai fi indexata daca numele ei este schimbat in “Network_nomap”.Schimbarile vin pe fondul presiunii crescande din partea autoritatilor europene, care au afirmat in repetate randuri ca Google incalca dreptul la intimitate al utilizatorilor prin colectarea acestor informatii fara consimtamant. In trecut, Google a mai fost acuzat si de colectarea de informatii fara consimtamant prin intermediul masinilor de cartare pentru serviciul Google Maps. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/peste-50-din-smartphone-urile-vandute-in-trimestrul-al-treilea-au-sistemul-android/ peste-50-din-smartphone-urile-vandute-in-trimestrul-al-treilea-au-sistemul-android Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:07:48 +0200 Peste 50% dintre aparatele smartphone comercializate în trimestrul al treilea la nivel mondial sunt dotate cu sistemul de operare Android al Google, ca urmare a interesului mare al cumpărătorilor pentru telefoanele fabricate de Samsung Electronics, transmite Bloomberg. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/can-google-beat-facebook-question/ can-google-beat-facebook-question Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:03:49 +0200 Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about tech news and digital culture. He writes regular columns about social media and tech for CNN.com. (CNN) -- Perhaps it's the recent launch of Google+ Pages for brands. Perhaps it's because Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called Google+ a "little version of Facebook." Or perhaps people just enjoy battles between tech titans. Whatever the reason, I've been asked at least three times in the past week about whether Google+, Google's social networking service, will ever beat Facebook. Wrong question. Facebook is the undisputed champion of social networking, with more than 800 million active users. It's deeply interwoven with the Web -- its social plug-ins are now part of millions of websites, and an entire ecosystem of applications relies on Facebook for social functions. If Google's aim with Google+ was to topple Facebook, that's an audacious goal. Based on the current growth rates of both companies, it wouldn't seem to be a bet you could win. Toppling Facebook becomes more challenging as that site continues to keep pace -- adding new features along with users. Friend circles, a distinctive feature of Google+ at launch, were added to Facebook in the following months, removing a major incentive to switch. What's more, Facebook's launch of the "Subscribe" feature -- which lets you follow public updates from a user -- further erodes the advantages of using a service like Google+ or Twitter. Google didn't promote Google+ as a "Facebook killer," however. Far from it. The search giant instead explained that it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/youtube-testing-a-new-look/ youtube-testing-a-new-look Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:03:23 +0200 (CNN) -- It appears that YouTube is getting a facelift. And Google+ might be a big part of the new look. Tech blog the Next Web was one of several whose staffers caught a glimpse of a redesigned interface on the massively popular video-sharing site. The changes, which are not in effect for most of the site's millions of users, appear to prominently integrate Google's social networking site, Google+, with YouTube (which is also owned by Google). It's not unusual for Google to test new features by rolling them out to a handful of users. And a YouTube refresh would make sense, after recent touchups to Google Reader and Gmail. (Not that the Google Reader revamp worked for everyone.) A YouTube spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. More prominently displaying Google+ "shares" on YouTube would continue Google's quest to integrate the social site with the rest of its network. The Facebook alternative rolled out to lots of fanfare in the tech community but has struggled to put a dent in Facebook's social-media dominance. Can Google+ beat Facebook? That's the wrong question From the images shared with the Next Web (originally from a Thai social-networking blog), users would see prominent posts showing them which videos their friends (presumably people in their Google+ Circles) had shared on the site. A user's channel subscriptions also would be prominently displayed in a column on the left of the page. That would presumably make people more likely to keep coming back for original content posted by channel owners than only popping onto YouTube when ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/structuri-misterioase-descoperite-de-google-earth-in-china-ce-secrete-ascunde-desertul-gobi-galerie-foto/ structuri-misterioase-descoperite-de-google-earth-in-china-ce-secrete-ascunde-desertul-gobi-galerie-foto Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:06:13 +0200 Structuri vaste neidentificate au fost descoperite de sateliţi în deşertul Gobi, ridicând semne de întrebare despre ce anume ar putea construi China în acea regiune, folosită în special de armată, pentru programele spaţiale şi cele nucleare. GALERIE FOTO În două dintre imaginile disponibile pe Google Earth apar linii reflectorizante, strălucitoare, lungi de peste un kilometru şi jumătate, intersectate între ele şi vizibile din spaţiu, care aduc aminte de geoglifele liniare de pe platourile de la Nazca. În altă imagine se văd cercuri concentrice enorme pe sol, cu trei avioane militare parcate în centru, scrie telegraph.co.uk. Într-o fotografie din 2007, blocuri de mărimea unor containere de transport maritim erau atent aranjate în cerc. Într-o imagine mai recentă, blocurile apar împrăştiate la o distanţă de aproape cinci kilometri distanţă faţă de locul iniţial. O altă imagine prezintă o serie de containere metalice pline cu ceea ce par a fi resturi de vehicule explodate, în timp ce alta prezintă o grilă complicată, lungă de aproximativ 29 de kilometri. Toate locurile sunt la graniţa provinciilor Gansu şi Xinjiang, la aproximativ 160 de kilometri de Jiuquan, sediul central al programului spaţial al Chinei. Scopul acestor structuri este necunoscut, dar unii experţi au sugerat că acestea ar putea fi zone optice de testare pentru rachete, simulând astfel reţele de străzi din oraşe. Tim Ripley, un expert în apărare de la Jane's Defence Weekly, a comparat aceste structuri cu cele din Nevada, unde se află baza secretă a SUA, Area 51. "Imaginea cercurilor arată foarte asemănător cu o zonă de testare a rachetelor, cu ţintă şi instrumente prevăzute pentru ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-pregateste-china-un-satelit-folosit-de-google-maps-a-descoperit-o-serie-de-structuri-bizare-in-desertul-gobi/ ce-pregateste-china-un-satelit-folosit-de-google-maps-a-descoperit-o-serie-de-structuri-bizare-in-desertul-gobi Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:05:09 +0200 Unul dintre sateliţii folosiţi de Google Maps a descoperit o serie de structuri bizare în timpul orbitării pe deasupra deşertului Gobi din China, informează Daily Mail. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/youtube-appears-to-be-testing-a-new-look/ youtube-appears-to-be-testing-a-new-look Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:03:23 +0200 (CNN) -- It appears that YouTube is getting a facelift. And Google+ might be a big part of the new look. Tech blog the Next Web was one of several whose staffers caught a glimpse of a redesigned interface on the massively popular video-sharing site. The changes, which are not in effect for most of the site's millions of users, appear to prominently integrate Google's social networking site, Google+, with YouTube (which is also owned by Google). It's not unusual for Google to test new features by rolling them out to a handful of users. And a YouTube refresh would make sense, after recent touchups to Google Reader and Gmail. (Not that the Google Reader revamp worked for everyone.) A YouTube spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. More prominently displaying Google+ "shares" on YouTube would continue Google's quest to integrate the social site with the rest of its network. The Facebook alternative rolled out to lots of fanfare in the tech community but has struggled to put a dent in Facebook's social-media dominance. Can Google+ beat Facebook? That's the wrong question From the images shared with the Next Web (originally from a Thai social-networking blog), users would see prominent posts showing them which videos their friends (presumably people in their Google+ Circles) had shared on the site. A user's channel subscriptions also would be prominently displayed in a column on the left of the page. That would presumably make people more likely to keep coming back for original content posted by channel owners than only popping onto YouTube when ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-and-kodak-speeding-past-each-other/ google-and-kodak-speeding-past-each-other Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:02:32 +0200 Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen." (CNN) -- Like two freight trains rumbling in opposite directions on parallel tracks, a pair of internationally famous U.S. companies sped past each other in the news in recent days. Their stories were consigned to the business sections. But the tales behind them paint a portrait-in-motion of contemporary American life, and of the textures and tenets of the way we choose to live it. One story concerned Eastman Kodak, as legendary a corporation as this nation has ever spawned. The New York Times reported that "Kodak may not survive unless it is able to cash in on its portfolio of patents or find some other way to raise cash." Citing Kodak's own statements of third-quarter earnings, the Times said that the company -- a giant of the 20th century in the manufacture and sale of photographic film -- was in a race against time to make its digital businesses sufficiently prosperous to offset the plummet in demand for conventional film. The second news story concerned Google, the astonishingly successful search-engine-based firm that didn't even exist until 1998, and that is now one of the most recognizable and envied brands in the world. Google, the Times reported, was acknowledging that it had to become faster at giving its users up-to-the-second results, because Google "is being increasingly challenged by services like Twitter and Facebook, which have trained people to expect ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/obama-woos-asia-calls-out-china/ obama-woos-asia-calls-out-china Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:01:02 +0200 Honolulu (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama ended his trip to this weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit stressing job creation -- calling the Pacific region vital to such economic growth, even as he needled China to do more. Obama addressed reporters early Sunday evening, touting progress on several fronts in the Hawaii talks with leaders of 18 other nations and representatives from two others. Specifically, he referenced steps to increase trade, spur innovation, promote "green growth" and ease barriers to travel and interactions. For instance, Obama noted that Japan, Canada and Mexico expressed interest Sunday in joining the United States and other nations in working toward a Trans-Pacific Partnership -- an effort to spur regional trade. Tapping into the Asia-Pacific region's markets is critical to the United States, Obama said, as it seeks to bolster its economy. "I want (people overseas) to be buying goods with three words stamped on them: made in America," the president said. "No region will do more to shape our economic future than the Asian-Pacific nations." Obama said that China, now home to the world's second-largest economy, is a big part of that equation. But he said he continued to press its leadership -- including President Hu Jintao, at a meeting this weekend -- to make sure its trading partners aren't at a "disadvantage," mentioning the devaluation of currency and concerns about intellectual property rights not being protected. "Enough is enough ... These practices aren't secret: I think everybody understands that they've been going on for quite some time," Obama said. "We're going to continue ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/obama-touts-cooperation-with-asia-calls-out-china/ obama-touts-cooperation-with-asia-calls-out-china Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:36 +0200 Honolulu (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama ended his trip to this weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit stressing job creation -- calling the Pacific region vital to such economic growth, even as he needled China to do more. Obama addressed reporters early Sunday evening, touting progress on several fronts in the Hawaii talks with leaders of 18 other nations and representatives from two others. Specifically, he referenced steps to increase trade, spur innovation, promote "green growth" and ease barriers to travel and interactions. For instance, Obama noted that Japan, Canada and Mexico expressed interest Sunday in joining the United States and other nations in working toward a Trans-Pacific Partnership -- an effort to spur regional trade. Tapping into the Asia-Pacific region's markets is critical to the United States, Obama said, as it seeks to bolster its economy. "I want (people overseas) to be buying goods with three words stamped on them: made in America," the president said. "No region will do more to shape our economic future than the Asian-Pacific nations." Obama said that China, now home to the world's second-largest economy, is a big part of that equation. But he said he continued to press its leadership -- including President Hu Jintao, at a meeting this weekend -- to make sure its trading partners aren't at a "disadvantage," mentioning the devaluation of currency and concerns about intellectual property rights not being protected. "Enough is enough ... These practices aren't secret: I think everybody understands that they've been going on for quite some time," Obama said. "We're going to continue ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/obama-calls-out-china-at-apec-summit/ obama-calls-out-china-at-apec-summit Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:25 +0200 Honolulu (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama ended his trip to this weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit stressing job creation -- calling the Pacific region vital to such economic growth, even as he needled China to do more. Obama addressed reporters early Sunday evening, touting progress on several fronts in the Hawaii talks with leaders of 18 other nations and representatives from two others. Specifically, he referenced steps to increase trade, spur innovation, promote "green growth" and ease barriers to travel and interactions. For instance, Obama noted that Japan, Canada and Mexico expressed interest Sunday in joining the United States and other nations in working toward a Trans-Pacific Partnership -- an effort to spur regional trade. Tapping into the Asia-Pacific region's markets is critical to the United States, Obama said, as it seeks to bolster its economy. "I want (people overseas) to be buying goods with three words stamped on them: made in America," the president said. "No region will do more to shape our economic future than the Asian-Pacific nations." Obama said that China, now home to the world's second-largest economy, is a big part of that equation. But he said he continued to press its leadership -- including President Hu Jintao, at a meeting this weekend -- to make sure its trading partners aren't at a "disadvantage," mentioning the devaluation of currency and concerns about intellectual property rights not being protected. "Enough is enough ... These practices aren't secret: I think everybody understands that they've been going on for quite some time," Obama said. "We're going to continue ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/obama-pushes-for-renewed-engagement-with-asia/ obama-pushes-for-renewed-engagement-with-asia Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:02:04 +0200 (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama began his push for renewed engagement with Asia, seeking to highlight domestic jobs that increased exports to the region would create. Obama is using the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit --- hosted by the U.S. for the first time since the Clinton administration -- as a kickoff for a new era in foreign policy focusing on the region. Despite the focus of the summit and its Saturday events -- free trade and other economic issues in the Asia Pacific region -- the crisis facing Europe was top of mind. During a session featuring business leaders from the region, Obama discussed the financial crisis in Europe. "I was pleased to see that European leaders were taking seriously the need to not just solve the Greek crisis, but also to solve the broader eurozone crisis," Obama said. "There have been some positive developments over the last week: a new potential government in Italy, a new government in Greece -- both committed to applying the sort of internal structural reform that can give markets more confidence." The president also emphasized the U.S. need to court foreign investment, despite leading the world in that area. "We've been a little bit lazy I think over the last couple of decades," Obama said. "We've kind of taken for granted that people will want to come here and we aren't out there trying to sell America and attract new businesses into America.' CEOs of Johnson & Johnson, Caterpillar and Google passed when asked to comment on the president's characterization of the problem, though Eric ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/obama-seeks-new-era-for-asia-policy/ obama-seeks-new-era-for-asia-policy Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:26 +0200 (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama began his push for renewed engagement with Asia, seeking to highlight domestic jobs that increased exports to the region would create. Obama is using the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit --- hosted by the U.S. for the first time since the Clinton administration -- as a kickoff for a new era in foreign policy focusing on the region. Despite the focus of the summit and its Saturday events -- free trade and other economic issues in the Asia Pacific region -- the crisis facing Europe was top of mind. During a session featuring business leaders from the region, Obama discussed the financial crisis in Europe. "I was pleased to see that European leaders were taking seriously the need to not just solve the Greek crisis, but also to solve the broader eurozone crisis," Obama said. "There have been some positive developments over the last week: a new potential government in Italy, a new government in Greece -- both committed to applying the sort of internal structural reform that can give markets more confidence." The president also emphasized the U.S. need to court foreign investment, despite leading the world in that area. "We've been a little bit lazy I think over the last couple of decades," Obama said. "We've kind of taken for granted that people will want to come here and we aren't out there trying to sell America and attract new businesses into America.' CEOs of Johnson & Johnson, Caterpillar and Google passed when asked to comment on the president's characterization of the problem, though Eric ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/explozie-la-o-baza-militara-din-iran/ explozie-la-o-baza-militara-din-iran Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:03:51 +0200 Citeşte şi ONU: Imagini din satelit publicate de Google arată că Iranul ar putea fabrica arme nucleare. GALERIE FOTO http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/editurile-intra-tot-mai-mult-in-piata-cartilor-electronice-peste-500-de-titluri-romanesti-si-straine-disponibile-pe-o-noua-platforma-de-carte-digitala/ editurile-intra-tot-mai-mult-in-piata-cartilor-electronice-peste-500-de-titluri-romanesti-si-straine-disponibile-pe-o-noua-platforma-de-carte-digitala Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:07:33 +0200 Peste 500 de carti romanesti si straine in format electronic de la 20 de edituri din Romania, printre care Polirom, Litera, Corint, Trei, Cartea Romaneasca, Niculescu si Nemira, sunt disponibile pe o noua platforma de carte digitala apartinand Elefant.ro, lansata vineri. Preturile sunt cu 30 - 50% mai mici decat in cazul volumelor tiparite, a precizat Vlad Puescu, manager de proiect al platformei. Credem in destinul cartii electronice, a spus Oana Boca, director in Polirom, editura care promite pana la 200 de titluri in format digital pana la sfarsitul anului. Cu 120 de carti digitale disponibile deja, Dan Vidrascu (editura Litera) spune ca incepand de la anul se va incerca lansarea simultana pentru toate cartile neilustrate atat in format print cat si digital. Magazinul virtual Elefant.ro a lansat vineri o platforma de carte digitala, cu peste 500 de titluri de la 20 de edituri importante din Romania. Cartile pot fi descarcate pe majoritatea tipurilor de eReadere (dispozitive de citire a cartilor electronice - eBooks) existente pe piata. Cititorii pot rasfoi cartile si au acces gratuit la extrase din text, iar incepand de luni, 14 noiembrie, utilizatorii vor putea descarca gratuit o carte electronica, la alegere.   "Pe langa accesul aproape instantaneu la cartea comandata si posibilitatea de a stoca mii de titluri pe un dispozitiv, lectura digitala inseamna si un pret mai mic pentru cumparator. Preturile sunt cu 30 - 50% mai mici decat in cazul volumelor tiparite. Toate acestea speram sa-i convinga pe cititori ca acum este momentul potrivit pentru ca Romania sa intre in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cine-crezi-ca-este-blonda-din-imagine-indiciu-este-sora-de-supermodel/ cine-crezi-ca-este-blonda-din-imagine-indiciu-este-sora-de-supermodel Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:07:25 +0200 Kate Moss îmbătrâneşte, dar lasă în lumea modei o soră extrem de frumoasă, care are un viitor real de supermodel. Lottie, în vârstă de 13 ani, tocmai a semnat un contract de modeling cu agenţia care a descoperit-o şi pe sora ei. Ea a şi început să pozeze şi, este fresh şi inocentă, întocmai ca şi Kate Moss la început, potrivit perfecte.ro. O fi Kate Moss îmbătrânită de droguri şi alcool, dar are cine să-i ia locul! Sora ei mai mică reînvie frumuseţea familiei cu un chip fresh şi inocent, dar şi androgin. Citeste si: Ea este cea mai căutată adolescentă în Google - Fotografiile care i-au distrus viaţa: Am vrut să mă sinucid - VIDEO http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/campion-mondial-implicat-intr-un-scandal-de-hartuire-sexuala-fotografia-care-l-a-facut-de-ras/ campion-mondial-implicat-intr-un-scandal-de-hartuire-sexuala-fotografia-care-l-a-facut-de-ras Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:07:24 +0200 Un fost sportiv, multiplu campion mondial, a fost dat în judecată de o femeie după ce a organizat o petrecere în cadrul căreia s-a îmbrăcat cu lenjerie intimă de damă. Fostul campion mondial la box Oscar De La Hoya a apărut în câteva fotografii îmbrăcat în lenjerie intimă de damă, în cadrul unei petreceri pe care o organizat-o la hotelul Ritz Carlton din New York, scrie dailymail.co.uk. Angelica Marie Cecora, un model în vârstă de 25 de ani care a participat la petrecere, a declarat că sportivul şi-a etalat corpul în lenjerie intimă de damă, a consumat droguri şi a folosit jucării sexuale, iar când ea şi prietena ei au încercat să plece de la petrecere, a încercat să le intimideze. Femeia l-a dat în judecată pe sportiv pentru suferinţe emoţionale, privare de libertate şi hărţuire sexuală. Citeste si: Ea este cea mai căutată adolescentă în Google - Fotografiile care i-au distrus viaţa: Am vrut să mă sinucid - VIDEO http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/artistul-care-castiga-cei-mai-multi-bani-pe-minut-cine-urmeaza-in-top-foto/ artistul-care-castiga-cei-mai-multi-bani-pe-minut-cine-urmeaza-in-top-foto Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:06:59 +0200 Editorii unei platforme sociale au realizat un top al artiştilor cu cele mai mari onorarii pe minut. Vezi cine se află pe prima poziţie. Cântăreaţa americană Beyonce ocupă prima poziţie în topul artiştilor cu cele mai mari onorarii pe minut, potrivit unui top realizat de editorii platformei sociale saucytime.com, informează femalefirst.co.uk. Artista americană a fost plătită cu 2 milioane de dolari pentru a interpreta cinci piese în timpul unui concert privat, susţinut în seara de Revelion din 2010, pe insula St. Barts. Beyonce a primit astfel 113.080 de dolari pentru fiecare minut pe care l-a petrecut pe scenă. Pe locul al doilea s-a clasat cântăreaţa americană Mariah Carey, care a primit 1 milion de dolari - 70.675 dolari pe minut - pentru un recital de patru piese pe care l-a susţinut în timpul unei petreceri similare, organizată pe aceeaşi insulă din Marea Caraibelor în 2009. Cântăreaţa australiană Kylie Minogue ocupă poziţia a treia, cu 52.530 de dolari pe minut. Ea a primit un onorariu de 3,1 milioane de dolari pentru un recital de o oră pe care l-a susţinut în timpul petrecerii de inaugurare a hotelului Atlantis din Dubai, în noiembrie 2008. Citeste si: Ea este cea mai căutată adolescentă în Google - Fotografiile care i-au distrus viaţa: Am vrut să mă sinucid - VIDEO http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/could-the-celtic-tiger-rise-again/ could-the-celtic-tiger-rise-again Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:02:11 +0200 (CNN) -- Ireland --- once Europe's 'Celtic Tiger' -- was last year felled by its black hole of a banking sector, and forced to tap Europe's bailout fund. The country continues to live off bailout funds -- yet in September internet giant Twitter announced its intention to set up headquarters in Dublin. It will join Facebook and Google, which both have their headquarters in the Irish capital. The move suggests Dublin could again become a major player in the technology industry, despite the country's financial woes. According to Noel Ruane, head of Dogpatch Labs Europe -- which likens itself to a 'frat house for geeks' -- the city has enough of an internet community to rival Silicon Valley. Dogpatch Labs was created by the U.S.-based venture capital company Polaris Venture Partners, and provides a space for aspiring entrepreneurs to brainstorm with like-minded people. The center has also chosen to call Dublin its European home, with Ruane as its entrepreneur in residence. Ruane believes Dublin is a good base for emerging companies, despite their consumers being located elsewhere. Many companies are web based, and don't need to be near their customers, he says. He acknowledges language barriers can prove more difficult for companies in Europe than in other parts of the world, such as the U.S. "There is a localization requirement; we don't have one homogenous market like the U.S. where there are 300 million plus people that companies can target." But he says the nature of the web means businesses can be successful from wherever they're located, including Dublin. But while Dublin's reputation as ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/do-black-tech-entrepreneurs-face-institutional-bias/ do-black-tech-entrepreneurs-face-institutional-bias Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:01:49 +0200 San Francisco (CNN) -- Wayne Sutton has been asking venture-capital investors and Silicon Valley executives a question that's not often broached here in the epicenter of the technology industry: "Why aren't there more black people in tech?" The vast majority of top executives at the leading Silicon Valley tech firms are white men. Women and Asians have made some inroads, but African-American and Latino tech leaders remain a rarity. About 1% of entrepreneurs who received venture capital in the first half of last year are black, according to a study by research firm CB Insights. This lack of diversity in Silicon Valley made headlines last month when influential tech blogger Michael Arrington, in an interview for CNN's upcoming documentary "Black in America: The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley," said, "I don't know a single black entrepreneur." Arrington later recanted the statement, saying he was caught off guard by the question, but the sensitive issue sparked a public dispute between the newly minted venture capitalist and CNN's Soledad O'Brien. It's an issue that Sutton, who co-founded the NewMe Accelerator for under-represented minorities in the tech industry and is also building a software company, has been grappling with for months. NewMe is an incubator program formed to help minorities launch Internet ventures. For two months last summer, Sutton and seven other black entrepreneurs worked together in a rented house in Mountain View, California, where they got advice from successful executives and pitched their startup ideas to investors. The venture capitalists, including business-software designer Mitch Kapor, told them the struggles of blacks in the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/satellite-group-reports-sudanese-military-buildup/ satellite-group-reports-sudanese-military-buildup Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:41 +0200 Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- On the heels of international condemnation of the bombing of a refugee camp, a satellite monitoring group said Friday that Sudan is enhancing its airstrike capabilities along its border with South Sudan. The U.S.-based Satellite Sentinel Project said that since taking control of the border town of Kurmuk on November 2, the Sudanese Armed Forces appear to be upgrading military facilities. It said Sudan has started fortifying the airstrip and positioned armor nearby. Digital imagery, analyzed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, showed four new helicopter landing pads, three helicopter gunships and an Antonov, a plane often used in Sudanese bombing campaigns, on a newly improved airstrip in Blue Nile state's capital of Damazin. The satellite project also reported a new 250-meter expansion of the Damazin airstrip. The project's co-founder, John Prendergast, said the buildup is alarming. "The airfield improvements suggest Sudan's readiness to widen its aerial bombing campaign in its border areas of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, as well as neighboring South Sudan," he said. "If this buildup and bombing campaign isn't countered aggressively by the international community, it appears likely that Khartoum's actions will plunge Sudan even more deeply into internal war as well as ignite a full-scale war with South Sudan." Charlie Clements, head of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, said the analysis of the images underscored an "urgent threat to human security on both sides" of the border. Conceived by actor George Clooney, the Satellite Sentinel Project combines satellite imagery analysis and field reports with Google's Map Maker technology ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-new-ipad-rivals-will-sell-like-crazy/ why-new-ipad-rivals-will-sell-like-crazy Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:02:11 +0200 Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about tech news and digital culture. He writes regular columns about social media and tech for CNN.com (CNN) -- The iPad is one of the most disruptive technologies of the past 5 years. Along with the iPhone, it birthed a new era of touch computing that does away with the mouse and keyboard altogether. And yet the iPad's undisputed dominance of the blossoming tablet market may not last forever. In fact, the iPad is about to get some stiff competition -- finally. To understand why the iPad dominates the tablet sector is not difficult: Not only was it the first of the new wave of touchscreen tablets, but it's also the most desirable in the eyes of consumers. The iPhone had a few chinks in its armor early on: It was only available on one network in the U.S., leaving room for competitors to thrive on other networks. This Achilles Heel isn't such a problem for the iPad: Not only is it available on both AT&T and Verizon, but many consumers simply buy the Wi-Fi version, meaning the carrier issue isn't as relevant. Competitors were also able to best the iPhone, which initially cost at least $499, on price: Cheaper alternatives using Google Android became abundant, especially when carrier subsidies were taken into consideration. And yet rivals to the iPad cost about the same and lack the caché of the original. If you want something like the iPad, your best choice has been ... the iPad. Things are ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/did-steve-jobs-kill-adobe-flash/ did-steve-jobs-kill-adobe-flash Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:02:07 +0200 (CNN) -- Steve Jobs hated Flash. Hated it. And not just a little bit. "Flash is a spaghetti-ball piece of technology that has lousy performance and really bad security problems," he said, according to biographer Walter Isaacson in his book published earlier this month. On Wednesday, Adobe announced it will no longer be developing Flash, its media-player tool, for mobile devices. More than a few bloggers have noted the news would have been vindication for the late Apple co-founder, who felt betrayed by Adobe more than a decade ago. In a post on the Adobe blog, company vice-president Danny Winokur said Flash has enabled the Web's richest content for a decade. "However, HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively," he said, apparently a nod to Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod. "This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms." HTML5 is the emerging Web language that many developers are using. The Apple vs. Adobe standoff over Flash has been one of the tech world's most visible, and at times nasty, disputes. As the company shifts away from developing software for smartphones and tablets, it is impossible to ignore the part that Apple's steadfast refusal to use Flash on its popular mobile products may have played in the decision. Under Jobs, who died October 5 after a long battle with cancer, the iPhone became the industry's leading smartphone and the iPad emerged to virtually dominate the tablet space. While there are more phones running Google's Android software (many of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gandul-google-plus-intra-pe-pagina-cotidianului-gandul/ gandul-google-plus-intra-pe-pagina-cotidianului-gandul Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:04:01 +0200 Astăzi am lansat pagina de Google+ a ziarului gândul. La adresa aceasta veţi putea urmări ştirile de ultimă oră, opinii, analize, precum şi alte tipuri de articole. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fine-line-between-online-searching-stalking/ fine-line-between-online-searching-stalking Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:02:08 +0200 Editor's note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind humor blog and book "Stuff Hipsters Hate." Got a question about etiquette in the digital world? Contact them at netiquette@cnn.com. (CNN) -- This week, we pulled the cotton from our ears and emerged from our dark caves of seclusion to open this here column up to user-submitted questions. Some submissions were inanely obvious (no, don't tweet that picture of your boss, I don't care if he told you about his chinchilla fetish at happy hour the other week), some were boring beyond belief, and, many, oddly, were just plain stalkerish. But not in the way you might think. In the past, we've covered the topic of how to deal with online stalkers when the attention is unwanted. But more and more, as gaining access to anyone on this rapidly rotting Earth of ours is easier than ever, we Web denizens are wondering: Does using the Internet to check someone out make me a stalker? Chances are, probably not. Read on for a couple of queries on this issue: "When I was waiting for the bus the other day, I evaluated the attractiveness of all the people at the stop; there was one obvious winner. Then the seat next to him was the only seat open. Upon sitting down, he immediately engaged me in very adorable and flirty conversation. We exchanged names and we both talked about what we were studying at school, but I didn't have an opportunity to give him my number. "Anyway, with his name and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what-advice-did-steve-jobs-give-to-facebook39s-mark-zuckerberg/ what-advice-did-steve-jobs-give-to-facebook39s-mark-zuckerberg Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:01:58 +0200 (Mashable) -- Mark Zuckerberg says he asked Steve Jobs about how to build a high-quality team and great products, but denies Apple and Facebook ever talked about an acquisition. The revelations come as part of an in-depth interview between PBS's Charlie Rose and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. The extensive interview covers all of the bases, such as whether Facebook will ever build games (no, Zuck says) and what Zuckerberg thinks of Google+ (he calls it "their own little version of Facebook"). However, the most interesting part of the interview comes when the trio starts discussing Zuckerberg's relationship with Steve Jobs. "I had a lot of questions for him on how to build a team around you," he says in response to one of Rose's questions. "That's focused on building as high quality and good things as you are. How to keep an organization focused, right, when I think the tendency for larger companies is to try to fray and go into all these different areas." Zuckerberg professes respect for Apple because, like Facebook, it is out to build a company that will change the world rather than fatten the bottom line. Rose then asks Zuckerberg whether or not the two companies had ever talked about an acquisition. "No. I don't think it ever really got there," he says. "I mean, nor would I have wanted to sell it." Sandberg and Zuckerberg then start talking about how Jobs never raised the issue because he understood that Zuckerberg had no interest in selling. We here at Mashable have heard conflicting ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/researcher-iphone-bug-could-let-hackers-in/ researcher-iphone-bug-could-let-hackers-in Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:01:55 +0200 (CNN) -- A bug in Apple's mobile operating system allows hackers to take control of iPhone and iPad apps, using them to steal people's photos, contacts and even send text messages without the device's user knowing about it, according to a notable computer security researcher. Charlie Miller, a researcher at Accuvant and one of the world's best-known Apple hackers, said Tuesday that the bug proves the Apple App Store isn't as safe as advertised. "Until now, you could just blindly trust and download as many apps as you wanted and not worry about it," Miller said in an interview with CNN. "But until they fix this, you really should think twice about any apps you're downloading, because they could be malicious." Miller said he alerted Apple to the bug three weeks ago and the company told him a fix was in the works. Apple did not respond to CNN's request for comment on the apparent security flaw, which Miller explains in detail on YouTube. He plans to show people how the bug works at an upcoming computer security conference in Taiwan, called SyScan. To date, he has not released details that would allow hackers to take advantage of the apparent security flaw, and he said he has no evidence that hackers have used the hole to manipulate iPhones and iPads. Miller says he has exposed the bug to prevent a hacker with bad intentions from taking advantage of iPhone and iPad owners. As thanks for that work, he said, Apple banned him from the iOS developer program for a year. "I think ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-mark-zuckerberg-spune-ca-steve-jobs-l-a-sfatuit-cum-sa-aleaga-echipa-de-conducere-de-la-facebook/ video-mark-zuckerberg-spune-ca-steve-jobs-l-a-sfatuit-cum-sa-aleaga-echipa-de-conducere-de-la-facebook Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:06:09 +0200 ​Mark Zuckerberg, cofondatorul Facebook, spune ca a avut parte de sfaturile lui Styeve Jobs despre cum sa-si construiasca o echipa valoroasa de conducere pentru Facebook si despre cum sa se concentreze pe lucrurile importante in dezvoltarea retelei, noteaza Bloomberg care citeaza din transcriptul unei emisiuni TV din SUA ce va fi difuzata marti. Zuckerberg spune ca Facebook se va lista, insa nu in viitorul apropiat, iar despre reteaua sociala Google+ spune ca se vrea a fi "un Facebook mai mic".Mark Zuckerberg, in varsta de 27 de ani, spune ca a avut multe intrebari pentru Steve Jobs si adauga ca a primit sfaturi de la fostul sef al Apple in legatura cu alegerea echipei de conducere a Facebook. Si in biografia lui Jobs publicata recent se spune ca fondatorul Apple a considerat ca este responsabilitatea lui sa dea sfaturi antreprenorilor tineri si il aprecia pe Zuckerberg fiindca a rezistat tentatiei de a-si vinde afacerea.Zuckerberg a fost unul dintre personajele cheie pentru fondarea Facebook in 2004, in 2008 a devenit cel mai tanar miliardar al lumii, iar acum averea sa este estimata la peste 17 miliarde dolari. El a vorbit pe larg intr-un interviu la televiziunea americana PBS despre listarea la bursa, despre relatia cu concurenta si posibila intrare in China.El considera ca Google este un concurent direct, insa cu Amazon si Apple intrevede parteneriate fiindca aceste companii sunt pe aceeasi lungime de unda cu Facebook.Intrebat despre cum vede concurenta cu marile companii din tehnologie, seful Facebook spune ca aceste mari companii pot lucra impreuna chiar daca ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/reteaua-de-socializare-google-s-a-deschis-atat-pentru-brand-urile-globale-cat-si-pentru-companiile-locale/ reteaua-de-socializare-google-s-a-deschis-atat-pentru-brand-urile-globale-cat-si-pentru-companiile-locale Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:06:08 +0200 Google permite de acum si companiilor sa-si faca pagini pe reteaua de socializare Google+ deschisa in primavara acetui an, spune compania americana, anuntand lansarea serviciului Google Pages (Pagini). In plus, se lanseaza si functia Direct Connect prin care poti ajunge usor din motorul de cautare la pagina unei companii de pe Google+. Cifre neoficiale arata ca Google+ are peste 40 de milioane de utilizatori, iar lansarea Pages ar trebui sa influenteze pozitiv numarul de useri.Google a anuntat functia Pages prin care nu doar utilizatorii obisnuiti isi pot deschide conturi pe Google+, ci si companiile locale, brand-uruile globale si diverse organizatii. Acum, companiile isi pot deschide propriile profiluri pe Google+ unde utilizatori vor putea interactiona cu ele, vor putea sa-si arate atasamentul facand click pe "+1", dar evident ca vor putea posta si critici.Pe Facebook, functia similara a avut un succes enorm, cele mai mari companii avand chiar si zeci de milioane de "Like"-uri.Google lanseaza si functia Direct Connect care iti permite sa ajungi rapid din cautarea Google, la paginile companiilor din Google+. Poti cauta in motorul Google  +, alaturi de numele dorit (de exemplu +Angry Birds) pentru a ajunge direct la pagina de Google+.  Pentru moment, functia de Direct Connect este valabila pentru un numar limitat de pagini, cum ar fi +Google, +Pepsi si +Toyota, dar multe altele sunt in pregatire."Lansarea de astazi a Google+ Pages ne aduce cu un pic mai aproape de dorinta de a aduce nuantele si bogatia relatiilor din viata reala si in mediul online. Insa, mai avem inca o multime ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-ar-putea-avea-peste-un-miliard-de-utilizatori-la-final-de-2012/ facebook-ar-putea-avea-peste-un-miliard-de-utilizatori-la-final-de-2012 Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:06:00 +0200 Reteaua de socializare Facebook are in prezent peste 800 milioane de utilizatori iar intr-un an ar putea depasi pragul de un miliard daca totul merge bine, a spus cofondatorul Mark Zuckerberg, intr-un interviu pentru televiziunea PBS. El a mai spus ca Google, Microsoft sau Yahoo! pastreaza mai multe informatii despre utilizatori in comparatie cu Facebook.Intrebat cand va depasi Facebook pragul de un miliard de utilizatori, Zuckerberg a spus ca "daca totul merge bine" acest lucru se va intampla la final de 2012 si va fi un moment istoric. Acum, Facebook are peste 800 milioane useri, dintre care peste 150 milioane sunt in SUA, iar in top cinci mai sunt tari precum Indonezia, Marea Britanie, India si Turcia. In Romania sunt peste 3,8 milioane de utilizatori.O problema cu retelele sociale se refera la confidentialitatea informatiilor personale postate si la modul in care sunt colectate. Cofondatorul Facebook spune ca Google, Microsoft si Yahoo! pastreaza mai multe informatii despre utilizatori si o fac fara stirea acestora. In plus, aplicatii precum Google Dashboard care iti permit sa vezi exact ce informatii pastreaza Google despre tine, sunt vizitate de foarte putina lume, mai spune Zuckerberg.El considera ca Facebook ofera utilizatorilor cel mai mult control asupra informatiilor stocate despre ei si mai spune ca cei care au conturi pot seta foarte rapid ce informatii sa fie stocate sau nu.Miliardarul in varsta de 27 de ani mai spune ca Facebook nu va scoate jocuri video si va ramane pe teritoriul social media fiindca nu vrea sa urmeze exemplul negativ furnizat de companii ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pe-urmele-facebook-google-plus-va-permite-crearea-de-pagini-pentru-branduri-video/ pe-urmele-facebook-google-plus-va-permite-crearea-de-pagini-pentru-branduri-video Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:04:47 +0200 Google, care a lansat Google Plus acum fix 100 de zile, a anunţat că va adăuga o nouă opţiune reţelei sale de socializare: Google+ Pages, scrie adage.com. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/thousands-pay-ai-weiwei39s-tax-bill/ thousands-pay-ai-weiwei39s-tax-bill Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:00:39 +0200 (CNN) -- Thousands of supporters have donated money to outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in order to pay a 15 million yuan ($2.3 million) tax bill from the Chinese government. The controversial artist has already received more than 6,000 yuan ($958,000) from more than 22,200 people. While many have sent money via post and the internet, other have resorted to rather unconventional methods -- folding bank notes into paper planes and throwing them into Ai's garden at night. Speaking to CNN, Ai Weiwei said people were using their donations to make a political statement. "They would say we support you, we've never had a chance to express. This is such unfairness. It's not a fine to you but to us all," he said. How Ai Weiwei became an Internet master Ai received the $2.3 million tax bill on November 1 and was given 15 days to pay. It comes after the artist was detained by authorities in April on the grounds of tax evasion. Ai has called the actions by Chinese authorities a "retaliation against a dissident" and says he has no choice but to pay the bill. "They [the Chinese authorities] said if I pay it means I accept the accusation," he said. "But if you don't pay they can accuse you of another crime. "Either way you're not going to be out. We can't stop to argue, we can't appeal, we can't go to the court," he continued. The outpouring of support and donations has come as a surprise to the artist who said he never asked for money. He has also stressed ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/iphone-bug-exposed-by-researcher/ iphone-bug-exposed-by-researcher Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:00:16 +0200 (CNN) -- A bug in Apple's mobile operating system allows hackers to take control of iPhone and iPad apps, using them to steal people's photos, contacts and even send text messages without the device's user knowing about it, according to a notable computer security researcher. Charlie Miller, a researcher at Accuvant and one of the world's best-known Apple hackers, said Tuesday that the bug proves the Apple App Store isn't as safe as advertised. "Until now, you could just blindly trust and download as many apps as you wanted and not worry about it," Miller said in an interview with CNN. "But until they fix this, you really should think twice about any apps you're downloading, because they could be malicious." Miller said he alerted Apple to the bug three weeks ago and the company told him a fix was in the works. Apple did not respond to CNN's request for comment on the apparent security flaw, which Miller explains in detail on YouTube. He plans to show people how the bug works at an upcoming computer security conference in Taiwan, called SyScan. To date, he has not released details that would allow hackers to take advantage of the apparent security flaw, and he said he has no evidence that hackers have used the hole to manipulate iPhones and iPads. Miller says he has exposed the bug to prevent a hacker with bad intentions from taking advantage of iPhone and iPad owners. As thanks for that work, he said, Apple banned him from the iOS developer program for a year. "I think ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/programul-de-asistenta-vocala-siri-al-apple-este-un-concurent-direct-al-google-erich-schimdt/ programul-de-asistenta-vocala-siri-al-apple-este-un-concurent-direct-al-google-erich-schimdt Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:08:17 +0200 Programul de asistenta vocala Siri inclus de Apple pe noul sau telefon iPhone 4S reprezinta un concurent direct pentru motorul de cautare Google, afirma presedintele grupului Google, Eric Schmidt, in conditiile in care gigantul internetului face obiectul unei anchete legate de concurenta, citat de AFP."Apple a lansat o abordare total noua a tehnologiei de cautare cu Siri", a spus Schmidt, intr-un raspuns scris la intrebarile parlamentarilor americani, difuzat sambata de Google.El a descris Siri drept "un serviciu de comanda vocala de cautare si de indeplinire de sarcini" si a citat un ziarist de la revista Forbes potrivit caruia noul soft al Apple este conceput drept un "ucigas al Google".Schmidt a facut aceste comentarii in urma audierii sale, in luna septembrie, de catre o subcomisie a Senatului, pe teme legate de concurenta. Senatorii i-au inmanat o serie de intrebari scrise pentru a completa dezbaterile din 21 septembrie.Aceste audieri au intervenit in conditiile in care Google, care, potrivit cabinetului de analiza ComScore domina 65,3% din piata americana a cautarilor (cifrele pentru luna septembrie) este obiectul unei anchete lansate de serviciile de concurenta european si american.Schmidt afirmase deja in fata parlamentarilor ca Google "traieste cu o mare teama ca utilizatorii pot trece extrem de repede la alte servicii".In raspunsurile sale, Schmidt a vorbit si despre retelele sociale in general si in special gigantul sectorului, Facebook, precum si site-ul de micro-blogging Twitter, pe care le-a prezentat drept concurenti pentru motorul sau de cautare."Facebook si Twitter permit internautilor sa foloseasca retelele lor pentru a gasi raspunsuri la intrebarile pe care ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-ne-vindem-strainilor-pentru-65-miliarde-euro-pe-an-gigantii-petrolului-se-bat-pe-marea-neagra-romaneasca-lipsa-finantarilor-pentru-cercetare-inovare-principala-problema-a-imm-urilor-mafia-imobiliara-vrea-sa-ia-cu-japca-damaroaia-cat/ business-report-ne-vindem-strainilor-pentru-65-miliarde-euro-pe-an-gigantii-petrolului-se-bat-pe-marea-neagra-romaneasca-lipsa-finantarilor-pentru-cercetare-inovare-principala-problema-a-imm-urilor-mafia-imobiliara-vrea-sa-ia-cu-japca-damaroaia-cat Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:07:58 +0200 Lipsa finantarilor pentru cercetare-inovare, principala problema a IMM-urilor. Principala problema a sectorului intreprinderilor mici si mijlocii o constituite lipsa finantarilor pentru cercetare-inovare, o solutie propusa fiind garantarea totala a creditelor pentru proiectele de inovare, a declarat, vineri, presedintele Fondului Roman de Contragarantare, Ioan Hidegcuti, citat de Agerpres, la o dezbatere pe tema firmelor private din Romania: "Vom avea in continuare criza, dar o dezvoltare a sectorului IMM nu poate avea loc decat daca se investeste in inovare. De asemenea, in calitate de partener al bancilor, pot spune ca acestea nu acorda finantari pentru inovare. Oricate strategii publice am avea pentru acest sector, acestea nu pot aduce foarte multe rezultate, daca pentru cercetare se aloca 0% din PIB, iar pana la o pondere de 2% este foarte mult". Domnia sa a recomandat introducerea unui instrument nou de garantare a creditelor pentru firme - garantarea 100% a creditelor pentru proiecte inovative. "FRCG a propus, ca solutie, introducerea unui instrument nou - garantarea 100% a creditelor firmelor care realizeaza proiecte de inovare", a spus acesta, scrie Bursa.ro.Ne vindem strainilor pentru 6,5 miliarde euro pe an. Dacia Renault, pana de curand Nokia, marile rafinarii, combinatul ArcelorMittal, Honeywell ori Continental - marii exportatori autohtoni de bunuri sunt cunoscuti de toata lumea. Putini stiu, insa, ce, cum si cat fac exportatorii de servicii. O sala mare, in care mai intai te frapeaza zumzetul continuu si mai apoi impartirea aproape militareasca. Zeci de birouri perfect aliniate si despartite de vecinii din stanga, dreapta si fata de pereti de aproape doi metri. Pe ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/groupon-a-strans-700-milioane-dolari-dupa-intrarea-pe-bursa-si-a-ajuns-sa-valoreze-aproape-13-miliarde-dolari/ groupon-a-strans-700-milioane-dolari-dupa-intrarea-pe-bursa-si-a-ajuns-sa-valoreze-aproape-13-miliarde-dolari Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:06:55 +0200 Site-ul de cupoane de reduceri Groupon a obtinut 700 milioane dolari din oferta publica initiala de la Bursa, valoarea companiei fiind acum de 12,8 miliarde dolari, noteaza Le Monde. Listarea Groupon este una dintre cele mai asteptate in sectorul de tehnologie, curand urmand sa-si faca intrarea si producatorul de jocuri video Zynga la care estimarile arata o valoare de 14 miliarde dolari.Groupon, companie cunoscuta pentru cupoanele de reduceri pe care le ofera, a ajuns in atentia tuturor in 2010 cand Google a fost dispusa sa ofere sase miliarde dolari pentru a o prelua. Acum, IPO-ul Groupon este considerat un succes iar actiunile au atins un nivel neasteptat de mare.Groupon s-a infiintat acum trei ani si are 143 de milioane de utilizatori in 145 de tari. Compania are 10.000 de angajati.  Groupon este specializata in oferte care sunt valabile doar o zi, produsele si serviciile fiind disponibile doar daca sunt achizitionate de un grup de persoane. Site-ul sustine ca a inregistrat afaceri de 797 milioane euro in primele noua luni, de sapte ori mai mult decat anul trecut.Unii investitori isi manifesta indoiala in ceea ce priveste viabilitatea modelului de afaceri al Groupon, iar multe voci au spus in ultimul an ca aceasta companie este supraevaluata si nu va rezista mult in piata. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-i-aduce-un-omagiu-savantei-marie-curie/ google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-i-aduce-un-omagiu-savantei-marie-curie Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:06:28 +0200 Google şi-a modificat, luni, logoul de pe pagina principală pentru a marca împlinirea a 144 de ani de la naşterea savantei Marie Curie, celebră pentru cercetările sale în domeniul radioactivităţii. Noul logo o arată pe Marie Curie stând la o masă pe care sunt puse mai multe recipiente. Marie Curie ţine într-o mână un astfel de recipient şi pare preocupată de cercetările sale. Maria Skłodowska-Curie (7 noiembrie 1867, Varşovia - 4 iulie 1934, Sancellemoz, Franţa) a fost o savantă poloneză stabilită în Franţa. Marie Curie a fost prima femeie care a primit un premiu Nobel şi singurul om de ştiinţă care a primit două premii Nobel în două domenii ştiinţifice diferite (fizică şi chimie). A introdus în fizică termenul de radioactivitate, fiind cunoscută pentru cercetările sale în domeniul elementelor radioactive, al radioactivităţii naturale şi al aplicaţiilor acestora în medicină. În 1894, ea l-a cunoscut pe fizicianul Pierre Curie, cu care s-a căsătorit în 1895. Împreună, Marie Curie şi Pierre Curie au descoperit noi elemente radioactive: poloniul şi radiul. Pentru aceste cercetări, cei doi, alături de Henri Becquerel, au primit premiul Nobel pentru fizică în 1903. După decesul lui Pierre Curie, accidentat mortal de o trăsură în 1906, Marie Curie a continuat singură cercetările, iar în 1911 i-a fost decernat premiul Nobel pentru chimie. Fiica ei Irène Joliot-Curie a fost, de asemenea, laureată a premiului Nobel pentru chimie, în 1935. Marie Curie şi-a dedicat toată viaţa ştiinţei şi a fondat Institutul Curie din Paris şi Institutul Curie din Varşovia. Google îşi modifică frecvent logoul pentru a omagia personalităţi ale culturii universale ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/savanta-marie-curie-omagiata-de-google-printr-un-logo-special/ savanta-marie-curie-omagiata-de-google-printr-un-logo-special Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:04:52 +0200 Google şi-a modificat, luni, logoul de pe pagina principală pentru a marca împlinirea a 144 de ani de la naşterea savantei Marie Curie, celebră pentru cercetările sale în domeniul radioactivităţii. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/it39s-nook-vs-kindle-round-ii/ it39s-nook-vs-kindle-round-ii Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:03:15 +0200 (CNN) -- The rivalry is so intense that Barnes & Noble actually spoke its competitor's name: "Kindle Fire is deficient for a media tablet," Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said as he unveiled his company's Nook Tablet on Monday. "Content will render better on Nook than on Kindle Fire." That jab essentially re-opened the fight between Barnes & Noble and Amazon over customers looking for digital-book-reading devices. Round I in this donnybrook was between the Nook and Kindle e-readers. Next week, however, both companies will put their next-generation tablets on the market, setting up a new battle for holiday shoppers looking for gadgets that are good for reading books, watching videos and browsing the Internet. Here's a quick comparison of the devices, which are called the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire. (The gist, in case you're in a hurry, is that they're pretty darn similar; the Kindle costs $50 less, while the Nook has twice the storage space and a longer advertised battery life). Price Nook Tablet: $249 Kindle Fire: $199 Sale date Nook Tablet: November 17 Kindle Fire: November 15 Screens Both: 7-inch touch-sensitive screen with color display Purpose Both: Reading books, watching videos and browsing the Web. Both of these devices are more focused on the book-reading experience than the Apple iPad, which dominates the tablet field. Operating system Both: Customized versions of Google Android Apps You'd think these Android-based tablets would give owners access to the popular Google Android Market, which houses more than 250,000 apps. But no. Barnes & Noble and Amazon require users to purchase apps through online stores that they've created. Nook Tablet: "Thousands of must-have apps," ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-amazon-doesn39t-scare-apple/ why-amazon-doesn39t-scare-apple Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:02:21 +0200 (WIRED) -- Ever since Amazon unveiled its 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet in September, a lingering phrase has been attached to the low-cost, high-profile device: "the iPad's first true Android competitor." Unlike all the Android tablets that offer 10-inch screens, roomier storage capacities, built-in cameras and 3G support, the Fire will ship with modest hardware specs. In fact, the Amazon tablet would seem ill-prepared to take on the iPad, if not for a trio of would-be Apple-slaying features. The Fire will be insanely inexpensive at $200. It will hook into Amazon Prime, the company's two-day package shipping and instant movie rental service, for just $79 a year. And the tablet will be supported by the all brand I.D. and operating efficiencies of a digital storefront that people already use daily to buy everything from physical goods to digital downloads. In total, the Fire has the potential to be the first Android-based tablet to give Apple the chills. Amazon's digital storefront alone should provoke concern. But, no, Apple isn't fazed. Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes recently met with Apple's Tim Cook (CEO) and Peter Oppenheimer (CFO), both of whom have a more pessimistic view of the Amazon Fire's future. Stated Reitzes, in a research note first reported by Business Insider: "While the pricing at $199 looks disruptive for what seems to be the iPad's most important rising challenge, the Amazon Fire, is important to note that [the Kindle Fire] could fuel further fragmentation in the tablet market, given it represents yet another platform. While compatible with Android, the apps work with Amazon products." Obviously, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-it-chiefs-agree-to-tighten-web-clamp/ china-it-chiefs-agree-to-tighten-web-clamp Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:02:07 +0200 (Financial Times) -- The heads of China's leading information technology companies have pledged to censor internet content more strictly as the Communist party tries to tame a boisterous online media. The chief executives of 39 internet, telecom and computer groups have reached a "consensus" that internet companies "must strengthen self-control, self-restraint and strict self-discipline", the official news agency Xinhua said on Sunday. "[They must also] determinedly contain the tendency of spreading online rumours, pornography, fraud and other illegal, harmful information on the internet," it added. The report followed a three-day political schooling session attended by prominent entrepreneurs including Jack Ma, founder and chairman of the e-commerce group Alibaba, Robin Li, founder and chief executive of Baidu, China's largest search engine, Pony Ma, founder and chief executive of Tencent, which operates the world's largest instant messaging service, and Charles Chao, founder and chief executive of Sina, which runs the country's leading microblog. The news could trigger further disquiet among investors in China's fast-growing IT industry as regulatory intervention shows signs of becoming more heavy-handed. China has more than 500m internet users, according to government statistics, more than any other country and more than the population of the European Union. While the ruling Communist party regards the internet as making a positive contribution to economic development, it runs a vast censorship machine to ensure that online information does not challenge its grip on power. Forcing the privately owned companies that run websites to monitor, block and erase critical information has always been a cornerstone of Beijing's internet censorship. But the authorities have recently stepped ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cel-mai-bun-loc-de-munca-din-lume/ cel-mai-bun-loc-de-munca-din-lume Fri, 4 Nov 2011 00:04:00 +0200 Gigantul software Microsoft ocupa primul loc in clasamentul celor mai bune locuri de munca, firma SAS si NetApp s-au clasat pe doi si trei, Google pe 4 si FedEx pe 5, scrie USA Today. Spre exemplu, angajatii Microsoft Canada pot folosi 40 de ore in fiecare an pentru munca in folosul comunitatii, din totalul orelor lucrate. In acelasi timp, vicepresedintele NetApp,Tom Mendoza, suna, saptamanal, 30 de salariati pentru a-i felicita pentru munca depusa. Mai multe pe incont.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ie39s-share-of-web-traffic-drops-below-50/ ie39s-share-of-web-traffic-drops-below-50 Fri, 4 Nov 2011 00:01:55 +0200 (Mashable) -- Internet Explorer can no longer claim more than half of the web's traffic, as of October, ending more than a decade of the default Microsoft browser's reign. Safari's hold on 62.17% of mobile traffic has reduced IE's overall share of web browsing, despite still claiming 52.63% of desktop traffic, according to Netmarketshare.com. The Microsoft browser's diminishing share (49.6%) reflects its near absence from the realms of mobile and tablet, which now make up 6% of web traffic. However, chances are, you gave up on IE long enough ago that this milestone makes you more curious as to who actually still uses the browser. As of October, Firefox is the second most popular web browser, accounting for 21.20% of traffic, followed by Google Chrome and Safari, which account for 16.60% and 8.72% respectively. Chrome, which recently celebrated its third birthday, experienced the most expansion in October, increasing its share of the desktop market 1.42%. Safari, the default browser in Apple's iPhone and iPad, continues to increase its dominance over the mobile web, gaining 6.58% of the market. Safari's share is increasing faster than the iPhone's, probably due to how much mobile traffic is now driven by iPads. As IE loses its edge on the competition, we're curious to know which browser our readers prefer. Tell us in the comments below. See the original article on Mashable.com © 2011 MASHABLE.com. All rights reserved. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-week-google-really-39messed-up39/ the-week-google-really-39messed-up39 Fri, 4 Nov 2011 00:01:54 +0200 (CNN) -- Love or hate Google, you probably don't expect this sort of message from one of the largest and most innovative Internet and technology companies in the world: "The iOS app we launched today contained a bug with notifications," the company wrote Wednesday on Twitter. "We have pulled the app to fix the problem. Sorry we messed up." That's just one of the ways Google screwed up this week, according to tech pundits and bloggers. The company also released an update to Google Reader that was described by a former employee as "a disaster." "Maybe Google isn't so invincible after all," the site InfoWorld asked. The complaints raise two deeper issues about Google: First is the long-aired gripe that the company develops cooler and better-functioning smartphone apps for Android devices than it does for Apple's iOS. That makes some sense. After all, Google created Android, and has a business interest in seeing that smartphone platform succeed over that of its competitors. The new Gmail app, however, is raising questions about the company's ability to put out apps that -- at the very least -- will function on Apple devices. "The real question here is how were these problems not caught during testing, either on Google's part or Apple's? (Conspiracy theory: Apple did catch the errors, but approved the app anyway)," the blog TechCrunch wrote. Second, this week's botched Gmail app for iOS digs at Google's image as an innovative company. If Google keeps releasing disappointing products, people may stop being excited about the company as a whole, MG Siegler, a tech ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/opt-lucruri-pe-care-trebuie-sa-le-stii-despre-noul-gmail/ opt-lucruri-pe-care-trebuie-sa-le-stii-despre-noul-gmail Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:05:59 +0200 Google a lansat o nouă interfaţă pentru Gmail, serviciul său de poştă electronică, informează Tech News Daily. Noua grafică nu presupune schimbări substanţiale, ci doar un aspect nou cu care utilizatorii vor trebui să se obişnuiască, dacă optează pentru noua grafică. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/unthink-reteaua-anti-facebook-care-promite-ca-nu-ti-vinde-informatiile-unor-companii-de-publicitate/ unthink-reteaua-anti-facebook-care-promite-ca-nu-ti-vinde-informatiile-unor-companii-de-publicitate Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:05:57 +0200 Unthink, o reţea de socializare lansată la sfârşitul lunii octombrie, încearcă să detroneze platforme similare precum Twitter, Facebook sau Google+, pornind de la o ambiţie mai rară în mediul online: le oferă utilizatorilor un control total asupra informaţiilor personale şi le promite că acestea nu vor ajunge pe mâinile unor publicitari, relatează Huffington Post. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gmail-app-for-iphone-debuts-disappears/ gmail-app-for-iphone-debuts-disappears Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:04:11 +0200 (CNN) -- One of the most highly anticipated apps for Apple devices was made available on Wednesday. At least, until it wasn't. Google announced a Gmail app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that was designed to make it easier for the service's more than 190 million users to navigate their mail. "We check email pretty much everywhere these days," Google content manager Matthew Izatt wrote on the Gmail blog. "And when we do, we want easy access to our important messages so we can respond quickly and get back to life -- or slinging birds at thieving green pigs." Users of Apple's operating system could already access Gmail through a mobile site or set it up as their default e-mail account. But the new app promised a smoother experience with a host of new features. The tech blogosphere was delighted. "Go get the iPhone app for Gmail!" popular blogger Robert Scoble wrote on his Google+ page. Then, a few minutes passed. "UPDATE: DO NOT. The Gmail app is really a piece of crud," he wrote. "Not worth loading. Very disappointed." Google had obviously already noticed what Scoble did. Shortly after it was unveiled, the app was pulled from the Apple Store. "The iOS app we launched today contained a bug with notifications," Google posted on its Gmail Twitter account. "We have pulled the app to fix the problem. Sorry we messed up." Later, a fuller explanation was added to the original blog post. "Earlier today we launched a new Gmail app for iOS," Google posted. "Unfortunately, it contained a bug which broke notifications ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-rolls-out-new-look-for-gmail/ google-rolls-out-new-look-for-gmail Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:02:56 +0200 (Mashable) -- The new-look Gmail that Google accidentally told us about last week is now rolling out to all users. The changes, officially announced in a blog post Tuesday, allow Gmail users much more control over the look of the service. You can drag sidebars around to your preferred size and width, choose from a wider selection of high-resolution background pictures, and decide whether you want lots of email on your screen or more white space between mails. (Your choice of email density is between "Comfortable," "Cozy" and "Compact.") Heavy Gmail users will also be pleased to learn that there's a new search function -- that is, you can now access Advanced Search by clicking on the search bar. Conversations have been condensed, and profile pictures added. These are more features than Google offered in its sneak peek of the new Gmail, which started in July. For now, at least, the new features will be opt-in -- and not all of us will be able to access them immediately. "If you like what you see, over the next few days you'll be able to switch to the new look by clicking on Switch to the new look in the bottom-right of Gmail," writes Google user experience designer Jason Cornwell. See the original on Mashable.com © 2011 MASHABLE.com. All rights reserved. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-maps-va-fi-pe-bani-pentru-site-urile-unde-hartile-sunt-deschise-de-peste-25000-de-vizitatori-pe-zi/ google-maps-va-fi-pe-bani-pentru-site-urile-unde-hartile-sunt-deschise-de-peste-25000-de-vizitatori-pe-zi Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:05:28 +0200 Google Maps va taxa site-urile care si-au inserat pe pagina aplicatia Google Maps si care au zilnic peste 25.000 de vizitatori pe hartile companiei americane, scrie BBC. Compania spune ca sub 0,5% din site-uri vor fi afectate, cele cu trafic masiv care fac profituri importante de pe urma hartilor. Site-urile care depasesc plafonul vor plati, se pare, cate patru dolari pentru fiecare 1.000 de vizite ce depasesc plafonul de 25.000.Google spune ca introducerea taxarii de la 1 ianuarie va afecta doar 0,35% dintre site-urile care si-au inserat in pagina aplicatia Maps. Compania spune ca le da dezvoltatorilor suficient timp sa evalueze efectele schimbarii si admite ca unele companii, mai ales din turism, s-ar putea sa fie ingrijorate. Google mai spune ca se va asigura ca utilizarea Maps va ramane profitabila si pentru site-urile unde serviciul este folosit de un numar foarte mare de oameni, iar introducerea taxarii va permite ca aplicatia sa ramana gratuita pentru majoritatea covarsitoare a site-urilor. Site-urile care nu au inserat Google Maps dar vor sa o faca in viitor, nu vor fi taxate pentru acest lucru.Google Maps a fost lansat in februarie 2005 si de atunci i s-au adaugat in mod constant functionalitati. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-lanseaza-in-romania-programul-google-engage/ google-lanseaza-in-romania-programul-google-engage Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:04:45 +0200 Google lansează în România programul gratuit Google Engage, conceput pentru pregătirea şi sprijinirea agenţiilor din mediul online: companii de publicitate online, agenţii full-service, webmasteri, designeri şi dezvoltatori web, consultanţi SEO sau SEM, potrivit unui comunicat remis MEDIAFAX. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-ar-putea-renunta-la-google-maps-a-achizitionat-o-companie-specializata-in-harti-digitale-in-format-3d/ apple-ar-putea-renunta-la-google-maps-a-achizitionat-o-companie-specializata-in-harti-digitale-in-format-3d Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:04:43 +0200 Apple a achiziţionat de curând C3 Technologies, o companie care realizează hărţi digitale în format 3D şi care ar putea furniza o aplicaţie pentru sistemul de operare iOS, care în prezent se bazează pe Google Maps, scrie Business Insider. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/yahoo-prefera-vanzarea-activelor-din-asia-decat-sa-fie-preluata-de-un-grup-de-cumparatori/ yahoo-prefera-vanzarea-activelor-din-asia-decat-sa-fie-preluata-de-un-grup-de-cumparatori Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:07:38 +0200 Yahoo! preferă să vândă activele deţinute în Asia şi să distribuie fondurile obţinute acţionarilor, decât să fie preluată de un grup de cumpărători, potrivit mai multor surse apropiate situaţiei, transmite Bloomberg. Acest scenariu apare ca cea mai probabilă opţiune pentru Yahoo! şi ar putea permite companiei să plătească dividende speciale sau să răscumpere acţiuni, au spus sursele. Acţiunile Yahoo! s-au apreciat cu 28% după concedierea directorului general Carol Bartz la începutul lui septembrie, astfel încât compania a devenit o ţintă mai scumpă de preluare. Yahoo! analizează opţiunile strategice în paralel cu căutarea unui înlocuitor pentru Bartz, care nu a reuşit să stimuleze creşterea veniturilor şi să protejeze compania de servicii pe Internet de concurenţa Google şi Facebook. Co-fondatorul companiei Jerry Yang a declarat în această lună că Yahoo! nu este neapărat de vânzare. "Intenţia noastră este, din ce în ce mai mult, să nu vindem. Obiecitvul este de a analiza toate opţiunile. Există foarte multe opţiuni, foarte multe soluţii pentru ca acţionarii să obţină valoare", a afirmat Yang la o conferinţă în domeniul digital de la Hong Kong. Sursele au precizat că nu a fost luată o decizie, iar Yahoo! ar putea totuşi să fie vândută unui grup de investitori. Mai multe părţi şi-au exprimat interesul pentru Yahoo!, a anunţat Yang în septembrie. Potrivit surselor, printre companiile interesate se află şi fondurile de investiţii KKR şi Blackstone Group. În plus, Alibaba Group, al cărui acţionar principal este Yahoo!, a discutat cu fondurile Silver Lake şi Digital Sky Technologies din Rusia lansarea unei oferte comune de preluare. În Asia, Yahoo! deţine Alibaba Group din ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vrei-sa-te-angajezi-cum-sa-ti-faci-un-cv-care-iti-asigura-un-job-intr-o-multinationala/ vrei-sa-te-angajezi-cum-sa-ti-faci-un-cv-care-iti-asigura-un-job-intr-o-multinationala Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:04:28 +0300 Deşi zeci de mii de absolvenţi de facultate sau tineri la început de carieră îşi caută cu disperare un loc de muncă, în mod paradoxal, angajatorii se plâng că nu-şi găsesc specialiştii de care au nevoie. Mulţi dintre participanţii la târgurile de joburi sunt de multe ori dezamăgiţi că angajatorii le cer CV-urile, spunându-le că vor fi sunaţi ulterior, lucru care nu se întâmplă. Sau se întâmplă după o perioadă în care şi-au pierdut speranţa sau şi-au găsit un alt loc de muncă. Târgul de carieră Angajatori de Top, care a început vineri dimineaţă, la Sala Palatului, a fost vizitat de mii de tineri încă din primele ore de după deschidere. Companii de renume, ca Google, Oracle, HP, BRD, Miscrosoft, JTI, Dacia sau Renault pun la bătaie peste 2.500 de poziţii, atât pentru studenţi sau tineri absolvenţi, cât şi pentru specialişti cu experienţă. Cu toate acestea, mulţi dintre tinerii participanţi spun, din experienţele anterioare, că, deşi reprezentanţii companiilor le expun cu lux de amănunte oferta de angajare şi le introduc CV-urile în baza de date, telefonul care să-i cheme la interviu întârzie să apară. Sau că etapele recrutării sunt multe şi dificil de trecut. Dragoş Gheban, business development manager la Catalyst Solutions, compania care organizează târgul, spune că recrutarea este un proces în care multinaţionalele investesc mulţi bani, aşadar este normal ca selecţia să se facă într-un timp mai îndelungat şi după mai multe probe. "Decizia este una dificil de luat, mai ales în cazul tinerilor fără experienţă, în care angajatorul trebuie să investească foarte mult, de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-street-view-iti-va-arata-si-imagini-din-interiorul-restaurantelor-si-magazinelor/ google-street-view-iti-va-arata-si-imagini-din-interiorul-restaurantelor-si-magazinelor Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:04:03 +0300 Google a lansat un proiect pilot prin care, de pe Google Maps Street View să se vadă nu numai străzile, ci şi interiorul unor magazine, restaurante sau hoteluri, relatează BBC News. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/is-amazon39s-jeff-bezos-the-next-steve-jobs/ is-amazon39s-jeff-bezos-the-next-steve-jobs Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:01:39 +0300 (CNN) -- With the passing of Steve Jobs earlier this month, the tech industry lost one of its most revered icons. So where will the industry turn for inspiration now that Jobs is gone? New Apple CEO Tim Cook will keep the business cranking along, but he's unlikely to inspire the same kind of devotion as Jobs. Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg has star power, but he and his company are still too young and untested. At Google, Larry Page is too awkward and Eric Schmidt too slick, and a lot of the company's recent products are too unfinished. But there's one tech leader who just might fit the bill: Amazon's Jeff Bezos. Bezos runs his business the same way Steve Jobs ran his, with a relentless focus on long-term value over short-term profits and a willingness to place big bets in seemingly unrelated new areas. Steve Jobs took Apple on a detour from personal computers into music with the iPod, and then into cell phones with the iPhone. It worked, and made Apple into the biggest and richest tech company in the world. Jeff Bezos is doing the same thing at Amazon. About five years ago, Amazon noticed it had a lot of spare capacity in its data centers that was only used during the holiday season. So it started renting out some of that capacity to other companies. Now hundreds of high-profile Internet startups, including big names like Foursquare and Yelp, run their businesses on Amazon Web Services. Somehow, an online bookseller became the most important provider of "cloud computing" -- ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/youtube-ar-putea-anunta-mai-multe-parteneriate-cu-diferite-grupuri-media-si-vedete/ youtube-ar-putea-anunta-mai-multe-parteneriate-cu-diferite-grupuri-media-si-vedete Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:05:56 +0300 Site-ul de partajare video YouTube, controlat de grupul Google, ar putea anunţa de săptămâna viitoare mai multe parteneriate cu diferite grupuri media şi vedete, în vederea producţiei de programe originale, care vor fi difuzate pe canale tematice, potrivit Wall Street Journal, citat de AFP. Potrivit Wall Street Journal, Google, care nu a comentat în niciun fel aceste informaţii, ar vrea să investească 100 de milioane de dolari, pentru a transforma YouTube în noul furnizor de programe profesionale, gratuite, finanţate de publicitate. Conţinuturile vor fi împărţite în mai multe caregorii tematice. Printre companiile care ar fi semnat parteneriate cu YouTube se numără ShineReveille, proprietate a News Corporation, şi Fremantle (grupul RTL). http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-va-fi-facebook-mai-rapid-pentru-europeni-locul-in-care-compania-va-stoca-datele-la-rece-foto/ cum-va-fi-facebook-mai-rapid-pentru-europeni-locul-in-care-compania-va-stoca-datele-la-rece-foto Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:05:54 +0300 Facebook a cumpărat o fermă din nordul Suediei pentru a găzdui serverele reţelei de socializare fondate de Mark Zuckerberg. În acest mod, Facebook va fi mai rapid pentru utilizatorii din Europa. Noua proprietate Facebook este situată în oraşul Lulea, într-o regiune aleasă special pentru temperaturile scăzute, informează Daily Mail. Iniţiativa Facebook de a construi un centru de stocare a datelor în Suedia va avea ca efect o conexiune mai rapidă a utilizatorilor din Europa pe site-ul de socializare. "Facebook are mai mulţi utilizatori în afara Statelor Unite decât în interiorul acestora. Era timpul să ne extindem în Europa", a declarat directorul de operaţiuni al Facebook, Tom Furlong. În prezent, Facebook deţine mai multe centre de păstrare a datelor în California, Virginia şi Oregon şi pregăteşte o altă proprietate Facebook în Nordul Californiei. Compania se bazează pe mai multe centre de menţinere a datelor nu numai pentru a facilita o conexiune mai rapidă a persoanelor din apropierea acestora, ci şi pentru a fi pregătită în cazul în care sistemul cedează. Noua proprietate Facebook se află la 100 de kilometri de Cercul Arctic, în apropierea unor centrale hidroelectrice care generează de două ori mai multă electricitate decât cunoscutul Hoover Dam de la graniţa dintre Nevada şi Arizona. Facebook nu a oferit o sumă exactă a investiţiei, dar oficialii din oraşul Lulea au estimat costurile proiectului la 760 de milioane de dolari. "Am bătut la uşile sediului Facebook (n.r.- situat în Palo Alto, California) şi astăzi se mută în Lulea- este ceva uriaş, într-adevăr uriaş", a declarat Matz Engman, care conduce Agenţia ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-depasit-in-topul-furnizorilor-de-smartphone-uri-care-este-noul-lider-al-pietei/ apple-depasit-in-topul-furnizorilor-de-smartphone-uri-care-este-noul-lider-al-pietei Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:05:24 +0300 Samsung Electronics a devenit cel mai mare furnizor de smartphone-uri după ce a devansat Apple în trimestrul al treilea, în contextul războiului tehnologic şi juridic dintre cele două companii, relatează Bloomberg. Grupul sud-coreean a livrat 27,8 milioane de smartphone-uri în intervalul iulie-septembrie, în creştere cu 44% faţă de trimestrul precedent şi de patru ori mai mari faţă de aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut. Evoluţia i-a conferit o cotă de piaţă de 23,8%, potrivit companiei de consultanţă Strategy Analytics din Marea Britanie. Apple, cu livrări de 17,1 milioane de aparate, a avut o cotă de piaţă de 14,6% şi a trecut pe locul al doilea, iar Nokia a rămas pe poziţia a treia, cu 14,4%. Cota de piaţă a Nokia a scăzut de la 32,7% în urmă cu un an. Apple, care a lansat iPhone 4S în această lună, a deţinut poziţia de lider de piaţă doar un trimestru, după ce a devansat Nokia în acest an. Samsung s-a folosit de sistemul de operare Android produs de Google pentru a-şi mări vânzările de smartphone-uri Galaxy şi de tablete PC. Profitul diviziei de telecomunicaţii a Samsung a crescut de peste două ori faţă de aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut, la nivelul record de 2.500 miliarde woni (2,2 miliarde dolari) şi a reprezentat 60% din profitul grupului. Piaţa mondială a aparatelor smartphone a crescut cu 44% în acest an, la 117 milioane de unităţi, conform datelor Strategy Analytics. Compania finlandeză Nokia a rămas lider pe piaţa mondială a telefoanelor mobile, care include şi aparatele mai ieftine, cu o cotă de 27,3%, în scădere cu cinci ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-a-pierdut-pozitia-pe-lider-samsung-a-devenit-cel-mai-mare-furnizor-de-smartphone-uri/ apple-a-pierdut-pozitia-pe-lider-samsung-a-devenit-cel-mai-mare-furnizor-de-smartphone-uri Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:05:01 +0300 Samsung Electronics a devenit cel mai mare furnizor de smartphone-uri după ce a devansat Apple în trimestrul al treilea, în contextul războiului tehnologic şi juridic dintre cele două companii, relatează Bloomberg. Grupul sud-coreean a livrat 27,8 milioane de smartphone-uri în intervalul iulie-septembrie, în creştere cu 44% faţă de trimestrul precedent şi de patru ori mai mari faţă de aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut. Evoluţia i-a conferit o cotă de piaţă de 23,8%, potrivit companiei de consultanţă Strategy Analytics din Marea Britanie. Apple, cu livrări de 17,1 milioane de aparate, a avut o cotă de piaţă de 14,6% şi a trecut pe locul al doilea, iar Nokia a rămas pe poziţia a treia, cu 14,4%. Cota de piaţă a Nokia a scăzut de la 32,7% în urmă cu un an. Apple, care a lansat iPhone 4S în această lună, a deţinut poziţia de lider de piaţă doar un trimestru, după ce a devansat Nokia în acest an. Samsung s-a folosit de sistemul de operare Android produs de Google pentru a-şi mări vânzările de smartphone-uri Galaxy şi de tablete PC. Profitul diviziei de telecomunicaţii a Samsung a crescut de peste două ori faţă de aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut, la nivelul record de 2.500 miliarde woni (2,2 miliarde dolari) şi a reprezentat 60% din profitul grupului. Piaţa mondială a aparatelor smartphone a crescut cu 44% în acest an, la 117 milioane de unităţi, conform datelor Strategy Analytics. Compania finlandeză Nokia a rămas lider pe piaţa mondială a telefoanelor mobile, care include şi aparatele mai ieftine, cu o cotă de 27,3%, în scădere cu cinci ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-tv-to-get-massive-android-software-update/ google-tv-to-get-massive-android-software-update Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:04:05 +0300 (Mashable) -- Google TV had such potential when it launched in October 2010. But for many users, the lack of Hulu -- along with the awkwardness of the interface and lack of cooperation from TV networks and content providers -- was a huge turnoff. Now Google aims to fix that with a massive overhaul, upgrading Google TV with its Android operating system. Google announced on its Google TV blog Friday that the platform will be upgraded to Android 3.1 (otherwise known as Honeycomb) for Sony devices Sunday, with the Logitech Revue set-top box getting its upgrade "soon thereafter." What will you get with this software upgrade to Android? Google says it's "much simpler." Its customization capabilities will go a long way toward alleviating the awkwardness of its first iteration, which Google admits was "not perfect." And the addition of the Android Market will open up a variety of applications, with the promise of more -- perhaps thousands more -- on the way. One welcome improvement will be an easier ability to search across all the TV shows at your disposal. With this update, Google's trying to answer that age-old question, "What's on?" If Google can pull that off, it could be a powerful thing indeed. The company says it has learned from its mistakes with the first version of Google TV and is "committed to find the best way to discover and engage with the high-quality entertainment on your television." So does that mean Google TV will be able to find all the shows from whichever cable or satellite provider you're ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-check-steve-jobs-biography-39unthinking39-facebook/ tech-check-steve-jobs-biography-39unthinking39-facebook Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:03:45 +0300 (CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, Brandon Griggs and Stephanie Goldberg break down details from the new Steve Jobs biography. The book, written by Walter Isaacson and released this week in the wake of Jobs' death, takes the reader behind the scenes of Jobs' rise to the top of the consumer-tech world, not always casting the Apple co-founder in a positive light. We also look at Unthink, an upstart social-networking site that is trying to find a niche by being the anti-Facebook. Will calling Facebook, and rival Google+, "greedy giants" and adopting an anti-corporate approach, work? And what's up with that YouTube video? Our Reader Comments of the Week come from our story on "Take This Lollipop," a viral Web video that uses your Facebook information to give the creepy, horror-inspired short film a personal twist. And our Tech Fail of the Week goes to Netflix, which had some bad news to report this week after a couple of months of public-relations missteps the online movie-rental service would probably like to forget. (Bonus: Wondering what tech-inspired Halloween costume Stephanie's donning this year? Of course you were. Tune in to find out!) To listen to Tech Check, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can add Tech Check to your RSS feed here. You can also listen, or subscribe, on iTunes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/isail-seven-apps-to-set-sail-to/ isail-seven-apps-to-set-sail-to Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:03:11 +0300 London, England (CNN) -- Setting sail this weekend and want the latest information to help you along? Well look no further than your phone for everything you need. There is a wealth of data available through the thousands of apps on the market. But how do you know what is best for you? Joe White from AppAdvice says it's important to consider whether you will have cellular coverage on your journey to determine which apps you should use. "If it's a navigation app that requires GPS then you'll need to have good cellular coverage," White explains. "But there are other apps out there that can be used offline." Here's a list of some of the best apps to set sail to. 1. Navionics Marine, available for $9.99 While this is one of the more expensive marine apps on the market, it is one of the most comprehensive and popular. "They were working with marine software before the iPhone was even invented," says White. There is a wide selection of Navionics apps to choose from for the region in the world you're after such as the U.S., Africa, and Asia, with more specific ones on offer as well including the U.K. and Holland. Features include information on tides, currents and winds. It also allows you to take a photo while cruising and send it to your friends. It will then show the image in Google Earth so they can see exactly where you were when you took it. Despite it being more costly, experts say it's a worthwhile investment. "They ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/activists-claim-dead-egyptian-prisoner-was-tortured/ activists-claim-dead-egyptian-prisoner-was-tortured Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:00:59 +0300 Cairo (CNN) -- Hundreds of demonstrators demanded the downfall of Egypt's top military authority Friday after a funeral for a young Egyptian man who died in custody. Human rights groups and relatives allege Essam Atta, 23, was tortured to death by prison guards in Egypt's Tora prison, Noor Ayman Nour, a human rights activist, told CNN. "His mother smuggled him a SIM card into prison," said Dr. Aida Seif El Dawla, co-founder of the El Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture. "Fellow inmates told the family they believe this caused a conflict between him and one of the prison guards who later accused him of smuggling drugs. Fellow prisoners told the family he was then beaten, tortured, and pipes were pushed through his mouth and anus, killing him." Atta's mother, Naema, screamed and wailed hysterically at his funeral. "They even beat him in front of me once in prison," she told a CNN crew before she was rushed toward the coffin. The Egyptian Interior Ministry denied the torture allegations. "Essam Attaa died from poisoning due to drugs he took during a (prison) visit. He was not tortured. No policeman would dare torture a man at these times," ministry spokesman Alaa Mahmoud told CNN. "A prosecutor inspected the body of Essam and found no signs of physical torture," said Adel Saeed, official spokesman for the general prosecutor. "We ordered an autopsy to see if there are signs of internal damage to the body that may indicate otherwise." "Essam was sentenced to two years in Tora Prison and his ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/subiectele-zilei-domnii-vlaicu-si-iacob-de-profesie-clienti-politici-un-caz-scoala-despre-cum-se-face-managementul-privat-in-afacerea-partidelor-cu-companiile-de-stat-partea-penala-a-celebritatii-cum-te-angajezi-la-google-compania-care-primeste-anua/ subiectele-zilei-domnii-vlaicu-si-iacob-de-profesie-clienti-politici-un-caz-scoala-despre-cum-se-face-managementul-privat-in-afacerea-partidelor-cu-companiile-de-stat-partea-penala-a-celebritatii-cum-te-angajezi-la-google-compania-care-primeste-anua Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:06:53 +0300 Ziua in care Romania a devenit din nou Regat. Vazuta din spatele ecranului, vizita regala de marti a semanat cu un film plasat intr-o alta epoca, dar cu actori desprinsi din personajele zilelor noastre. Marti, 25 octombrie 2011. Rasfranta pe milioane de ecrane TV, figura regelui Mihai I pare perfect imobila, de parca cel care rosteste greoi discursul, l-ar exersa, de fapt, in fata unui auditoriu invizibil. Este o imagine stranie pentru Romania ultimilor 21 de ani: cineva vorbind de la prezidiul Parlamentului intr-o liniste deplina: fara huiduieli, strigate sau intreruperi. Discursul se incheie si un al doilea moment, poate la fel de straniu prin singularitatea sa, se desfasoara in fata privitorilor: marea sala a Parlamentului este invadata de un zgomot perfect uniform si constant. Toata lumea aplauda, relateaza Adevarul. Tramvaiul electric din Bucuresti. A adus viteza, dar si nesuferitele cabluri. Vreme de 22 de ani, bucurestenii s-au plimbat numai in tramvaie trase de cai. Acestea fusesera introduse in 1872 de o societate engleza si, in ciuda bizareriei vehiculelor numite "tranca-fleanca", orasenii s-au obisnuit treptat cu ele. Suferinta indurata de bietii armasari biciuiti de vizitii atunci cand urcau pe strada Uranus sau cand se impotmoleau in noroi a constituit unul dintre principalele motive care a dus la abandonarea folosirii tractiunii animale in Bucuresti. Adevarata revolutie a modului de a calatori in capitala a venit la vreo doua decenii dupa introducerea tramvaielor trase de cai, atunci cand pe strazi au inceput sa circule primele tramvaie electrice, informeaza GreatNews.ro Adrian Nastase: "In 2014 poate vine la guvern ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/povestea-alinei-oprea-romanca-pe-care-mit-a-inclus-o-in-lista-celor-mai-promitatori-tineri-cercetatori-ai-lumii/ povestea-alinei-oprea-romanca-pe-care-mit-a-inclus-o-in-lista-celor-mai-promitatori-tineri-cercetatori-ai-lumii Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:05:54 +0300 Alina Oprea, o romanca in varsta de 34 de ani, a fost inclusa intr-o lista anuala intocmita de MIT care recompeseaza cei mai valorosi inovatori din domenii precum IT, comunicatii sau medicina. Alina Oprea a fost inclusa in randul celor 35 de inovatori din 2011 datorita cercetarilor in domeniul foarte tehnic, insa extrem de important, al cloud-computing-ului. Cand vor intra pe piata aceste solutii vor ajuta companiile sa fie sigure ca nimeni nu va modifica datele din cloud si ca datele nu vor disparea din cauza unor virusi sau fiindca apar erori. Mai jos puteti citi pe larg despre romanca ce a decis sa faca ceva notabil in IT NU atacand diverse site-uri, ci "imprumutand" cate ceva din tehnicile hackerilor tocmai pentru a fi sigura ca datele pastrate de diverse companii sunt in perfecta siguranta.Despre concurs si despre castigatoarea romancaRevista Technology Review editata de prestigiosul institut MIT nominalizeaza anual 35 de oameni sub 35 de ani pentru ca au venit cu invovatii care promit sa aduca schimbari majore in domenii precum IT, Medicina, Comunicatii, Web sau Energie, Printre laureatii celebri din trecut se numara Larry Page de la Google si Mark Zuckerberg de la Facebook, iar anul acesta printre cei 35 de nominalizati se afla si o romanca, Alina Oprea. Ea a absolvit Universitatea din Bucuresti in 2000, si-a dat doctoratul la Carnegie Mellon University din Pittsburgh in 2007 si lucreaza la RSA Laboratories din Boston. Motivatia juriului TR35 a fost ca tehnologiile la care Alina Oprea lucreaza vor ajuta companiile sa fie sigure ca ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/chinezii-de-la-huawei-pun-in-vanzare-in-romania-smartphone-uri-si-o-tableta-pc-sub-brand-propriu-la-preturi-intre-100-si-400-de-euro-in-lunile-urmatoare/ chinezii-de-la-huawei-pun-in-vanzare-in-romania-smartphone-uri-si-o-tableta-pc-sub-brand-propriu-la-preturi-intre-100-si-400-de-euro-in-lunile-urmatoare Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:05:48 +0300 Producatorul chinez de echipamente telecom Huawei, activ pe piata din Romania din 2004 cu terminale OEM (produse dupa specificatii pentru operatorii de telefonie), a inceput anul trecut sa vanda telefoane 2G sub brand propriu si vrea sa-si extinda acest portofoliu cu telefoane inteligente (smartphone-uri) si o tableta PC la preturi intre 100 de euro si 400 de euro, in lunile urmatoare, au anuntat joi oficialii Huawei Romania. Anders Lindquist, managerul de marketing al Huawei pe aceasta regiune, a precizat ca daca operatorii din Romania vor vrea sa introduca tehnologia LTE anul viitor, producatorul pregateste un smartphone LTE care va fi introdus in Europa pana la mijlocul lui 2012. "Suntem in Romania din 2004, ne-am ocupat doar de terminale OEM sub brandul operatorilor pana anul trecut, cand ne-am lansat cu brandul propriu si in prezent vindem 10 modele 2G sub brand propriu. Estimam ca pana la sfarsitul anului vom detine in Romania o cota de piata de 6%", a declarat joi Sorina Macarescu, marketing manager la Huawei Romania. Producatorul chinez si-a lansat joi in Romania noua gama de smartphone-uri care cuprinde cinci modele Honor, Vision, Sonic, X3 si Boulder, pe care ruleaza sistemul de operare Android al Google. Terminalul Vision pe care ruleaza sistemul de operare Android 2.3 Gingerbread ofera printre altele posibilitatea conectarii la Huawei Cloud, un spatiu de stocare 'in the cloud' pentru dispozitive mobile, cu o capacitate de pana la 160 GB. Tableta MediaPad dispune de sistemul de operare Android 3.2 Honeycomb, are un procesor dual core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm si ofera conectivitate la Internet ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/unthink-wants-to-be-the-new-anti-facebook/ unthink-wants-to-be-the-new-anti-facebook Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:02:18 +0300 (CNN) -- Call it "Occupy Facebook." Or, perhaps, "UnOccupy Facebook." Hoping to capitalize on frustrations with the social networking giant, not to mention some of the anti-corporate sentiment bubbling up on Wall Street and beyond, entrepreneurs have launched an upstart site called Unthink. The Tampa, Florida-based startup wants to be everything that Facebook and rival Google+ are not -- and it has the manifesto and sassy YouTube video to prove it. "I couldn't wait to tell my story. I couldn't believe that all this was free," says an actress in the video, strutting through Bohemian city streets in an off-the-shoulder T-shirt with the words "Wild and Free" scrawled on it. "But I never knew that I'd be part of some damn puppet show -- that you thought you could own me. Well, you can't own me!" Later, she confronts a guy in a Google+ T-shirt and another hoodie-wearing character with a striking resemblance to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The video is part of a series of hype-building efforts, along with cryptic news releases promising a "secret project" and "social revolution," that preceded Tuesday's limited launch. Opened for invite-only beta testing on Tuesday, Unthink says it will offer an alternative to the privacy concerns some people have about using Facebook or Google's new rival network. Facebook and Google both collect information about users to tailor advertising to them. Privacy concerns have cropped up over various features Facebook has rolled out -- from mobile check-ins to integration with other websites that can make a user's online behavior more public if settings aren't tweaked. Unthink promises ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-te-angajezi-la-google-compania-care-primeste-anual-un-milion-de-candidaturi-cititor-gandul-patru-interviuri-telefonice-de-40-de-minute-si-un-interviu-final-de-patru-ore/ cum-te-angajezi-la-google-compania-care-primeste-anual-un-milion-de-candidaturi-cititor-gandul-patru-interviuri-telefonice-de-40-de-minute-si-un-interviu-final-de-patru-ore Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:04:53 +0300 Compania Google este unul dintre cei mai doriţi angajatori din lume şi sunt foarte puţini cei care reuşesc să treacă de multiplele interviuri pe care le presupune procesul de recrutare. În fiecare an, peste un milion de persoane aplică pentru un job aici, însă numai 6.000 sunt angajaţi (0,6% dintre cei care aplică). http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/upstart-unthink-wants-to-become-the-new-anti-facebook/ upstart-unthink-wants-to-become-the-new-anti-facebook Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:03:46 +0300 (CNN) -- Call it "Occupy Facebook." Or, perhaps, "UnOccupy Facebook." Hoping to capitalize on frustrations with the social networking giant, not to mention some of the anti-corporate sentiment bubbling up on Wall Street and beyond, entrepreneurs have launched an upstart site called Unthink. The Tampa, Florida-based startup wants to be everything that Facebook and rival Google+ are not -- and it has the manifesto and sassy YouTube video to prove it. "I couldn't wait to tell my story. I couldn't believe that all this was free," says an actress in the video, strutting through Bohemian city streets in an off-the-shoulder T-shirt with the words "Wild and Free" scrawled on it. "But I never knew that I'd be part of some damn puppet show -- that you thought you could own me. Well, you can't own me!" Later, she confronts a guy in a Google+ T-shirt and another hoodie-wearing character with a striking resemblance to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The video is part of a series of hype-building efforts, along with cryptic news releases promising a "secret project" and "social revolution," that preceded Tuesday's limited launch. Opened for invite-only beta testing on Tuesday, Unthink says it will offer an alternative to the privacy concerns some people have about using Facebook or Google's new rival network. Facebook and Google both collect information about users to tailor advertising to them. Privacy concerns have cropped up over various features Facebook has rolled out -- from mobile check-ins to integration with other websites that can make a user's online behavior more public if settings aren't tweaked. Unthink promises ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/39we39re-a-culture-not-a-costume39/ 39we39re-a-culture-not-a-costume39 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:01:52 +0300 (CNN) -- Thinking about donning a kimono to dress like a geisha for Halloween, or a Mexican mariachi suit? Students from Ohio University have a message for you: "We're a culture, not a costume." With ethnic and racial stereotypes becoming increasingly popular Halloween costume themes, members of the school's Students Teaching About Racism in Society are launching a campaign to make revelers think twice before reducing a culture to a caricature, the group's president said. Posters from the campaign are expected to go up on the Athens, Ohio, campus Wednesday. Meanwhile, the images are making the rounds online, raising debate over whether it's ever OK for people to paint their faces black, impersonate a racial stereotype for fun, and where to drawn the line. It's a seasonal point of controversy, but even after widely publicized controversies such as the "Ghetto Fab" wig at Kohl's and Target's illegal alien jumpsuit, costumes of stereotypes abound. On Google's shopping section, several pages of "Mexican costume ideas" are available, from "Mexican donkey costumes" to sexy serapes and tequila shooter girls. The ad campaign from Ohio University show students holding photos of different racial and ethnic stereotypes in costume: an Hispanic guy with a picture of the Mexican donkey costume, an Asian girl with an image of a Geisha, a Muslim student with a photo of a white guy wearing a traditional ghutra and iqal over his head, bombs strapped to his chest. "During Halloween, we see offensive costumes. We don't like it, we don't appreciate it. We wanted to do a campaign about it saying, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vineri-si-sambata-iti-poti-gasi-un-job-intr-o-multinationala-la-targul-angajatori-de-top-vezi-in-ce-domenii-te-poti-angaja/ vineri-si-sambata-iti-poti-gasi-un-job-intr-o-multinationala-la-targul-angajatori-de-top-vezi-in-ce-domenii-te-poti-angaja Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:07:49 +0300 Angajatori de Top, cel mai mare targ de cariera la nivel national le aduce tinerilor profesionisti oportunitatea de a aplica pentru 2.500 de posturi, de a participa la 32 de seminare de cariera, 4 conferinte tematice si 3 seminare de orientare in cariera. Evenimentul se va desfasura vineri si sambata la Sala Palatului din Capitala si va gazdui peste 90 de angajatori din domeniile IT, Telecom, financiar-bancar, outsourcing, inginerie, marketing si vanzari. Targul de cariera Angajatori de Top va fi deschis vineri, 28 octombrie in intervalul orar 10.00-18.00 si sambata, 29 octombrie intre 10.00-17.00. Companiile isi doresc sa intalneasca atat profesionisti in domeniul lor de activitate, cat si studenti si proaspat absolventi, implicati in activitati extracurriculare, care detin cunostinte de limbi straine si demonstreaza motivatie pentru o cariera de success, scrie pe pagina de Internet a evenimentului. Cele mai mari planuri de recrutare au fost confirmate de companiile din industria IT, Telecom, Outsourcing si Retail, iar printre angajatorii prezenti la aceasta editie sunt: Adobe, Microsoft, Intel, Bitdefender, Ixia, Dell Services, Google, Infineon Technologies Romania, Electronics Arts, TeamNet Collaborate, Ubisoft Romania, 1&1 Internet Romania, Enea Services Romania, Optaros, Netop, Temenos, Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, Vodafone, Nobel Romania, Huawei Technologies, Accenture, Genpact, Oracle, HP, WNS Romania, Computer Generated Solutions, Michelin, Siemens, Automobile Bavaria, Group Renault Romania, BCR, BRD Groupe Societe Generale, Raiffeisen Bank, Ernst&Young, KPMG, Bearing Point, Coca-Cola HBC Romania, JTI, Kraft Foods Romania, L'Oreal, Nestle Romania, British American Tobacco, Baumax, Acredo Romania, Adecco Romania. Topul domeniilor cu numarul cel mai mare de oportunitati de cariera in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-va-arata-televizorul-viitorului-apple-lucreaza-la-un-prototip-integrat/ cum-va-arata-televizorul-viitorului-apple-lucreaza-la-un-prototip-integrat Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:04:55 +0300 Apple lucrează la un prototip de televizor integrat, cu o interfaţă care va permite sincronizarea wireless a conţinutului cu alte aparate ale companiei, şi a apelat în acest scop la inginerul care a construit iTunes, au declarat trei persoane apropiate situaţiei, transmite Bloomberg. Jeff Robbin, care a contribuit la crearea iPod, pe lângă magazinul iTunes, coordonează acum dezvoltarea noului televizor, au spus sursele. Implicarea lui Robin indică angajamentul Apple de a-şi extinde până în living room dominaţia din domeniul smartphone-urilor şi tabletelor. Co-fondatorul Apple, Steve Jobs, i-a spus biografului său Walter Isaacson, că "şi-a dat seama în sfârşit" cum să construiască un televizor integrat, cu o interfaţă simplă care va sincroniza wireless conţinutul cu alte aparate ale Apple. "Va avea cea mai simplă interfaţă pe care ţi-o poţi imagina", a afirmat Jobs, care a murit pe 5 octombrie, în biografia sa publicată luni de CBC Corp. Un purtător de cuvânt al Apple a refuzat să comenteze. În afara remarcilor lui Jobs din carte, Apple nu a recunoscut că dezvoltă un televizor şi, potrivit unei surse, nu este sigur că va lansa unul pe piaţă. Până în prezent, implicarea companiei în acest domeniu s-a limitat la AppleTV, un aparat mic, de 99 de dolari, care poate fi conectat la un televizor şi permite utilizatorilor acces la conţinutul iTunes şi YouTube. Jobs a numit aparatul mai degrabă un hobby al Apple, decât o sursă serioasă de venituri. Situaţia s-ar putea schimba însă. Apple are în lucru un prototip de televizor şi ar putea ca produsul să fie scos la vânzare la sfârşitul anului viitor sau în ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-best-tidbits-from-the-steve-jobs-bio/ the-best-tidbits-from-the-steve-jobs-bio Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:01:43 +0300 (CNN) -- "Steve Jobs,' the biography of the late tech visionary that went on sale Monday, has already produced plenty of headlines: How Jobs met his birth father without knowing who he was, how he swore bitter revenge on Google for developing its competing Android system, and how he waited too long after his cancer diagnosis to get surgery that might have saved him. But the 656-page book by hand-picked biographer Walter Isaacson also contains a wealth of smaller, but no less telling, details about the brilliant but difficult Apple co-founder. Taken together, they build an illuminating portrait of a charismatic, complicated figure who could inspire people one minute and demean them the next. Even on their own, many of these snippets are still fascinating glimpses into an extraordinary life. The CNN Tech team has been busy flipping through our copies of the book. Here are some of the more interesting nuggets we've found, in chronological order (we're still reading, so we'll add more as we go): Childhood and early years -- Jobs' wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, encouraged Isaacson to be honest about Jobs' failings. "You shouldn't whitewash it," she told him. "He's good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I'd like to see that it's all told truthfully." -- Jobs' birth mother insisted he be adopted by college graduates. The couple who had initially agreed to adopt Jobs in 1955 -- a lawyer and his wife -- backed out because they wanted a girl. So Jobs was placed instead with Paul Jobs, a high school dropout ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/revin-in-forta-zvonurile-despre-o-posibila-vanzare-a-yahoo-google-microsoft-si-mai-multe-fonduri-de-investitii-sunt-posibilii-cumparatori/ revin-in-forta-zvonurile-despre-o-posibila-vanzare-a-yahoo-google-microsoft-si-mai-multe-fonduri-de-investitii-sunt-posibilii-cumparatori Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:05:52 +0300 ​Dupa ce actionarii Yahoo! au schimbat-o pe Carol Bartz din functia de CEO, au aparut din nou zvonuri numeroase despre o posibila vanzare a companiei sau macar a unei divizii cheie a acesteia, scrie The Wall Street Journal. Printre potentialii cumparatori se numara Microsoft, Google si o serie de fonduri de investitii care ar urma sa vina cu banii. Totusi, o achizitie a Yahoo! de catre Google pare putin probabila fiindca e greu de crezut ca autoritatile din domeniul concurentei si-ar da acordul.Se zvoneste ca Google discuta cu cateva fonduri de invetitii pentru a face o oferta comuna celor de la Yahoo! Informatiile nu au fost confirmate si discutiile sunt se pare intr-o faza de inceput. Este insa putin probabil ca autoritatile americane din domeniul concurentei sa fie de acord cu o tranzactie Google-Yahoo! ce ar putea afecta competitia in domeniul cautarii pe internet si ar putea crea un monopol.Au revenit zvonurile legate de un interes al Microsoft pentru a cumpara Yahoo!. In 2008 si 2009 s-a scris imens despre aceasta mega-tranzactie, iar Microsoft era la un moment dat dispusa sa dea peste 47 miliarde dolari pentru Yahoo!, insa totul a cazut. Acum zvonurile indica o tranzactie de mai mica valoare, Microsoft urmand a prelua un anumit pachet de actiuni cu cateva miliarde de dolari, restul banilor putand fi pusi de cateva fonduri de investitii partenere.In lista posibililor cumparatori este si holding-ul chinez Alibaba la care Yahoo! detine peste 40%. Compania chineza are 22.000 de angajati si si-a exprimat interesul de a cumpara Yahoo!, insa ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-vrea-sa-cumpere-yahoo-in-colaborare-cu-firme-de-investitii/ google-vrea-sa-cumpere-yahoo-in-colaborare-cu-firme-de-investitii Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:04:55 +0300 Google a discutat cu cel puţin două firme de investiţii despre posibilitatea de a le ajuta să finanţeze preluarea principalelor operaţiuni ale rivalului Yahoo, au declarat surse apropiate situaţiei, citate de cotidianul Wall Street Journal. Gigantul IT american şi eventualii parteneri au avut contacte preliminare, dar nu au ajuns la o propunere formală, iar Google ar putea decide să nu continue discuţiile, a spus sursa. Wall Street Journal notează că nu este clar care sunt firmele care au discutat cu Google. Orice tranzacţie între Google şi Yahoo, două dintre cele mai mari companii active pe internet şi care domină piaţa căutărilor online, ar atrage cu siguranţă atenţia autorităţilor de reglementare. Autorităţile antitrust din SUA au împiedicat în 2008 un parteneriat între cele două companii. Un an mai târziu, Yahoo! a semnat un parteneriat pe zece ani cu Microsoft. Microsoft analizează, de asemenea, finanţarea parţială a unei oferte din partea unei companii de investiţii pentru Yahoo, au spus surse apropiate situaţiei. Yahoo şi-a concediat directorul general, Carol Bartz, în septembrie, iar compania încearcă să atragă oferte din partea unor eventuali investitori, precum firme de investiţii. Astfel de cumpărători ar putea delista Yahoo şi ar putea reorganiza compania. Yahoo nu şi-a putut majora venituruile din publicitate nici măscar în contextul în care piaţa de publicitate pe internet creşte anual cu peste 20%. Google este de mult timp lider în domeniul căutărilor online. Pe piaţa de publicitate pe internet, Google este, însă, un jucător mai mic, dar aflat în creştere, notează Wall Street Journal. În Statele Unite, Facebook va obţine peste două miliarde din publicitate ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/googleyahoo-google-ar-putea-cumpara-yahoo/ googleyahoo-google-ar-putea-cumpara-yahoo Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:04:36 +0300 Gigantul IT american Google ar putea achiziţiona în viitorul apropiat rivalul Yahoo!, conform Reuters, care citează un articol apărut sâmbătă în Wall Street Journal. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/android-40-cele-mai-importante-modificari-aduse-sistemului-de-operare-pentru-telefoane-mobile-dezvoltat-de-google/ android-40-cele-mai-importante-modificari-aduse-sistemului-de-operare-pentru-telefoane-mobile-dezvoltat-de-google Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:04:32 +0300 Google a dezvăluit caracteristicile Android 4.0, cunoscut şi ca Ice Cream Sandwich, cea mai mare actualizare a sistemului de operare pentru telefoanele mobile de când a fost lansată tableta Android 3.0, la începutul anului 2011, relatează Huffington Post. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-a-fost-intrebat-ceo-ul-google-dan-bulucea-la-interviul-de-angajare-plus-cum-explica-el-sloganul-google/ ce-a-fost-intrebat-ceo-ul-google-dan-bulucea-la-interviul-de-angajare-plus-cum-explica-el-sloganul-google Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:03:57 +0300 Dan Bulucea, CEO Google, a povestit, pentru gândul, cum a fost angajat în cadrul companiei, în 2010. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/steve-jobs-omul-complex-care-a-refuzat-sa-isi-intalneasca-tatal-biologic-si-care-l-a-criticat-pe-barack-obama-potrivit-biografiei-sale/ steve-jobs-omul-complex-care-a-refuzat-sa-isi-intalneasca-tatal-biologic-si-care-l-a-criticat-pe-barack-obama-potrivit-biografiei-sale Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:09:02 +0300 Biografia legendarului sef al Apple Steve Jobs, scrisa de Walter Isaacson, care apare luni in Statele Unite, contureaza portretul unui barbat complex, care a refuzat intotdeauna sa il intalneasca pe tatal sau biologic si nu a ezitat sa il critice pe presedintele Barack Obama la prima lor intalnire, relateaza AFP. Potrivit Huffington Post, in biografia lui Jobs este relatat si momentul in care Bill Clinton i-a cerut sfatul in scandalul Monica Lewinsky."Cand am cautat-o pe mama mea biologica, evident ca il cautam si pe tatal meu biologic. Am aflat putine lucruri despre el si nu mi-a placut ce am aflat", a povestit Jobs biografului sau Walter Isaacson, intr-un interviu sonor difuzat joi de postul de televiziune CBS, pe care il poti asculta aici.Adoptat la nastere de un cuplu de californieni modesti, Jobs l-a identificat pana la urma pe tatal lui, descoperind ca a avut deja ocazia sa ii stranga mana: acest american nascut in Siria si cu numele de Abdulfattah Jandali, care isi spunea John, avea un restaurant cu specific mediteranean in Silicon Valley, unde Jobs a luat cina de mai multe ori."Imi amintesc ca m-am intalnit cu proprietarul (restaurantului), care era originar din Siria si caruia ii cadea parul. I-am strans mana, el mi-a strans, de asemenea mana, asta este tot", povesteste el.Jobs insusi a explicat ca i-a cerut surorii sale vitrege, cu care avea relatii bune, sa nu dezvaluie identitatea tatalui sau: "Am devenit bogat si ma tem ca ma va santaja sau ca va alerta presa", s-a justificat el, potrivit unui extras ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/biografia-lui-steve-jobs-de-ce-a-refuzat-sa-si-intalneasca-tatal-biologic-si-ce-pretentii-avea-de-la-barack-obama/ biografia-lui-steve-jobs-de-ce-a-refuzat-sa-si-intalneasca-tatal-biologic-si-ce-pretentii-avea-de-la-barack-obama Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:08:37 +0300 Biografia legendarului director al Apple Steve Jobs, care apare luni în Statele Unite, realizează portretul unui bărbat complex, care a refuzat întotdeauna să îl întâlnească pe tatăl său biologic şi nu a ezitat să îl critice pe preşedintele Barack Obama la prima lor întâlnire. "Când am căutat-o pe mama mea biologică, evident că îl căutam şi pe tatăl meu biologic. Am aflat puţine lucruri despre el şi nu mi-a plăcut ce am aflat", a povestit Jobs biografului său Walter Isaacson, într-un interviu sonor difuzat joi de postul de televiziune CBS. Adoptat la naştere de un cuplu de californieni modeşti, Jobs l-a identificat până la urmă pe tatăl lui, descoperind că a avut deja ocazia să îi strângă mâna: acest american născut în Siria şi cu numele de Abdulfattah Jandali, care îşi spunea John, avea un restaurant cu specific mediteranean în Silicon Valley, unde Jobs a luat cina adeseori. "Îmi amintesc că m-am întâlnit cu proprietarul (restaurantului), care era originar din Siria şi căruia îi cădea părul. I-am strâns mâna, el mi-a strâns, de asemenea, mâna", povesteşte el. Jobs însuşi a explicat că i-a cerut surorii sale vitrege, cu care avea relaţii bune, să nu dezvăluie identitatea tatălui său: "Am devenit bogat şi mă tem că mă va şantaja sau că va alerta presa", s-a justificat el, potrivit unui extras dintr-o carte publicată de Huffington Post. Steve Jobs s-a dovedit critic şi faţă de Barack Obama, căruia i-a refuzat o invitaţie la cină deoarece ar fi vrut ca preşedintele american să îl sune în persoană, potrivit Huffington Post. "Sunteţi pornit să nu ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/alexandra-olteanu-initiative-media-daca-punem-in-ecuatie-problemele-din-ue-si-zona-euro-cred-ca-oprirea-scaderii-in-publicitate-poate-deja-sa-fie-pusa-sub-semnul-intrebarii/ alexandra-olteanu-initiative-media-daca-punem-in-ecuatie-problemele-din-ue-si-zona-euro-cred-ca-oprirea-scaderii-in-publicitate-poate-deja-sa-fie-pusa-sub-semnul-intrebarii Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:05:33 +0300 Initiative Media, una dintre cele mai importante agentii care impart publicitatea in media din Romania, si-a revizuit usor prognoza facuta in iunie privind evolutia cheltuielilor de publicitate in 2011. Alexandra Olteanu, noul managing director al agentiei, spune pentru HotNews.ro ca Initiative estimeaza acum o scadere de 5-7% fata de 2010, fata de prognoza anterioara de -3%. Alexandra Olteanu a raspuns intrebarilor HotNews.ro despre bugetele clientilor, cine a dat inapoi si cine s-a dovedit mai indraznet, cum se reflecta pe aceasta piata framantarile economice din restul Europei si cum se impart banii de publicitate in online, unde "cifra este clar mai mare" decat anul trecut. Alexandra Olteanu a ocupat, pana recent, pozitia de buying director in cadrul agentiei Initiative. Din septembrie, ea a preluat managementul agentiei, care a anuntat ca "mandatul lui Steve Dallas", fostul director, s-a incheiat. Alexandra Olteanu lucreaza la Initiative din 1995 si a condus departamentul de media buying din 2002. Printre clientii Initiative Romania se numara Orange Romania, Bergenbier, Ferrero, Millennium Bank, Johnson&Johnson, Provident Financial sau BMW. In ultimul raport Media Fact Book, publicat in iunie a.c., Initiative estima o scadere de 3% a cheltuielilor de publicitate in 2011 fata de 2010, pana la 306 milioane de euro. Pentru publicitatea online, Initiative estima o crestere de la 26 de milioane la 34 de milioane de euro. La inceputul lunii octombrie a aparut ultimul studiu IAB-Romania-PwC Romania privind cheltuielile de publicitate online (ce include doar partial publicitatea prin motoare de cautare sau in social media), studiu ce indica, pentru primul semestru, o crestere foarte ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-i-aduce-un-omagiu-artistei-mary-blair/ google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-i-aduce-un-omagiu-artistei-mary-blair Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:05:20 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, vineri, logoul de pe pagina principală pentru a marca împlinirea a 100 de ani de la naşterea artistei Mary Blair, creatoarea principalelor concepte de animaţie marca Walt Disney. Mary Blair s-a născut pe 21 octombrie 1911 şi a devenit celebră pentru arta ei de a combina culorile, care a influenţat întreaga companie Walt Disney. Mary Blair a fost cea care a creat conceptele de platou şi culoare pentru filme de animaţie celebre precum "Alice în Ţara Minunilor", "Peter Pan", "Doamna şi Vagabondul" sau "Cenuşăreasa". După ce a terminat lucrul la "Peter Pan", Mary Blair a renunţat la colaborarea cu Disney, lucrând ca grafician şi ilustrator. Ea a lucrat la afişe publicitare pentru companii precum Nabisco, Pepsodent, Maxwell House şi altele. De asemenea, Mary Blair a ilustrat mai multe cărţi pentru editura Simon &Schuster. La cererea lui Walt Disney, care a remarcat talentul ei de a combina culorile, Mary Blair a revenit în compania acestuia. Google îşi modifică frecvent logoul pentru a omagia personalităţi ale culturii universale sau pentru a marca momente speciale din istoria lumii. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mc-hammer-launching-his-own-search-engine/ mc-hammer-launching-his-own-search-engine Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:01:55 +0300 (CNN) -- You can't Google this. OK, maybe you can. But MC Hammer doesn't want you to. The venerable rapper, who helped usher hip-hop into the pop mainstream in the early '90s, has rolled out a search engine he hopes will outperform Google, Bing and other established tools. The project, called WireDoo, has been two years in the making, said Hammer (real name Stanley Burrell) Wednesday at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. At the conference, he said what will make his search tool better than Google (or, too legit to quit, if you will) will be its "deep search" ability. "It's about relationships beyond just the keywords," he said, according to Mashable, a CNN.com content partner. The rapper-turned-entrepreneur (after some late-90s difficulties) said a search would render not just direct results, but also information on possibly related topics. Its tagline is: "Search once and see what's related." Other details about the product were scarce. WireDoo, which Hammer said he has a team developing, is still in pre-beta. Its website is currently letting people sign up to test the search engine when a beta release is ready. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vodafone-vom-lansa-in-premiera-in-romania-in-urmatoarele-saptamani-galaxy-nexus-telefonul-cu-cea-mai-noua-versiune-android-a-google/ vodafone-vom-lansa-in-premiera-in-romania-in-urmatoarele-saptamani-galaxy-nexus-telefonul-cu-cea-mai-noua-versiune-android-a-google Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:09:26 +0300 Vodafone, al doilea operator de telefonie mobila din tara in functie de numarul de clienti, a anuntat joi ca va lansa, in urmatoarele saptamani, in premiera pe piata locala, noul smartphone produs de Samsung, Galaxy Nexus, pe care ruleaza cea mai noua versiune a sistemului de operare Android de la Google, cunoscuta sub numele Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). Nu au fost oferite detalii legate de pret.Anuntul operatorului din Romania vine la o zi dupa ce Google a prezentat acest telefon inteligent, despre care a zis ca va fi disponibil global incepand cu luna viitoare, la un pret care nu a fost comunicat. Noua versiune a sistemului de operare Android este prima destinata atat tabletelor, cat si telefoanelor inteligente si include o serie de noi functii. Una dintre acestea este Face Unlock, un sistem care deblocheaza telefonul prin recunoasterea faciala a utilizatorului. Galaxy Nexus (si celelalte telefoane care vor folosi Android 4.0) va folosi camera frontala pentru a identifica posesorul telefonului.Citeste mai multe detalii pe StyleReport.ro si Google Galaxy Nexus: ecran HD AMOLED si Android 4.0 http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-colleges-use-misuse-social-media/ how-colleges-use-misuse-social-media Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:03:14 +0300 (CNN) -- It was a joyous day for Lucie Fink when she received her acceptance letter from Johns Hopkins University. Like most prospective students, she wanted to know exactly what she was getting into before she made her decision between schools. The shiny pamphlets were all fine, but Fink really needed to hear more about the school from the students. So she went to the Web to get her answers. There she came across student-produced videos and blog entries, along with posts in a Facebook group for accepted students. "There were all these kids that were so passionate about sharing their experience," Fink said. "It was then that going off to Hopkins became a no-brainer, because I had already fallen in love with the school." Fink, who is now a sophomore, was so impressed by the originality of the student content online that she eventually became a contributor to a student-run social media site, Hopkins Interactive. The site features regularly updated blogs, videos and Twitter feeds, all produced by current students for prospective and admitted students. Daniel Creasy, the associate director of admissions and one of the people behind Hopkins Interactive, believes that it provides an uncensored look at the school. "You definitely take a leap of faith when you put this much control of your message in the students' hands," he said. "But the students feel a sense of pride that they are part of this process." For universities competing to attract top students, it's no longer enough to have a glossy brochure and a sleek website. Schools like Johns Hopkins ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/with-facial-recognition-google-pins-hopes-on-galaxy-nexus/ with-facial-recognition-google-pins-hopes-on-galaxy-nexus Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:03:07 +0300 (CNN) -- Apple gave you FaceTime. Now Google is countering with Face Unlock. Google teamed up with Samsung this week to unveil the Galaxy Nexus, an ambitious smartphone they hope will make a run at the iPhone while serving up Ice Cream Sandwich, a new version of Google's Android mobile operating system. Released Wednesday in the wake of the iPhone 4S's big splash, the Galaxy Nexus is the first phone designed specifically to run Android 4.0. It's scheduled to go on sale in November, although pricing hasn't been announced. In Google fashion, the phone's software has its own tasty-treat nickname. Read: Why does Google name its Android products after desserts? And while Google keeps maintaining that all phone makers get equal access to its Android releases, it's clear that the company has a special place in its heart for the Galaxy Nexus, and possibly even hopes of a flagship phone to challenge the crowd from Cupertino. "Galaxy Nexus isn't just a smartphone -- it's beyond smart," Google Senior Vice President Andy Rubin wrote on the company's blog. "Ice Cream Sandwich gives you complete control over the amount of mobile data you use by helping you better understand and manage it." One of the new system's fanciest features, shown off at an unveiling Wednesday in Hong Kong, is Face Unlock. Thanks to facial recognition software, the feature lets users unlock the phone by showing it their face instead of tapping out a password. (It's worth noting that, in awkward fashion, it took two or three tries to get Face Unlock to work during ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/p-pe-28-29-octombrie-va-avea-loc-cel-mai-mare-eveniment-de-cariera-din-romania/ p-pe-28-29-octombrie-va-avea-loc-cel-mai-mare-eveniment-de-cariera-din-romania Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:07:21 +0300 In cele doua zile ale evenimentului Angajatori de TOP vor participa peste 90 dintre cei mai activi angajatori care recruteaza in domeniile IT, telecom, financiar-bancar, outsourcing, inginerie, marketing si vanzari. Companiile prezente la eveniment isi doresc sa intalneasca atat profesionisti in domeniul lor de activitate, cat si studenti si proaspat absolventi implicati in activitati extracurriculare, care detin cunostinte de limbi straine si demonstreaza motivatie pentru o cariera de succes. In cadrul targului de cariera Angajatori de TOP, vizitatorii au oportunitatea sa interactioneze cu reprezentanti ai companiilor participante, sa aplice CV-ul pentru cele 2 500 de pozitii deschise in cadrul evenimentului, sa participe la 32 de seminare de cariera si 4 conferinte tematice. Angajatori de TOP reprezinta un instrument practic de recrutare iar datorita interactiunii este o metoda cu un grad ridicat de acuratete in decizia de angajare a candidatiilor. Cu cele mai mari planuri de recrutare in aceasta toamna sunt companiile din industriile IT, Telecom, Outsourcing si Retail, iar printre angajatorii prezenti in cele doua zile ale evenimentului, putem mentiona: IT: Adobe, Microsoft, Intel, Bitdefender, Ixia, Dell Services, Google, Infineon Technologies Romania, Electronics Arts, TeamNet Collaborate, Ubisoft Romania, 1&1 Internet Romania, Enea, Optaros, Netop, Temenos. Telecom: Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, Vodafone, Nobel Romania, Huawei Technologies, Luxoft Romania Outsourcing: Accenture, Genpact, Oracle, HP, Stefanini TechTeam, WNS Romania, Competence Call Center, Computer Generated Solutions, TMF Romania Inginerie: Michelin, Siemens, Automobile Bavaria, Autonet, Grup Renault Romania Banking&Insurance: BCR, BRD, Generali Romania, Piraeus Bank, Raiffeisen Bank Consultanta: Ernst&Young, KPMG, Bearing Point FMCG: Coca-Cola HBC Romania, JTI, Kraft Foods Romania, L’Oreal, Nestlé Romania, British American ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-galaxy-nexus-primul-telefon-cu-noul-sistem-de-operare-google-android-40/ video-galaxy-nexus-primul-telefon-cu-noul-sistem-de-operare-google-android-40 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:06:21 +0300 Google a anuntat miercuri cel de-al treilea telefon din seria Nexus, platforma de referinta pentru sistemul de operare Android. Noul smartphone este produs de Samsung, la fel ca si modelul precedent, Nexus S, si foloseste un ecran AMOLED cu rezolutie HD si noul sistem de operare Android 4.0 ”Icecream Sandwich”. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/steve-ballmer-spune-ca-telefoanele-cu-android-sunt-prea-complicate-si-promite-ca-noile-telefoane-cu-windows-vor-fi-la-fel-de-atractive-ca-iphone-ul/ steve-ballmer-spune-ca-telefoanele-cu-android-sunt-prea-complicate-si-promite-ca-noile-telefoane-cu-windows-vor-fi-la-fel-de-atractive-ca-iphone-ul Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:06:19 +0300 Steve Ballmer, temperamentalul sef al Microsoft, a spus la summit-ul Web 2.0 din California ca telefoanele cu Android sunt complicate si trebuie sa fii "expert in computere" pentru a le utiliza, spre deosebire de smartphone-urile cu Windows care sunt simple, noteaza The Register. In stilu-i bombastic si plin de optimism a promis ca noile telefoane cu Windows vor fi comparabile cu iPhone-ul ca design si atractivitate.Rugat sa faca o comparatie intre telefoanele cu Android si cele cu Windows, Ballmer s-a referit la usurinta de utilizare, criticand, asa cum era de asteptat, telefoanele cu sistemul Google. "Cel mai mare avantaj pe care-l avem fata de Android este ca nu trebuie sa fii expert in computere pentru a folosi un telefon cu Windows", spune Ballmer. "Totusi, cele mai ieftine telefoane vor fi cu Android si va trebui sa reducem si noi costul terminalelor", adauga el.Seful companiei din Redmond a avut insa cuvinte de lauda pentru Apple, mai ales legat de aplicatia de comenzi vocale Siri lansata cu noul iPhone. "Apple e un competitor bun, insa unul diferit".Ballmer se arata optimist si in ceea ce priveste concurenta cu Apple si promite ca noile telefoane cu Windows Phone vor fi la fel de atractive la capitolul deisgn ca si orice telefon cu care va veni Apple.Android are peste 40% din piata smartphone-urilor, iar Microsoft nu are nici 10% cu Windows Phone, insa parteneriatul cu Nokia poate ajuta Microsoft sa treaca de 15-20%. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-pins-hopes-on-galaxy-nexus/ google-pins-hopes-on-galaxy-nexus Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:02:15 +0300 (CNN) -- Apple gave you FaceTime. Now Google is countering with Face Unlock. Google teamed up with Samsung this week to unveil the Galaxy Nexus, an ambitious smartphone they hope will make a run at the iPhone while serving up Ice Cream Sandwich, a new version of Google's Android mobile operating system. Released Wednesday in the wake of the iPhone 4S's big splash, the Galaxy Nexus is the first phone designed specifically to run Android 4.0. It's scheduled to go on sale in November, although pricing hasn't been announced. In Google fashion, the phone's software has its own tasty-treat nickname. Read: Why does Google name its Android products after desserts? And while Google keeps maintaining that all phone makers get equal access to its Android releases, it's clear that the company has a special place in its heart for the Galaxy Nexus, and possibly even hopes of a flagship phone to challenge the crowd from Cupertino. "Galaxy Nexus isn't just a smartphone -- it's beyond smart," Google Senior Vice President Andy Rubin wrote on the company's blog. "Ice Cream Sandwich gives you complete control over the amount of mobile data you use by helping you better understand and manage it." One of the new system's fanciest features, shown off at an unveiling Wednesday in Hong Kong, is Face Unlock. Thanks to facial recognition software, the feature lets users unlock the phone by showing it their face instead of tapping out a password. (It's worth noting that, in awkward fashion, it took two or three tries to get Face Unlock to work during ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ministrul-britanic-de-externe-william-hague-nimeni-nu-controleaza-internetul-dar-nici-nu-ii-putem-lasa-viitorul-in-voia-sortii/ ministrul-britanic-de-externe-william-hague-nimeni-nu-controleaza-internetul-dar-nici-nu-ii-putem-lasa-viitorul-in-voia-sortii Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:06:57 +0300 Dezvoltarea spectaculoasa a spatiului cibernetic transforma lumea in care traim si ne schimba radical viata de zi cu zi. In curand aceasta ar putea deveni o provocare internationala care sa necesite o reactie globala coordonata. Insa, pana acum, dezbaterea in aceasta directie a fost mai degraba fragmentata si diluata. Noi, in Marea Britanie, consideram ca este nevoie de o schimbare. Ne trebuie urgent un consens global. Ma refer la un efort colectiv, care sa ii implice pe toti actorii spatiului cibernetic. De aceea, am invitat la Conferinta Cyber-spatiu, care se va desfasura la Londra, in perioada 1-2 noiembrie, nu numai oficiali din guverne, ci si reprezentanti ai societatii civile si ai mediului de afaceri. Nici un guvern sau tara nu are solutia. Trebuie sa decidem impreuna cum sa mentinem beneficiile economice si sociale ale internetului si cum sa ne protejam impotriva infractiunilor si amenintarilor din mediul virtual, fara a sufoca insa inovatia.Accesul la internet a crescut intr-un ritm incredibil: de la 16 milioane de utilizatori in 1995 la aproape 2 miliarde astazi. Aceasta dezvoltare rapida a retelei www a creat oportunitati economice si sociale uriase pe care nu le-am fi putut anticipa acum mai putin de doua decenii.Expansiunea acestei retele globale este in interesul nostru, al tuturor: fiecarei cresteri de 10% a accesului la broadband ii corespunde o majorare a PIB-ului mondial in medie cu 1,3%. Astfel, pe langa incurajarea concurentei si a eficientei, internetul deschide si noi piete.Industria web a devenit deja o parte esentiala a economiei noastre. In Marea Britanie, ea  valoreaza 100 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/forum-zf-digital-directorul-google-romania-o-prezenta-mai-buna-pe-net-poate-impulsiona-cresterea-veniturilor-unei-companii/ forum-zf-digital-directorul-google-romania-o-prezenta-mai-buna-pe-net-poate-impulsiona-cresterea-veniturilor-unei-companii Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:06:19 +0300 Firmele româneşti trebuie să îşi sporească foarte mult prezenţa pe Internet, demers care le va permite, cu investiţii minime, accesul la un număr foarte mare de potenţiali clienţi şi implicit venituri mai mari, a declarat marţi directorul general al Google România, Dan Bulucea. "Spre exemplu, o firmă manufacturieră din Liban, care se ocupă cu pictarea plăcilor de marmură, a înregistrat o evoluţie fulminantă a cererii, respectiv a veniturilor pe piaţa din Statele Unite cu ajutorul unei pagini web bine pus la punct, fără să investească deloc în reclamă. Un alt exemplu îl constituie o firmă din Israel care produce filtre de apă. Cu ajutorul unui site disponibil în mai multe limbi, şi-au extins puternic afacerile în afara Israelului, care este o piaţă mică", a spus Bulucea, prezent la forumul ZF Digital '11. El a mai spus că vinurile româneşti au mare căutare în Statele Unite, informaţie susţinută de numărul mare de căutări în acest sens. "Informaţia este foarte utilă şi producătorii de vin locali ar trebui să îşi extindă prezenţa pe web cu ajutorul unui site bine pus la punct, disponibil în mai multe limbi, care să ofere informaţiile necesare unui posibil client sau partener de afaceri", a mai spus şeful Google România. Google, proprietarul celui mai popular motor de căutare pe internet, are sediul central în Silicon Valley şi birouri în America de Nord, America de Sud, Europa şi Asia. În România, Google a deschis un birou la Bucureşti la 1 noiembrie 2010. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/care-sunt-cele-mai-cautate-sintagme-pe-google-romania-plus-cata-informatie-incape-intr-o-zi-pe-internet/ care-sunt-cele-mai-cautate-sintagme-pe-google-romania-plus-cata-informatie-incape-intr-o-zi-pe-internet Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:05:16 +0300 "Cadouri de Crăciun", "vacanţa la schi" şi "cauciucuri de iarnă" sunt cele mai căutate sintagme pe Google, în această perioadă, a declarat Dan Bulucea, CEO Google, în cadrul conferinţei ZF Digital 11. "Încă din octombrie se observă o creştere a acestor căutări", a precizat CEO-ul. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-anchetat-de-fiscul-american-pentru-transferarea-profitului-in-paradisuri-fiscale/ google-anchetat-de-fiscul-american-pentru-transferarea-profitului-in-paradisuri-fiscale Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:04:35 +0300 Gigantul software Google este auditat de Internal Revenue Service (IRS), echivalentul american al Fiscului, pentru că ar fi evitat plata unor impozite pe venit prin transferarea profitului către filialele sale din străinătate, potrivit unor surse citate de Bloomberg. Astfel, Google a reuşit să-şi reducă taxele cu circa un miliard de dolari. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/porn-hackers-hit-39sesame-street39-youtube-page/ porn-hackers-hit-39sesame-street39-youtube-page Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:02:03 +0300 (CNN) -- "Sesame Street's" YouTube channel was back online and spreading wholesome, child-friendly messages Monday, a day after hackers appeared to have reprogrammed the venerable children's show pages with porn. The show's channel was taken offline Sunday afternoon, and visitors were greeted with a message from the video website informing them it had been shut down "due to repeated or severe violations of our community guidelines." Users who accessed the account earlier had found explicit sex videos instead of Muppets. "We apologize for any inconvenience our audience may have experienced yesterday on our Sesame Street YouTube channel," read a message on the channel's home page, which appeared to have been restored around 11 a.m. ET. "Our channel was temporarily compromised, but we have since restored our original line-up of the best classic Sesame Street video clips featuring Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, and the rest of the fuzzy, feathered, and googly-eyed friends you remember from childhood." YouTube, which routinely declines to comment on individual user accounts, issued a brief statement Sunday noting that the Google-owned video site prohibits graphic content and removes inappropriate posts as soon as they become aware of them. A spokeswoman referred to the same statement on Monday. A message posted on the page before the content was removed claimed responsibility in the names of two YouTube users, one of whom denied involvement in a statement on his own page. "I did not hack Sesame Street. I am an honest YouTuber," the user, identified as "MrEdxwx," posted on his account. "I work hard to make ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/primul-serviciu-de-socializare-google-se-inchide/ primul-serviciu-de-socializare-google-se-inchide Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:03:37 +0300 Google se pregăteşte să renunţe, în următoarele săptămâni, la serviciul său de socializare Google Buzz, lansat în februarie 2010, potrivit unei postări pe blogul companiei, informează USA Today, potrivit Mediafax. Google Buzz a fost construit în jurul serviciului de e-mail Gmail, predefinind pentru fiecare utilizator o listă de prieteni bazată pe cele mai frecvent folosite adrese de e-mail şi permiţându-le să partajeze informaţii şi conţinuturi multimedia cu aceştia. Google a intrat astfel în sectorul platformelor de socializare, dominat de Facebook, însă serviciul Buzz a devenit rapid o sursă de enervare şi a fost abandonat de utilizatori. În 2010, imaginea serviciului a fost afectată de semnalarea unor probleme de securitate şi grupul Google a fost nevoit să încheie amiabil un proces în această privinţă plătind 8,5 milioane de dolari, un preţ destul de mic în comparaţie cu ceea ce părea a fi, la momentul respectiv, o revoltă a utilizatorilor. Google se concentrează în prezent pe noua sa reţea de socializare Google+, lansat în urmă cu trei luni şi jumătate şi care se bucură deja de 40 de milioane de utilizatori. Larry Page, CEO Googgle, este încrezător că acest serviciu va fi o armă eficientă împotriva succesului Facebook, care are 800 de milioane de utilizatori. "Schimbarea lumii se concentrează pe viitor şi se bazează pe sinceritate în legătură cu trecutul", a scris Bradley Horowitz, unul din vicepreşedinţii Google, vineri, pe blogul companiei. "Am învăţat multe de la produse ca Buzz şi folosim aceste învăţături în fiecare zi, în viziunea noastră asupra unor produse ca Google+", a mai notat el. Buzz ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-te-poti-angaja-la-google-topul-celor-mai-mari-salarii-la-gigantul-motor-de-cautare/ cum-te-poti-angaja-la-google-topul-celor-mai-mari-salarii-la-gigantul-motor-de-cautare Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:03:17 +0300 "Câte mingi de golf au loc într-un autobuz ce transportă şcolari? Cât ar trebui să ceri pentru a spăla toate ferestrele din Seatle? De câte ori se suprapun acele unui ceas, pe timpul unei zile?". Sunt doar câteva exemple de întrebări ciudate la care sunt puşi să răspundă cei care vor să se angajeze la Google. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/blackberry-fans-rim-is-39chipping-away-our-faith39/ blackberry-fans-rim-is-39chipping-away-our-faith39 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:01:15 +0300 (CNN) -- The love affair between BlackBerry devotees and their mobile communicators is becoming strained, and some of them made the quarrel very public this week after a service outage. Fans often discuss the intimate details about why they are attached at the hip to smartphones made by Research in Motion -- the clack-clack of the tiny keys, the feel of the trackball or square pad on their thumbs, the informative indicator light calling out for attention. They affectionately call it the "CrackBerry." After the recent outage, which RIM says was caused by a server error, some longtime BlackBerry users are writing goodbye letters on blogs, and on message boards operated and frequented by the CrackBerry collective. Richie, a British member of a Web forum called CrackBerry, summed up the concerns, saying RIM has been "chipping away our faith" in the company's ability to satisfy customers. In interviews with reporters, RIM executives issued apologies, which they also made public in a recorded video, but they avoided questions about whether they planned to offer incentives as compensation for the millions of customers affected by the outage. RIM did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter. By comparison, after Sony restored its network this summer following a lengthy outage, the company compensated users of its subscription service, and gave free games and movie rentals to all users. Netflix has offered small discounts to customers affected by technical troubles. Despite RIM's lack of public comment, an AT&T customer in Cleveland wrote on the CrackBerry message boards that he received a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rezultatele-google-au-zdrobit-estimarile-analistilor-venituri-in-crestere-cu-34-si-profit-mai-mare-cu-28/ rezultatele-google-au-zdrobit-estimarile-analistilor-venituri-in-crestere-cu-34-si-profit-mai-mare-cu-28 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:04:34 +0300 Profitul net al Google a crescut cu 28% în trimestrul al treilea, la 2,7 miliarde dolari, iar veniturile au urcat cu 34%, la 9,7 miliarde dolari, rezultatele companiei zdrobind estimările analiştilor datorită vânzărilor solide de publicitate şi unui bun control al costurilor. Acţiunile companiei au crescut cu 6% după publicarea raportului financiar, transmite Reuters. Google a înregistrat, în aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut, venituri de 7,2 miliarde de dolari şi un profit net de 2,1 miliarde de dolari. În primele nouă luni, veniturile totale ale companiei au urcat cu 31%, de la 20,8 miliarde de dolari la 27,3 miliarde de dolari, iar profitul net a avansat cu 18%, de la 5,9 miliarde de dolari la 7 miliarde de dolari, potrivit unui comunicat al Google. Astfel, profitul din trimestrul al treilea este echivalent cu 9,72 dolari pe acţiune, faţă de media estimărilor analiştilor contactaţi de Reuters, de 8,74 dolari pe acţiune. Compania, lider autoritar pe piaţa căutărilor şi publicităţii pe internet, a beneficiat de creşterea pieţei advertising-ului online şi de investiţiile mai mari în cercetare. Anterior publicării rezultatelor, aşteptările privind creşterea industriei publicităţii online erau pesimiste, din cauza perspectivelor economice negative, în special în Europa. Însă veniturile din trimestrul al treilea şi performanţele în general ale Google îndeamnă la optimism pentru trimestrul al patrulea, consideră analiştii. "Continuă să ne arate că nu sunt imuni la piaţă, dar vor avea performanţe mai bune decât jucătorii tradiţionali", comentează analistul Macquarie Ben Schachter. Cererea solidă pentru servicii de publicitate pe pieţele emergente, în principal Asia, şi evoluţia solidă a afacerilor pe segmentul mobil şi al display ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/for-blackberry-addicts-rim-is-39chipping-away-our-faith39/ for-blackberry-addicts-rim-is-39chipping-away-our-faith39 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:03:11 +0300 (CNN) -- The love affair between BlackBerry devotees and their mobile communicators is becoming strained, and some of them made the quarrel very public this week after a service outage. Fans often discuss the intimate details about why they are attached at the hip to smartphones made by Research in Motion -- the clack-clack of the tiny keys, the feel of the trackball or square pad on their thumbs, the informative indicator light calling out for attention. They affectionately call it the "CrackBerry." After the recent outage, which RIM says was caused by a server error, some longtime BlackBerry users are writing goodbye letters on blogs, and on message boards operated and frequented by the CrackBerry collective. Richie, a British member of a Web forum called CrackBerry, summed up the concerns, saying RIM has been "chipping away our faith" in the company's ability to satisfy customers. In interviews with reporters, RIM executives issued apologies, which they also made public in a recorded video, but they avoided questions about whether they planned to offer incentives as compensation for the millions of customers affected by the outage. RIM did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter. By comparison, after Sony restored its network this summer following a lengthy outage, the company compensated users of its subscription service, and gave free games and movie rentals to all users. Netflix has offered small discounts to customers affected by technical troubles. Despite RIM's lack of public comment, an AT&T customer in Cleveland wrote on the CrackBerry message boards that he received a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-android-iphone-won39t-crash-like-rim/ why-android-iphone-won39t-crash-like-rim Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:02:32 +0300 (CNN) -- Here's a little secret BlackBerry doesn't want you to know: It would be technically impossible for all Android phones or iPhones to experience a global four-day outage like the one BlackBerry saw this week, according to mobile communications experts. Why? The answer is in the technical details of how Research in Motion -- the company that makes BlackBerry smartphones, with their click-clacking keyboards and tie-wearing owners -- handles e-mails and text messages. Here's the gist: RIM acts as a middleman for all e-mail and BlackBerry text messages. It picks up messages from the wireless carrier and passes them on to the recipient. Androids and iPhones don't have a middleman for texts and e-mail. It's this BlackBerry baton-passing system that went down Monday, killing or slowing e-mail and texting services for millions of people in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The ordeal lasted four days. "It's because of the way RIM has set up the (network) architecture that is the downfall when it comes to these types of outages," said Sean Armstrong, who manages wireless communications at a large tech company. "When it's working fine, it's a great system. When it's not working fine, it's a failure." This week, it's fair to say the system was a big ol' failure. On social media sites, some BlackBerry users said they were so upset about the outage -- the largest in the company's history -- that they were switching to Apple iOS and Google Android devices. And customer satisfaction with BlackBerry already was low. "Add up every other ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/un-angajat-google-despre-google-plus-este-o-reactie-tardiva-si-jalnica-la-facebook-ce-spune-despre-steve-jobs-video/ un-angajat-google-despre-google-plus-este-o-reactie-tardiva-si-jalnica-la-facebook-ce-spune-despre-steve-jobs-video Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:04:24 +0300 În ultimele zile, traficul pe Google Plus a scăzut cu 60%, însă cel mai dureros este că noua reţea de socializare este atacată chiar de angajaţii companiei, scrie Huffington Post. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-android-and-iphone-won39t-go-down-like-blackberry/ why-android-and-iphone-won39t-go-down-like-blackberry Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:03:07 +0300 (CNN) -- Here's a little secret BlackBerry doesn't want you to know: It would be technically impossible for all Android phones or iPhones to experience a global four-day outage like the one BlackBerry saw this week, according to mobile communications experts. Why? The answer is in the technical details of how Research in Motion -- the company that makes BlackBerry smartphones, with their click-clacking keyboards and tie-wearing owners -- handles e-mails and text messages. Here's the gist: RIM acts as a middleman for all e-mail and BlackBerry text messages. It picks up messages from the wireless carrier and passes them on to the recipient. Androids and iPhones don't have a middleman for texts and e-mail. It's this BlackBerry baton-passing system that went down Monday, killing or slowing e-mail and texting services for millions of people in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The ordeal lasted four days. "It's because of the way RIM has set up the (network) architecture that is the downfall when it comes to these types of outages," said Sean Armstrong, who manages wireless communications at a large tech company. "When it's working fine, it's a great system. When it's not working fine, it's a failure." This week, it's fair to say the system was a big ol' failure. On social media sites, some BlackBerry users said they were so upset about the outage -- the largest in the company's history -- that they were switching to Apple iOS and Google Android devices. And customer satisfaction with BlackBerry already was low. "Add up every other ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-tech-companies-have-army-linked-39cybermilitias39/ china-tech-companies-have-army-linked-39cybermilitias39 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:02:15 +0300 (Financial Times) -- Nanhao Group is, in many ways, an ordinary technology company. Its staff make online scoring systems, exam-mark scanners and other educational hardware and software. But many of its 500 employees in Hengshui, just south-west of Beijing, have a second job. Since 2005 Nanhao has been home to a cybermilitia unit organised by the People's Liberation Army. "All staff under the age of 30 belong to the unit," said Bai Guoliang, Nanhao vice-president. It is unclear what exactly the unit does, but according to a local government announcement when it was set up, it consisted of two groups tasked with cyberattack and cyberdefence. The Nanhao operation is one of thousands set up by the Chinese military over the past decade in technology companies and universities around the country. These units form the backbone of the country's internet warfare forces, increasingly seen as a serious threat at a time of escalating global cybertensions. Governments, companies and internet security experts around the world have blamed China for many of the past year's global hacking attacks. US officials point to the Chinese government or its supporters for the theft of neutron bomb designs, the defence secretary's emails and private sector intellectual property worth many billions of dollars. Western cybersecurity analysts look to matching patterns between malware which played a role in intrusions and codes discussed on Chinese hacker forums as evidence of Chinese involvement. US investigators say attacks on Google and other American companies originated from computers at Lanxiang, a vocational school in the Chinese province of Shandong, and Jiaotong University ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/puterea-lobby-ului/ puterea-lobby-ului Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:07:52 +0300 „Există două tipuri de lobby“, ne-a explicat profesorul de ştiinţe politice de la Universitatea din Liverpool: „avem marile mişcări populare care implică sute de mii de oameni, cum ar fi Campania pentru Dezarmare Nucleară. Acestea fac o grămadă de zgomot şi sunt prezentate în presă, însă rar dau rezultate. Celălalt tip de lobby are loc în spatele uşilor închise, în camere înecate în fum de ţigară, şi este practicat de marile grupuri de afaceri care au la dispoziţie fonduri nelimitate, răbdare şi timp.“ George Monbiot scrie foarte interesant în paginile ziarului Guardian despre efectele nocive cauzate de marile grupuri corporatiste de lobby. Iar de curând, în publicaţia TIME, a apărut un articol (“Is Obama Bad for the Environment?”) care descrie cum Obama ia decizii în favoarea marilor companii petroliere, deşi americanii l-au ales pe o platformă pro mediu. Oriunde există putere politică, există şi ambele tipuri de lobby descrise mai sus, încercând să influenţeze luarea deciziilor într-un fel sau altul. Unul dintre testele cheie al democraţiei este cât de bine pot guvernele să monitorizeze şi să controleze aceste campanii de lobby (majoritatea eşuează lamentabil). Singura ţară despre care ştiu eu că se descurcă cât de cât în acest sens este Suedia, unde toate comunicările cu oficialii aleşi sunt disponibile online. Cred că nu mai e nevoie să adaug că în România lucrurile nu stau la fel de bine. Am observat însă în ultimii ani o creştere tot mai mare a petiţiilor online în România. Iar de curând Hotnews a publicat un articol care punea o ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/allview-a-lansat-primul-sau-telefon-cu-android-un-model-dual-sim-care-costa-circa-650-lei/ allview-a-lansat-primul-sau-telefon-cu-android-un-model-dual-sim-care-costa-circa-650-lei Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:07:06 +0300 Brasovenii de la Allview au lansat primul smartphone cu Android din gama, modelul dual SIM P1 AllDro care dispune de camera foto de 5 MP, filmeaza 720X480, ruleaza Android 2.2 are ecran de 3,5 inch si costa 649 lei. Saptamana trecuta Allview a intrat pe piata laptop-urilor, iar in august a lansat cea mai noua generatie a tabletei Alldro.P1 AllDro are dimensiunile de 114 x 62 x 12.9 mm si este prevazut cu o baterie de 1.500 mAh care asigura un timp de convorbire de 300 minute in timp ce in standby poate ajunge pana la 200 ore. Dispozitivul cantareste 119 grame.Telefonul are conectivitate Wi-Fi, GPRS si EDGE pe ambele SIM-uri si dispune de ecran multitouch capacitiv, Telefonul ruleaza Android 2.2. Functia de navigare este disponibila prin sistemul GPS integrat si prin aplicatia Google Maps. Suportul multimedia include o camera foto de 5 MP cu auto-focus si flash. Camera inregistreaza video la 30 fps in definitie de 720x480 pxFotografiile, aplicatiile si oricare alte fisiere pot fi si inregistrate in memoria extinsa de pana la 32GB de care dispune P1 AllDro. Visual Fan si-a inceput activitatea acum noua ani iar in prezent vinde televizoare, sisteme GPS si telefoane dual SIM care pot functiona simultan cu doua cartele din retele diferite. Compania isi vinde produsele sub brandul Allview, la final de 2010 a lansat AllDro, prima tableta, iar in august a lansat o noua generatie a dispozitivului care costa de la circa 750 lei.Conform datelor de pe Ministerul Finantelor, Visual Fan avea 30 de angajati si a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-i-aduce-un-omagiu-lui-art-clokey/ google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-i-aduce-un-omagiu-lui-art-clokey Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:06:18 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, miercuri, logoul de pe pagina principală pentru a marca împlinirea a 90 de ani de la naşterea lui Art Clokey, cel care a dat viaţă mai multor personaje animate create din argilă şi lut. Noul logo al Google este alcătuit dintr-un cub de lemn pe care este inscripţionată litera "G", alături de care stau cinci bile colorate din plastilină, care, la atingerea cursorului, iau forma unora dintre personajele de lut create de Art Clokey. Art Clokey s-a născut la 12 octombrie 1921, la Detroit, numele său adevărat fiind Arthur C. Farrington. La vârsta de 12 ani, a fost adoptat de Iosif Clokey, care şi-a pus amprenta asupra talentului lui Art. Pasiunea pentru geologie, istorie şi săpături arheologice l-a făcut pe Art Clokey să creeze, în 1955, "Gumbasia", primul său film, care era o parodie după lungmetrajul "Fantasia", realizat de Disney. Pornind de la ideea acestui film, în care diferite forme făcute din argilă prind viaţă, Clokey a creat personajul Gumby, care s-a bucurat de un mare succes în Statele Unite ale Americii şi în întreaga lume. Art Clokey a decedat pe 8 ianuarie 2010. Google îşi modifică frecvent logourile pentru a omagia diferite personalităţi ale culturii universale sau pentru a marca evenimente speciale din întreaga lume. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/blackberry-outage-blamed-on-39extremely-critical39-network-failure/ blackberry-outage-blamed-on-39extremely-critical39-network-failure Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:02:55 +0300 (CNN) -- Millions of BlackBerry users remained without service on Wednesday as a three-day network outage spread to North America, causing massive frustrations for people who rely on these smartphones for business and personal communications. "BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays this morning," Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry smartphones, said in a statement. "We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we apologize to our customers for any inconvenience. We will provide a further update as soon as more information is available." The outage now impacts people on nearly every continent, according to the company's statements. An "extremely critical issue" on the BlackBerry network caused the outage, Stephen Bates, RIM's managing director in the U.K., told CNN's Richard Quest. He added: "We're putting all of our focus with all of our engineers and all of our network specialists on trying to understand the nature of why this backup system didn't work as it should have ..." The service outage started on Monday with customers in the Middle East, Europe and Africa, before spreading to South America and Asia on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning it appeared to hit the United States and Canada. The outage appears primarily to affect text messaging and Internet access from the mobile phones, not necessarily their ability to place calls. No customer e-mails have been completely lost, and they will be delivered eventually, RIM said in a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, according to CNNMoney's Julianne Pepitone. CNNMoney: RIM can't win In a statement released Tuesday, the company ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/millions-lose-blackberry-service-again/ millions-lose-blackberry-service-again Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:01:57 +0300 (CNN) -- Millions of BlackBerry users remained without service on Wednesday as a three-day network outage spread to North America, causing massive frustrations for people who rely on these smartphones for business and personal communications. "BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays this morning," Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry smartphones, said in a statement. "We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we apologize to our customers for any inconvenience. We will provide a further update as soon as more information is available." The outage now impacts people on nearly every continent, according to the company's statements. An "extremely critical issue" on the BlackBerry network caused the outage, Stephen Bates, RIM's managing director in the U.K., told CNN's Richard Quest. He added: "We're putting all of our focus with all of our engineers and all of our network specialists on trying to understand the nature of why this backup system didn't work as it should have ..." The service outage started on Monday with customers in the Middle East, Europe and Africa, before spreading to South America and Asia on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning it appeared to hit the United States and Canada. The outage appears primarily to affect text messaging and Internet access from the mobile phones, not necessarily their ability to place calls. No customer e-mails have been completely lost, and they will be delivered eventually, RIM said in a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, according to CNNMoney's Julianne Pepitone. CNNMoney: RIM can't win In a statement released Tuesday, the company ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/blackberry-outage-spreads-to-north-america/ blackberry-outage-spreads-to-north-america Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:01:43 +0300 (CNN) -- Millions of BlackBerry users remained without service on Wednesday as a three-day network outage spread to North America, causing massive frustrations for people who rely on these smartphones for business and personal communications. "BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays this morning," Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry smartphones, said in a statement. "We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we apologize to our customers for any inconvenience. We will provide a further update as soon as more information is available." The outage now impacts people on nearly every continent, according to the company's statements. An "extremely critical issue" on the BlackBerry network caused the outage, Stephen Bates, RIM's managing director in the U.K., told CNN's Richard Quest. He added: "We're putting all of our focus with all of our engineers and all of our network specialists on trying to understand the nature of why this backup system didn't work as it should have ..." The service outage started on Monday with customers in the Middle East, Europe and Africa, before spreading to South America and Asia on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning it appeared to hit the United States and Canada. The outage appears primarily to affect text messaging and Internet access from the mobile phones, not necessarily their ability to place calls. No customer e-mails have been completely lost, and they will be delivered eventually, RIM said in a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, according to CNNMoney's Julianne Pepitone. CNNMoney: RIM can't win In a statement released Tuesday, the company ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/traficul-google-a-scazut-cu-60-in-ultimele-saptamani/ traficul-google-a-scazut-cu-60-in-ultimele-saptamani Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:04:43 +0300 Reţeaua de socializare creată de Google nu reuşeşte să atragă prea mulţi utilizatori. Lansată pe 28 iunie, Google+ a permis la început accesul doar pe bază de invitaţie. Pe 20 septembrie, compania a permis înscrierea la liber, iar în acea zi traficul pe site a crescut cu 1.200%. La sfârşitul lunii august, Google+ reuşise să strângă 25 de milioane de utilizatori. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/new-satellite-imagery-shows-iranian-nuclear-sites-watchdog-group-says/ new-satellite-imagery-shows-iranian-nuclear-sites-watchdog-group-says Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:01:40 +0300 (CNN) -- New imagery of Iranian nuclear sites has been posted on Google Earth in recent months, and minor changes have been spotted, according to a group focused on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and related technology. The Institute for Science and International Security said Tuesday that the site posted updated commercial satellite imagery of Iran, and it links to the images. Iran has a controversial nuclear program. Many world powers say it aspires to build nuclear weapons, but the country says it is developing nuclear power for peaceful purposes. The U.N. Security Council has imposed sanctions on Iran in an effort to curb its nuclear program. ISIS says images of the Arak heavy water reactor and heavy water production facility from June 2010 appeared on Google Earth. "Compared with earlier imagery from November 2009, also available on Google Earth, there do not appear to be major external changes at either reactor site or the heavy water production facility," ISIS said. However, it said, "construction continues inside the buildings" and "assorted activity at heavily guarded sites along the mountainside to the Arak site" continues. Google Earth in July posted images of the Gchine mine and mill from November 2010. "There do not appear to be any new ponds under construction," ISIS said. But it says the "waste tailings level can be seen changing." In August, Google Earth added images of the Ardakan yellowcake production plant from March. "The facility is being constructed very slowly, with few buildings added each year. Comparing the imagery to a picture from October 2009, a few more buildings ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/web-savvy-africans-fuel-growth-in-online-shopping/ web-savvy-africans-fuel-growth-in-online-shopping Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:02:22 +0300 (CNN) -- Armed with her mobile phone, Temiloluwa Akinremi embarks on her daily online routine, scouring the internet to keep up-to-date with what's happening in her city of Lagos, Nigeria. But these days, along with her daily dose of news and e-mail, Akinremi's web expedition also involves one of her favorite pastimes: shopping. "I go online every day," says Akinremi, a 26-year-old store manager, "to check for something, to just see if I can get whatever I want to buy. Online shopping saves you time and money because it is cheaper and fast," she adds. Akinremi is among a growing generation of young, internet-savvy Africans who have embraced new technology, driving efforts in the continent to bridge the gap between the virtual and real worlds. According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), internet-user penetration in sub-Saharan Africa has grown from 0.5% in 2000 to 10.6% last year. Although the figure is still far behind the world average of about 30%, an increasing number of Africans are becoming more familiar with online shopping. Both the proliferation of mobile phones and the rollout of faster internet networks -- like the fiber-optic cables launched in areas such as east Africa -- have helped the expansion of e-commerce activities in countries such as Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. In South Africa, 51% of those with access to the internet are shopping online, according to a 2011 MasterCard Worldwide survey. In Kenya, a recent survey by TNS Research International and the Kenya ICT Board found that 18% and 24% of the 1,700 respondents go online to purchase ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/afghans-google-put-towns-on-map/ afghans-google-put-towns-on-map Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:02:08 +0300 (CNN) -- Before this week, Hasen Poreya's hometown was pretty much off the map. But Poreya worked with a group of volunteers who call themselves the Afghan Map Makers to walk the streets of Herat, Afghanistan, over the course of several weeks, pen and pencil in hand, to fill in the details. The group uploaded the data they collected to a Google program called Map Maker, and now the maps are freely available online. An area of western Afghanistan that, according to the Web, contained only two major highways is now digitally dotted with side streets, parks and universities. "Afghanistan has passed decades of war and misery, but now is the time to rise up and construct the country and develop the abilities for making infrastructure, bringing technologies, being up to date," Poreya wrote in an e-mail. He added: "Afghanistan totally doesn't not have any base map on the Internet, except old satellite imagery with a very low quality. Since we started our works we could finish Herat City, which is one of major cities in Afghanistan, and now Herat has a complete base map over the Internet." Google announced Thursday that the efforts of volunteers like Poreya have led to several previously uncharted countries and territories being mapped online. They are: Afghanistan, Antarctica, Ecuador, Georgia, Guatemala, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Honduras, Iraq, Norfolk Island, Saint Pierre & Miquelon and Saudi Arabia. Google describes its "Map Maker" project this way: "These citizen cartographers help keep maps of their areas accurate and up to date. They add missing roads and new businesses ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/our-future-empty-pockets-except-for-our-phones/ our-future-empty-pockets-except-for-our-phones Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:02:00 +0300 Editor's note: This is part of "Our Mobile Society," CNN's weeklong series examining how cell phones and other electronic devices have revolutionized the ways we work, play and communicate. (CNN) -- Here's a Googley vision for the future: "We definitely hope one day you can walk out of the house with your phone in your hand -- and nothing else," said Marc Freed-Finnegan, the company's product manager for Google Wallet. It aims to digitize everything in your pockets in coming years by collapsing all that paper, plastic and metal into one device: the smartphone. The idea of using the mobile phone as a credit card, driver's license, transit pass, digital coupon collector, house key, hotel key, corporate ID and more probably sounds pretty sci-fi-futurey. But it's almost practical when you consider the history of the smartphone. Since the Apple iPhone debuted in 2007 (it's considered by most tech analysts to be the first true smartphone, running apps and functioning as a pocket computer), technologists have been cramming ever more functionality into these Swiss Army Knife-like gadgets. Our phones have replaced many other once-common tools, from GPS devices (remember those?) to handheld gaming consoles, point-and-shoot cameras, calendars, notebooks, newspapers and portable music players. Now they're conquering new territory, most notably the wallet. From there, who knows? Analysts expect phones to get so smart that they could delay your alarm clock if an airline delays your morning flight. Apple's new "humble personal assistant," named Siri, is a step in that direction. And technologists are working on phone prototypes that could be built into clothing, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/subiectele-zilei-catastrofa-de-contract-dintre-sindicat-si-nokia-muncitorii-se-aleg-cu-praful-de-pe-toba-care-sunt-cei-mai-bine-platiti-medici-din-romania-povestea-filantropului-pazvante-din-tecuci-golanul-pocait/ subiectele-zilei-catastrofa-de-contract-dintre-sindicat-si-nokia-muncitorii-se-aleg-cu-praful-de-pe-toba-care-sunt-cei-mai-bine-platiti-medici-din-romania-povestea-filantropului-pazvante-din-tecuci-golanul-pocait Sun, 9 Oct 2011 00:05:42 +0300 Dezvaluire socanta: Catastrofa de contract dintre sindicat si Nokia. Muncitorii se aleg cu praful de pe toba. Contractul colectiv de munca incheiat intre sindicatele muncitorilor de la fabrica din Jucu si Nokia Romania nu prevede acordarea salariilor compensatorii! In schimb, contractual colectiv de munca prevede favoruri pentru liderii de sindicat, iar pentru muncitori niciun cuvant. In plus, sustin oficialii din cadrul agentiilor guvernamentale care se ocupa de protectia muncii, Nokia Romania a notificat, la inceputul acestui an, ITM Cluj ca nu se va afilia contractului pe ramura la nivel national, pentru servicii si electronice, care prevad acordarea de salarii compensatorii pentru muncitori. Contractul a fost inregistrat la ITM Cluj in data de 1 februarie 2011. Asadar, daca vrea, Nokia nu da niciun leu salarii compensatorii, scrie EVZ. Cum se fac in Romania miliarde de euro din afaceri cu medicamente. Producatorii internationali de medicamente vor sa plateasca noua taxa impusa de Casa Nationala de Asigurari de Sanatate, dar nu la nivelul impus de Guvern, care ar aduce pierderi de circa 200 de milioane de euro industriei de profil. "Noi suntem foarte de acord cu aceasta taxa de clawback. Am pus bani deoparte pentru a plati aceasta taxa. Dar vrem ca ea sa fie modificata pentru a putea fi sustenabila. Ea trebuie legata de bugetul real, nu de cel fictiv", a declarat, la Interviurile Gandul, Sorin Popescu, seful grup Comunicare Asociatia Romana a Producatorilor Internationali de Medicamente (ARPIM). Integral in Gandul. Care sunt cei mai bine platiti medici din Romania. Cele mai vanate locuri la rezidentiat sunt ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/orice-telefon-visezi-in-mall-ul-de-electronice-din-guangzhou/ orice-telefon-visezi-in-mall-ul-de-electronice-din-guangzhou Sun, 9 Oct 2011 00:05:26 +0300 ​Fotograful Serban Mestecaneanu, alaturi de sotia sa Delia, calatoresc o luna prin China. Din supramodernul Shanghai, pana in satele din provinciile sud-vestice, ei tin un jurnal de calatorie in timp real: fotografii si povesti din cea mai mare si mai misterioasa tara din lume. Astazi, ajunsi la finalul aventurii in China, au descoperit locul unde se asambleaza telefoanele Apple, Nokia si Samsung. Toate copii de calitate, desigur.Bineinteles ca am cautat si in Guangzhou o piata pentru Serban. Mai ales ca n-am mai vizitat una de mult, cam de o saptamana. Din pacate pentru el si din fericire pentru mine, piata nu era la fel de colorata vizual si olfactiv ca celelalte, nu vindea nicio parte din vreun animal, mai mult sau mai putin viu.Era un fel de piata medicinala, ce continea tot soiul de uscaciuni: ierburi, seminte, legume, pesti, caluti de mare si cred ca niste broaste testoase. Nu suntem foarte siguri de enumerarea de mai sus pentru ca toate erau foarte uscate si isi pierdusera forma initiala. Mai putin calutii de mare. Pe mine nu m-au atras prea tare, Serban insa se tot intreba ce gust or avea gatite.Am fost apoi la fabricile de asamblare de telefoane Apple, Nokia, Samsung si cate si mai cate, unde iti primeai pe loc orice telefon vroiai. Cel putin asa pareau cele 2 malluri de electronice (Guangzhou Digital City) in care am intrat din intamplare. Aveau cred orice piesa pentru orice telefon visai, ecrane, butoane, baterii, procesoare, incarcatoare, huse… Si lucrau cu totii fara oprire. Sau poate cu ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/interviu-cum-e-sa-lucrezi-ca-director-de-fericire-la-google-cum-sa-cauti-mai-cu-spor-pe-internet-ce-ne-rezerva-viitorul-pe-domeniul-internet-search/ interviu-cum-e-sa-lucrezi-ca-director-de-fericire-la-google-cum-sa-cauti-mai-cu-spor-pe-internet-ce-ne-rezerva-viitorul-pe-domeniul-internet-search Sat, 8 Oct 2011 00:08:05 +0300 ​Google face experimente cu cateva mii de utilizatori pe care ii monitorizeaza in detaliu cand folosesc motorul de cautare pentru a vedea ce cauta, cum cauta si cat de repede gasesc rezultatele dorite. Sunt comparati timpii in care cei testati gasesc rezultatele si cat de mult variaza acesti timpi, iar printre cei care analizeaza datele se numara Daniel Russell care ocupa o functie inedita: Manager pentru Fericirea Utilizatorilor. Intr-un interviu pentru HotNews.ro, Russell a explicat cum este calculat gradul de fericire, ce ne asteapta in urmatorii ani pe partea de internet search, ce greseli facem cand cautam si ce date pastreaza Google despre noi, internautii de rand.Ce face un Manager de Fericire si cum masoara cat de multumiti sunt utilizatoriiDan Russell are o functie iesita din comun, chiar pompoasa ca si titulatura: Search Quality and user Hapiness Manager. Este pur si simplu o strategie de marketing sau fericirea chiar se regaseste in...fisa postului?"Titlul meu suna foarte californian, e adevarat, director de Fericire, insa nu e doar o strategie de marketing, ci chiar avem anumiti indicatori de masurare a gradului de multumire a utilizatorilor. Facem mereu experimente ca sa vedem cum folosesc oamenii Google pentru a duce anumite sarcini de search la bun sfarsit. Avem practic un esantion de cateva mii de oameni care ne ajuta si pe care ii monitorizam zi de zi". Rusell explica faptul ca acestor mii de oameni li se dau sarcini precise, dar foarte diverse si se masoara spre exemplu cat dureaza sa duca la bun sfarsit aceste sarcini legate de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/eveniment-sponsorizat-de-facebook-in-romania-tabara-gratuita-de-pregatire-de-o-saptamana-pentru-elevele-si-studentele-pasionate-de-it/ eveniment-sponsorizat-de-facebook-in-romania-tabara-gratuita-de-pregatire-de-o-saptamana-pentru-elevele-si-studentele-pasionate-de-it Sat, 8 Oct 2011 00:08:02 +0300 Comunitatea de informaticieni Infoarena, in parteneriat cu Facebook, cea mai mare retea de socializare online din lume, vor organiza in perioada 30 octombrie - 5 noiembrie la Bucuresti, o tabara gratuita de pregatire dedicata elevelor si studentelor pasionate de IT si programare, au anuntat vineri reprezentantii Infoarena. Cursurile vor fi sustinute de olimpici medaliati la Olimpiadele internationale de informatica, cu stagii de practica in companii de prestigiu. Pentru a fi selectate, fetele trebuie sa treaca de o proba de calificare organizata de aceasta comunitate de informaticieni. "Facebook sponsorizeaza evenimentul in intregime. Acoperim toate cheltuielile, de la cazare si masa pana la transport (in cazul fetelor din provincie). Te invitam deci la o tabara gratuita de o saptamana, alaturi de cei mai tari profesori - studenti medaliati la Olimpiadele internationale de informatica, cu numeroase internshipuri la companiile de prestigiu", sustin reprezentantii Infoarena. Evenimentul vine ca un raspuns la problema generala a numarului scazut de femei in industria IT si se adreseaza in special studentelor din primii ani de facultate si elevelor de liceu. Scopul este dezvoltarea unei baze solide pe care participantele sa isi construiasca apoi cariera si care sa le asigure internship-uri, slujbe de succes sau rezultate deosebite la concursurile de programare. "(...) obtinerea unor cunostinte solide de algoritmi le garanteaza ca vor trece cu usurinta interviurile de angajare la cele mai prestigioase companii de IT. Evenimentul se intampla in premiera in Romania si se bucura de tot sprijinul programului Women in Engineering de la Facebook", declara Cristina Petrovici, Project Manager Girls Programming Camp. Pentru a fi selectate, studentele ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/opt-lucruri-pe-care-s-ar-putea-sa-nu-le-stii-despre-youtube/ opt-lucruri-pe-care-s-ar-putea-sa-nu-le-stii-despre-youtube Sat, 8 Oct 2011 00:06:55 +0300 Deşi este al treilea cel mai vizitat site de pe internet, după Google şi Facebook, lumea nu prea intră efectiv pe youtube.com, ci se uită la videoclipurile distribuite pe alte site-uri. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-check-the-legacy-of-a-tech-visionary/ tech-check-the-legacy-of-a-tech-visionary Sat, 8 Oct 2011 00:06:15 +0300 (CNN) -- This week, on an atypical Tech Check podcast, the crew devotes the entire show to reflecting on the life and legacy of Steve Jobs, the iconoclastic co-founder and CEO of Apple who died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg go beyond the news of the day to consider what Jobs' lasting legacy will be as not just a master showman and salesman, but as a visionary and pop culture figure who transcended the tech world. For our Comments of the Week, instead of looking to our stories we reflect on the words that some of Jobs' key contemporaries, and rivals, had to say in the wake of his death. Facebooks' Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Google's Larry Craig are all quoted recalling Jobs as a unique figure. To listen, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can add Tech Check to your RSS feed here. You can also listen, or subscribe, on iTunes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-rivals-postpone-phone-launch-due-to-jobs39-death/ apple-rivals-postpone-phone-launch-due-to-jobs39-death Sat, 8 Oct 2011 00:05:20 +0300 (CNN) -- Apple rivals Google and Samsung said Friday that they have canceled the launch of a new smartphone next week to honor the death of Steve Jobs. The press announcement for the Android phone was set for Tuesday at a wireless industry trade show in San Diego, but representatives from Google and Samsung decided Thursday night, a day after the Apple co-founder's death, that they would postpone the event, Samsung spokesman Kim Titus said in a phone interview. "We just felt that it wasn't the right time to make a major product announcement while the world is still paying tribute to Steve Jobs," Titus said. "There's never been such an iconic figure in our industry pass away before." A Google spokesman said in a statement: "We believe this is not the right time to announce a new product as the world expresses tribute to Steve Jobs' passing." He added that the development is on schedule. Titus also said the product is on track and that the delay is related only to Jobs' death. Google and Samsung were expected to showcase a new Nexus phone with a curved glass screen, which would be the first to run a next-generation version of Android called Ice-Cream Sandwich. They have not set a new date for the news conference, Titus said. Titus acknowledged that Apple and its partners are carrying on in the wake of Jobs' death. Apple and its cellular operators began selling pre-orders for the iPhone 4S on Friday. Sprint Nextel, the newest carrier for the iPhone, announced Friday that its ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nobel-committee-to-award-peace-prize/ nobel-committee-to-award-peace-prize Sat, 8 Oct 2011 00:01:16 +0300 Editor's note: Watch Live: Webcast of Peace Prize announcement at 1100 CET/0900 GMT/1700 HKT (CNN) -- The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday morning in Oslo, Norway. A record number of nominations -- 241 -- were received by the Nobel committee this year. Of those, 53 are organizations, including WikiLeaks -- the website founded by Julian Assange that facilitates the publication of classified information. It made headlines for leaking documents and videos related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and also released thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables. Among the individuals thought to be strong contenders are several involved in fomenting peaceful uprisings in the Arab world. They include Wael Ghonim, the former Google executive who used social media to jump-start social change in Egypt, Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, who criticized the regime long before the uprisings began, dispersing information to the outside world, and Israa Abdel Fattah, who helped organize Egypt's online April 6 Youth Movement in 2008 and played a role again in 2011. Other favorites are Sima Samar, head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and a trailblazer for women's rights in Afghanistan, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payas Sardinas and Ghazi bin Muhammad, a Jordanian advocate of interfaith dialogue. Another organization which could be in with a shot is Memorial, a Russian civil rights group known for its fight for to protect refugees and victims of political persecution and human rights violations in war zones. Apart from the winner, the names of the nominees cannot be revealed by the Nobel ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gigantul-microsoft-ar-fi-interesat-din-nou-de-preluarea-yahoo-dupa-incercarea-esuata-din-2008/ gigantul-microsoft-ar-fi-interesat-din-nou-de-preluarea-yahoo-dupa-incercarea-esuata-din-2008 Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:05:06 +0300 Microsoft ar putea face o oferta pentru preluarea Yahoo!, compania software reaparand printre potentialii cumparatori dupa incercarea esuata de achizitie din 2008, potrivit unor surse apropiate discutiilor citate de Reuters. Sursa a mai precizat ca Microsoft ar putea cauta un partener pentru preluarea Yahoo!, insa fara a da alte detalii.Pana in prezent nu a fost facuta o oferta si preluarea ar putea sa nu se concretizeze avand in vedere ca la Microsoft exista diviziuni interne in ceea ce priveste oportunitatea achizitionarii Yahoo!.Gigantul software se alatura altor companii care sunt interesate de Yahoo!, care are o valoare de piata de 18 miliarde de dolari. Printre companiile interesate de cumpararea Yahoo! se numara Providence Equity Partners, Hellman & Friedman si Silver Lake Partners, precum si gigantul chinez de comert electronic Alibaba si fondul rus de investitii DST Global.Microsoft si ceilalti potentiali cumparatori au refuzat sa comenteze informatiile, in vreme ce reprezentantii Yahoo! nu au putut fi contactati.Desi Yahoo! avea la un moment dat cote mari de piata la search, la utilizarea e-mail-urilor si la veniturile din publicitate, in urma cu cativa ani compania a inceput sa scada la toate capitolele, desi a incercat sa opreasca declinul.In 2008 si 2009 s-a scris mult despre o presupusa achizitie a Yahoo! de catre Microsoft, lucru care ar fi creat un conglomerat care putea face fata mai bine concurentei, decat pot face fata fiecare separat. Nu s-a concretizat insa nimic si - desi Yahoo! si Microsoft au semnat un parteneriat pe zece ani in domeniul publicitatii si a cautarii online - ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-ii-aduce-un-omagiu-lui-steve-jobs-pe-pagina-sa-principala/ google-ii-aduce-un-omagiu-lui-steve-jobs-pe-pagina-sa-principala Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:04:56 +0300 Google îi aduce un omagiu, joi, pe pagina sa principală, lui Steve Jobs, cofondatorul companiei Apple, care a decedat miercuri, la vârsta de 56 de ani, din cauza unui cancer la pancreas. Google îşi modifică logoul frecvent pentru a omagia mari personalităţi din întreaga lume sau pentru a marca diferite evenimente culturale, sportive sau politice. În schimb, joi, Google nu şi-a mai modificat logoul, dar sub acesta a plasat, simplu, numele lui Steve Jobs, anul naşterii acestuia şi anul decesului. Grupul american Apple a anunţat, miercuri seară, decesul fostului său director general şi cofondator Steve Jobs, în vârstă de 56 de ani, care avea grave probleme de sănătate de mai mulţi ani. "Suntem profund întristaţi să anunţăm că Steve Jobs a decedat astăzi", se arată într-un scurt comunicat al consiliului de administraţie al societăţii. "Caracterul briliant, pasiunea şi energia lui Steve au fost sursa a nenumărate inovaţii care îmbogăţesc şi ameliorează vieţile noastre, ale tuturor", adaugă grupul din California. Născut la San Francisco pe 24 februarie 1955, Steve Jobs avea grave probleme de sănătate de mai mulţi ani. El a fost atins în 2004 de o formă rară de cancer la pancreas şi a suferit un transplant de ficat în 2009. Primesti automat un iPad 2 3G 16 GB conectat gratuit la internet mobil de la Vodafone timp de un an daca te abonezi acum la ZIARUL FINANCIAR si BUSINESS Magazin pe 3 ani. Afla mai multe detalii aici. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-vrea-din-nou-sa-preia-yahoo-dupa-incercarea-esuata-din-2008/ microsoft-vrea-din-nou-sa-preia-yahoo-dupa-incercarea-esuata-din-2008 Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:04:39 +0300 Microsoft ar putea face o ofertă pentru preluarea Yahoo, gigantul software reapărând printre potenţialii cumpărători ai companiei după încercarea eşuată de achiziţie din 2008, au declarat surse apropiate discuţiilor. Yahoo, cu o valoare de piaţă de 20 miliarde de dolari, este "curtată" de numeroşi investitori, precum Providende Equity Partners, Hellman & Friedman, Silver Lake Partners sau gigantul chinez de comerţ electronic Alibaba şi fondul rus de investiţii DST Global, cărora li se alătură Microsoft, potrivit surselor citate. Acţiunile Yahoo au crescut cu 10,1% după apariţia informaţiilor, însă au coborât uşor ulterior. Microsoft a închis miercuri la New York în urcare cu 2,2%. Microsoft ar putea căuta un partener pentru preluarea Yahoo, a adăugat una dintre surse, fără a da alte detalii. Decizia finală şi lansarea unei oferte formale ar putea fi însă împiedicate de divergenţele din conducerea Microsoft privind oportunitatea prezentată de scoaterea Yahoo la vânzare, a afirmat o sursă oficială din cadrul gigantului software. Una dintre "taberele" din interiorul Microsoft vrea neapărat cumpărarea Yahoo, considerând că are un bun potenţial de creştere şi ar fi o bună modalitate de a investi câteva miliarde de dolari. Yahoo a respins în 2008 o ofertă de 47,5 miliarde de dolari din partea Microsoft, decizie considerată o gafă din partea directorului general de atunci, Jerry Yang. "Valoarea Yahoo nu a mai crescut de câţiva ani, iar unii directori consideră că ar trebui să cumpărăm ceva cu potenţial de viitor", a afirmat sursa din conducerea Microsoft. Contactaţi de Reuters, reprezentanţii Yahoo, Microsoft şi ai celorlalţi potenţiali investitori implicaţi au refuzat să comenteze informaţiile. Anterior, surse apropiate situaţiei au ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-mizeaza-pe-vanzarile-din-strainatate-pentru-a-ramane-in-top-si-fara-vizionarul-jobs/ apple-mizeaza-pe-vanzarile-din-strainatate-pentru-a-ramane-in-top-si-fara-vizionarul-jobs Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:04:36 +0300 Apple a devenit cea mai valoroasă companie tehnologică din lume prin produse care au transformat industria computerelor, wireless şi cea a muzicii, iar acum mizează pe vânzările din străinătate pentru a rămâne în top în lipsa vizionarului Jobs, comentează Bloomberg. Steve Jobs, fost director general şi cofondator al Apple, a decedat miercuri la vârsta de 56 de ani, în urma unor grave probleme de sănătate. Compania vrea să îşi continue expansiunea pe pieţe precum China, prin vânzările de iPhone şi iPad şi ale versiunilor îmbunătăţite ale acestora, dar şi prin noul serviciu iCloud, care facilitează schimbul de informaţii prin intermediul acestor aparate. Pentru directorul general Tim Cook provocarea va fi dezvoltarea noii generaţii de produse "hot sellers" şi confruntarea cu concurenţa pe pieţe unde Jobs a făcut pionierat. Sistemul de operare Android produs de Google a devenit una dintre cele mai mari ameninţări pentru Apple, fiind tot mai utilizat pe telefoane şi tablete. Cook va trebui să se bazeze pe un grup de veterani în conducerea Apple, care au avut o colaborare îndelungată cu Jobs. "A creat o infrastructură pe care echipa de conducere poate construi o lungă perioadă de timp. Întrebarea este cât de repede pot inova şi profita de această infrastructură pentru aparate, aplicaţii şi servicii", a declarat Tim Bajarin, analist în domeniul tehnologiei la compania Creative Strategies. Jobs a demisionat din funcţia de director general al Apple pe 24 august. În 2003, a fost diagnosticat cu o formă rară de cancer pancreatic, iar în 2009 a suferit un transplant de ficat. Investitorii au avut reacţii mixte la demisia lui Jobs. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/arab-spring-galvanizers-wikileaks-among-nobel-contenders/ arab-spring-galvanizers-wikileaks-among-nobel-contenders Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:03:21 +0300 (CNN) -- Twitter was abuzz Thursday with the death of Apple visionary Steve Jobs but another topic was gathering steam as the day progressed. Who will win this year's coveted Nobel Peace Prize? Not Jobs, though many among his huge global following posted messages that he should. The Nobel is never awarded posthumously and that rule also eliminates Mohamed Bouazizi, the unemployed college graduate whose self-immolation in Tunisia sparked a popular uprising that led to the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's government. The Tunisian revolt began this year's so-called Arab Spring. Some years, there are clear frontrunners -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi. This year, it's anyone's guess with a record number of nominations -- 241 -- received by the Nobel committee. Of those, 53 are organizations, including WikiLeaks -- the website founded by Julian Assange that facilitates the publication of classified information and made headlines for leaking documents and videos related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also released thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables. "Liu Xiabao was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his struggle for human rights, democracy and freedom of speech in China," blogged Norwegian lawmaker Snorre Valen of the Socialist Left Party, who nominated WikiLeaks. "Likewise: WikiLeaks have contributed to the struggle for those very values globally, by exposing (among many other things) corruption, war crimes and torture -- some times even conducted by allies of Norway." Liu's win upset the Chinese and set off a diplomatic squabble. The year before, the world gasped ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/isad-millions-take-to-the-web-to-mourn-steve-jobs/ isad-millions-take-to-the-web-to-mourn-steve-jobs Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:02:08 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- iSad. That was the reaction of many as millions took to the web with the news of the death of 56-year-old Steve Jobs. Facebook and Twitter messages were filled with links and anecdotes about the impact technology -- and more specifically, Apple -- had on users' lives. Apple invited people to email their thoughts, memories and condolences after announcing Jobs' death Wednesday, saying the company lost a "visionary and creative genius and the world has lost an amazing human being." CNN's iReport is also collecting reactions. Jobs' death jolted a generation that has never known a world without a cellular phone, and it elicited reactions from those who watched Apple grow from a Silicon Valley garage startup in 1976 to today's leading tech company. "RIP, Steve Jobs," read many Facebook messages. Still others invoked the visionary's signature stage pitch, "And one more thing ... Thank you." Many tweeted simply: iSad or iHeaven. "Oh my God, dad. Steve Jobs has died. He's my generation's Walt Disney," 20-year-old Lauren Harrington of Atlanta told her father upon learning Wednesday night that Jobs had died. Celebrities, corporate executives and politicians, including President Barack Obama, paid tribute to Jobs. "Our parents had JFK, we had Steve Jobs. Edison gave us electricity, Jobs gave us the Jetsons in real life," tweeted director and actor Kevin Smith. "We lost an icon today. Mourn him." Actor Ashton Kutcher tweeted: "Sending love & light to everyone @Apple & the entire Jobs family. Today we lost a Giant who will be missed even by those who didn't know him. I never ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/web-mourns-jobs39-death-finds-inspiration-in-his-life/ web-mourns-jobs39-death-finds-inspiration-in-his-life Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:01:32 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- Steve Jobs has consistently managed to capture the world's attention with his stage events. On Wednesday evening, the world took to the Web to express their condolences about the news of his death. Facebook news feeds filled with links and anecdotes about the impact that technology -- and more specifically, Apple's technology -- had on users' lives. Messages on Twitter and the site's list of trending topics quickly became dominated by phrases such as "RIP Steve Jobs," "#ThankYouSteve" and "iHeaven." The flood of messages slowed Twitter to a crawl at times or produced error messages saying the site was over capacity. On those sites, many people posted and quoted from Jobs' heartfelt commencement address to Stanford University in 2005, in which he first provided details about his health problems. Many pointed out how promotions for Apple's products on the company's website were replaced with a black-and-white photo of Jobs. Clicking that image, which Apple titled "hero," leads to a page with a company statement and an e-mail address for sending condolences. CNN's iReport is also collecting reactions. Dave Pell, a software developer and technology investor, referenced Jobs' signature stage pitch, saying, "And one more thing... Thanks." Celebrities, corporate executive and politicians, including U.S. President Barack Obama, also voiced their opinions on their social networking profiles and on blogs. "Steve's impact is immeasurable," Jay Adelson, a co-founder of Internet infrastructure giant Equinix, wrote on Twitter. "It's not enough to remember him. We need to live his dreams." The many websites devoted to Apple rumors and products placed large banners in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tears-tributes-for-steve-jobs-in-china/ tears-tributes-for-steve-jobs-in-china Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:00:53 +0300 Beijing (CNN) -- In China -- home of manufacturing companies central to global production of Apple iPhones and iPads -- the death of Steve Jobs' death brought immediate reaction from Chinese netizens and captains of industry. "When I head the news, I could not hold back my tears," wrote Yu Minghong, founder and CEO of New Oriental Education, one of the largest private education service provider in China. "Because of him, the world has become different. Because of him, the boring world has become alive, the glum world has become creative, because of him a drab world has become colorful." Inside four hours of the announcement, nearly 35 million messages on Sina Weibo on Jobs' death and 23 million messages of Tencent QQ Weibo, China's first and second largest microblogging sites. Jobs revolutionized tech industry "Jobs is the spiritual leader of our time," wrote @Xiongpeiyun on Sina Weibo. "I like Steve Jobs more than I like Apple. It's a huge loss for the whole world. But his life was complete because he had been looking for and found what he loved. I haven't committed whole heartedly to my life like Jobs had been doing. So, next to him, I feel more ashamed than being sad." Wrote @ QUENTIN_SHIH: "Only those who are so crazy as to think they can change the world can truly change the world." "Certainly Apple has achieved cult-like status amongst young, urban Chinese consumers," said Duncan Clark, chairman and founder of BDA, a Beijing consultancy company focused on telecom, media and technology sectors. "Beyond the general public ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/who-are-nobel-peace-contenders/ who-are-nobel-peace-contenders Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:00:33 +0300 (CNN) -- Twitter was abuzz Thursday with the death of Apple visionary Steve Jobs but another topic was gathering steam as the day progressed. Who will win this year's coveted Nobel Peace Prize? Not Jobs, though many among his huge global following posted messages that he should. The Nobel is never awarded posthumously and that rule also eliminates Mohamed Bouazizi, the unemployed college graduate whose self-immolation in Tunisia sparked a popular uprising that led to the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's government. The Tunisian revolt began this year's so-called Arab Spring. Some years, there are clear frontrunners -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi. This year, it's anyone's guess with a record number of nominations -- 241 -- received by the Nobel committee. Of those, 53 are organizations, including WikiLeaks -- the website founded by Julian Assange that facilitates the publication of classified information and made headlines for leaking documents and videos related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also released thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables. "Liu Xiabao was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his struggle for human rights, democracy and freedom of speech in China," blogged Norwegian lawmaker Snorre Valen of the Socialist Left Party, who nominated WikiLeaks. "Likewise: WikiLeaks have contributed to the struggle for those very values globally, by exposing (among many other things) corruption, war crimes and torture -- some times even conducted by allies of Norway." Liu's win upset the Chinese and set off a diplomatic squabble. The year before, the world gasped ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/world-tributes-pour-in-for-jobs/ world-tributes-pour-in-for-jobs Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:00:32 +0300 (CNN) -- International leaders in politics and business are paying tribute Thursday to Apple visionary Steve Jobs, whose death at age 56 has saddened many around the world. "Steve Jobs transformed the way we work and play; a creative genius who will be sorely missed. Our thoughts are with his family," British Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted. French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrote on his Facebook page that Jobs was a great entrepreneur, innovator and major player in the world's technological revolution. "As inspired as he was inspiring, Steve Jobs will remain one of the great figures of our time," Sarkozy said, as he paid tribute to the American's courage in both his work and personal life. Ireland's Prime Minister, or Taoiseach, Enda Kenny also gave his condolences in a statement paying tribute to the man who brought the world the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet. "Steve Jobs was a creative genius who broke down walls in business and opened doors in people's minds," Kenny said. "His innovative prowess in the area of technology has brought about a level of access to information for millions that few would have ever foreseen. His legacy will be not just his products and business achievements, but also the way in which he altered mindsets in the business world and in everyday life." Apple has a large factory in Cork, in the Irish Republic, which opened in 1980 to manufacture the Mac computer. It employs about 1,400 people and has expanded into various aspects of the company's business. In Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/who-will-win-nobel-peace-prize/ who-will-win-nobel-peace-prize Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:00:16 +0300 (CNN) -- Twitter was abuzz Thursday with the death of Apple visionary Steve Jobs but another topic was gathering steam as the day progressed. Who will win this year's coveted Nobel Peace Prize? Not Jobs, though many among his huge global following posted messages that he should. The Nobel is never awarded posthumously and that rule also eliminates Mohamed Bouazizi, the unemployed college graduate whose self-immolation in Tunisia sparked a popular uprising that led to the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's government. The Tunisian revolt began this year's so-called Arab Spring. Some years, there are clear frontrunners -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi. This year, it's anyone's guess with a record number of nominations -- 241 -- received by the Nobel committee. Of those, 53 are organizations, including WikiLeaks -- the website founded by Julian Assange that facilitates the publication of classified information and made headlines for leaking documents and videos related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also released thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables. "Liu Xiabao was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his struggle for human rights, democracy and freedom of speech in China," blogged Norwegian lawmaker Snorre Valen of the Socialist Left Party, who nominated WikiLeaks. "Likewise: WikiLeaks have contributed to the struggle for those very values globally, by exposing (among many other things) corruption, war crimes and torture -- some times even conducted by allies of Norway." Liu's win upset the Chinese and set off a diplomatic squabble. The year before, the world gasped ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/world-tributes-pour-in-for-apple-visionary/ world-tributes-pour-in-for-apple-visionary Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:00:07 +0300 (CNN) -- International leaders in politics and business are paying tribute Thursday to Apple visionary Steve Jobs, whose death at age 56 has saddened many around the world. "Steve Jobs transformed the way we work and play; a creative genius who will be sorely missed. Our thoughts are with his family," British Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted. French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrote on his Facebook page that Jobs was a great entrepreneur, innovator and major player in the world's technological revolution. "As inspired as he was inspiring, Steve Jobs will remain one of the great figures of our time," Sarkozy said, as he paid tribute to the American's courage in both his work and personal life. Ireland's Prime Minister, or Taoiseach, Enda Kenny also gave his condolences in a statement paying tribute to the man who brought the world the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet. "Steve Jobs was a creative genius who broke down walls in business and opened doors in people's minds," Kenny said. "His innovative prowess in the area of technology has brought about a level of access to information for millions that few would have ever foreseen. His legacy will be not just his products and business achievements, but also the way in which he altered mindsets in the business world and in everyday life." Apple has a large factory in Cork, in the Irish Republic, which opened in 1980 to manufacture the Mac computer. It employs about 1,400 people and has expanded into various aspects of the company's business. In Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/faze-tari-ce-o-fi-fost-in-mintea-lor-iata-cele-mai-bizare-fotografii-de-nunta-si-au-modificat-chipul-pentru-a-nu-fi-recunoscuti-de-politie-iata-cum-au-fost-transformate-masinile-pentru-o-expozitie-un-barbat-a-vrut-sa-fure-o-pereche-de-pantofi-dintr-u/ faze-tari-ce-o-fi-fost-in-mintea-lor-iata-cele-mai-bizare-fotografii-de-nunta-si-au-modificat-chipul-pentru-a-nu-fi-recunoscuti-de-politie-iata-cum-au-fost-transformate-masinile-pentru-o-expozitie-un-barbat-a-vrut-sa-fure-o-pereche-de-pantofi-dintr-u Thu, 6 Oct 2011 00:09:11 +0300 Ce-o fi fost in mintea lor? Iata cele mai bizare fotografii de nunta. Daca ar exista un concurs al celor mai bizare fotografii de nunta, imaginile alaturate ar putea participa fara probleme. Ele arata ca, uneori, nu doar ca fotografii nu-si folosesc bunul-simt cand apasa pe declansator, dar si ca mirii au idei traznite. Daca intr-o imagine mireasa apare fotografiata in timp ce domnisoarele ei de onoare o saruta pe brate, de parca s-ar fi intins sa o miroasa la subrat, intr-o alta imagine o tanara sta cu mana pe geam, ca si cum l-ar apuca de fund pe muncitorul care sta aplecat afara. Tot la categoria "incadrari penibile" intra si poza cu mireasa in profil care pare ca adulmeca toaleta ecologica din fundal. Ceva mai animate - poate prea animate - sunt imaginile cu mirii care n-au mai putut astepta noaptea nuntii si s-au luat la sarutat si pipait in fata fotografilor. La fel fac si parintii unei mirese, care se saruta de mama focului in timp ce fiica lor priveste rusinata in jos. Cele mai ingenioase sunt, insa, pozele cu mireasa care-si are mirele la televizor si sotii care, in loc de tort de nunta, au un hamburger urias, scrie Cancan.Si-au modificat chipul pentru a nu fi recunoscuti de politie. Nu putine sunt cazurile in care infractorii fac lucruri inimaginabile pentru a nu fi prinsi de politie. In timp ce unii aleg sa se ascunda toata viata de oamenii legii, altii prefera sa isi modifice parti ale corpului pentru a se face de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/opinie-andrei-chirileasa-ziarul-financiar-de-ce-nu-as-mai-cumpara-actiuni-apple/ opinie-andrei-chirileasa-ziarul-financiar-de-ce-nu-as-mai-cumpara-actiuni-apple Thu, 6 Oct 2011 00:07:06 +0300 Lansarea noului iPhone, primul eveniment important pentru Apple fără Steve Jobs la cârmă, nu a provocat nici pe departe emoţiile şi reverberaţiile lansărilor anterioare, fiind primit cu reticenţă chiar şi de cei mai împătimiţi fani ai mărcii care domină de aproape cinci ani piaţa telefoanelor inteligente. Dezvelirea lui iPhone 4S este un prim test pe care Apple l-a picat, după retragerea lui Jobs din poziţia de CEO, la finele lunii august, iar asta s-a văzut imediat pe bursa americană, unde acţiunile au picat cu 5% imediat după conferinţa noului şef al Apple, Tim Cook. Deşi acţiunile şi-au revenit ulterior, miercuri au scăzut din nou. În schimb, acţiunile Samsung, HTC, LG sau Nokia au crescut. Întrebarea care apare acum în mintea tuturor analiştilor este câţi dintre fanii iPhone şi ai tabletei iPad sunt de fapt fanii lui Jobs şi cât din capitalizarea actuală a Apple, de 340 de miliarde de dolari, i se datorează deja legendarului său fondator. În ianuarie 2007, când a început nebunia iPhone, Apple valora 80 de miliarde de dolari. Google era de două ori mai valoroasă, iar Microsoft - de trei ori mai mare. Ascensiunea uimitoare a Apple, care a reuşit să devină cea mai valoroasă companie din lume, în mai puţin de cinci ani de la lansarea primului iPhone, nu poate fi imaginată fără geniul de marketing al lui Jobs. El avea puterea de a vrăji o sală întreagă cu sute de jurnalişti şi de a însufleţi mii de oameni să se aşeze la cozi cu câteva zile înainte de lansarea pe piaţă a unui ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/best-digital-cameras-for-travel/ best-digital-cameras-for-travel Thu, 6 Oct 2011 00:03:06 +0300 (Travel + Leisure) -- You're out for drinks at a tango hall in Buenos Aires, with your bulky digital SLR camera back in the hotel room. As the dancers pause in a dramatic embrace, you reach for your smartphone. But it's too dim, and by the time the built-in camera focuses, the moment has passed. Travel + Leisure: Best travel gadgets 2011 Welcome to one of today's biggest travel photography conundrums. Five-or-more-megapixel smartphones give us a false sense of being covered, photo-wise. But all too often, they fall short, and we're left with blurry, even discolored vacation photos. The truth is that dedicated digital cameras are just as important as ever. Fortunately, the digital SLR -- with its super-fast shutter speeds, big image sensors, and interchangeable lenses -- is no longer the only option for top-notch photos. By ditching the internal reflective mirror that gives the SLR its what-you-see-is-what-you-get viewfinder, a new generation of interchangeable lens cameras provides the same versatility, image quality and performance at about two-thirds of the size and weight. You'll really appreciate the difference after a day of sightseeing. Travel + Leisure: America's most romantic restaurants Going on an extended vacation that combines hiking, city tours, midnight walks and wakeboarding? The mirrorless interchangeable lens camera is up to the challenge: Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, for example, has 11 different lenses, among them, wide-angle, telephoto and zoom, that can handle any situation. If you prefer something smaller, it's worth upgrading to the latest generation of pocket-ready point-and-shoot cameras, which offer many advantages over camera phones. New features include built-in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-story-behind-apple39s-siri-voice-assistant/ the-story-behind-apple39s-siri-voice-assistant Thu, 6 Oct 2011 00:02:06 +0300 Cupertino, California (CNN) -- The iPhone 4S may not look any different from its predecessor, but it is Apple's only model with a sort of robot living inside. Apple's new phone, which was announced on Tuesday to be sold in stores on October 14, will have a new function called Siri. The program lets people bark commands or ask questions to the phone, and it will provide an answer or ask follow-up questions in order to perform a given task. At the news conference, Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing executive, called Siri "the coolest feature of the new iPhone 4S," and the company is expected to advertise Siri heavily in its sales pitches. Apple dedicated a significant chunk of the presentation to showing the extent of Siri's ability to interpret requests and respond. "Do I need a raincoat today?" incites a robo-female voice to reply: "It sure looks like rain today," as Scott Forstall, Apple's mobile software executive, demonstrated. Ask Siri to remind you to buy flowers for your wife at a certain time, and Siri may ask you to identify her in the phone's address book. Siri then remembers who she is for future requests, Forstall said. The software integrates with Yelp and WolframAlpha for relevant queries. It can also schedule appointments in the phone's calendar and transcribe e-mails or text messages. With Google's Android phones, users can dictate messages, too, which are then transcribed by Google's servers. Other cell phones support voice commands, which is handy when operating a phone while driving, but few people take advantage of the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/posibili-laureati-ai-premiului-nobel-pentru-pace/ posibili-laureati-ai-premiului-nobel-pentru-pace Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:06:18 +0300 Actori ai primăverii arabe şi militanţi pentru drepturile omului din Afganistan şi Rusia figurează printre posibilii laureaţi ai premiului Nobel pentru Pace 2011. Lista candidaţilor este ţinută secretă şi doar câştigătorul va fi dezvăluit vineri de comitetul norvegian. - Lina Ben Mhenni, supranumită "Tunisian Girl". În vârstă de 27 de ani, ea militează pentru apărarea drepturilor omului şi a realizat cronica "revoluţiei iasomiei" din Tunisia pe Internet, sub pseudonomul "Tunisian Girl". Ea a denunţat în ianuarie represiunea desfăşurată de regimul lui Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, care a sfârşit prin a se exila. Fiica unui militant de stânga încarcerat timp de şase ani, ea a militat, încă din 2008, pentru cauza minerilor din regiunea Gafsa (sud-vest), unde a fost înăbuşită o mişcare de protest de către armată, departe de privirile presei. Ea predă engleza la Universitatea din Tunis. - Esraa Abdel Fatah, în vârstă de 33 de ani şi Ahmed Maher, în vârstă de 30 de ani sunt doi militanţi pe Internet cofondatori ai Mişcării 6 aprilie care a mobilizat o mare parte din tinerii egipteni împotriva regimului, inspirând manifestaţii gigantice în piaţa Tahrir din Cairo în ianuarie şi februarie, care îl vor îndepărta de la putere pe preşedintele Hosni Mubarak. - Wael Ghonim, simbolul "revoluţiei Facebook" care a mobilizat tinerii egipteni împotriva regimului lui Hosni Mubarak. El a apărut pe scena publică la 7 februarie, cu puţin timp înainte de înlăturarea lui Mubarak, în cadrul unei emisiuni a unui post privat egiptean. Milioane de telespectatori l-au ascultat şocaţi pe acest absolvent de informatică şi angajat al gigantului de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-facebook-si-twitter-arma-autoritatilor-impotriva-infractorilor/ google-facebook-si-twitter-arma-autoritatilor-impotriva-infractorilor Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:05:46 +0300 Companiile care activează în mediul online, precum Google, Facebook sau Twitter, sunt cooptate tot mai des de către autorităţi pentru a dezvălui informaţii cu caracter privat, susţin mai mulţi experţi web, citaţi de Reuters. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-are-de-azi-antivirus-integrat/ facebook-are-de-azi-antivirus-integrat Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:05:43 +0300 Reţeaua Facebook, ce numără aproximativ 800 de milioane de utilizatori, a primit astăzi un upgrade binevenit: antivirus de prevenire a situaţiilor riscante. Aplicaţia de securitate dezvoltată de Websense verifică link-urile de pe Wall şi din profil şi ne avertizează dacă pagina pe care vrem să o accesăm conţine coduri cu potenţial dăunător. Ca mecanism, antivirusul de pe Facebook se aseamănă cu cel implementat de Google, Mozilla sau Opera în browsere - suntem doar informaţi cu privire la riscuri, nu şi protejaţi. Cei care insistă să meargă la adresa respectivă şi nu au o soluţie de securitate care să blocheze virusul îşi vor infecta calculatoarele. Citeşte mai departe pe go4it.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-promite-ca-va-prezenta-primul-smartphone-cu-sistem-windows-in-cateva-saptamani/ nokia-promite-ca-va-prezenta-primul-smartphone-cu-sistem-windows-in-cateva-saptamani Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:05:07 +0300 Nokia va prezenta peste câteva săptămâni primul smartphone al companiei cu sistem de operare Windows, cu care speră să concureze mai eficient iPhone şi aparatele dotate cu sistemul de operare Android al Google, transmite Reuters. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/caru-cu-vedete-de-la-cancan-mai-devreme-decat-se-astepta-nicoleta-luciu-a-nascut-tripletii-marina-dina-si-geanina-varga-cele-mai-sexy-fete-la-soare-fetita-sfioasa-din-inima-olteniei-a-ajuns-actrita-porno-wooow-ce-buna-e-sylvia-uite-o-cum-incita/ caru-cu-vedete-de-la-cancan-mai-devreme-decat-se-astepta-nicoleta-luciu-a-nascut-tripletii-marina-dina-si-geanina-varga-cele-mai-sexy-fete-la-soare-fetita-sfioasa-din-inima-olteniei-a-ajuns-actrita-porno-wooow-ce-buna-e-sylvia-uite-o-cum-incita Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:07:52 +0300 Mai devreme decat se astepta! Nicoleta Luciu a nascut tripletii! Nicoleta Luciu este la spital, unde a ajuns ca sa nasca, dupa ce i s-a rupt apa in timp ce era acasa. Desi doctorii ii spusesera ca mai are cateva zile bune pana va aduce pe lume tripletii, Nicoleta Luciu a ajuns deja in sala de nasteri de la Spitalul Polizu. Ea a fost dusa la maternitate de sora Iuliana si sotul Zsolt. Actrita a nascut printr-o operatie de cezariana, iar cei doi baieti si fetita au fost dusi la Terapie Intensiva. Nicoleta se simte bine si este sub supraveghere medicala. Ea si bebelusii vor mai ramane in spital. "Eu eram acasa si m-a sunat mama. In 15 minute cred ca am fost la spital", a povestit Iuliana Luciu la Stirile ProTV. "Felicitari, Nicoleta, ca a dus sarcina 9 luni si a nascut trei copii sanatosi", a spus mandru si proaspatul tatic, Zsolt.Marina Dina si Geanina Varga, cele mai sexy "Fete la soare". Toata vara, paparazzii Spy au vanat vedete la plaja. Brunete, blonde sau roscate, toate si-a expus corpurile dezinvolte, dezvaluind fie perfectiunea obtinuta cu multe ore de sport si diete sanatoase, fie defectele pe care le asund uneori atat de bine sub haine. Geanina Varga, noua stirista de la rubrica Sport a Antenei 1 a avut o ascensiune rapida in showbiz. Fost manechin, bruneta are calitati fizice care nu pot fi trecute cu vederea si pe care le-a expus cu nonsalanta toata vara la mare. Fetita sfioasa din inima Olteniei a ajuns actrita ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/presa-in-diagonala-ministrul-francez-de-interne-infractiunile-romanesti-sunt-pline-de-cruzime-dick-cheney-obama-trebuie-sa-ii-ceara-scuze-lui-bush-stratul-de-ozon-din-zona-arctica-s-a-distrus-considerabil-lukashenko-a-mai-gratiat-un-rival-politic/ presa-in-diagonala-ministrul-francez-de-interne-infractiunile-romanesti-sunt-pline-de-cruzime-dick-cheney-obama-trebuie-sa-ii-ceara-scuze-lui-bush-stratul-de-ozon-din-zona-arctica-s-a-distrus-considerabil-lukashenko-a-mai-gratiat-un-rival-politic Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:07:51 +0300 Marea Britanie: Peste 35.000 de oameni au protestat la Manchester impotriva reformelor. Peste 35.000 de oameni au iesit in strada la Manchester protestand impotriva reformelor adoptate de guvernul Marii Britanii. Participanti la mars au fost membrii sindicatelor, studentii, activistii pentru drepturile animalelor, reprezentati ai laburistilor. Marsul a coincis cu conferinta Partidului Conservator. Cancelarul George Osborne a declarat in timpul conferintei ca oamenii au dreptul democratic de a protesta, insa marsul nu va ajuta cu nimic la cresterea economica a Marii Britanii. Conservatorii au asigurat ca toate restructurarile planuite sunt cu adevarat importante, ca se fac eforturi pentru crearea unor noi locuri de munca si ca este foarte important ca actuala generatie sa nu atraga dupa sine falimentul generatiilor viitoare. Politia a declarat ca nu au fost incidente majore nici arestari in timpul marsului. Un grup de aproximativ 200 de persoane s-a rupt din multime mergand spre Albert Square unde au intentionat sa stationeze. Unii dintre participanti isi acoperisera fetele cu esarfe si glugi, dar somati de polite au renuntat la protest. Un alt grup a vrut sa ocupe prin forta cladirea Halle Orchestra, dar si acestia au fost impiedicati de politie, scrie BBC.Dick Cheney: Obama trebuie sa ii ceara scuze lui Bush. Fostul vice-presedinte american Dick Cheney a laudat actiunea administratiei Obama care a folosit atacuri cu drone pentru uciderea lui Anwar al-Awlaki. In aceslasi timp a atras atentia asupra faptului ca Obama ar trebui sa isi ceara scuze pentru criticile aduse presedintelui Bush pentru maniera in care acesta gestiona situatia suspectilor teroristi. Obama acuzase ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/p-specialistii-din-sfera-finantarii-afacerilor-completeaza-lista-vorbitorilor-la-how-to-web-2011/ p-specialistii-din-sfera-finantarii-afacerilor-completeaza-lista-vorbitorilor-la-how-to-web-2011 Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:07:25 +0300 Lista de profesionisti de top din domeniul tehnologiei web care participa anul acesta la HTW, este acum completata si de specialisti in sfera investitiilor, a finantarii afacerilor si de reprezentanti ai celor mai importante programe de sustinere a startup-urilor web din Europa. La editia din acest an a conferintei vor participa 750 de persoane din Europa de Est interesate de toate aspectele pe care le implica dezvoltarea unei afaceri web. Conferinta se va desfasura intre 9 si 10 noiembrie la Bucuresti. Printre acestia se numara antreprenorul de succes originar din California, Doug Richard, care a pus bazele a 7 companii si a fost unul din "dragonii" din primele doua editii ale show-ului de televiziune "Dragon's Den", din Marea Britanie. Fondatorul School for Startups, program care ofera seminarii pe teme antreprenoriale pentru tinerii care vor sa puna bazele unei afaceri, a confirmat prezenta in cadrul conferintei How to Web 2011. Acesta considera ca "antreprenoriatul poate fi predat si trebuie sa fie invatat". Eoghan Jennings este unul dintre specialistii in antreprenoriat care este implicat in foarte multe programe care sustin startup-urile la nivel de mentorat sau investitii, precum StartupBootcamp sau Bandwidth Ventures. Un alt nume important, care sustine si investeste in programele de antreprenoriat specializate pe domeniul web este Mikko Jarvenpää (Chief Markering Geek, HackFwd). Compania HackFwd investeste in talentele din Europa, ajutandu-i pe programatori sa puna bazele afacerilor proprii. Alti reprezentanti ai programelor de sustinere a startup-urilor care vor sustine prezentari in conferinta sunt: Chris Kowalczyk (Gamma Rebels), Jon Bradford (Sprinboard si ignite100) si reprezentantii Seedcamp, Carlos ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/honor-cel-mai-nou-smartphone-al-chinezilor-de-la-huawei-va-fi-adus-in-romania-la-inceputul-anului-viitor-la-un-pret-de-circa-350-400-euro/ honor-cel-mai-nou-smartphone-al-chinezilor-de-la-huawei-va-fi-adus-in-romania-la-inceputul-anului-viitor-la-un-pret-de-circa-350-400-euro Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:06:53 +0300 Cel mai nou smartphone produs de compania chineza Huawei, terminalul numit Honor pe care ruleaza sistemul de operare Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread al Google, va fi pus in vanzare in Romania la inceputul anului viitor la un pret de aproximativ 350-400 de euro, au anuntat luni reprezentantii Huawei Romania. Producatorul chinez si-a anuntat luna trecuta intentia de a deschide in tara, cel mai probabil in Bucuresti, un centru de suport global, in care vor fi circa 1.100 noi angajati pana in 2014. Centrul ar urma sa fie lansat undeva spre sfarsitul primului trimestru din 2012.Terminalul are un procesor de 1,4 GHz, doua camere foto incorporate, una HDR de 8 megapixeli si o camera frontala de 2 megapixeli, are o grosime de 10,9 mm si o greutate de 140 grame. Conform informatiilor companiei, datorita bateriei de 1,900 MAh cu care este dotat, "Honor ofera cea mai lunga durata de viata a unei baterii pe segmentul smartphone-urilor cu ecran de 4-inch - astfel, utilizatorii pot vorbi si accesa functiile acestuia timp de aproximativ 3 zile (pentru o utilizare normala) cu o singura incarcare.  Huawei vrea sa deschida un centru de suport global in Romania, spre sfarsitul primului trimestru din 2012In Romania, Huawei are in prezent circa 400 de angajati, iar luna trecuta si-a anuntat intentia de a deschide un centru de suport global in tara. "Momentan avem o fabrica ce deserveste zona central europeana si nu numai, care este in Ungaria. Nu este o fabrica de productie, ci de asamblare. Pentru cerintele curente nu avem in plan dezvoltarea ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-maps-ne-ofera-acum-vedere-din-elicopter/ google-maps-ne-ofera-acum-vedere-din-elicopter Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:05:45 +0300 După controversatele hărţi Google Maps cu Street View (controversate pentru unele imagini surprinse de camerele Google), gigantul din online s-a gândit că traficul aglomerat de pe şosele poate fi ignorat dacă zburăm cu elicopterul. Aşa au luat naştere hărţile 3D Aerial sau "helicopter view", hărţi ce oferă utilizatorilor un unghi de vizualizare similar cu vederea din elicopter. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-group39s-eye-on-yahoo-fuels-privacy-fears/ china-group39s-eye-on-yahoo-fuels-privacy-fears Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:01:01 +0300 (Financial Times) -- The possibility of Yahoo falling under Chinese control raises significant privacy risks for its users elsewhere and could provoke a backlash in Washington, privacy campaigners and other China-watchers in the US have warned. The warnings follow a comment by Jack Ma, founder of Chinese internet group Alibaba, that he is interested in acquiring the troubled US online media and communications concern. Mr Ma has a first right of refusal to buy back Yahoo's 40 per cent stake in Alibaba should the US company itself change hands, putting Mr Ma in an strong position to influence Yahoo's ultimate fate following its decision to reconsider its strategic options. "Lawmakers should oppose a deal where the data of Americans come under the control of a foreign company with links to the Chinese government," said Jeff Chester, head of the Center for Digital Democracy. "Instead of stealthfully spying on Google users, which Chinese officials have been alleged to have done, an Alibaba takeover of Yahoo would sanction the surveillance of millions of Americans." The claims were immediately rejected by Alibaba, which denied that any data held outside China would be subject to review by Chinese authorities. "We've demonstrated consistently that we follow the laws in the countries in which we do business," Alibaba said. "As such, there's no reason to believe that Yahoo's data would be treated any differently following a change in control." Rebecca McKinnon, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said that any attempt by Alibaba to buy Yahoo was likely to be "highly controversial", given the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/grupul-chinez-alibaba-ar-putea-cumpara-yahoo/ grupul-chinez-alibaba-ar-putea-cumpara-yahoo Mon, 3 Oct 2011 00:04:52 +0300 Presedintele Alibaba Group Holding, Jack Ma a declarat ca este interesat de achizitia Yahoo. Gigantul american si-a concediat saptamana trecuta dierctorul executive, Carol Bartz, din cauza stagnarii economice si a pierderii unei parti din cota de piata in fata lui Google si Facebook. In prezent, valoarea de piata a Yahoo! Inc este de 16,6 miliarde de dolari. Dupa concedierea lui Bartz, Yahoo! este in cautarea unui nou CEO si incearca sa defineasca o noua strategie proces care, potrivit reprezentantilor companiei, ar putea dura cateva luni, scrie Bloomberg. Alibaba Group impreuna cu Yahoo Japan Corp reprezinta aseet-urile pe care Yahoo le detine in Asia. Declaratia lui Jack Ma a fost facuta in cadrul unei eveniment gazuit de Universitatea Stanford. Compania lui Ma este detinuta in prezent in proportie de 40% de catre Yahoo, furnizand servicii de comert online in China. Jack Ma a recunoscut ca se afla in discutii si cu alte parti interesate de aceeasi achizitie. Datorita relatiei pe care Alibaba Group o are cu Yahoo! analistii considera ca s-ar afla in avantaj fata de ceilalti jucatori. Presedintele Alibaba Group marturiseste insa ca negocierile merg mai de greu decat se astepta initial din cauza ratiunilor politice. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/povestea-somerului-din-romania-care-cartografiaza-pentru-google-maps/ povestea-somerului-din-romania-care-cartografiaza-pentru-google-maps Mon, 3 Oct 2011 00:04:12 +0300 O poveste impresionantă, ascunsă într-un colţ de ţara, nu le-a scăpat celor de la Google. Un tânăr de 26 de ani din Hunedoara, i-a cucerit cu hărţile lui extrem de amănunţite. Fără să aştepte recompense, băiatul face un efort uriaş şi o muncă meticuloasă de cartografiere. Pentru unele detalii a parcurs şi sute de kilometri, uneori chiar la pas. Acum, "pentru contribuţia excepţională la dezvoltarea Google Maps", este invitat la Barcelona, dar, n-are bani de drum. În România, Rudolf Hanzelik este un ilustru necunoscut. A terminat o post-liceala şi e strungar de meserie. Rămas de un an fără slujbă, apoi şi fără şomaj, şi-a investit tot timpul liber în marea să pasiune: hărţile! A început cu oraşul natal, Hunedoara, şi nu s-a mai oprit... A făcut, de exemplu, o hartă a tuturor liniilor de mocăniţă din Europa. Cine caută, de exemplu, un drum către Castelul Corvinilor din Hunedoara, va primi o hartă făcută de Rudolf. Nicio banală poteca nu îi scăpa. Află cum face hărţi şomerul român pe www.incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/un-miliardar-chinez-este-interesat-de-achizitia-grupului-american-yahoo/ un-miliardar-chinez-este-interesat-de-achizitia-grupului-american-yahoo Mon, 3 Oct 2011 00:04:03 +0300 Miliardarul chinez Jack Ma, preşedinte al companiei Alibaba, la care Yahoo are o participaţie de 40%, a declarat că ar fi foarte interesat de achiziţia grupului american, care se confruntă cu stagnarea veniturilor şi declinul cotei de piaţă, transmite Bloomberg. Ma a afirmat că a discutat cu Yahoo şi alţi eventuali cumpărători, fără să-i numească pe aceştia. "Suntem foarte interesaţi de Yahoo pentru că Alibaba este o companie importantă pentru Yahoo, iar Yahoo este foarte importantă pentru noi", a afirmat miliardarul chinez după ce a fost întrebat dacă ar cumpăra compania. "Există foarte mulţi investitori interesaţi şi discutăm şi cu aceştia", a spus Ma în timpul unui eveniment desfăşurat la Universitatea Stanford din SUA. Conducerea Yahoo a anunţat anterior că o serie de consultanţi au transmis interesul "mai multor părţi". Relaţia miliardarului chinez cu Yahoo i-ar putea asigura acestuia un avantaj în realizarea unei tranzacţii, afirmă Brett Harris, analist la compania americană Gabelli & Co. "Ar fi logic să fie implicată Alibaba, având în vedere că Yahoo are o participaţie atât de mare. Acţionarii Yahoo sunt acum atât de dezamăgiţi încât ar considera binevenit orice cumpărător", a spus el. Un purtător de cuvânt al Yahoo a refuzat să comenteze. Acţiunile Yahoo au scăzut de la începutul anului cu 21%, iar valoarea de piaţă a grupului a coborât la 16,6 miliarde de dolari. Grupul îşi reanalizează strategia după concedierea directorului general Carol Bartz, care nu a reuşit să oprească încetinirea creşterii sau să respingă concurenţa tot mai puternică a Google şi Facebook. Compania Alibaba este prezentă pe piaţa serviciilor de comerţ online din China. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/un-miliardar-chinez-este-interesat-sa-cumpere-compania-yahoo/ un-miliardar-chinez-este-interesat-sa-cumpere-compania-yahoo Mon, 3 Oct 2011 00:03:22 +0300 Miliardarul chinez Jack Ma, preşedinte al companiei Alibaba, la care Yahoo are o participaţie de 40%, a declarat că ar fi foarte interesat de achiziţia grupului american, care se confruntă cu stagnarea veniturilor şi declinul cotei de piaţă, informează Mediafax, care citează Bloomberg. Ma a afirmat că a discutat cu Yahoo şi alţi eventuali cumpărători, fără să-i numească pe aceştia. "Suntem foarte interesaţi de Yahoo pentru că Alibaba este o companie importantă pentru Yahoo, iar Yahoo este foarte importantă pentru noi", a afirmat miliardarul chinez după ce a fost întrebat dacă ar cumpăra compania. "Există foarte mulţi investitori interesaţi şi discutăm şi cu aceştia", a spus Ma în timpul unui eveniment desfăşurat la Universitatea Stanford din SUA. Conducerea Yahoo a anunţat anterior că o serie de consultanţi au transmis interesul "mai multor părţi". Relaţia miliardarului chinez cu Yahoo i-ar putea asigura acestuia un avantaj în realizarea unei tranzacţii, afirmă Brett Harris, analist la compania americană Gabelli & Co. "Ar fi logic să fie implicată Alibaba, având în vedere că Yahoo are o participaţie atât de mare. Acţionarii Yahoo sunt acum atât de dezamăgiţi încât ar considera binevenit orice cumpărător", a spus el. Un purtător de cuvânt al Yahoo a refuzat să comenteze. Acţiunile Yahoo au scăzut de la începutul anului cu 21%, iar valoarea de piaţă a grupului a coborât la 16,6 miliarde de dolari. Grupul îşi reanalizează strategia după concedierea directorului general Carol Bartz, care nu a reuşit să oprească încetinirea creşterii sau să respingă concurenţa tot mai puternică a Google şi Facebook. Compania Alibaba este prezentă pe piaţa serviciilor ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sezonul-nobel-debuteaza-luni-cu-decernarea-premiului-pentru-medicina/ sezonul-nobel-debuteaza-luni-cu-decernarea-premiului-pentru-medicina Mon, 3 Oct 2011 00:03:20 +0300 Sezonul Nobel debutează luni, cu premiul Nobel pentru medicină, actorii "primăverii arabe" fiind creditaţi cu şanse mari la ediţia din 2011 a trofeelor pentru pace şi literatură, în timp ce trofeul pentru economie ar trebui să scape de "influenţa" crizei mondiale, potrivit specialiştilor în domeniu. Potrivit AFP, luni, la ora locală 11.30 (09.30 GMT), comitetul Nobel de la Institutul Karolinska din Stockholm va anunţa laureatul premiului Nobel pentru medicină, care îi va succeda britanicului Robert Edwards, "părintele" fertilizării in vitro. Premiile pentru fizică şi chimie vor fi decernate marţi, respectiv miercuri, iar cel pentru literatură, joi (data nu a fost confirmată). Premiul pentru pace va fi decernat vineri, la Oslo, iar cel pentru economie, pe 10 octombrie. Comitetul Nobel norvegian, care decernează premiul pentru pace, la Oslo, a confirmat un număr record de candidaţi pentru acest an - 241 - dintre care va fi ales succesorul disidentului chinez Liu Xiaobo. Istoricul Asle Sveen consideră că cei cinci membri ai comitetului care va anunţa câştigătorul, pe 7 octombrie, vor alege din cei 241 de candidaţi, un reprezentant al "primăverii arabe", o mişcare care a dus la prăbuşirea regimurilor autoritare din Tunisia, Egipt şi Libia. Premiul Nobel pentru pace ar putea reveni, în acest an, scriitoarei tunisiene Lina ben Mhenni, care a realizat, pe blogul personal, o veritabilă cronică a revoluţiei din ţara ei. "Este o musulmană moderată, o femeie, iar premierea ei ar reprezenta un sprijin adus mediilor sociale - ce au avut un rol major în difuzarea revoltelor populare - şi primăverii arabe", a declarat Sveen. Până în prezent, 2004 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/retelele-de-socializare-nu-fac-destul-pentru-a-proteja-viata-privata-a-minorilor-raport-ce/ retelele-de-socializare-nu-fac-destul-pentru-a-proteja-viata-privata-a-minorilor-raport-ce Sat, 1 Oct 2011 00:04:55 +0300 Doar doua site-uri de socializare din noua au setari standard care nu permit accesarea profilurilor minorilor decat de persoanele din lista lor de contacte autorizate, arata un raport al CE care recomanda retelelor sociale sa ia in serios responsabilitatea pe care o au fata de utilizatorii foarte tineri. Comisia Europeana vrea pana la finele anului sa elaboreze o strategie gandita sa faca interntul mai sigur pentru copii si pregateste o serie de recomandari in acest sens.Conform unei noi serii de teste efectuate la solicitarea Comisiei Europene, doar doua site-uri de socializare din noua (Habbo Hotel si Xbox Live) au setari standard care nu permit accesarea profilurilor minorilor decat de persoanele din lista lor de contacte autorizate.Cu toate acestea, cea mai mare parte a site-urilor ofera tinerilor informatii privind siguranta adaptate varstei, recomandari si/sau materiale educative destinate in mod specific minorilor; de asemenea, site-urile respective raspund la solicitarile de asistenta. Sapte site-uri au raspuns la solicitari de asistenta, din care majoritatea in mai putin de o zi.Doua site-uri (Dailymotion si Windows Live) se asigura ca minorii nu pot fi contactati in mod automat decat de prieteni prin intermediul mesajelor publice sau private. Pe toate site-urile testate minorii pot primi cereri de prietenie de la oricine. Pe sase dintre site-urile testate, profilurile minorilor pot fi accesate direct de prieteni ai prietenilor. Toate site-urile testate pun la dispozitie o versiune prescurtata si mai usor de inteles pentru copii a conditiilor de utilizare sau a codului de conduita."Tinerii se bucura de retelele de socializare online, care le aduc mari ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/companii-ca-apple-si-google-cer-o-vacanta-fiscala-pentru-profituri-offshore-de-1000-mld-dolari/ companii-ca-apple-si-google-cer-o-vacanta-fiscala-pentru-profituri-offshore-de-1000-mld-dolari Sat, 1 Oct 2011 00:04:21 +0300 O coaliţie de companii, în frunte cu Apple, Google şi Cisco Systems, exercită presiuni pentru obţinerea unei "vacanţe fiscale" pentru repatrierea unor profituri offshore de peste 1.000 de miliarde de dolari şi apelează la activişti cu relaţii înalte în Congresul american, relatează Bloomberg. Unul dintre aceşti activişti este Jeffrey Forbes, fost şef de cabinet al preşedintelui comitetului pentru finanţe din Senat, Max Baucus. Forbes face parte dintr-o armată de peste 160 de activişti, dintre care cel puţin 60 au lucrat pentru un membru al Camerei Reprezentanţilor şi Senatului. Rolul lor este să convingă Congresul să decidă o pauză fiscală care ar costa guvernul american 78,7 miliarde de dolari în următorul deceniu. Studii independente au arătat că ultima oară când s-a încercat o astfel de facilitate fiscală, în 2004, condiţiile oferite pentru repatrierea profiturilor offshore, precum impozitarea extrem de scăzută a acestora, au stimulat prea puţin crearea de locuri de muncă sau investiţiile interne, iar majoritatea banilor au fost folosiţi de companii la răscumpărarea de acţiuni. "Este o problemă care implică o mulţime de oameni angajaţi de corporaţii care îşi promovează propriile interese, nu intersul public", a declarat James Thurber, director al Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies la American University din Washington. Studiile au dovedit că banii repatriaţi în 2004 au ajuns la un număr restrâns de acţionari ai unor companii, dar în Congres creşte sprijinul pentru o "vacanţă fiscală", pe măsură ce companiile îşi extind echipele de activişti. Unul dintre argumente este că fluxul mai mare de capital va stimula economia americană. "Sunt multe probleme foarte importante, complexe, care nu par de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-chrome-se-pregateste-sa-depaseasca-firefox/ google-chrome-se-pregateste-sa-depaseasca-firefox Sat, 1 Oct 2011 00:04:00 +0300 Calitatea browser-ului propriu-zis dar şi promovarea agresivă au făcut ca Google Chrome să crească literalmente într-un an, câţi alţii-n zece. Drept urmare, browser-ul celor de la Google va avea până la finele anului o cotă mai mare decât Firefox. În prezent, primele trei browsere după cota de piaţă sunt: Internet Explorer cu 41,7 %, Firefox cu 26,8% şi Chrome cu 23,6%. Dintre cele trei, singurul care a crescut a fost Google Chrome. Din ianuarie până în septembrie Chrome a câştigat 8 procente, adică a reuşit să-şi crească cota de piaţă cu aproximativ 50%. Practic, Google Chrome reuşeşte să câştige adepţi atât din rândul utilizatorilor de Internet Explorer, cât şi de Firefox. Citeşte mai departe pe go4it.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-isi-extinde-operatiunile-in-europa/ google-isi-extinde-operatiunile-in-europa Sat, 1 Oct 2011 00:03:49 +0300 Reprezentanţi ai companiei de internet Google au declarat, vineri, că îşi vor diversifica operaţiunile europene administrate de la birourile din Dublin, investind 75 de milioane de euro în crearea unui centru de date care va crea 30 de noi locuri de muncă, transmite Reuters. Google are circa 2.000 de angajaţi în cele cinci birouri de la Dublin, unde şi alte companii precum Facebook, Zynga, LinkedIn şi Twitter şi-au înfiinţat sedii în ultimii doi ani. Motorul de căutare Google a împlinit recent 13 ani de la înfiinţare. Alegerea zilei de 27 septembrie ca dată aniversară pentru Google pare mai degrabă o comoditate, nefiind data reală la care compania a fost înfiinţată. Google a sărbătorit pe 7 septembrie (data la care societatea a fost înfiinţată) aniversarea sa, până în anul 2005. În 2005, Google a decis să schimbe data aniversară pentru 27 septembrie, pentru a o face să coincidă cu data la care s-a anunţat un număr record de pagini pe care acest motor de căutare îl are indexat. În timp ce Google intră în anii săi de adolescenţă, în ceea ce priveşte termenii economici, compania este bine ancorată pe piaţă, fiind lider în sectorul motoarelor de căutare, însumând peste 90% din totalul căutărilor efectuate pe internet, potrivit mai multor cabinete statistice din Europa. Browser-ul companiei, Chrome, avea 22% din piaţa mondială în luna iulie, Microsoft Internet Explorer avea 42,5%, iar Mozilla Firefox deţinea 28%. Sistemul de operare Google Android este şi el pe cale să devină actorul dominant pe piaţa telefoanelor de ultimă generaţie. Veniturile Google au crescut cu ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-bus-aims-to-support-tech-in-egypt/ google-bus-aims-to-support-tech-in-egypt Sat, 1 Oct 2011 00:03:08 +0300 (CNN) -- Tech helped fuel Egypt's revolution. Now it could put the country get on the path toward a more stable democracy. At least that's the hope of Google, which is kicking off a program called Edba2 -- Arabic for "start" -- to fund and otherwise support emerging technology companies in Egypt. "We believe technology will actually change the economics of this part of the world -- will change the culture of this part of the world -- and it will have a political impact," said Wael Fakharany, Google's country manager in Egypt. "We believe it is absolutely the right time to give people hopes and dreams -- not to be rich and famous, but hopes and dreams to be helpful." On Monday, Google employees plan to start a tour of Egypt in a bus that's emblazoned with the Google logo. They'll be searching for would-be tech entrepreneurs who might be interested in entering a 7-month competition for tech start-ups. The winner, which will be announced in May, will get a $200,000 prize from Google. Other finalists will have a chance to pitch their ideas in front of Silicon Valley investors at an event in Cairo, Fakharany said. "Google is looking for the next Google in the Middle East," said Maha Abouelenein, a Google spokeswoman. She added that Google was started by two entrepreneurs who got a check for $100,000 -- half the amount of the Egypt prize. This type of project -- where Google has invested in a start-up competition to support the tech industry of a particular country ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-paying-developers-to-build-mobile-apps/ nokia-paying-developers-to-build-mobile-apps Sat, 1 Oct 2011 00:01:45 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- As Nokia prepares for its next crucial venture into the U.S. and high-end smartphones, the Finnish cell-phone maker is missing a crucial piece: an abundant catalog of applications. Nokia is attempting to woo app developers with such incentives as pre-installing their software on the forthcoming phone, prominent promotion for their products and funding development of an app, according to three people involved in the negotiations. A vibrant app store has become a major selling point to smartphone customers. In the past, Nokia, which sells the highest volume of mobile phones worldwide, has made efforts to work with some creators of apps for its platforms. A Nokia spokeswoman said the company offers app developers a variety of incentives, some in partnership with Microsoft, which include coding assistance and marketing. "We do not disclose these arrangements, as each is different," she said. Microsoft declined to comment for this story. The premiere phone, which is codenamed Sea Ray and currently being field tested by company executives, will be Nokia's first to run Windows Phone 7, the year-old mobile operating system from Microsoft. Nokia is expected to release the phone in the next few months, say two executives who are familiar with the plans but not authorized to speak publicly. On Tuesday, Microsoft began distributing the new version of Windows Phone, which will run on the Nokia device. Last year, Microsoft made similar offers to developers that make apps trendy on other platforms. Some companies took the cash, but others declined because they feared wasting time working on a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/probe-dents-chinese-stocks-in-us/ probe-dents-chinese-stocks-in-us Sat, 1 Oct 2011 00:01:38 +0300 (Financial Times) -- Prices of US-listed Chinese stocks fell after the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement chief said the Department of Justice is looking into accounting practices at Chinese companies, following a series of high-profile scandals this year. Internet stocks were hit hardest. Baidu, the search engine company, fell 9.2 per cent to $110.29 and e-commerce site Sina was down 9.7 per cent to $73.23 on Thursday. The recently listed video streaming site Youku fell 18.3 per cent to $16.24. In 2010, the SEC launched an investigation into so-called reverse mergers, which allow companies to bypass the scrutiny of an initial public offering by taking over a shell company already listed on a US exchange. That investigation has focused in on accounting practices after at least 25 New York-listed Chinese firms disclosed discrepancies in their filings, or saw their auditors withdraw, in the first half of 2011. On Thursday, Robert Khuzami, SEC enforcement director, told Reuters that "parts of the justice department are actively engaged in this area," as well. The DoJ did not comment, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation and US prosecutors are investigating some China-based companies that have accessed US markets, people familiar with the matter say. The SEC has referred investigations to the justice department in the past where there has been evidence of criminal wrongdoing. It is not clear in this case if the DoJ has launched an investigation independently. Ryan Detrick, technical analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research, said he was not surprised to see investors take money out of Chinese internet stocks. "So much money went into ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/accounts-probe-dents-chinese-stocks-in-us/ accounts-probe-dents-chinese-stocks-in-us Sat, 1 Oct 2011 00:00:45 +0300 (Financial Times) -- Prices of US-listed Chinese stocks fell after the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement chief said the Department of Justice is looking into accounting practices at Chinese companies, following a series of high-profile scandals this year. Internet stocks were hit hardest. Baidu, the search engine company, fell 9.2 per cent to $110.29 and e-commerce site Sina was down 9.7 per cent to $73.23 on Thursday. The recently listed video streaming site Youku fell 18.3 per cent to $16.24. In 2010, the SEC launched an investigation into so-called reverse mergers, which allow companies to bypass the scrutiny of an initial public offering by taking over a shell company already listed on a US exchange. That investigation has focused in on accounting practices after at least 25 New York-listed Chinese firms disclosed discrepancies in their filings, or saw their auditors withdraw, in the first half of 2011. On Thursday, Robert Khuzami, SEC enforcement director, told Reuters that "parts of the justice department are actively engaged in this area," as well. The DoJ did not comment, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation and US prosecutors are investigating some China-based companies that have accessed US markets, people familiar with the matter say. The SEC has referred investigations to the justice department in the past where there has been evidence of criminal wrongdoing. It is not clear in this case if the DoJ has launched an investigation independently. Ryan Detrick, technical analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research, said he was not surprised to see investors take money out of Chinese internet stocks. "So much money went into ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/subiectele-zilei-amantii-elenei-ceausescu-scandalul-fondurilor-europene-iartarea-pacatelor-cum-a-scapat-cristache-radulescu-pdl-de-o-corectie-de-10-milioane-de-euro-de-la-udrea-buget-2000-de-euro-un-an-de-libertate-23-de-tari-vizitate/ subiectele-zilei-amantii-elenei-ceausescu-scandalul-fondurilor-europene-iartarea-pacatelor-cum-a-scapat-cristache-radulescu-pdl-de-o-corectie-de-10-milioane-de-euro-de-la-udrea-buget-2000-de-euro-un-an-de-libertate-23-de-tari-vizitate Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:07:00 +0300 Amantii Elenei Ceausescu. O admira pe Evita Peron. Olanesti, cuibusorul de nebunii. Nicolae Stan, generalul locotenent care a fost aghiotantul lui Nicolae Ceausescu timp de 1.146 de zile, a acceptat sa acorde primul interviu din viata sa cotidianului "Evenimentul zilei". Printre alte detalii inedite despre viata cuplului de dictatori, Nicolae Stan dezvaluie ca Elena Ceausescu a avut mai multi amanti, printre care s-au numarat fizicianul Ioan Ursu, dar si un personaj din primul esalon al nomenclaturii comuniste. Integral in EVZ. Ultimatum de la Fisc pentru Gigi Becali. Gigi Becali incearca acum, in Justitie, sa scape de datoriile pe care ANAF sustine ca le are catre stat. Cel supranumit "latifundiarul din Pipera" este somat sa plateasca la stat peste 14 milioane de lei (aproximativ 3,4 milioane de euro), la care se vor adauga dobanzi si penalitati. Cel mai inalt for din ANAF - Directia Generala de Solutionare a Contestatiilor - a decis irevocabil ca Becali sa dea acesti bani, in caz contrar va fi executat silit. Pentru a  scapa de o eventuala executare silita a bunurilor, latifundiarul mai cere judecatorilor Curtii de Apel Bucuresti sa suspende  executarea deciziei de impunere, pana la solutionarea definitiva si irevocabila a acestei cauze, anunta Adevarul. Cum se vede Romania de la adapostul unei firme bulgaresti. Un patron "fugit" peste Dunare a acceptat sa vorbeasca cu RL. Fiscalitatea ridicata, dar si birocratia stupida l-au determinat pe Adrian Radulescu, patronul unei mici firme de intermediere in transporturi, veche pe piata de sapte ani, sa isi mute afacerea peste Dunare, la Ruse. Acesta ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-a-decurs-testul-de-zbor-al-avionului-supersonic-romanesc-constructia-aparatului-ar-putea-fi-terminata-in-acest-an-video/ cum-a-decurs-testul-de-zbor-al-avionului-supersonic-romanesc-constructia-aparatului-ar-putea-fi-terminata-in-acest-an-video Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:05:44 +0300 Asociaţia Română pentru Cosmonautică şi Aeronautică (ARCA) are în plan să termine de construit primul avion supersonic românesc, IAR-111 Excelsior, după ce a efectuat cu succes primul test în zbor, cu cabina acestuia, luni, în largul Mării Negre, au anunţat reprezentanţii ARCA joi într-o conferinţă. La conferinţa ce a avut loc joi, în Capitală, au participat preşedintele ARCA, Dumitru Popescu, alături de reprezentanţi ai Inspectoratului General de Aviaţie din Ministerul Afacerilor Interne (MAI) şi ai Grupului de Nave al Poliţiei de Frontieră Mangalia, instituţii care au contribuit la realizarea primului test în zbor cu cabina avionului supersonic IAR-111 Excelsior. Aparatul de zbor construit de ARCA va fi folosit pentru lansarea rachetei spaţiale Haas II pentru competiţia Google Lunar X Prize, dar şi pentru dezvoltarea turismului spaţial. Acest prim test în zbor la aparat, cu cabina, care a fost ridicată de un elicopter al MAI deasupra Mării Negre şi eliberată, amerizând cu succes şi fiind apoi recuperată de acelaşi elicopter, cu sprijinul a două nave ale Poliţiei de Frontieră, reprezintă un tip de testare care se face foarte rar, din motive de siguranţă, nemaifiind realizat, printre altele, decât de Agenţia spaţială americană (NASA) şi compania americană Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (Space X), au declarat pentru MEDIAFAX reprezentanţii ARCA. Testarea cabinei, efectuată luni, a presupus ridicarea acesteia la altitudinea de 700 de metri, cu un elicopter Mi-17, deasupra Mării Negre. Elicopterul a eliberat apoi cabina, secvenţă urmată de declanşarea motorului de rachetă al paraşutei de recuperare, care a adus cabina pe suprafaţa mării. Cabina presurizată a amerizat după un zbor ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analiza-de-ce-s-a-inchis-fabrica-nokia-de-la-cluj/ analiza-de-ce-s-a-inchis-fabrica-nokia-de-la-cluj Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:05:10 +0300 De la condiţii economice incomode la corupţie şi mentalităţi învechite, românii s-au obişnuit să audă că este vina lor atunci când o companie mare evită piaţa autohtonă sau se mută în altă ţară. Închiderea fabricii Nokia din Cluj nu are legătură însă cu România, ci cu încercarea disperată a grupului finlandez de a se adapta, după ani de decădere, la transformările tumultoase ale pieţei telefoanelor şi gadget-urilor mobile care au venit după reinventarea smartphone-ului de către Apple şi Google şi răspândirea în ritm accelerat a internetului wireless de mare viteză. Nokia şi-a anunţat joi dimineaţă cei 2.200 de angajaţi de la Jucu, judeţul Cluj, că nu vor mai avea de lucru de anul viitor. Fabrica a fost deschisă la începutul lui 2008, fiind considerată o mare victorie pentru o ţară care parcă nu aflase încă de criza financiară care mocnea în SUA şi nu ştia că boom-ul economic alimentat de credit avea să se încheie cu o recesiune dureroasă, urmată de venituri mai mici, concedieri şi un pesimism tot mai profund. Fabrica se va închide până la sfârşitul anului, iar angajaţii vor fi introduşi, conform politicii corporatiste a Nokia, într-un program de sprijin şi reorientare profesională. Vor primi şi bani în plus, a anunţat grupul, pentru o tranziţie mai uşoară către un eventual nou loc de muncă. Premierul Emil Boc le-a spus miercuri miniştrilor că există un risc major de delocalizare a unor investiţii multinaţionale din România, deoarece criza economică accentuează competiţia globală, şi că Guvernul trebuie să fie pregătit ca, într-o asemenea eventualitate, să atragă alte investiţii străine ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cronologie-prezenta-nokia-in-romania-de-la-semnarea-actului-de-infiintare-in-2007-la-inchiderea-fabricii-patru-ani-mai-tarziu/ cronologie-prezenta-nokia-in-romania-de-la-semnarea-actului-de-infiintare-in-2007-la-inchiderea-fabricii-patru-ani-mai-tarziu Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:03:51 +0300 Anunţul de joi privind închiderea fabricii Nokia de la Jucu are loc la patru ani şi jumătate de la semnarea memorandumului privind înfiinţarea acesteia şi după pierderea statutului de lider de piaţă, retrogradări de rating ale companiei şi concedieri. Agenţia de presă MEDIAFAX prezintă o cronologie referitoare la situaţia comapniei Nokia de la semnarea memorandumului pentru fabrica de la Jucu: * 26 martie 2007 - La Guvern, este semnat Memorandumul privind asocierea în participaţiune între Consiliul Judeţean Cluj şi compania finlandeză Nokia pentru deschiderea unei fabrici de telefoane mobile şi a unui centru de cercetare, investiţie estimată la 200 milioane euro. Documentul a fost semnat de preşedintele CJ Cluj Marius Nicoară şi de Raimo Puntala, vicepreşedinte al companiei Nokia, în prezenţa premierului Călin Popescu Tăriceanu. Premierul Călin Popescu Tăriceanu afirma că investiţia în parcul industrial presupune înfiinţarea în următorii ani a aproximativ 15.000 de locuri de muncă, dar şi asigurarea reţelelor de utilităţi şi a infrastructurii de transport, arătând că este de datoria Guvernului să se asocieze cu autorităţile locale pentru concretizarea unui astfel de proiect. Costurile destinate construirii fabricii de telefoane mobile erau estimate la 60 de milioane de euro, fabrica urmând să devină a 11-a mare fabrică de terminale mobile deţinută de grup. Tot atunci, preşedintele Consiliului Judeţean Cluj, Marius Nicoară, preciza că, pentru introducerea utilităţilor pe terenul de 159 de hectare a Parcului Industrial de la Jucu sunt necesare 33 milioane euro, din care 10 milioane euro urmau să fie asigurate de autorităţile judeţene şi locale, iar restul sumei din fonduri guvernamentale. Nokia primea cu titlu ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/kindle-fire-vs-ipad-which-is-right-for-you/ kindle-fire-vs-ipad-which-is-right-for-you Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:02:18 +0300 (CNN) -- With Amazon unveiling its much-anticipated Kindle Fire tablet computer Wednesday, we may finally have a real tablet war on our hands. In the nearly 18 months since the iPad went on sale, tablet rivals have come and gone. But Apple's device has remained dominant. Amazon's new entry, though, might be different. Instead of crafting an iPad carbon copy and asking consumers to choose between them, they've pushed out a stripped-down and simplified device that sells for much less than the iPad 2 while skimping on some of that tablet's features. If you're in the market for a tablet, though, here's the real question: Which one, if either, is right for you? We can't say for sure, since we haven't gotten our hands on one yet. (Amazon didn't let reporters demo them at Wednesday's launch event.) Here's a look at how the two devices stack up in some key areas. Price Apple's higher prices make the Fire's price tag look like, well, a fire sale. At $199, the Kindle Fire will be a full $300 cheaper than the lowest-priced iPad 2. That's possibly an easier entry point for folks who are intrigued by the iPad but can't justify spending $500 for a portable computer when they already have a smartphone and a laptop. One reason iPad competitors have had a hard time catching on is that, to make a profit, they're priced about the same as Apple's hit device, which costs $499 to $829, depending on storage capacity and 3G capability. That being the case, the majority of consumers have stuck with the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/amazon39s-39cloud39-browser-raises-privacy-concerns/ amazon39s-39cloud39-browser-raises-privacy-concerns Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:02:16 +0300 (CNN) -- Facebook and Google's privacy issues are well-known. But they're nothing compared with those surrounding Silk, Amazon's in-house Internet browser for its newly announced tablet computer, says Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at British computer security firm Sophos, a British computer security firm. "All of your web surfing habits will transit Amazon's cloud," he writes on Sophos' Naked Security blog. "If you think that Google AdWords and Facebook are watching you, this service is guaranteed to have a record of everything you do on the Web." Amazon, best known for its online marketplace and the Kindle e-reader, unveiled a touch-screen tablet computer on Wednesday called the Kindle Fire. That got lots of chatter in tech circles. What's been less discussed is the new cloud-based Web browser that's loaded onto every one of Amazon's tablets. The Amazon Silk browser appears to work unlike anything on the market today. Most Web browsers -- like Safari, Explorer and Firefox -- connect Internet users directly with websites. Silk filters everything through Amazon's own cloud-computing servers, a move the company claims will vastly speed up the mobile Web experience -- perhaps doubling the speed at which websites load. But privacy advocates say there may be other consequences. "What this means is that Amazon will capture and control every Web transaction performed by Fire users," Chris Espinosa, one of the first Apple employees, wrote on his personal blog. "Every page they see, every link they follow, every click they make, every ad they see is going to be intermediated by one of the largest server ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/razboiul-brevetelor-comisia-internationala-pentru-comert-din-sua-a-deschis-o-investigatie-impotriva-apple-la-plangerea-htc/ razboiul-brevetelor-comisia-internationala-pentru-comert-din-sua-a-deschis-o-investigatie-impotriva-apple-la-plangerea-htc Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:05:02 +0300 ​Comisia Internationala pentru Comert din SUA a decis marti deschiderea unei investigatii pentru a verifica acuzele producatorului taiwanez de telefoane inteligente HTC impotriva Apple, privind folosirea ilegala a unor tehnologii brevetate, transmite BBC. HTC a facut aceasta plangere in luna august si incearca blocarea importurilor de produse Apple pe piata americana. La randul sau, Apple a facut o plangere similara impotriva HTC si multe alte mari companii sunt prinse in prezent in ceea ce este numit "un razboi al patentelor la nivel global".BBC noteaza ca plangerea facuta in august de HTC este doar una din trei astfel de proceduri deschise impotriva Apple. Producatorul american este acuzat ca a incalcat brevete HTC in realizarea nu doar a telefoanelor inteligente (smartphone-uri), ci si in tabletele PC si computere.Reclamatia HTC facuta luna trecuta, vine dupa ce in luna iulie din acest an o decizie preliminara a Comisiei Internationale pentru Comert din SUA a decis ca HTC a incalcat doua brevete ale Apple. HTC a anuntat in iulie ca va face recurs la aceasta decizie a Comisiei Internationale pentru Comert din SUA , iar o hotarare finala ar urma sa fie data pe 6 decembrie de o comisie speciala.Motorola, Nokia, HTC, Apple, Google si Samsung sunt implicate in prezent in unul sau mai multe procese pe tema incalcarii anumitor tehnologii brevetate. Miza o constituie in principal vanzarile in crestere de telefoane inteligente (smartphone-uri).Aceste vanzari au reprezentat motorul cresterii pietei de telecomunicatii inclusiv in Romania, conform unui studiu GFK, publicat luna trecuta. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/supersonicul-romanesc-iar-111-la-primul-test-in-zbor-deasupra-marii-negre/ supersonicul-romanesc-iar-111-la-primul-test-in-zbor-deasupra-marii-negre Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:04:48 +0300 Cabina avionului supersonic IAR-111 Excelsior a fost testată de Asociaţia Română pentru Cosmonautică şi Aeronautică (ARCA), în zbor, luni, deasupra Mării Negre, în cadrul Misiunii 6, evenimentul realizându-se cu succes, au declarat pentru MEDIAFAX reprezentanţii ARCA. Rezultatele misiunii vor fi comunicate joi, de la ora 11.00, în cadrul unei conferinţe de presă organizată în Bucureşti. Pe 19 septembrie, ARCA a anunţat că a finalizat simulările aerodinamice pentru avionul supersonic IAR-111, un aparat destinat lansării rachetei spaţiale Haas II pentru competiţia de astronautică Google Lunar X Prize. Acesta va fi primul avion supersonic românesc care va fi utilizat şi pentru dezvoltarea tehnologiilor pentru turismul spaţial. AR-CA a început simulările Computer Fluid Dynamics (CFD) pentru avionul IAR-111 Excelsior în anul 2010. De atunci, ARCA a continuat aceste simulări pentru toate configuraţiile posibile de zbor. Durata mare a acestor simulări a fost determinată de complexitatea şi cantitatea calculului necesar. În această perioadă, trei computere de la ARCA au funcţionat aproape nonstop. "La sfârşitul anului 2010 aveam deja o imagine clară asupra configuraţiei avionului IAR-111 Excelsior, în urma rulării simulărilor aerodinamice. Acest lucru ne-a permis să demarăm lucrul la avion, la începutul anului 2011. De atunci, au fost rulate simulări pentru toate configuraţiile de zbor, altitudini şi viteze. Aceste simulări ne-au indicat să efectuăm câteva modificări care au optimizat geometria avionului, chiar în timpul procesului de construcţie, precum coborârea motorului avionului cu 30 cm sub planul aripii, creşterea anvergurii aripii cu 90 cm etc. În acest moment este foarte probabil să menţinem această configuraţie a aparatului", a declarat în 19 septembrie Dumitru Popescu, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/samsung-a-incheiat-acorduri-de-software-cu-intel-si-microsoft-pentru-a-reduce-expunerea-la-android/ samsung-a-incheiat-acorduri-de-software-cu-intel-si-microsoft-pentru-a-reduce-expunerea-la-android Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:04:40 +0300 Samsung Electronics, al doilea mare producător de telefoane mobile la nivel mondial, a anunţat miercuri acorduri de colaborare în domeniul software cu Intel şi Microsoft, pentru a-şi reduce expunerea la sistemul de operare Android furnizat de Google. Compania sud-coreeană a devenit rapid unul dintre cei mai mari producători de smartphone-uri din lume, datorită produselor care folosesc platforma Android. Potrivit analiştilor, acordurile indică intenţia Samsung de a reduce dependenţa de Android, după ce Google a preluat în august Motorola Mobility, pentru 12,5 miliarde de dolari. "Acordul Google-Motorola motivează Samsung să reducă dependenţa de Android", a declarat Matthew Thornton, analist la firma Avian Securities. Microsoft şi Samsung au semnat miercuri un nou acord pentru dezvoltarea şi comercializarea de telefoane cu sistem de operare Windows şi au convenit un acord de acordare reciprocă de licenţe. Samsung a mai folosit în trecut software Microsoft. Două grupuri furnizoare de soft Linux, unul susţinut de Samsung, iar celălalt de Intel, au anunţat că vor dezvolta împreună un nou sistem de operare pentru telefoane mobile şi alte aparate. Astfel, LiMo Foundation şi Linux Foundation vor fuziona sistemele de operare pentru telefoanele mobile, LiMo şi Meego, dar analiştii cred că noua platformă, Tizen, va avea probabil probleme pe piaţă. Grupul Nokia, cel mai mare producător de telefoane mobile din lume în funcţie de volum, a fost nevoit în acest an să renunţe la propriul sistem de operare Symbian, în favoarea Windows Phone al Microsoft. În prezent, Windows Phone are o cotă pe piaţa smartphone de 2%-3%, LiMo şi Meego de sub 1% fiecare, în timp ce cota Android este de aproape ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-logo-special-pentru-google-care-implineste-13-ani/ video-logo-special-pentru-google-care-implineste-13-ani Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:06:11 +0300 Google a creat un logo special pentru a marca aniversarea a 13 ani de la crearea motorului de cautare Google. Gigantul este apreciat de milioane de utilizatori din toata lumea.Compania americana a fost fondata in 1998 de catre doi doctoranzi de la Universitatea Stanford, Larry Page si Sergey Brin. Google ofera o metoda simpla si rapida de gasire a informatiilor pe web, avand o baza de date despre peste 8 miliarde de situri web. La inceputul anului 2004, Google raspundea zilnic la mai mult de 200 milioane de consultari. Compania a pornit cu o investitie de 100.000 de dolari care a venit din partea unuia dintre co-fondatorii Sun Microsystems, Andy Bechtolsheim, care considera ca un motor de cautare pe internet poate revolutiona lumea. Numele Google este un joc de cuvinte de la googol, neologism pus in circulatie de catre americanul Milton Sirotta in anul 1938, prin care acesta desemna numarul urias format dintr-un 1 urmat de 100 de zerouri (10100). Google dispune si de motoare de cautare pentru imagini, carti, bloguri, grupuri de stiri si directoare web.La sfarsitul anului 2007 a fost cotat drept cea mai puternica marca globala, dupa criteriul valorii in milioane de dolari (86057 milioane dolari SUA), dar si dupa modul de perceptie de catre utilizatori. Urmeaza companiile General Electric, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, China Mobile, IBM, Apple, McDonald's, Nokia si Marlboro. De asemenea, conform unui sondaj realizat de Harris Interactive, Google a fost declarata, la sfarsitul lui 2007, ca fiind compania americana cu cea mai buna reputatie, mai ales datorita modului in care ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/update-10-milioane-de-telefoane-galaxy-s-ii-vandute-la-nivel-mondial-de-la-lansarea-din-luna-aprilie-2011in-romania-s-au-vandut-circa-50000-de-terminale/ update-10-milioane-de-telefoane-galaxy-s-ii-vandute-la-nivel-mondial-de-la-lansarea-din-luna-aprilie-2011in-romania-s-au-vandut-circa-50000-de-terminale Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:05:10 +0300 Samsung Electronics a reusit sa vanda, pana in prezent, la nivel global 10 milioane de terminale Galaxy S II, varianta imbunatatita a celui mai bine vandut telefon bazat pe sistemul de operare Android (Galaxy S), de la lansarea pe piata a acestuia la sfarsitul lunii aprilie din acest an, a anuntat marti reprezentanta din Romania. Sorin Manea, manager de divizie la Samsung Electronics Romania sustine ca pe piata locala s-au vandut circa 50.000 de unitati, telefonul aflandu-se in topul preferintelor utilizatorilor.UPDATE Samsung Romania a revenit marti precizand ca pana acum s-au vandut 50.000 de terminale Galaxy S II pe piata locala, si nu 10.000 de unitati cum mentionase anterior.Cea de-a doua generatie de Galaxy S are un ecran cu o diagonala 4,3 inci (~11 centimetri), printre cele mai mari din piata, o grosime extrem de redusa, de doar opt milimetri, si o greutate redusa, de 116 grame. Pe Galaxy S II ruleaza cea mai noua varianta a sistemului de operare Google Android pentru telefoane inteligente, 2.3 Gingerbread, personalizata de Samsung printr-o noua versiune a interfetei personalizate TouchWiz.Citeste mai multe pe StyleReport.ro: REVIEW Samsung Galaxy S II - noul standard Android http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vrei-sa-studiezi-manuscrisele-de-la-marea-moarta-poti-sa-le-vezi-online-video/ vrei-sa-studiezi-manuscrisele-de-la-marea-moarta-poti-sa-le-vezi-online-video Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:05:04 +0300 Manuscrisele de la Marea Moartă, care conţin cel mai vechi document biblic, sunt disponibile online în varianta originală şi pot fi traduse în limba engleză. Manuscrisele pot fi consultate cu ajutorul unei opţiuni Google disponibilă pe site-ul Muzeului Israelului din Ierusalim, scrie dailymail.co.uk. "A fost nevoie de 24 de secole, de munca arheologilor şi a istoricilor şi de internet pentru a pune Manuscrisele de la Marea Moartă la dispoziţia oricui în lume", scrie într-o postare pe blogul Google. Proiectul a fost dezvoltat în parteneriat cu grupul de internet Google, iar costurile sunt estimate la 3,5 milioane de dolari (2,5 milioane de euro). Fotografiile manuscriselor apar la o rezoluţie de 1.200 de megapixeli, care a fost realizată cu ajutorul unei tehnici ce a "scanat" documentele până la 50 de minute. Imaginile sunt atât de clare încât se poate observa cât de subţire şi fragilă este pielea de animal pe care au fost scrise manuscrisele. "Manuscrisele ne dau posibilitatea de a înţelege începutul istoriei biblice. Pentru noi nu există un artefact mai important", a declarat directorul muzeului Israelului, James Snyder. Cinci din cele opt manuscrise ce se află la Muzeul Israelului au fost digitalizate iar documentele pot fi traduse în limba engleză. Cele aproximativ 900 de manuscrise, papirusuri şi pergamente, găsite între anii 1947 şi 1956 într-o peşteră din regiunea Qumrân, la ţărmul Mării Moarte, sunt considerate unele dintre cele mai importante descoperiri arheologice din istorie. Ele conţin texte religioase în ebraică, aramaică şi greacă, precum şi cel mai vechi "testament" cunoscut. Cele mai vechi documente datează din secolul al 3-lea î.e.n., iar cel mai ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-implineste-13-ani-motorul-de-cautare-sarbatoreste-cu-un-logo-special/ google-implineste-13-ani-motorul-de-cautare-sarbatoreste-cu-un-logo-special Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:04:52 +0300 Motorul de căutare Google sărbătoreşte 13 ani de la înfiinţare, cu un logo special, care a fost plasat, marţi, pe pagina sa de start. În 1998, doi studenţi de la Universitatea Stanford (SUA), Larry Page şi Sergey Brin, au decis să lucreze împreună pentru a înfiinţa o societate care să schimbe pentru totdeauna faţa internetului. Google are sediul central în Silicon Valley şi birouri în America de Nord şi de Sud, Europa şi Asia. Pentru cea de-a 13-a aniversare, Google a postat pe pagina sa de start o fotografie care prezintă elementele clasice întâlnite în cadrul unei petreceri: un tort cu 13 lumânări aşezat pe o masă, iar literele care compun cuvântul "Google" au deasupra lor câte un coif colorat. Pachete cu cadouri şi baloane colorate întregesc această ambianţă festivă. Alegerea zilei de 27 septembrie ca dată aniversară pentru Google pare mai degrabă o comoditate, nefiind data reală la care compania a fost înfiinţată. Google a sărbătorit pe 7 septembrie (data la care societatea a fost înfiinţată) aniversarea sa, până în anul 2005. În 2005, Google a decis să schimbe data aniversară pentru 27 septembrie, pentru a o face să coincidă cu data la care s-a anunţat un număr record de pagini pe care acest motor de căutare îl are indexat. În timp ce Google intră în anii săi de adolescenţă, în ceea ce priveşte termenii economici, compania este bine ancorată pe piaţă, fiind lider în sectorul motoarelor de căutare, însumând peste 90% din totalul căutărilor efectuate pe internet, potrivit mai multor cabinete statistice din Europa. Navigatorul său Web Chrome avea ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-sarbatoreste-13-ani-printr-un-logo-special/ google-sarbatoreste-13-ani-printr-un-logo-special Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:04:12 +0300 Motorul de căutare Google sărbătoreşte 13 ani de la înfiinţare, cu un logo special, care a fost plasat pe pagina sa de start. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/samsung-increzatoare-ca-isi-va-atinge-tinta-de-vanzari-de-tablete-pc-in-acest-an-in-ciuda-proceselor-cu-apple/ samsung-increzatoare-ca-isi-va-atinge-tinta-de-vanzari-de-tablete-pc-in-acest-an-in-ciuda-proceselor-cu-apple Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:05:19 +0300 Samsung Electronics, al doilea mare producator mondial de telefoane mobile, sustine ca va putea in continuare sa isi atinga obiectivele de vanzari de tablete PC in acest an, in ciuda litigiilor in instanta cu Apple, care incearca blocarea vanzarii acestora in anumite tari, informeaza Bloomberg. Compania inregistreaza o evolutie buna in privinta tintei de a-si majora in acest an de cinci ori valoarea vanzarilor de tablete PC comparativ cu anul 2010, conform obiectivelor propuse, a declarat luni in Seul, seful diviziei de telefonie mobila al Samsung, J.K. Shin.Samsung si Apple s-au dat reciproc in judecata in diferite tari, acuzandu-se de incalcarea unor patente tehnologice. Totul a inceput in luna aprilie din acest an, cand Apple a deschis un proces impotriva Samsung in Statele Unite ale Americii, acuzand compania sud-coreeana ca prin producerea terminalelor Galaxy ar copia grosolan propriile terminale iPhone si iPad. Lucrurile nu s-au oprit aici, iar Samsung a ripostat dand in judecata Apple in Coreea de Sud, Japonia si Germania.Apple a reusit sa obtina blocarea vanzarilor tabletei Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germania, piata despre care analistii companiei de cercetare Strategy Analytics estimeaza ca va fi a treia ca marime din Europa in ceea ce priveste vanzarile de astfel de produse.In Australia, Samsung a amanat lansarea acestei tablete PC pana la sfarsitul acestei luni, din cauza unui proces care are loc in aceasta saptamana.Samsung, care nu a anuntat cate tablete PC a vandut anul trecut, a vandut cel mai probabil circa 1,6 milioane de unitati Galaxy Tab pe care ruleaza sistemul de operare Google ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-honors-jim-henson-with-doodle/ google-honors-jim-henson-with-doodle Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:01:56 +0300 (CNN) -- The man behind the Muppets, Fraggle Rock and many of Sesame Street's most beloved puppets got a 21st-century shout-out Friday, in the former of an interactive "doodle" atop Google's main search engine page. Jim Henson, who died in May of 1990, would have turned 75 on Friday. In his honor, the northern California technology company created a doodle with images of puppets much like those he'd created over the course of his legendary career. Google posted a message on its official blog, in which Brian Henson, the chairman of The Jim Henson Company, described his father as a playful, happy, forgiving, visionary and creative figure. "Every day for him was joyously filled with the surprises of other people's ideas," he wrote. "I often think that, if we all lived like that today, not only would life be more interesting, we'd all be a lot happier." On the doodle, the words "Jim Henson's 75th birthday" occasionally appeared when users move their mouse over the graphic. Clicking on the phrase led to a Google search of Jim Henson. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/5-key-features-missing-from-facebook-music/ 5-key-features-missing-from-facebook-music Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:01:54 +0300 (WIRED) -- First, some perspective: Even after yesterday's big Facebook f8 hullabaloo, people will still listen to and discover music without Facebook, as hard as that might be to believe right now, given all the attention paid to the social network's shift into media sharing, which suddenly made Twitter look like the stripped-down communications protocol it has always been. But it would be folly to ignore the effects of Facebook's shift into "verbs" in addition to "nouns," as Mark "Sugar Mountain" Zuckerberg cleverly put it yesterday -- by which he meant that Facebook can now track and share what you do, in addition to the things you like. Yes, Facebook will facilitate legal music sharing -- something the industry has been trying to do ever since Napster electrified (some would say "electrocuted") the music business over 10 years ago. But as important as it is, Facebook's music initiative is missing five key ingredients, all of which are within its grasp: 1. True music sharing We're not saying it would be easy, but if Facebook really wants to help people listen to each other's music, it should let them do so using whatever music service they want. This morning, listening to friends' music through my Facebook Ticker and sharing my music through it, I've already used Spotify, Rdio, Songza, and MOG -- and it's not even 10 a.m. yet. WIRED: Facebook vs. Google+ on privacy True, Facebook has started down the road of universally translating between music services, so that I can hear your songs even if you use Rhapsody and I use ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/este-fiul-meu-homosexual-o-aplicatie-android-destinata-mamelor-starneste-controverse-in-franta/ este-fiul-meu-homosexual-o-aplicatie-android-destinata-mamelor-starneste-controverse-in-franta Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:05:44 +0300 Asociatiile pentru homosexuali din Franta au denuntat duminica o aplicatie pentru telefoanele dotate cu sistem Android, destinata mamelor care doresc sa afle daca fiii lor sunt homosexuali, potrivit AFP. "Fiului dumneavoastra ii place sa se imbrace bine? Ii place fotbalul? S-a batut deja cu cineva? Are o 'cea mai buna' prietena ?" Aplicatia consultata de AFP propune 20 de intrebari pentru mamele ingrijorate, apoi ofera doua verdicte: "Nu trebuie sa va faceti griji, fiul dumneavoastra nu este gay" sau "Nu are rost sa va faceti ca nu vedeti. Fiul dumneavoastra este gay. Acceptati-l si fiti constienta ca nu este alegerea sa"."Este o aplicatie inutila si odioasa, cu intrebari caricaturale", a declarat Louis-Georges Tin, de la Comitetul Idaho (International day against homophobia & trans). "Daca baiatul este gay, este o catastrofa, daca nu, este o usurare", analizeaza el. Pentru Christine LeDoare, de la centrul LGTB (lesbiene, gay, bi si trans), "este stupid si scandalos". "Este foarte trist ca parintii prefera sa foloseasa aplicatia in loc sa vorbeasca cu copiii lor", spune ea. "Cred ca va fi retrasa repede, altfel, va trebui sa depunem o plangere," adauga aceasta. Contactata de France-Presse, o purtatoare de cuvant Google France a explicat ca "aplicatiile nu sunt filtrate inainte de a fi publicate pe Android Market", o platforma deschisa unde dezvoltatorii pot publica aplicatiile lor rapid si usor. "Ele nu sunt retrase decat dupa ce au fost semnalate si revizuite, fiecare caz in parte, cum se intampla acum cu aceasta aplicatie, care urmeaza sa fie revizuita de echipele noastre", a explicat ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-honors-jim-henson-with-muppets-doodle/ google-honors-jim-henson-with-muppets-doodle Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:01:31 +0300 (CNN) -- The man behind the Muppets, Fraggle Rock and many of Sesame Street's most beloved puppets got a 21st-century shout-out Friday, in the former of an interactive "doodle" atop Google's main search engine page. Jim Henson, who died in May of 1990, would have turned 75 on Friday. In his honor, the northern California technology company created a doodle with images of puppets much like those he'd created over the course of his legendary career. Google posted a message on its official blog, in which Brian Henson, the chairman of The Jim Henson Company, described his father as a playful, happy, forgiving, visionary and creative figure. "Every day for him was joyously filled with the surprises of other people's ideas," he wrote. "I often think that, if we all lived like that today, not only would life be more interesting, we'd all be a lot happier." On the doodle, the words "Jim Henson's 75th birthday" occasionally appeared when users move their mouse over the graphic. Clicking on the phrase led to a Google search of Jim Henson. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-google-marcheaza-75-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-creatorului-the-muppets-logo-ul-permite-utilizatorilor-sa-fie-papusari-digitali/ video-google-marcheaza-75-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-creatorului-the-muppets-logo-ul-permite-utilizatorilor-sa-fie-papusari-digitali Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:04:35 +0300 Motorul de cautare Google a creat o animatie interactiva cu 6 marionete care sa inlocuiasca logo-ul clasic, pentru a sarbatori 75 de ani de la nasterea creatorului "The Muppets".Fiecare marioneta inlocuieste o litera din "Google" si se misca in functie de miscarile cursorului. Potrivit Daily Telegraph, cei de la Google au lucrat cu compania Jim Henson pentru logo-ul care va sta pe pagina 36 de ore. Jim Henson (24 septembrie 1936 — 16 mai 1990) a fost un papusar din Mississippi. Dupa ce a creat un program in timpul universitatii, Henson a fost invitat in cadrul celebrei serii Sesame Street. Succesul acesteia a dat nastere show-ului cu papusile Muppets. Fiul lui Henson, Brian, care conduce compania Jim Henson, a afirmat ca tatalui sau i-ar fi placut foarte mult logo-ul. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-sarbatoreste-75-de-ai-de-la-nasterea-creatorului-the-muppets-jim-henson/ google-sarbatoreste-75-de-ai-de-la-nasterea-creatorului-the-muppets-jim-henson Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:03:54 +0300 Google sărbătoreşte sâmbătă 75 de ai de la naşterea creatorului "The Muppets", păpuşarul Jim Henson, prin înlocuirea literelor din logo cu şase imagini animate ale unor personaje din celebrul show de televiziune. Pe pagina de start a motorului de căutare pot fi văzute şase dintre păpuşile Muppets, ce pot fi şi "mânuite" cu ajutorul cursorului. Jim Henson (24 septembrie 1936 -16 mai 1990) a fost un păpuşar american, cel mai bine cunoscut ca fiind creatorul "The Muppets". El a jucat în diferite programe de televiziune, cum ar fi "Sesame Street" şi "The Muppet Show", dar şi în filme inspirate de "The Muppets". A fost de asemenea scenarist, regizor de film nominalizat la Oscar şi producător de televiziune caştigător al premiului Emmy. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-va-avea-noi-aplicatii-site-ul-va-reflecta-mult-mai-precis-ce-citesc-privesc-asculta-sau-mananca-utilizatorii-sai/ facebook-va-avea-noi-aplicatii-site-ul-va-reflecta-mult-mai-precis-ce-citesc-privesc-asculta-sau-mananca-utilizatorii-sai Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:04:33 +0300 Facebook ţinteşte să îşi orienteze utilizatorii pe piaţa de produse şi servicii, prin introducerea unor noi aplicaţii, care vor permite fiecăruia să vadă ce ascultă, citesc şi cumpără prietenii săi, noua strategie fiind anunţată de Mark Zuckerberg, joi, la conferinţa anuală F8 de la San Francisco. Noile aplicaţii ale reţelei de socializare vor furniza fiecărui utilizator informaţii legate de ce fac prietenii săi online, potrivit New York Times. Dacă Frank urmăreşte "The Hangover", Jane ascultă Jay-Z, iar Mark foloseşte adidaşi Nike, miza Facebook şi a companiilor sale partenere este ca preferinţele acestor utilizatori să influenţeze obiceiurile de consum ale prietenilor lor din reţea. Pe scurt, Facebook ţinteşte în prezent să devină un site pe care utilizatorii să petreacă mult timp, dar şi unul care să îi orienteze online şi să-i influenţeze, din ce în ce mai mult, când sunt offline. "Credem că un pas important în continuare este să ajutăm utilizatorii să îşi spună povestea", a spus cofondatorul şi directorul general Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. El a prezentat actuala strategie a reţelei de socializare - un demers de "a regândi unele industrii". Această mişcare făcută de Facebook face mai acerbă lupta cu Google, proprietarul celui mai popular motor de căutare pe internet. Totodată, Google şi-a lansat între timp propria reţea de socializare, Google+, dar aceasta rămâne deocamdată mult în urma Facebook. Astfel, Facebook încearcă să câştige lupta cu Google, prin schimbarea felului în care oamenii găsesc ce îi interesează pe internet. În prezent, majoritatea oamenilor găsesc ce îşi doresc, ştiri, informaţii utile, prin căutare pe web. Însă Facebook încearcă să schimbe acest ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-eric-schmidt-de-la-google-in-fata-senatului-sua-traim-cu-teama-ca-oricand-consumatorii-pot-trece-la-serviciile-concurentilor/ video-eric-schmidt-de-la-google-in-fata-senatului-sua-traim-cu-teama-ca-oricand-consumatorii-pot-trece-la-serviciile-concurentilor Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:05:14 +0300 ​Presedintele Google - Eric Schmidt - a respins in fata Senatului SUA acuzatiile aduse companiei, spunand ca Google nu manipuleaza modul in care sunt afisate rezultatele cautarilor si nu pune piedici concurentei. El a mai spus ca in mod constant Google traieste cu teama ca utilizatorii pot trece la un serviciu al concurentei si a adaugat ca acuzatiile la adresa Google sunt aduse de companii nemultumite de pozitia pe care apar in rezultatele cautarilor. Senatorii nu s-au aratat insa impresionati si spun ca Google nu mai e un simplu motor de cautare, ci o companie cu o imensa putere de a manipula.Senatorul republican de Utah Mike Lee a citat un studiu care arata ca produsele Google apar "ca prin minune" mereu pe locul trei in rezultatele cautarii si a acuzat compania ca manipuleaza aceste rezultate pentru a-si promova produsele in detrimentul concurentei. Un alt senator a spus, in cadrul unei audieri in care Schmidt a fost chestionat cu severitate, ca Google nu mai este de mult timp un simplu motor de cautare, ci o companie care prezinta si ierarhizeaza informatia in functie de propriile interese.Eric Schmidt a respins cu calm toate acuzatiile, spunand ca Google traieste mereu cu teama ca utilizatorii pot oricand sa renunte la serviciile companiei si sa treaca la cele ale concurentei. El mai spune ca site-urile care ofera review-uri despre restaurante si despre diverse destinatii turistice sunt o concurenta cat se poate de serioasa pentru Google."De-asta este bine ca exista libertatea fundamentala a internetului: daca unui consumator nu-i place continutul furnizat ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/road-to-gop-nomination-rolls-through-florida/ road-to-gop-nomination-rolls-through-florida Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:03:07 +0300 (CNN) -- For the second time in a week and a half, Republican presidential candidates will debate in Florida, a state which will play a large part in electing the 2012 GOP nominee. The GOP White House candidates clashed last Monday at a CNN/Tea Party Republican debate at the Florida State Fairgrounds outside Tampa. Thursday night, they'll share the stage at a Republican Party of Florida/Fox News/Google debate in Orlando. At the showdown in Tampa, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who launched his campaign last month and who has surged to the top of national polls, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who was running out front but has been nudged aside to second in the surveys, clashed over Social Security and how to reform the popular government program for seniors. Since then, their war of words has raged on. At a town hall Wednesday in Florida, Romney said Perry's proposals would "not work in any way, shape or form." The Perry campaign responded that Romney was once again "sounding like a Democrat, distorting the truth and trying to scare senior citizens." In an interview with USA Today Wednesday, Romney questioned whether Perry could be elected or if he had the experience to govern -- pointing out his own experience at "turning things around that were in trouble" -- in business, the 1996 Olympics or in his term as governor of Massachusetts. If Americans want "someone to go along with what's already in place, I'm sure that Gov. Perry is fine. If Americans think America needs a turnaround to make our ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-facebook-needs-a-hit/ why-facebook-needs-a-hit Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:01:59 +0300 (CNN) -- As it prepares to host its annual conference Thursday, Facebook is in a funk. No, not the business. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his social network had surpassed 750 million users in July (although there's no telling how many of those are pets), and the company is on track to collect more than $4 billion in sales this year, mostly from advertising. Call it a product funk. Facebook hasn't had a big hit in eons. In August 2010, Facebook introduced Places, which let you check in to locations on your phone, sort of like startup Foursquare. It lasted about a year. Foursquare, meanwhile, just passed 1 billion check-ins. In October, Facebook announced the next version of Facebook Messages. The big idea was that users could get a Facebook.com e-mail address and then use their Facebook handle for all kinds of communications, including e-mail and text messaging. Have you ever seen a single e-mail from a Facebook.com address? This April, Facebook began testing Deals, a daily-discounts service like Groupon or LivingSocial. It lasted about four months before being canceled. Every company has an occasional dud, but Facebook's existing products are starting to suffer as well. Its iPhone app was exciting when it was brand new, but it hasn't gotten a major update in more than a year. And Facebook still doesn't have an iPad app. In the past few weeks, Facebook has rolled out a ton of new features that give users more control over what they share with whom. That seems like a good idea in theory, but it made Facebook a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/users-not-happy-with-new-facebook-changes/ users-not-happy-with-new-facebook-changes Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:01:54 +0300 (CNN) -- Here we go again. Facebook has made big changes to users' pages, and people are responding in droves with their metaphorical "dislike" buttons. News Feeds were popping with not-so-gentle complaints Wednesday as many of the social-networking behemoth's 750 million users began seeing the overhaul. "This is absolutely the worst of the many wrong-headed 'improvements' you have made, and that's quite a feat," a user named Franklin Habit wrote on the site's official Facebook page. "I think Facebook's usefulness to me has now been outstripped by its lack of ease in use." Others were more succinct. "This sucks," wrote user Brandon Howell. "That is all." To be fair, griping about Facebook changes is a time-honored hallmark of the site. Change is hard for some people, and users grumble every time Facebook revamps their pages. And it's perhaps a touch on the ironic side that many of the current complaints are coming from folks who, in turn, complained in December when the current format was rolled out. Or the time before. And the time before that. Which isn't to say that the changes aren't pretty dramatic. Instead of defaulting to your friends' most recent posts, the News Feed (which people hated when it was introduced) is now topped in many cases by what Facebook calls "Top Stories" for you. It uses an algorithm that combines such factors as which friends you interact with most and which friends' posts have the most comments and "likes" on them. That algorithm, of course, was in its infancy on Wednesday, leading many users to say the top stories that ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-da-voie-tuturor-sa-se-inscrie-in-reteaua-sa-sociala-si-adauga-noi-functionalitati/ google-da-voie-tuturor-sa-se-inscrie-in-reteaua-sa-sociala-si-adauga-noi-functionalitati Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:05:23 +0300 Dupa trei luni de test in care internautii puteau deveni membri ai retelei Google+ doar daca primeau invitatie, compania a decis sa ofere acces liber tuturor si a adaugat noi functionalitati. Cei care detin telefoane cu camera frontala si cel putin versiunea 2.3 de Android pot face chat video prin Google+, iar compania a lansat si o optiune de cautare in retaua sociala. Nu s-au publicat date oficiale recente, insa este sigur ca Google+ are peste 25 de milioane de utilizatori.Dupa ce 12 saptamani Google+ a fost in perioada de testare, compania a decis sa ofere acces liber tuturor, iar invitatiile nu mai sunt necesare. Google a fost criticata pentru ca nu a deschis reteaua inca de la inceput pentru toti si destui potentiali utilizatori s-au plans ca nu au putut obtine invitatii in primele zile.Google a prezentat si noi imbunatatiri si functionalitati pentru o mai usoara partajare a informatiilor, link-urilor si clipurilor video intre prietenii din retea. O aplicatie extrem de interesanta tine de posibilitatea de a face chat video pe Google+ prin intermediul smartphone-ului, cu conditia ca terminalele sa fie compatibile si sa ruleze cel putin Android 2.3. Aplicatia Hangouts pe telefon poate fi descarcata din Android Market.O alta veste importanta tine de lansarea unei optiuni de cautare in Google+, asa-numita "social search", optiune care va fi extrem de populara, spun cei de la Google.Google+ intra astfel intr-o noua etapa si, fata de incercarile precedente de creare a unei retele sociale - Orkut si Buzz - aceasta pare mult mai de succes.Totusi, in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/compania-revevol-partener-google-apps-isi-deschide-filiala-in-romania/ compania-revevol-partener-google-apps-isi-deschide-filiala-in-romania Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:05:20 +0300 Compania Revevol, specializata in implementarea solutiilor Google Apps pe diverse piete, isi deschide filiala in Romania printr-un parteneriat incheiat cu compania locala Appnor. Romania este cea de-a 20-a tara in care Revevol intra cu reprezentanta si pana la final de 2011 isi va adauga alte zece piete. Cele doua companii spera ca parteneriatul le va ajuta sa-si adauge in portofoliu cat mai multi clienti din domeniul Enterprise.Revevol Romania va fi formata prin asocierea Revevol Group cu Appnor MSP, reseller local Google Apps.Appnor, companie condusa de Dragos Manac, a promovat solutiile de cloud computing si implementarile pe baza paltformei Google Apps, iar prin asocierea cu Revevol se doreste atragerea unui numar mai mare de clienti companii. Appnor va furniza in continuare servicii sub brandul propriu, insa produsele Google si software vor fi sub brandul Revevol.Lansarea Revevol Romania va avea loc pe 22 septembrie, in prezenta lui Laurent Gasser, CEO Revevol si a lui Dan Bulucea, sef al Google Romania.Appnor MSP s-a infiintat in 2010, detine un centru de date in Bucuresti si inchiriaza si administreaza infrastructura virtuala si dedicata clientilor tip business.Romania este a 20-a tara in care Revevol isi deschide reprezentanta, iar pana la final de an se vor mai adauga zece tari. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pe-scurt-companiile-de-publicitate-outdoor-au-propria-asociatie-conferinta-iab-forum-romania-pe-5-octombrie-grupul-publicis-are-un-nou-director-financiar/ pe-scurt-companiile-de-publicitate-outdoor-au-propria-asociatie-conferinta-iab-forum-romania-pe-5-octombrie-grupul-publicis-are-un-nou-director-financiar Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:05:13 +0300 Trei mari companii de publicitate outdoor din Romania au infiintat Asociatia Romana de Publicitate Exterioara. IAB Romania organizeaza prima editie a conferintei IAB Forum Romania, dedicata publicitatii online, eveniment la care vor participa reprezentanti Yahoo!, Google, BBC Worldwide, PwC, IAB Europe. Iar Olivier Brunet este noul director financiar al Publicis Communication Services Bucuresti. Principalele companii de publicitate outdoor din Romania au infiintat luna aceasta Asociatia Romana de Publicitate Exterioara, care are drept scop sa ajute dezvoltarea si standardizarea pietei locale de publicitate outdoor. Membrii fondatori sunt Euromedia&Betacons, Affichage Romania, News Outdoor Romania. In primul an de activitate, asociatia va fi condusa de Raluca Grigorescu, chief operating officer la News Outdoor Romania. Vezi mai multe despre noua asociatie pe ROAA.ro.  Asociatia IAB Romania organizeaza, in data de 5 octombrie, prima editie a conferintei IAB Forum Romania, dedicat industriei de publicitate online. Potrivit unui comunicat IAB, la eveniment vor participa reprezentanti ai unor companii precum Yahoo!, Deutsche Post/NuggAd, BBC Worldwide, Google, PricewaterhouseCoopers si trei reprezentanti ai IAB Europe. In cadrul evenimentului vor fi discutate: industria romaneasca de publicitate online in context european, tendinte in consumul de media si importanta Internetului in viata consumatorilor, viitorul brandingului online in conditiile presiunii pe performance, utilizarea si eficienta publicitatii online in strategii de branding, integrarea online-ului in strategia de brand, efectele creativitatii online. Vezi detalii pe IABforum.ro.  Grupul Publicis Communication Services Bucuresti, parte a retelei globale Publicis Worldwide, are un nou director financiar in persoana lui Olivier Brunet, potrivit unui comunicat de presa. Acesta se va ocupa de operatiunile financiare ale subsidiarei ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-deschis-reteaua-de-socializare-google-pentru-orice-utilizator/ google-a-deschis-reteaua-de-socializare-google-pentru-orice-utilizator Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:04:59 +0300 Google a deschis reţeaua de socializare Google+, lansată în iunie, pentru orice utilizator care doreşte să se înregistreze, nemaifiind nevoie de o invitaţie de la un membru mai vechi al reţelei, şi a adăugat funcţii de video chat şi căutare pentru a atrage noi membri, transmite Bloomberg. Compania a făcut funcţia Hangouts, care facilitează videoconferinţe în grup, disponibilă pentru telefoane mobile şi pentru redare live pe internet. De asemenea, Google a adăugat noi funcţii de căutare la Google+ şi numeroase alte opţiuni, inclusiv pentru serviciul Hangouts. Astfel, gigantul american a adus numărul de "features" ale Google+, adică funcţii, servicii şi caracteristici care deservesc utilizatorii, la 100. Potrivit ComScore Inc., Google+ a avut circa 29 milioane de vizitatori în luna iulie, când înregistrările se făceau numai pe bază de invitaţie de la un membru actual al reţelei. Google+ reprezintă cel mai ambiţios proiect al Google în zona reţelelor de socializare şi atacă direct Facebook, cel mai mare astfel de serviciu de pe internet, cu peste 750 milioane de membri. Google a lansat luna trecută şi un serviciu de jocuri online în parteneriat cu Zynga, dezvoltatorul FarmVille, şi Rovio Entertainment, creatorul Angry Birds. FarmVille este cel mai de succes joc de pe Facebook, iar Angry Birds este foarte popular pe smartphone-uri şi tablete. Vicepreşedintele Google Vic Gundotra susţine că pe Google+ sunt publicate zilnic peste un miliard de postări, fotografii şi alte tipuri de conţinut. Noua funcţie de căutare de pe reţeaua de socializare poate găsi atât conţinut de pe Google+, cât şi conţinut de pe internet în general. Printre îmbunătăţirile aduse Hangouts, Google vrea să ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/utilizatorii-se-pot-inscrie-pe-google-plus-fara-a-mai-primi-invitatie/ utilizatorii-se-pot-inscrie-pe-google-plus-fara-a-mai-primi-invitatie Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:04:08 +0300 La trei luni de la lansare, reţeaua de socializare Google Plus devine accesibilă tuturor utilizatorilor. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/santorum-asks-google-to-clean-up-search-results-for-his-name/ santorum-asks-google-to-clean-up-search-results-for-his-name Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:03:02 +0300 (CNN) -- Former U.S. Sen. and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has a well-known Google problem. For the uninitiated, if you Google Santorum's name, the first result you'll probably get is not his personal website but a fake definition of "santorum," a sexual byproduct that's a bit too graphic to talk about in detail here. (Of course, you can Google him and easily find out.) We'll get into how that all happened in a second, but here's what's new: On Tuesday, the socially conservative politician lashed out at Google, saying the company could get rid of the sexual references to his name on the search results if it wanted to -- and perhaps would do so if he were a Democrat. "I suspect if something was up there like that about Joe Biden, they'd get rid of it," he told Politico. "If you're a responsible business, you don't let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country." He continued: "To have a business allow that type of filth to be purveyed through their website or through their system is something that they say they can't handle, but I suspect that's not true." Santorum contacted Google and asked the company about the issue, Politico said. In an e-mail to CNN, a Google spokeswoman said, "Google's search results are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the Web. Users who want content removed from the Internet should contact the webmaster of the page directly. Once the webmaster takes the page down from the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/8-netflix-alternatives-compared/ 8-netflix-alternatives-compared Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:02:01 +0300 (WIRED) -- The curtain hasn't even opened on Netflix's new DVD-by-mail spin-off company Qwikster, and many customers are already walking out. The company recently revised its quarterly projections of net subscribers to show 1 million fewer customers than it had previously expected. Much to Netflix's chagrin, folks are realizing that the king of mail-away media isn't the only game in town. We've taken a look at some of Netflix's (and Qwikster's) main competitors, and judged each service accordingly. Do the rest offer enough to stand up to the best? Netflix/Qwikster Also known as Netflix: Redux. It's the same service we know and love, only completely different. Faced with massive customer backlash in the wake of a price hike, Netflix split itself into two separate companies this week. The streaming service will retain the Netflix branding while the DVD-by-mail service will be named Qwikster. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said the split will better serve customers in the long run because each company will be able to better focus on one type of service. Netflix pioneered the DVD-by-mail service, creating an entire industry where one did not exist previously. But after serious flux in Netflix's new pricing system — which split the streaming and DVD mailing services into two separate plans starting at $8 a month minimum — there's no guarantee the company's customers will continue to stick around. WIRED: It's been around the longest, and is the most familiar service. Massive offering of physical mail-away media. New game rental service sounds intriguing. Streaming to all iOS devices and Android smartphones. TIRED: Can you ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/googleaposs-social-network-opens-to-everyone/ googleaposs-social-network-opens-to-everyone Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:01:53 +0300 (CNN) -- Google's answer to Facebook went public on Tuesday afternoon. For the past three months, Google+, the company's social network, was available only to users who had been invited by the company or by friends who already had access to the site. "For the past 12 weeks we've been in field trial, and during that time we've listened and learned a great deal," Google's Vic Gundotra, a senior vice president for engineering, said in a blog post. "We're nowhere near done, but with the improvements we've made so far we're ready to move from field trial to beta, and introduce our 100th feature: open sign-ups. "This way anyone can visit google.com/+, join the project and connect with the people they care about." The update comes as many people who use the site are questioning its value. "My Google+ home page is worse than a ghost town. It doesn't even feel haunted," wrote Rainbow Rowell, a columnist at the Omaha World-Herald. Writing on the PBS blog Mediashift, Dan Reimold adds: "The stream of updates has basically run dry -- reduced to one buddy who regularly writes. My initial excitement about signing on and inviting people to join me has waned. Nowadays, I apparently get tired just thinking about it." Others disagree. "I must be doing something wrong on Google+," Harry McCracken, founder of the blog Technologizer, wrote on his Google+ page. "It isn't 'worse than a ghost town' for me. It's active and pleasant, albeit lacking some of the initial rush." Introduced in late June, Google Plus gained an estimated 25 million users by ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pe-scurt-informatii-noi-din-studiul-gfk-despre-perceptia-romanilor-asupra-publicitatii-google-membru-iab-romania-q2m-lanseaza-o-platforma-de-e-learning-pe-facebook/ pe-scurt-informatii-noi-din-studiul-gfk-despre-perceptia-romanilor-asupra-publicitatii-google-membru-iab-romania-q2m-lanseaza-o-platforma-de-e-learning-pe-facebook Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:04:53 +0300 Cei mai multi dintre participantii la un studiu realizat de GfK Romania pentru publicatia online IQads, privind perceptia romanilor asupra publicitatii, mentioneaza televiziunea si panourile stradale drept principalele medii prin care brandurile ar trebui sa comunice cu ei. Google a aderat la asociatia IAB Romania. Iar Q2M anunta lansarea unei platforme de e-learning in domeniul marketingului digital, pe Facebook. ​Aproape doua treimi dintre participantii la un studiu realizat de GfK Romania pentru publicatia online IQads spun ca sunt dispusi sa cumpere un produs in urma unei reclame difuzate la televizor, dar 73% spun ca reclamele TV sunt mai multe decat si-ar dori. Tot 73% spun ca o marca ar trebui sa comunice cu ei prin intermediul televizorului, al doilea mediu mentionat in acest sens fiind panourile stradale (67%). IQads a publicat, luni, detalii din studiul anuntat recent de GfK Romania, realizat in doua etape  - un studiu Omnibus pe un esantion de 1000 de persoane (rezultate reprezentative pentru populatia Romaniei in varsta de peste 15 ani, eroare de esantionare de maxim +/-3%), respectiv printr-un studiu online (esantion: 500 de respondenti, prezentat drept reprezentativ pentru populatia de 15-55 de ani, utilizatori de Internet din mediul urban). In preferintele respondentilor, dupa TV si outdoor urmeaza reclamele din presa scrisa (60%), brosuri publicitare (57%), reclame online (56%), radio (44%). Numarul celor care considera comunicarea prin reclame online ca fiind mai potrivita pentru a interactiona cu ei este mai mare in randul persoanelor cu educatie superioara (65%). Vezi detalii aici Google Romania a devenit membru al asociatiei IAB Romania, ce ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/avionul-supersonic-romanesc-tot-mai-aproape-de-zbor-simularile-aerodinamice-au-fost-finalizate/ avionul-supersonic-romanesc-tot-mai-aproape-de-zbor-simularile-aerodinamice-au-fost-finalizate Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:04:38 +0300 Asociaţia Română pentru Cosmonautică şi Aeronautică (ARCA) a finalizat simulările aerodinamice pentru avionul supersonic IAR-111, un aparat destinat lansării rachetei spaţiale Haas II pentru competiţia de astronautică Google Lunar X Prize, potrivit unui comunicat. ARCA a început simulările Computer Fluid Dynamics (CFD) pentru avionul IAR-111 Excelsior în anul 2010. De atunci, ARCA a continuat aceste simulări pentru toate configuraţiile posibile de zbor. Durata mare a acestor simulări a fost determinată de complexitatea şi cantitatea calculului necesar. În această perioadă trei computere de la ARCA au funcţionat aproape non-stop. "La sfârşitul anului 2010 aveam deja o imagine clară asupra configuraţiei avionului IAR-111 Excelsior, în urma rulării simulărilor aerodinamice. Acest lucru ne-a permis să demarăm lucrul la avion, la începutul anului 2011. De atunci, au fost rulate simulări pentru toate configuraţiile de zbor, altitudini şi viteze. Aceste simulări ne-au indicat să efectuăm câteva modificări care au optimizat geometria avionului, chiar în timpul procesului de construcţie, precum coborârea motorului avionului cu 30 cm sub planul aripii, creşterea anvergurii aripii cu 90 cm etc. În acest moment este foarte probabil să menţinem această configuraţie a aparatului", a declarat Dumitru Popescu, preşedinte ARCA. Avionul IAR-111 Excelsior va fi utilizat de către ARCA ca platformă pentru lansarea rachetei Haas II pentru competiţia de astronautică Google Lunar X Prize, cât şi pentru dezvoltarea tehnologiilor pentru industria turismului spaţial, se mai spune în comunicat. Programul ARCA pentru Competiţia Google Lunar X Prize este finanţat cu surse exclusiv private, având programat primul zbor în toamna anului 2012. ARCA a decis să nu comunice deocamdată valoarea programului. ARCA a anunţat, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-iti-stie-adresa-de-e-mail-istoria-web-documentele-iar-acum-iti-vrea-si-portofelul-video/ google-iti-stie-adresa-de-e-mail-istoria-web-documentele-iar-acum-iti-vrea-si-portofelul-video Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:04:32 +0300 Google va lansa un nou serviciu, care va permite efectuarea de plăţi doar cu ajutorul telefonului mobil şi al unui dispozitiv special. "Portofelul" Google va permite efectuarea de plăţi prin simpla trecere a telefonului prin faţa unui dispozitiv Mastercard, fără a fi nevoie de card de credit, scrie dailymail.co.uk. Utilizatorii vor avea însă nevoie de un cod PIN, însă telefoanele care au tehnologia NFC (Near Field Communication) vor permite realizarea plăţii prin mişcarea telefonului în faţa dispozitivului de plată. "Credem că lansarea Portofelului Google este începutul unei noi ere a comerţului", au declarat reprezentanţii Google. Pe blogul oficial al Google, inginerii proiectului, Rob von Behren şi Jonathan Wall, au scris că noua aplicaţie le va permite utilizatorilor să-şi transforme telefonul în portofel. "Veţi putea stoca cardurile de credit, ofertele, cardurile de loialitate şi cardurile cadou", au scris inginerii. Compania a realizat o reclamă pentru produs, cu ajutorul actorului Jason Alexander, interpretul personajului George Constanza din serialul "Seinfeld". http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google39s-social-network-opens-to-everyone/ google39s-social-network-opens-to-everyone Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:02:45 +0300 (CNN) -- Google's answer to Facebook went public on Tuesday afternoon. For the past three months, Google+, the company's social network, was available only to users who had been invited by the company or by friends who already had access to the site. "For the past 12 weeks we've been in field trial, and during that time we've listened and learned a great deal," Google's Vic Gundotra, a senior vice president for engineering, said in a blog post. "We're nowhere near done, but with the improvements we've made so far we're ready to move from field trial to beta, and introduce our 100th feature: open sign-ups. "This way anyone can visit google.com/+, join the project and connect with the people they care about." The update comes as many people who use the site are questioning its value. "My Google+ home page is worse than a ghost town. It doesn't even feel haunted," wrote Rainbow Rowell, a columnist at the Omaha World-Herald. Writing on the PBS blog Mediashift, Dan Reimold adds: "The stream of updates has basically run dry -- reduced to one buddy who regularly writes. My initial excitement about signing on and inviting people to join me has waned. Nowadays, I apparently get tired just thinking about it." Others disagree. "I must be doing something wrong on Google+," Harry McCracken, founder of the blog Technologizer, wrote on his Google+ page. "It isn't 'worse than a ghost town' for me. It's active and pleasant, albeit lacking some of the initial rush." Introduced in late June, Google Plus gained an estimated 25 million users by ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/a-critic39s-notebook-from-tiff/ a-critic39s-notebook-from-tiff Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:02:05 +0300 (CNN) -- The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is massive. Hundreds of members of the global film industry descend on Canada's "Queen City" each September to partake in the city's premiere cultural event. This year, more than 330 shorts and features from 65 countries were screened, and directors, actors and crew members from many of them were in town to promote their films. Not only that, many actors had more than one film screening at TIFF, including Clive Owen ("Killer Elite," "Intruders"), Michael Fassbender ("Shame," "A Dangerous Method"), George Clooney ("The Ides of March," "The Descendants"), Rachel Weisz ("Page Eight," "360," "The Deep Blue Sea"), Ryan Gosling ("Drive," "The Ides of March"), Gerard Butler ("Machine Gun Preacher", "Coriolanus"), Carey Mulligan ("Shame," "Drive"), Seth Rogen ("50/50," "Take This Waltz") and others. Mark Duplass even starred in one film (Lynn Shelton's magnificent "Your Sister's Sister") and co-wrote/co-directed another ("Jeff, Who Lives At Home") with his brother Jay. The fest typically contains a mix of films with U.S./Canadian distribution (many U.S. distributors use TIFF as a junket for their fall releases) along with those hoping to be acquired, films with major stars and those without, and of course films in dozens of languages. Toronto is also one of the 2 or 3 (depending on who you talk to) most important film industry events on the calendar (along with Cannes and Sundance) and is a frenzy of virtually every aspect of the international film business. TIFF is also the first large North American festival for audiences and industry to catch up on some ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/from-free-food-to-better-business/ from-free-food-to-better-business Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:01:49 +0300 (CNN) -- They've got it all: Free food, fitness facilities, massage rooms, hair dressers, laundry rooms and on-site doctors. Are they Hollywood celebrities? No, they're Google employees in Mountain View, south of San Francisco, and if you're an employee here you're encouraged to spend 20% of your time on a project of your choosing. It's no surprise Google places fourth on the U.S. Fortune '100 Best Companies to Work For' list. First place belongs to SAS, the world's largest privately held software company which offers free on-site medical care for employees and their families, low-cost high quality child care, a fitness center, library, and summer camp for children of employees. How could this possibly pay off? "It pays off spectacularly," says Milton Moskowitz, journalist and co-author of the Fortune '100 Best Companies to Work For' list since its beginning in 1998. "We keep track of stock market performances of companies on this list, and they are consistently outperforming other companies," he adds. The payoff shows up in increased innovation and productivity, low turnover, low sickness rates, and high employee satisfaction. In a world warring for increasingly sparse talent, a strong employer image is also not to be underestimated. "It means you can attract and attain some amazing people", says Lazlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google. "People who are exceptional and motivated, and who are driven beyond a good job and a paycheck." "Employees matter, and the thought that they just 'turn off their lights' when they come to work is ridiculous", says Jennifer Mann, vice president ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fondul-de-investitii-silver-lake-ar-putea-face-o-oferta-de-preluare-pentru-yahoo/ fondul-de-investitii-silver-lake-ar-putea-face-o-oferta-de-preluare-pentru-yahoo Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:04:46 +0300 Fondul american de investiţii Silver Lake vrea să preia Yahoo! şi analizează lansarea unei oferte, au declarat vineri două surse implicate în discuţii, transmite Bloomberg. În cadrul acordului, Silver Lake ar urma să vândă activele din Asia ale Yahoo!, iar apoi ar încerca să redreseze operaţiunile de bază şi să găsească un cumpărător pentru acestea, au spus sursele. Reprezentanţi ai fondului au abordat alte companii pentru a atrage interesul de preluare a activităţilor de bază ale companiei de Internet, a spus una dintre surse. Preşedintele Yahoo!, Roy Bostock, a concediat-o săptămâna trecută pe Carol Bartz, director general al companiei, după ce eforturile ei de a concura cu succes Google şi Facebook au eşuat. Activele din Asia ale Yahoo!, care includ o participaţie de 43% la Alibaba Group Holding, combinate cu scăderea cotaţiei acţiunilor grupului, fac din acesta o ţintă de preluare, potrivit analiştilor de la Deutsche Bank Securities şi Thornburg Investment Management. Reprezentanţii Yahoo! şi ai Silver Lake nu au fost disponibili pentru comentarii. Blogul AllThingsDigital, specializat în sectorul tehnologic, a relatat recent că mai multe companii pregătesc oferte de preluare a Yahoo! şi au intrat în contact cu conducerea companiei, iar Silver Lake este unul dintre posibilii cumpărători. Un fond de investiţii ar fi probabil interesat de participaţiile Yahoo! la Alibaba şi Yahoo Japan, care reprezintă circa 80% din capitalizarea de piaţă a companiei. Alte active ale Yahoo! includ servicii de e-mail, mesagerie instant şi portaluri de ştiri şi informaţii, care generează venituri din publicitate. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-il-omagiaza-pe-albert-szent-gyorgyi-cel-care-a-decoperit-vitamina-c-printr-un-nou-logo/ google-il-omagiaza-pe-albert-szent-gyorgyi-cel-care-a-decoperit-vitamina-c-printr-un-nou-logo Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:04:31 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, vineri, logoul de pe pagina principală, pentru a marca împlinirea a 118 ani de la naşterea lui Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, fiziolog şi biochimist de origine română, care a descoperit vitamina C şi reacţiile acidului citric. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mexico-murders-show-how-internet-empowers-threatens/ mexico-murders-show-how-internet-empowers-threatens Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:03:11 +0300 Editor's note: Andrés Monroy-Hernández is a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. (CNN) -- Two days ago, I learned about two young people killed by drug gangs in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, their corpses bound and hung from a bridge. Unfortunately, drug murders happen so often in Mexico that they are not news anymore. This time was different. The murders have received a lot of international attention because the bodies were found with handwritten messages claiming that the couple had been killed for snitching on the cartels via the Internet. Is it possible that these murders grabbed more attention than last month's 50-person massacre because of the connection to social media? As a technologist, I find it easy to get swept up in the techno-utopian view of how social technologies are changing the world for the better. I do believe it. For example, Twitter hashtags are saving lives in Mexico by empowering citizens to report shootings and helping others to avoid them. However, those same hashtags have landed three people in jail on charges of "terrorism" for supposedly spreading false rumors online. Now we learn about the murders of supposed "Internet snitchers." It is not clear whether the couple was killed for actually posting something online or whether their murder was used as an opportunity to scare people away from social media. In any case, the messages against online reporting might indicate that social media sites are seen as a threat. For ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/whataposs-up-with-that-google-orange/ whataposs-up-with-that-google-orange Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:02:17 +0300 (CNN) -- Friday's Google "doodle" on the search engine's main page might be one of its most random. But if you don't have scurvy (and we're going to go ahead and assume you do not), you should probably take a moment to say thanks. Instead of its usually multi-hued logo, Google welcomed visitors to its main search page Friday morning with a citrusy image of what appear to be oranges, grapefruits and strawberries growing together in a stylized field. The Google doodles usually are designed to note a holiday or other observance or honor someone staffers find worthy. And this might be one of their most random. Happy birthday, Albert Szent-Györgyi. Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian physiologist and Nobel laureate who, in the 1930s, discovered Vitamin C. He would later research muscle movement and development and was active in the Hungarian resistance during World War II Worth noting: Delicious citrus fruits aside, Szent-Györgyi first extracted Vitamin C from paprika. Unlike some of Google's doodles, Friday's is not interactive. Two of the site's most popular have been a playable guitar to commemorate the birthday of rock pioneer Les Paul and a Pac-Man game replacing the page's logo to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the iconic video game. Take a look at some of Google's best doodles Both of those interactive doodles were so well received they got their own permanent pages. Clicking Friday's logo led to search results for Szent-Györgyi's name. Google's official blog had not been updated with a post about the doodle, as it often is, as of Friday morning. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-a-amanat-listarea-la-bursa-pentru-sfarsitul-anului-viitor/ facebook-a-amanat-listarea-la-bursa-pentru-sfarsitul-anului-viitor Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:06:07 +0300 Facebook a amânat mult-aşteptata listare la bursă pentru sfârşitul anului viitor, au declarat pentru Financial Times surse apropiate companiei, care valorează, potrivit celor mai recente plasamente private de acţiuni, peste 66,5 miliarde de dolari. Oferta publică iniţială, care are potenţialul să devină una dintre cele mai mari din istorie, era până acum aşteptată să aibă loc până în aprilie 2012, iar unele zvonuri sugerau chiar că ar putea fi derulată încă din acest an. Cu toate acestea, surse apropiate companiei au afirmat pentru Financial Times că Mark Zuckerberg, fondator şi director general al Facebook, vrea să aştepte până în septembrie 2012 sau chiar mai târziu, pentru a determina angajaţii să se concentreze pe dezvoltarea produselor, şi nu pe banii pe care i-ar putea încasa. Alte companii noi de succes din online, precum Groupon şi Zynga, au amânat ofertele publice iniţiale din cauza condiţiilor dificile din ultimul timp de pe pieţele financiare. Însă planurile Facebook sunt stabilite în funcţie de agenda internă, au afirmat surse apropiate companiei. "Nu există niciun motiv să se grăbească. Compania nu are nevoie de acei bani. Este ceva mai uşor să te concentrezi ca firmă deţinută privat. Vor deveni companie publică atunci când vor fi pregătiţi", comentează Lise Buyer, consultant care a consiliat Google în oferta publică iniţială. Peter Thiel, unul dintre cei mai importanţi acţionari ai Facebook, a declarat că, în general, este bine ca firmele din domeniul tehnologiei să amâne ofertele publice iniţiale cât mai mult posibil. El a dat ca exemplu Google, care s-a listat abia după 6 ani de activitate, după ce s-a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-gets-more-sign-language-friendly/ google-gets-more-sign-language-friendly Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:02:14 +0300 (CNN) -- A video-chat feature called Hangouts is one thing that sets Google+ apart from Facebook and Twitter. When lots of people are chatting together in a Hangout, only one person "has the floor" at a time -- and you can tell who this person is because their video feed is by far the largest on your computer screen. Until recently, Google's computers used microphone volume to determine who got to be in control of the conversation. So the person yelling the loudest got control of the virtual chat. One problem: What if you're using sign language? With no sound input, Google+ didn't know which feed to prioritize. The feature was almost unusable for hearing-impaired people, since the person who had the most background noise in their video usually got the floor. In a blog post earlier this week, however, Google engineer Chee Chew announced a simple fix. By hitting shift+s on the keyboard, people using sign language can take control of the conversation. It's like the digital version of waving for attention. Everyone on the video chat has to mute their audio to make this feature work, Chew writes. In the comments on Chew's post, users were excited about the update. "This is brilliant," wrote a Google+ user named Jeannie June."Thanks a lot for being sensitive to the needs of your users. hits close to home coz my sister is deaf and i love her very much." "Great idea, Google," wrote Charlie White on the tech blog Mashable, which is a CNN Tech partner site. Others complained about the video quality on the service, saying ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-puts-off-ipo-until-late-2012/ facebook-puts-off-ipo-until-late-2012 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:02:01 +0300 (FT) -- Facebook is preparing to launch its blockbuster initial public offering in the US towards the end of next year, a later public debut by the social networking site than had been widely anticipated, say people familiar with the company. The IPO, expected to be one of the world's biggest with recent private share sales valuing Facebook at more than $66.5bn, has been expected by April 2012, with persistent speculation that it could even come this year. However, people close to the company have told the Financial Times that Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, wants to wait until next September or later in order to keep employees focused on product developments rather than a pay-out. Other other internet companies, Groupon and Zynga, have been holding back on their IPO plans amid recent market turbulence. But Facebook's plans have been set according to internal interests, people close to the company said. "There's really no reason to rush a deal," said Lise Buyer, an consultant who advised Google through its IPO. "The company doesn't need the money. It is a little easier to focus when you're private. They'll go when they're good and ready, not before." "There are so many things you don't have to do until you take public shareholder money," Ms Buyer said. "You don't have to take investor phone calls or show up at investor conferences." Peter Thiel, a prominent Facebook investor, said it was generally desirable for technology companies to defer an IPO for as long as possible. He said Google set a good example by not going ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/verizon-to-relaunch-its-android-app-store/ verizon-to-relaunch-its-android-app-store Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:48 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- Verizon Wireless is rebooting its application store for smartphones after a lackluster first attempt. The new storefront, called Verizon Apps, will be presented for free to Verizon customers with Droid phones. It will coexist with Google's Android Market, which comes preloaded on all of its phones. Verizon already offers apps that are exclusively available to its subscribers, such as one with live video of National Football League games. The U.S. cellular giant is set to introduce the new mobile software marketplace at its Las Vegas conference for developers on Tuesday. Verizon and Chomp, which provides the search engine for the service, have been briefing reporters on the news. The two companies partnered in May on a feature that allows people to search Verizon's current store, called V Cast Apps, along with Google's Market. The separate V Cast store, like many others for Android, never gained significant traction. (Verizon began offering the iPhone in February, but Apple does not allow third-party companies to operate competing app stores.) Verizon opened an office here last month where software developers are welcome to come code mobile apps and test them on the carrier's hardware. In an interview during the opening, Kyle Malady, a Verizon technology executive, acknowledged shortcomings with its V Cast market but said there is still room for alternative storefronts. Verizon will attract software partners by guaranteeing promotion for their products, he said. Even the big mobile app developers, including Electronic Arts, complain that some of their apps fail to get adequate exposure on other digital stores, Malady said. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-google-lanseaza-un-serviciu-de-cautare-si-rezervare-a-biletelor-de-avion/ video-google-lanseaza-un-serviciu-de-cautare-si-rezervare-a-biletelor-de-avion Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:49:01 +0300 Google a lansat, marţi, serviciul Flight Search, care permite utilizatorilor să găsească zboruri şi să-şi rezerve bilete de avion, scrie mashable.com. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ai-weiwei-will-not-be-silenced/ ai-weiwei-will-not-be-silenced Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:01:03 +0300 (CNN) -- Weeks after muting his public criticisms, Ai Weiwei has broken his silence. In an editorial about China's capital city, published on Newsweek's website on August 29, the country's most prominent contemporary artist and dissident describes Beijing as "a city of violence" and "a constant nightmare." He complained that "the worst thing about Beijing is that you can never trust the judicial system." "Beijing is two cities," he opines. "One is of power and of money. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope." Ai, 54, was part of a team that helped design the Bird's Nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics. Later, however, he called for a boycott of the 2008 Summer Games because he said China was using them as propaganda. Ai Weiwei joins Google+ In his essay Ai remains critical. "None of my art represents Beijing," he writes. "The Bird's Nest -- I never think about it. After the Olympics, the common folks don't talk about it because the Olympics did not bring joy to the people." Ai's new comments could further strain his relations with the Chinese officialS. On April 3 Ai was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong. He was held for 81 days. Chinese authorities accused him of tax evasion, although he was never formally charged. His family maintains that the detention was politically motivated. The maverick artist had offended Chinese authorities with his use of avant garde art and the Internet to criticize ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/artist-ai-weiwei-will-not-be-silenced/ artist-ai-weiwei-will-not-be-silenced Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:00:08 +0300 (CNN) -- Weeks after muting his public criticisms, Ai Weiwei has broken his silence. In an editorial about China's capital city, published on Newsweek's website on August 29, the country's most prominent contemporary artist and dissident describes Beijing as "a city of violence" and "a constant nightmare." He complained that "the worst thing about Beijing is that you can never trust the judicial system." "Beijing is two cities," he opines. "One is of power and of money. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope." Ai, 54, was part of a team that helped design the Bird's Nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics. Later, however, he called for a boycott of the 2008 Summer Games because he said China was using them as propaganda. Ai Weiwei joins Google+ In his essay Ai remains critical. "None of my art represents Beijing," he writes. "The Bird's Nest -- I never think about it. After the Olympics, the common folks don't talk about it because the Olympics did not bring joy to the people." Ai's new comments could further strain his relations with the Chinese officialS. On April 3 Ai was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong. He was held for 81 days. Chinese authorities accused him of tax evasion, although he was never formally charged. His family maintains that the detention was politically motivated. The maverick artist had offended Chinese authorities with his use of avant garde art and the Internet to criticize ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-explores-re-ranking-search-results-using-1-button-data/ google-explores-re-ranking-search-results-using-1-button-data Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:31:15 +0300 (WIRED) -- Google is making plans to turn its +1 button into a crowdsourcing tool that helps it re-order search results and fight web spam. While not surprising, the move would bring Google's search engine into the social networking era, while simultaneously creating a new avenue for blackhats to manipulate search results and potentially incurring the wrath of trust-busting authorities. Google confirmed its plans in an e-mail to Wired.com. "Google will study the clicks on +1 buttons as a signal that influences the ranking and appearance of websites in search results," a spokesman wrote. "The purpose of any ranking signal is to improve overall search quality. For +1's and other social ranking signals, as with any new ranking signal, we'll be starting carefully and learning how those signals are related to quality." But these plans are a touchy subject for the search giant, especially given the scrutiny that Google is under from regulators in Washington and Europe over complaints that the company's results favor its own products over those of other companies. As if to underscore that point, Google prefaced its admission of the +1 search integration project to Wired.com with a statement downplaying its potential significance: "There are more than 200 signals that we use to determine the rank of a website, and last year we made more than 500 improvements to the algorithm." Introduced in March, the +1 sharing button debuted with little incentive for web surfers to click on it. If you +1-ed a story on a website that embedded the button, your profile picture would display next ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-spune-ca-i-a-rasplatit-cu-40000-de-dolari-pe-hackerii-care-i-au-raportat-erori-de-programare/ facebook-spune-ca-i-a-rasplatit-cu-40000-de-dolari-pe-hackerii-care-i-au-raportat-erori-de-programare Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:32:44 +0300 ​Facebook a anuntat ca a platit in total 40.000 de dolari hackerilor care au raportat diverse bug-uri la site, ca parte a unui program lansat acum trei saptamani prin care hackerii erau incurajati sa raporteze direct la Facebook problemele descoperite, nu sa le faca publice. Reteaua ofera minim 500 de dolari pentru un "bug" detectat, insa a ajuns sa dea si 7.000 dolari unei persoane care a raportat multe probleme, noteaza ZDNet. Companii precum Google sau Mozilla au lansat recent astfel de programe.Facebook spune ca e un real succes programul sau prin care invita hackerii sa "vaneze" bug-uri si sa raporteze direct companiei vulnerabilitatile descoperite. In trei saptamani a dat 40.000 de dolari celor care au semnalat diverse erori, cea mai mica suma oferita fiind de 500 dolari, iar cea mai mare, 7.000 de dolari unui hacker care a semnalat sase probleme complexe.Cei de la Facebook s-au declarat incantati de feed-back-ul primit si spun ca au primit rapoarte din 16 tari, de la Turcia, la Polonia. Sunt voci care au cerut extinderea acestui program la nivelul intregii paltforme, sa cuprinda si aplicatiile si site-urile cu plug-in-uri Facebook a spus ca pentru moment o astfel de extindere este prea complicata.Companii precum Google si Facebook au initiat astfel de programe prin care-i raspalatesc pe cei care semnaleaza vulnerabilitati. Se evita astfel cat de cat situatiile in care hackerii fac publice informatiile obtinute, iar companiile sufera mai putin la capitolul imagine. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/39dead39-hp-tablet-comes-back-to-life/ 39dead39-hp-tablet-comes-back-to-life Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:30:41 +0300 (CNN) -- For a "dead" gadget, the HP TouchPad keeps showing remarkable signs of life. Nearly two weeks after Hewlett-Packard announced that it was discontinuing mobile devices and dramatically slashed the price of the TouchPad, customers are hunting them with renewed zeal. The tablet has sold out, according to the company. Meanwhile, HP is considering making more of the devices -- and continuing to support them, despite the fact that independent developers are working to hack the tablets to run on Google's Android operating system, instead of the now-killed webOS. "We have been surprised by the enthusiastic response to the TouchPad price drop, and we understand that many customers were disappointed that HP and our retail partners ran out of supply so fast," HP spokesman Mark Budgell wrote in a blog post Monday. Like virtually every other device in its class, the HP TouchPad failed to make much of a dent in the iPad-dominated tablet market when it was released early last month. But after HP announced August 18 that it was discontinuing mobile devices, remaining TouchPad inventory was slashed to fire-sale prices: $99 for a 16-gigabyte model and $149 for a model with 32 gigabytes of storage. The device, which had originally sold for about $400 more, all of a sudden became one of the most sought-after item in the gadget world. Via Twitter, Budgell let potential customers know Monday that there's no official word when, or if, HP will be making more TouchPads. "Don't rush...no availability today," Budgell wrote. He said there would be more information "in the next few days" ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-g-won39t-back-down-on-39real-names39-policy/ why-g-won39t-back-down-on-39real-names39-policy Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:00:34 +0300 Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular tech-news blog. He writes occasional columns about social networking and tech for CNN.com. (CNN) -- Google's new social network, Google+, is shaping up to be a hit for the search engine giant. And yet Google continues to court controversy with its real names policy, which asks users to represent themselves with their real names or risk having their accounts suspended. Critics say the move is harmful to political activists, victims of harassment and numerous other groups for whom using a real name online might pose a safety risk. So why is Google being so stubborn about this issue and risking bad PR for the sake of a minor technical change? Why not just allow usernames, as Twitter already does? 'Identity service' The answer may lie in comments made over the weekend by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. During an interview in Edinburgh, Scotland, NPR's Andy Carvin asked Schmidt to justify Google's real-names policy. "He replied by saying that G+ was build (sic) primarily as an identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they're going to build future products that leverage that information," Carvin explained in a posting to Google+. "Regarding people who are concerned about their safety, he said G+ is completely optional. No one is forcing you to use it. It's obvious for people at risk if they use their real names, they shouldn't use G+. Regarding countries like Iran and Syria, people there have no ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-google-will-never-back-down-on-real-names/ why-google-will-never-back-down-on-real-names Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:30:57 +0300 Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular tech-news blog. He writes occasional columns about social networking and tech for CNN.com. (CNN) -- Google's new social network, Google+, is shaping up to be a hit for the search engine giant. And yet Google continues to court controversy with its real names policy, which asks users to represent themselves with their real names or risk having their accounts suspended. Critics say the move is harmful to political activists, victims of harassment and numerous other groups for whom using a real name online might pose a safety risk. So why is Google being so stubborn about this issue and risking bad PR for the sake of a minor technical change? Why not just allow usernames, as Twitter already does? 'Identity service' The answer may lie in comments made over the weekend by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. During an interview in Edinburgh, Scotland, NPR's Andy Carvin asked Schmidt to justify Google's real-names policy. "He replied by saying that G+ was build (sic) primarily as an identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they're going to build future products that leverage that information," Carvin explained in a posting to Google+. "Regarding people who are concerned about their safety, he said G+ is completely optional. No one is forcing you to use it. It's obvious for people at risk if they use their real names, they shouldn't use G+. Regarding countries like Iran and Syria, people there have no ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/39dead39-hp-tablet-comes-back-to-life-with-help-of-hackers-deal-seekers/ 39dead39-hp-tablet-comes-back-to-life-with-help-of-hackers-deal-seekers Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:59 +0300 (CNN) -- For a "dead" gadget, the HP TouchPad keeps showing remarkable signs of life. Nearly two weeks after Hewlett-Packard announced that it was discontinuing mobile devices and dramatically slashed the price of the TouchPad, customers are hunting them with renewed zeal. The tablet has sold out, according to the company. Meanwhile, HP is considering making more of the devices -- and continuing to support them, despite the fact that independent developers are working to hack the tablets to run on Google's Android operating system, instead of the now-killed webOS. "We have been surprised by the enthusiastic response to the TouchPad price drop, and we understand that many customers were disappointed that HP and our retail partners ran out of supply so fast," HP spokesman Mark Budgell wrote in a blog post Monday. Like virtually every other device in its class, the HP TouchPad failed to make much of a dent in the iPad-dominated tablet market when it was released early last month. But after HP announced August 18 that it was discontinuing mobile devices, remaining TouchPad inventory was slashed to fire-sale prices: $99 for a 16-gigabyte model and $149 for a model with 32 gigabytes of storage. The device, which had originally sold for about $400 more, all of a sudden became one of the most sought-after item in the gadget world. Via Twitter, Budgell let potential customers know Monday that there's no official word when, or if, HP will be making more TouchPads. "Don't rush...no availability today," Budgell wrote. He said there would be more information "in the next few days" ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-va-suspenda-probabil-maine-profilurile-utilizatorilor-care-nu-si-dau-numele-real-dar-si-pe-cele-ale-companiilor/ google-va-suspenda-probabil-maine-profilurile-utilizatorilor-care-nu-si-dau-numele-real-dar-si-pe-cele-ale-companiilor Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:31:16 +0300 Serviciul Google+, a cărui politică prevede ca utilizatorii să-şi dea numele real pe reţeaua de socializare, a anunţat că va suspenda profilurile persoanelor care folosesc nick-uri, dar şi pe cele ale companiilor. Astfel, conturile vizate nu vor putea avea acces la serviciile care necesită un profil activ, precum Google +, Google Buzz, Google Reader şi Picasa. Acest lucru nu îi va împiedica pe utilizatorii în cauză să folosească alte servicii Google, precum Gmail. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/webrelease-samsung-adauga-si-mai-multa-rapiditate-dispozitivelor-galaxy-s-ii-si-galaxy-tab-89-prin-versiunile-lte-ale-acestora/ webrelease-samsung-adauga-si-mai-multa-rapiditate-dispozitivelor-galaxy-s-ii-si-galaxy-tab-89-prin-versiunile-lte-ale-acestora Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:02:20 +0300 Seoul, Korea - 28 August 2011 - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., lider in domeniul telefoanelor mobile, a anuntat astazi lansarea editiilor LTE ale GALAXY S II si GALAXY Tab 8.9. Aceste dispozitive elegante ofera acum conectivitate 4G de inalta viteza, putere si portabilitate sporite, precum si o tehnologie a ecranului de neintrecut."Odata cu lansarea GALAXY SII LTE si GALAXY Tab 8.9 LTE, vom duce capacitatile acestor dispozitive la un alt nivel. Tehnologia LTE redefineste experienta de utilizare pe care o ofera aceste aparate si deschide o noua lume de posibilitati in ceea ce priveste vizionarea de continut, partajarea, calitatea si conectivitatea," a declarat JK Shin, Presedinte al Communications Business la Samsung."Aceasta lansare este un moment deosebit de important pentru noi, ce marcheaza angajamentul nostru permanent de a conduce schimbarea in domeniul telefoniei mobile 4G peste tot in lume, atat in ceea ce priveste solutiile de retea back-end pentru furnizorii de servicii, cat si in privinta dezvoltarii unor dispozitive performante pentru utilizatori," a adaugat Shin. Atunci cand este conectata la o retea 4G, tehnologia LTE permite dispozitivelor portabile sa descarce fisiere de inalta calitate la viteze de pana la 100Mbps si sa le uploadeze la viteze de 50Mpbs, teoretic - de 5 ori mai repede chiar si decat cea mai rapida conexiune HSPA+. Aceasta inseamna ca o melodie MP3 de 4 minute poate fi descarcata in 0,3 secunde, sau un film intreg in mai putin de 2 minute.Conectivitatea sporita pe care tehnologia LTE o permite ofera utilizatorilor noi posibilitati: acestia se pot bucura fara probleme de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/presedintele-google-daca-nu-vrei-sa-te-inscrii-cu-numele-real-atunci-nu-folosi-google/ presedintele-google-daca-nu-vrei-sa-te-inscrii-cu-numele-real-atunci-nu-folosi-google Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:01:50 +0300 Preşedintele Google, Eric Schmidt, a făcut o declaraţie şocantă în acest weekend, când le-a spus internauţilor care nu vor să-şi dezvăluie numele real să stea departe de reţeaua de socializare a companiei sale. Această declaraţie vine după ce mai mulţi utilizatorii Google+ s-au plâns de noile reguli ale reţelei care îi obligă să îşi dea numele real sau, în caz contrar, vor rămâne fără conturi, notează portalul Mashable.com. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/comentariu-fotbalul-cu-frac-alb-si-papion-rosu/ comentariu-fotbalul-cu-frac-alb-si-papion-rosu Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:32:11 +0300 Imaginea fotbalului nu are cum să fie fiica fostei "ghete de aur" Mateuţ, Natalia, îngrămădindu-se să-i vâre în gură microfonul lui Gigi Becali la "nunta anului". Imaginea fotbalului trebuie să rămână măcar cea a lui Cornel Dinu, urmărind un meci jalnic, în beznă, de la geamul spitalului. Google news pentru "Dinamo" nu găseşte rezultate decât de la nunta anului, centenarului, mileniului, mega-evenimentul, ultra-chermeza organizată cu ocazia oficializării amantlâcului lui Borcea. "Vezi aici imagini exclusive", "uite colea cum a dansat naşul", "ghici cât a costat nunta", "care crezi că e melodia aleasă pentru dansul miresei", "i s-au văzut ori nu chiloţii miresei?". Cam astea sunt rezultatele pe care le dă Google despre fotbal. Care fotbal? Fotbalul şi-a pus frac alb şi papion roşu, s-a suit în limuzină şi s-a distrat la "cea mai luxoasă locaţie", într-un ambient de bun gust, pe muzica inegalabilului Adi Minune, unul dintre cei doi "regi" în viaţă ai României, alături de Hagi. Care Majestatea Sa Mihai I? Opulenţa e vulgară? Nooooo... Atâtea cuvinte precum "homar", "creveţi", "ficat", "trufe", "icre negre", "avocado", "brânzeturi Franţa", combinate cu "slănină", "şorici", "tobă", "caş de stână", "berbecuţ", "sărmăluţe" nu aveau cum să nu fie bine digerate pe muzica lui Adi de la Vâlcea şi stropite cu Dom Perignon. Imaginea fotbalului a fost duminică Natalia Mateuţ, fiica fostei vedete dinamoviste Dorin Mateuţ, angajată reporter la una dintre emisiunile "tabloide". Aranjat după ultima modă, pe tocuri de 12, cu rochie mulată pe forme, ochelari de soare "Giangoico Berbuncianos", ultimul "trăsnit inexistent" în materie de fashion, fotbalul se îmbrâncea cu alţi 30 de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-samsung-lanseaza-un-serviciu-de-mesagerie-instant-chaton/ video-samsung-lanseaza-un-serviciu-de-mesagerie-instant-chaton Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:32:27 +0300 Samsung a anuntat luni lansarea aplicatiei ChatOn, un serviciu gratuit care va permite utilizatorilor sa impartaseasca in timp real text, imagini si videoclipuri si care poate rula pe principalele smartphone-uri din piata, indiferent de sistemul de operare. Potrivit Reuters, noul serviciu va fi disponibil incepand din luna octombrie, aplicatia urmand sa fie preinstalata in toate terminalele de tip smartphone ale Samsung, atat pe cele pe care ruleaza propriul sistem de operare bada, cat si cele bazate pe sistemul de operare Google-Android. Noul serviciu al Samsung va putea functiona pe toate platformele majore de telefoane mobile inclusiv iPhone si BlackBerry. Conform anuntului companiei, serviciul va disponibil in peste 120 de tari si in peste 62 de limbi si va fi lansat progresiv pentru principalele tipuri de smartphone, tablete si notebook-uri, inclusiv pentru dispozitivele viitoare prezentate la targul IT&C IFA 2011 din Germania, care are loc in luna septembrie din acest an.Citeste comunicatul integral al Samsung pe WebPr.ro.VIDEO Samsung - ChatOn Prin aceasta lansare, Samsung intra pe piata mesageriei mobile unde va avea de infruntat o concurenta acerba atat pe plan local cat si din partea unor giganti precum Apple, RIM sau Skype, noteaza presa internationala.Astfel, RIM vrea sa se foloseasca de populatitatea BlackBerry Messenger, prin lansarea unui nou serviciu de muzica, scrie Reuters, in timp ce Wall-Street Journal noteaza ca Apple a prezentat in luna iunie un nou serviciu, numit iMessage, care va fi disponibil pe urmatoarele terminale iPhone si iPad ce vor intra in piata spre sfarsitul acestui an.De asemenea, Skype  a anuntat recent ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cat-pierde-statul-de-pe-piata-neagra-a-chiriilor-daiana-voicu-despre-preluarea-the-money-channel-pretul-incepe-sa-faca-sens-mai-ales-in-media-google-tv-serviciul-prin-care-accesezi-internetul-de-pe-televizor-va-fi-lansat-anul-viitor/ business-report-cat-pierde-statul-de-pe-piata-neagra-a-chiriilor-daiana-voicu-despre-preluarea-the-money-channel-pretul-incepe-sa-faca-sens-mai-ales-in-media-google-tv-serviciul-prin-care-accesezi-internetul-de-pe-televizor-va-fi-lansat-anul-viitor Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:02:20 +0300 Daiana Voicu despre preluarea The Money Channel: "Pretul incepe sa faca sens, mai ales in media". Compania imobiliara Willbrook International se pregateste de preluarea televiziunii The Money Channel (TMCTV). In ce conditii se poarta negocierile si cu cine, care va fi noua structura a postului si cum se va schimba? Daian Voicu vorbeste despre extinderea Willbrook de la imobiliare la media. Imobiliarele sunt principala activitate a Willbrook in Romania. De la o piata care are probleme serioase ati decis sa va extindeti intr-un domeniu cu probleme si mai mari: media. De ce? Daiana Voicu: In primul rand, nu ne-am extins inca activitatea in media. Am inceput niste negocieri si ne-am aratat interesul pentru preluarea unei televiziuni. Nu stiu in ce masura acestea vor fi finalizate si cand, dar este clar ca avem un interes destul de puternic in orice industrie in momentul acesta, in care pretul face sens. Se pare ca este un moment in care pretul incepe sa faca sens, mai ales in media. In sfarsit aceasta criza incepe sa isi arate putin oportunitatile, pentru ca ne-am confruntat timp de 4-5 ani cu o criza fara oportunitati si iata ca apar primele situatii mai inflamate in care industrii ajung sa coboare pretul si sa gasesti si active interesante. Integral in Capital.ro.Ce sa faci ca sa te asociezi cu Patriciu. Si cat castigi. Din noiembrie 2010, de cand a fost lansat conceptul de asociere, aproape 100 de bucuresteni (n.r. 60 de persoane sunt deja asociati, iar alte 40 vor semna in curand contractele) au ales ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-tv-serviciul-prin-care-accesezi-internetul-de-pe-televizor-va-fi-lansat-anul-viitor-in-europa/ google-tv-serviciul-prin-care-accesezi-internetul-de-pe-televizor-va-fi-lansat-anul-viitor-in-europa Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:31:23 +0300 Google va lansa la începutul anului viitor şi în Europa serviciul TV, disponibil deja în SUA, care facilitează clienţilor accesul la internet de pe televizor, folosind un browser, a declarat preşedintele gigantului american, Eric Schmidt, citat de Reuters. Unele probleme apărute în timpul testelor au determinat analiştii să se întrebe dacă Google chiar vrea să continue acest proiect, însă Schmidt a dat asigurări că grupul va continua să promoveze serviciul şi să caute parteneri. Google TV, care permite utilizatorilor să amestece conţinutul online cu cel TV pe un televizor, prin folosirea unui browser, a fost lansat în octombrie în SUA, informează Mediafax. Serviciul a fost întâmpinat cu reacţii diverse şi a fost blocat imediat de trei reţele importante de televiziune din SUA. O mare parte din industria TV, ca şi difuzorii de ştiri şi operatorii telecom, privesc cu prudenţă Google şi acuză de multe ori compania că le "fură" veniturile din publicitate fără a contribui la costurile presupuse de crearea de conţinut. Adresându-se celor mai importante nume din televiziunea britanică, Schmidt a căutat să dea asigurări că nu este cazul de suspiciuni şi ostilitate. "Unii s-au temut, în SUA, că vrem să concurăm cu reţelele de televiziune sau cu creatorii de conţinut. De fapt, intenţia noastră este exact opusul. Vrem să susţinem industria conţinutului prin oferirea unei platforme deschise unde să evolueze următoarea generaţie de televiziune, la fel cum Android este o platformă deschisă pentru următoarea generaţie de telecomunicaţii mobile. Anticipăm că vom lansa Google TV în Europa la începutul anului viitor", a arătat el. Google TV nu a prins ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-va-lansa-in-europa-un-serviciu-tv-de-continut-online-pe-televizor/ google-va-lansa-in-europa-un-serviciu-tv-de-continut-online-pe-televizor Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:02:04 +0300 Google va lansa la începutul anului viitor şi în Europa serviciul TV, disponibil deja în SUA, care facilitează clienţilor accesul la internet de pe televizor, folosind un browser, a declarat preşedintele gigantului american, Eric Schmidt. Unele probleme apărute în timpul testelor au determinat analiştii să se întrebe dacă Google chiar vrea să continue acest proiect, însă Schmidt a dat asigurări că grupul va continua să promoveze serviciul şi să caute parteneri. Google TV, care permite utilizatorilor să amestece conţinutul online cu cel TV pe un televizor, prin folosirea unui browser, a fost lansat în octombrie în SUA. Serviciul a fost întâmpinat cu reacţii diverse şi a fost blocat imediat de trei reţele importante de televiziune din SUA. O mare parte din industria TV, ca şi difuzorii de ştiri şi operatorii telecom, privesc cu prudenţă Google şi acuză de multe ori compania că le "fură" veniturile din publicitate fără a contribui la costurile presupuse de crearea de conţinut. Adresându-se celor mai importante nume din televiziunea britanică, Schmidt a căutat să dea asigurări că nu este cazul de suspiciuni şi ostilitate. "Unii s-au temut, în SUA, că vrem să concurăm cu reţelele de televiziune sau cu creatorii de conţinut. De fapt, intenţia noastră este exact opusul. Vrem să susţinem industria conţinutului prin oferirea unei platforme deschise unde să evolueze următoarea generaţie de televiziune, la fel cum Android este o platformă deschisă pentru următoarea generaţie de telecomunicaţii mobile. Anticipăm că vom lansa Google TV în Europa la începutul anului viitor", a arătat el. Google TV nu a prins foarte bine pe piaţa americană, iar Logitech ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-check-jobs-steps-down-facebook-privacy/ tech-check-jobs-steps-down-facebook-privacy Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:31:02 +0300 (CNN) -- This week on the Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg discuss the week's biggest tech story ... OK, the biggest tech-industry news in a while ... the resignation of Steve Jobs. Jobs stepped down as Apple's CEO on Wednesday, leaving questions about everything from the status of his health to the future of the consumer-electronics empire he founded and steered to success. Also, we look at new changes made to Facebook's privacy settings. Lots of tech analysts felt that the changes, which include giving users the ability to choose which friends see each post, looked suspiciously like upstart competitor Google+. We discuss those similarities, as well as Facebook's longstanding dance with privacy vs. sharing. Our Reader Comments of the Week come from our stories about Jobs. And the always heart-rending Tech Fail of the Week calls out a group of folks who usually can't lose in the tech world, but got our attention with a "news release" that came dangerously close to parody. To listen, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can add Tech Check to your RSS feed here or subscribe or listen on iTunes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-to-tv-industry-we39re-no-ogre/ google-to-tv-industry-we39re-no-ogre Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:30:34 +0300 Edinburgh, Scotland (CNN) -- Google has moved to reassure a global television industry quaking at the prospect that the Internet search giant is about to move onto TV sets and into living rooms around the globe. In a keynote speech to Europe's leading broadcasting industry conference, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt acknowledged the company's immense scale built on search advertising -- a scale which almost everyone in the media industry fears as a threat to their existing businesses -- but said the nature of technology and the internet also made Google vulnerable. "Online, competition is only ever a click away ... it's common for once-leading services to become out-innovated and overtaken," Schmidt said in the annual MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival. Many of the broadcasting executives, producers and advertising industry leaders in the audience fear Google's entry into their territory with its Google TV internet-connected device, threatening the kind of dislocation it has triggered in online and print media with search advertising and the mobile phone business with its now leading Android operating system. Schmidt, whose company has been seen as arrogant and no respecter of copyright, struck a conciliatory tone, saying Google had moved to be more speedy in taking down content which breached copyright and would be more active in supporting the business models of content owners that wanted to charge for their content online. It had no intention to move into content creation, believing its core skills remained in technology and in focusing on three trends: Mobile, local and social. Google TV would be launched in Europe ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-tries-to-reassure-tv-industry-it39s-no-ogre/ google-tries-to-reassure-tv-industry-it39s-no-ogre Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:00:57 +0300 Edinburgh, Scotland (CNN) -- Google has moved to reassure a global television industry quaking at the prospect that the Internet search giant is about to move onto TV sets and into living rooms around the globe. In a keynote speech to Europe's leading broadcasting industry conference, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt acknowledged the company's immense scale built on search advertising -- a scale which almost everyone in the media industry fears as a threat to their existing businesses -- but said the nature of technology and the internet also made Google vulnerable. "Online, competition is only ever a click away ... it's common for once-leading services to become out-innovated and overtaken," Schmidt said in the annual MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival. Many of the broadcasting executives, producers and advertising industry leaders in the audience fear Google's entry into their territory with its Google TV internet-connected device, threatening the kind of dislocation it has triggered in online and print media with search advertising and the mobile phone business with its now leading Android operating system. Schmidt, whose company has been seen as arrogant and no respecter of copyright, struck a conciliatory tone, saying Google had moved to be more speedy in taking down content which breached copyright and would be more active in supporting the business models of content owners that wanted to charge for their content online. It had no intention to move into content creation, believing its core skills remained in technology and in focusing on three trends: Mobile, local and social. Google TV would be launched in Europe ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-to-keep-you-safe-from-hurricanes/ tech-to-keep-you-safe-from-hurricanes Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:01:01 +0300 (CNN) -- For East Coast residents keeping a worried eye on Hurricane Irene, there's a host of mobile apps, Twitter feeds and other digital tools available to help. Here are a few of them, including suggestions for how to stay plugged in if weather knocks out power in your area. HurricaneHD ($3.99 in Apple Store) HurricaneHD provides exclusive video, blog posts from weather experts and other tools for folks watching Irene and other future storms. It has a tracking map that can display multiple storms at the same time, sends active storm bulletins and contains an archive of information about past hurricanes. It can also use GPS to tell you how far away you are from various points of a nearing storm. Weather Channel (free for Apple and Android devices) Both the Android and Apple versions feature animated radar, video, local forecasts and the ability to upload photos and videos of local weather. Weather Channel Max, free for the iPad, adds full-screen, customizable weather maps, in-motion radar and real-time Twitter feeds from Weather Channel meteorologists. Hurricane Hound ($1.99, Android) Based on Google Maps, Hurricane Hound tracks storms in the Atlantic and east Pacific, as well as passing along National Weather Service advisories and warnings. StormPulse StormPulse is a website that uses date from the National Hurricane Center, cloud imagery from the NERC Satellite Station and basic imagery from NASA. Users can click back and forth to show radar, cloud cover, watches and warnings and other features on a real-time map. Twitter Feeds In the face of emergency situations, the fast-paced, minute-by-minute updates you can get from Twitter are handy. Whether ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/will-apple-rivals-prevent-monopoly/ will-apple-rivals-prevent-monopoly Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:00:34 +0300 Editor's note: Bill Goodwin is Premium Content Editor of IT magazine Computer Weekly London (CNN) -- Apple's ground breaking technology and its uncanny ability to understand what consumers really want has propelled the firm founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and his buddy Steve Wozniak to stratospheric heights. Apple built its business on its highly desirable but niche Macintosh computer range. But Apple's invention of the iPod, the iPhone, and now the iPad, has changed the way consumers interact with technology and given Apple unprecedented mass market appeal. Apple's share of the smart phone market has grown from 0% to 20% in only a few short years, putting it significantly ahead of rivals like Nokia, Samsung, and HTC. The iPad has become a must have accessory -- at least for those that can afford one. Last year it was responsible for 90% of tablet sales worldwide. Just how far the company has come became clear over the summer when commentators calculated that the company had more cash reserves than the US government. But with success has come criticism. Like Microsoft before it, Apple has been accused of exploiting its position in the market, and not always for the benefit of consumers or society. Apple is certainly a shrewd operator. It has used its financial muscle to sign exclusive deals, buying up innovative technology, ensuring that rivals cannot use them in rival products. And it has used that muscle to extract heavy fees from organisations that want to make their content available on the iPad. Its plans to charge publishers 30% of subscription sales ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/succesorul-lui-steve-jobs-la-sefia-apple-are-28-de-miliarde-de-dolari-pentru-achizitii/ succesorul-lui-steve-jobs-la-sefia-apple-are-28-de-miliarde-de-dolari-pentru-achizitii Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:01:52 +0300 Apple ar putea începe să facă achiziţii, după ce a cheltuit în acest scop mai puţin decât oricare dintre concurenţii săi, în ultimii zece ani, şi a rămas fără Steve Jobs şi cu lichidităţi de 28 de miliarde de dolari, transmite Bloomberg. Jobs, care a transformat compania producătoare de computere personale aflată aproape de faliment în cea mai mare companie din sectorul tehnologiei, a folosit sub un miliard de dolari pentru preluări în ultimul deceniu, lansând în schimb iPod, iPhone şi iPad. Cei mai mari concurenţi din SUA ai Apple au cheltuit în aceeaşi perioadă peste 15 miliarde de dolari, în medie, pentru achiziţii. Microsoft a pierdut o cincime din valoarea sa de piaţă după ce a cheltuit de zece ori mai mult decât Apple pe achiziţii. Apple a devenit o companie cu o capitalizare de piaţă de 350 miliarde de dolari, după ce Jobs a lansat produse care au revoluţionat industriile computerelor, muzicii şi telefoanelor mobile. Jobs, diagnosticat cu cancer acum opt ani, a predat în această săptămână conducerea companiei directorului operaţional, Tim Cook. Achiziţiile în industria divertismentului, a patentelor şi a securităţii informatice, cu cele 28 de miliarde de dolari, ar putea ajuta Apple să se apere de Google şi Samsung, în lipsa lui Jobs, potrivit University of North Carolina şi Steward Capital. "În mod cert va veni timpul achiziţiilor. Jobs a dezvoltat întotdeauna compania din interior. Dacă lipsa viziunii sale va provoca un vid de produse, va intra în joc modelul achiziţiilor. Apple stă pe o grămadă de bani", a declarat Arvind Malhotra, profesor asociat la University of North ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/opinion-apple-rivals-likely-to-prevent-monopoly/ opinion-apple-rivals-likely-to-prevent-monopoly Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:31:01 +0300 Editor's note: Bill Goodwin is Premium Content Editor of IT magazine Computer Weekly London (CNN) -- Apple's ground breaking technology and its uncanny ability to understand what consumers really want has propelled the firm founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and his buddy Steve Wozniak to stratospheric heights. Apple built its business on its highly desirable but niche Macintosh computer range. But Apple's invention of the iPod, the iPhone, and now the iPad, has changed the way consumers interact with technology and given Apple unprecedented mass market appeal. Apple's share of the smart phone market has grown from 0% to 20% in only a few short years, putting it significantly ahead of rivals like Nokia, Samsung, and HTC. The iPad has become a must have accessory -- at least for those that can afford one. Last year it was responsible for 90% of tablet sales worldwide. Just how far the company has come became clear over the summer when commentators calculated that the company had more cash reserves than the US government. But with success has come criticism. Like Microsoft before it, Apple has been accused of exploiting its position in the market, and not always for the benefit of consumers or society. Apple is certainly a shrewd operator. It has used its financial muscle to sign exclusive deals, buying up innovative technology, ensuring that rivals cannot use them in rival products. And it has used that muscle to extract heavy fees from organisations that want to make their content available on the iPad. Its plans to charge publishers 30% of subscription sales ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/at-20-linux-is-invisible-ubiquitous/ at-20-linux-is-invisible-ubiquitous Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:30:59 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- Ross Turk would be happy to explain the tattoo on his arm. By now, he's used to the penguin being met with bewildered stares. It represents, as he'd tell you, the Linux computing software, not the slightly less obscure character from 1950s cartoons. "A lot of people see it and they think it's Chilly Willy or something," the West Hollywood, California, man lamented in a recent interview. "The Linux logo is still kind of grass-roots." When the then-21-year-old Turk got the logo etched into his left bicep in 2000, the penguin seemed poised to become mainstream, then appearing frequently in magazines and on the walls in computer stores. But the software market tumbled with the dot-com bust, and so too did the Linux brand, choked by investors' swift rejection then of the open-source software movement. Thursday marks 20 years since Linus Torvalds announced on a Web bulletin board that he'd begun working on a free computer operating system. In that message, Torvalds described Linux as "just a hobby, won't be big and professional." Now, two decades later, that market breakthrough doesn't seem any more attainable. And yet while the Linux name and its penguin mascot failed to go big, the software they embody is more pervasive today than ever. Linux's skeleton and spirit live on inside another familiar, adorable mascot: the green robot that represents Google's Android operating system. That software, which powers 43% of smartphones worldwide, many tablets and the Google TV set-top boxes, was developed with Linux at its core. Google's Chrome OS for laptops ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-apple-without-steve-jobs-is-no-fun/ why-apple-without-steve-jobs-is-no-fun Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:01:00 +0300 (CNN) -- Now that Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple, many people in the tech and business worlds are wondering what will become of the world's largest tech company, which brought us the first personal computer and the first for-real smartphone and ushered in the era of digital music. Most of that talk centers on buttoned-up topics like market potential and future product lines. What does Jobs' departure mean for the future of Apple's business? For the next iPhone? Blah to all that. Perhaps the bigger deal for a tech lover's psyche is this sad little fact: Without Steve Jobs, Apple is far less fun. The reasons for this are wide-ranging. Part of it has to do with Apple's origin story, which, as an excellent episode of "This American Life" explains, is a really big deal to Americans, who love to know where people came from -- especially if they came from relatively humble beginnings and made it big. That's true for Jobs, who got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard after he phoned William Hewlett asking for electronic parts he needed for a class project. He went on to found Apple in 1976 in his parents' garage with the help of friend Steve Wozniak. The first product they sold, the Apple-1, was the first personal computer that didn't come as a set of parts that had to be welded together by its owner -- and is credited as the first truly "personal" computer. This underdog theme followed Jobs for his entire career. "In recent years, Jobs ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-are-google-si-n-are-concurenta-10-plusuri-ale-retelei-de-socializare/ ce-are-google-si-n-are-concurenta-10-plusuri-ale-retelei-de-socializare Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:01:42 +0300 Fondatorul portalului de tehnologie Mashable, Pete Cashmore, vorbeşte despre trăsăturile şi aplicaţiile Google+ care fac din reţeaua de socializare a celor de la Google o favorită pe piaţa site-urilor de socializare. Cu o creştere rapidă în popularitate şi 25 de milioane de utilizatori înscrişi până în prezent, Google+ este un loc în care giganţii tehnologiei încă "se joacă" şi testează gusturile internauţilor, spune Cashore, citat de CNN. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sequestered-jury-for-jackson-trial/ sequestered-jury-for-jackson-trial Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:30:42 +0300 Los Angeles (CNN) -- A Los Angeles County judge will hear arguments Thursday on a request by Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician accused in Michael Jackson's death, to sequester the jury once the trial begins next month. Citing massive media coverage in the unrelated Casey Anthony murder trial this summer in Florida, attorneys for Murray said his case could draw even bigger publicity. "There is reasonable expectation that Dr. Murray's trial will be the most publicized in history," his attorneys, Nareg Gourjian and Edward Chernoff, said in court papers. The jury should be sequestered to ensure that Murray receives a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment, the attorneys said. "This is an unusual trial," the attorneys said. "Without question, Michael Jackson is one of the most well-known figures in the world. His death, memorial service and every court appearance thereafter involving Dr. Murray has attracted unprecedented media coverage." Prosecutors haven't filed any court papers in response to Murray's motion, said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles District Attorney's office. Rather, Deputy District Attorneys David Walgren and Deborah Brazil will present their arguments in open court Thursday, Gibbons told CNN Wednesday. Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, which occurred June 25, 2009, and was caused by an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, combined with other drugs, the Los Angeles coroner has ruled. During an unsuccessful attempt at jury selection earlier this year, only one potential juror out of several hundred questioned claimed to have heard nothing about the Murray case, and that potential juror, a woman, couldn't speak ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analiza-demisia-lui-jobs-a-sters-52-mld-dolari-din-indicele-sp-500-iar-fanii-isi-deplang-idolul-competitorii-au-doar-cuvinte-de-lauda-la-adresa-fostului-ceo-apple/ analiza-demisia-lui-jobs-a-sters-52-mld-dolari-din-indicele-sp-500-iar-fanii-isi-deplang-idolul-competitorii-au-doar-cuvinte-de-lauda-la-adresa-fostului-ceo-apple Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:32:21 +0300 Demisia surprinzătoare de miercuri noapte a lui Steve Jobs de la conducerea Apple a şters 52 miliarde dolari din valoarea indicelui Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 al bursei de la New York înainte de debutul şedinţei de joi, în timp ce fanii şi investitorii deplâng retragerea unei legende a tehnologiei. Contractele futures pe indicele S&P 500 au scăzut cu 0,6% în tranzacţiile electronice pe S&P 500 după apariţia comunicatului privind demisia lui Jobs, potrivit Bloomberg. Valoarea totală a indicelui era de 9.340 de miliarde de dolari la finalul şedinţei de miercuri. Acţiunile Apple au căzut cu până la 7% în sesiunea electronică de seară, anunţând o zi de foc, joi, pentru piaţa Nasdaq şi indicele S&P 500. La o capitalizare de aproape 350 miliarde de dolari, acţionarii ies în pierdere cu peste 20 de miliarde de dolari în urma deprecierilor de miercuri seară. Apple este cea mai mare companie din componenţa indicelui Nasdaq 100 şi a doua din cadrul S&P 500. Jobs (56 de ani), care a supravieţuit cancerului la pancreas şi unui transplant de ficat, conduce Apple de la 29 iulie 1997. În această perioadă, acţiunile companiei au crescut cu 9.020%, iar capitalizarea bursieră a urcat de la 2,08 miliarde de dolari la 348,7 miliarde de dolari, pe locul al doilea în SUA după gigantul petrolier Exxon Mobil. De altfel, Apple a depăşit pentru scurt timp în luna august Exxon Mobil, devenind temporar cea mai mare companie din lume. Directorul operaţional executiv al Apple, Tim Cook, va prelua postul de director general, în timp ce Jobs va ocupa funcţia ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/demisia-lui-jobs-a-sters-52-mld-dolari-din-indicele-sp-500-iar-fanii-isi-deplang-idolul/ demisia-lui-jobs-a-sters-52-mld-dolari-din-indicele-sp-500-iar-fanii-isi-deplang-idolul Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:02:02 +0300 Demisia surprinzătoare de miercuri noapte a lui Steve Jobs de la conducerea Apple a şters 52 miliarde dolari din valoarea indicelui Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 al bursei de la New York înainte de debutul şedinţei de joi, în timp ce fanii şi investitorii deplâng retragerea unei legende a tehnologiei. Contractele futures pe indicele S&P 500 au scăzut cu 0,6% în tranzacţiile electronice pe S&P 500 după apariţia comunicatului privind demisia lui Jobs, potrivit Bloomberg. Valoarea totală a indicelui era de 9.340 de miliarde de dolari la finalul şedinţei de miercuri. Acţiunile Apple au căzut cu până la 7% în sesiunea electronică de seară, anunţând o zi de foc joi pentru piaţa Nasdaq şi indicele S&P 500. La o capitalizare de aproape 350 miliarde de dolari, acţionarii ies în pierdere cu peste 20 de miliarde de dolari în urma deprecierilor de miercuri seară. Apple este cea mai mare companie din componenţa indicelui Nasdaq 100 şi a doua din cadrul S&P 500. Jobs (56 de ani), care a supravieţuit cancerului la pancreas şi unui transplant de ficat, conduce Apple de la 29 iulie 1997, perioadă în care acţiunile companiei au crescut cu 9.020%, iar capitalizarea bursieră a urcat de la 2,08 miliarde de dolari la 348,7 miliarde de dolari, pe locul al doilea în SUA după gigantul petrolier Exxon Mobil. De altfel, Apple a depăşit pentru scurt timp în luna august Exxon Mobil, devenind temporar cea mai mare companie din lume. Directorul operaţional executiv al Apple, Tim Cook, va prelua postul de director general, în timp ce Jobs va primi ocupa ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/presa-in-diagonala-google-plateste-o-amenda-de-500-de-milioane-de-dolari-pentru-incetarea-unei-anchete-privind-publicitatea-ilegala-recompensa-de-aproape-17-milioane-de-dolari-pentru-capturarea-lui-gaddafi-china-isi-consolideaza-arsenalul-nuclear/ presa-in-diagonala-google-plateste-o-amenda-de-500-de-milioane-de-dolari-pentru-incetarea-unei-anchete-privind-publicitatea-ilegala-recompensa-de-aproape-17-milioane-de-dolari-pentru-capturarea-lui-gaddafi-china-isi-consolideaza-arsenalul-nuclear Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:32:22 +0300 Google plateste o amenda de 500 de milioane de dolari pentru incetarea unei anchete privind publicitatea ilegala. Compania Google a acceptat sa plateasca o penalitate de 500 de milioane de dolari Statelor Unite, pentru inchiderea unei investigatii legata de permisiunea data farmaciilor canadiene de a se promova pe site-ul sau, transmite AFP. Motorul de cautare a difuzat "anunturi de publicitate pentru farmaciile online cu sediul in Canada si viza consumatorii americani care importau medicamente ce necesitau prescriptie medicala in Statele Unite", potrivit departamentului de justitie. "Am interzis promovarea medicamentelor cu prescriptie in SUA de catre companiile farmaceutice canadiene cu ceva timp in urma", a declarat un purtator de cuvant al Google. "Evident ca nu ar fi trebuit sa acceptam acest gen de publicitate inca de la inceput", a adaugat acesta. Suma pe care compania a acceptat s-o plateasca reprezinta o rambursare a veniturilor Google din publicitatea difuzata, precum si din comercializarea produselor farmaceutice canadiene pe teritoriul Statelor Unite. Autoritatile americane sustin ca Google era constient de aceasta activitate ilegala inca din 2003, iar gigantul internetului nu promova medicamentele provenind din laboratoarele straine, cu exceptia celor canadiene. Legile americane interzic comercializarea medicamentelor straine care necesita reteta medicala in SUA.Naveta spatiala ruseasca Progress M12-M s-a prabusit. Nu se pune problema retragerii echipajului de pe Statia Spatiala Internationala. Naveta cargo ruseasca Progress M12-M lansata miercuri cu destinatia Statia Spatiala Internationala nu a reusit sa atinga orbita corecta si s-a prabusit pe Pamant, a anuntat Agentia spatiala Roskosmos, citata de AFP. Roskosmos a precizat, intr-un comunicat, ca o problema ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/eric-schmidt-39google-should-have-gone-social-sooner39/ eric-schmidt-39google-should-have-gone-social-sooner39 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:30:56 +0300 (CNN) -- Eric Schmidt is as committed as ever to making sure those at Google "do the right thing." He was CEO of Google for the best part of 10 years before handing day-to-day running of the company to Larry Page in April. Now as Executive Chairman he gets to look at the bigger picture for the company. Innovation and open access to information are at the heart of the corporate ethos as Google continues its development in mobile computing and social software. The former, Schmidt believes, has some of the largest potential to enhance the latter. "The revolution that is mobile has just begun," says Schmidt. With Google's plans to purchase Motorola Mobility and with its Android operation system already on around 50% of smart phones it's a big growth area for the company. Schmidt, however, likes to highlight the transformative power of the "mobile revolution" more than the business potential. "We're going from a situation where the average citizen didn't have that much power to a point where they can know everything and they can organize very quickly," says Schmidt. "That may bring down a government as in the case of the Arab Spring, but it may also just challenge vested interest and so forth in a democracy. "Ultimately I think that the technology that we and others have been able to build here is serving as an organizing tool for people who don't have other options. "Put another way, as a dictator, you're going to have to provide more opportunities for your citizens ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-facebook-sau-google-ce-ne-ofera-fiecare-romanii-si-au-golit-cardurile-si-depozitele-ca-sa-plece-in-vacanta-lupta-dintre-internet-explorer-si-firefox-vazuta-din-romania-microsoft-recunoaste-greaua-mostenire-a-ie6/ business-report-facebook-sau-google-ce-ne-ofera-fiecare-romanii-si-au-golit-cardurile-si-depozitele-ca-sa-plece-in-vacanta-lupta-dintre-internet-explorer-si-firefox-vazuta-din-romania-microsoft-recunoaste-greaua-mostenire-a-ie6 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:01:59 +0300 Romanii si-au golit cardurile si depozitele ca sa plece in vacanta. In iulie, cantitatea de numerar aflat in circulatie in Romania a inregistrat cea mai mare crestere lunara din ultimii ani adica peste 1,5 miliarde de lei marcand o nevoie suplimentara de lichiditate din partea bancilor dar si o revenire a dorintei de consum din partea populatiei. In luna iulie a acestui an, cantitatea de numerar aflat in circulatie in Romania a crescut cu 5,7% fata de iunie adica cu peste 1,5 miliarde de lei. Evolutia marcheaza cea mai importanta crestere lunara de la debutul crizei pana in prezent si se datoreaza, in primul rand retragerilor de bani pe care romanii le-au operat in iulie, anunta Capital. Unda verde pentru proiectele eoliene: avizul Comisiei Europene a fost publicat in Jurnalul Oficial. Decizia prin care Comisia Europeana a aprobat schema de sustinere a productiei de energie regenerabila in Romania, prin acordarea de certificate verzi, a fost publicata marti in Jurnalul Oficial al Uniunii Europene. Potrivit deciziei Directoratului General pentru Concurenta din cadrul CE, bugetul total al schemei-suport este 80,7 miliarde de lei, adica 19,5 miliarde de euro, ceea ce inseamna contravaloarea certificatelor verzi pe toata durata de aplicare a schemei de sprijin. Tehnologiile eoliene second hand primesc certificate timp de sapte ani. Microhidrocentralele retehologizate vor beneficia de sprijin timp de 10 ani, iar cele nemodernizate - trei ani, scrie Adevarul. Pentru cine a ajuns Romania off-shore. O companie din Brasov care an de an raporteaza profituri imense- in 2010 acesta a fost de 17,35 miliarde de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/conrad-murray39s-attorneys-seek-sequestered-jury-in-jackson-trial/ conrad-murray39s-attorneys-seek-sequestered-jury-in-jackson-trial Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:00:53 +0300 Los Angeles (CNN) -- A Los Angeles County judge will hear arguments Thursday on a request by Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician accused in Michael Jackson's death, to sequester the jury once the trial begins next month. Citing massive media coverage in the unrelated Casey Anthony murder trial this summer in Florida, attorneys for Murray said his case could draw even bigger publicity. "There is reasonable expectation that Dr. Murray's trial will be the most publicized in history," his attorneys, Nareg Gourjian and Edward Chernoff, said in court papers. The jury should be sequestered to ensure that Murray receives a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment, the attorneys said. "This is an unusual trial," the attorneys said. "Without question, Michael Jackson is one of the most well-known figures in the world. His death, memorial service and every court appearance thereafter involving Dr. Murray has attracted unprecedented media coverage." Prosecutors haven't filed any court papers in response to Murray's motion, said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles District Attorney's office. Rather, Deputy District Attorneys David Walgren and Deborah Brazil will present their arguments in open court Thursday, Gibbons told CNN Wednesday. Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, which occurred June 25, 2009, and was caused by an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, combined with other drugs, the Los Angeles coroner has ruled. During an unsuccessful attempt at jury selection earlier this year, only one potential juror out of several hundred questioned claimed to have heard nothing about the Murray case, and that potential juror, a woman, couldn't speak English, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/internet-mourns-steve-jobs39-resignation/ internet-mourns-steve-jobs39-resignation Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:30:51 +0300 (CNN) -- It's a moment many tech fans hoped never would come: Steve Jobs' resignation from the helm of Apple, which he co-founded from his family garage in 1976. As that news hit early Wednesday evening on the East Coast, people rushed to online social networks to mourn the apparent end of Jobs' career; talk about what this means for the future of Apple products like the iPhone; and wish him good health. "The end of an era!" one Twitter user wrote. "I pray it's not bc (because) of his health," said another. "he was one of the most innovative and incredible men ever. I will not be the only one to shed a few tears over this news," wrote another. Jobs will remain with the company as chairman of Apple's board of directors. But some commenters acted like he had passed away. "I'll miss him. I'll miss his vision. I'll miss his character. I'll miss every terajoule of his near unlimited energy," wrote one of @cnntech's Twitter followers. Apple has not released any new information about the state of Jobs' health. The 56-year-old went on medical leave in January, and he has suffered serious health problems in recent years, including pancreatic cancer and a reported liver transplant. Jobs also took a somber tone in his resignation letter: "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," he wrote in a letter to Apple's board and the Apple community at large. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bitcoin-o-tehnologie-ce-ne-aduce-mai-aproape-de-era-democratiei-participatorii/ bitcoin-o-tehnologie-ce-ne-aduce-mai-aproape-de-era-democratiei-participatorii Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:02:29 +0300 Bitcoin este o monedă virtuală creată în 2009 ce nu are o autoritate centrală în spatele ei, şi care a ajuns în atenţia presei anul acesta atât pentru răspândirea sa, cât şi pentru viruşii creaţi să fure putere de calcul necesară pentru a crea noi monede. Deşi regulile de funcţionare ale Bitcoin sunt prestabilite de creatorii săi, oricine are posibilitatea să modifice clientul Bitcoin pentru a-l face să urmeze reguli diferite. Astfel de modificări sunt legale şi pot afecta politica monetară în acest sistem; iar în acest caz, politica ar fi decisă de utilizatorii de rând şi nu de politicieni sau birocraţi. Dacă proiectul Bitcoin reuşeşte să devină suficient de popular fără să fie oprit de guverne, iar modificarea clienţilor de Bitcoin rămâne legală, acest lucru s-ar putea transforma în primul mare sistem în care tehnologia informaţiei este folosită pentru a crea o democraţie participatorie cu ajutorul Internetului: un sistem politic unde, în locul politicenilor, fiecare cetăţean are puterea de a vota şi de a propune crearea sau modificarea legilor. Dar pentru a putea avea un cuvânt de zis în acest sistem trebuie mai întâi să înţelegem cum funcţionează. În acest articol voi analiza principiile de funcţionare ale Bitcoin şi voi compara proprietăţile sale cu cele ale celorlalte mijloace de plată ce au existat de-a lungul istoriei. În final voi discuta cum ar putea acest sistem să evolueze într-o democraţie participatorie, ce puteri ar oferi cetăţenilor şi cum putem să ne pregătim noi pentru asta. O scurtă istorie a sistemelor monetare De-a lungul istoriei, oamenii ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-plateste-o-amenda-de-500-de-milioane-de-dolari-pentru-incetarea-unei-anchete-privind-publicitatea-ilegala/ google-plateste-o-amenda-de-500-de-milioane-de-dolari-pentru-incetarea-unei-anchete-privind-publicitatea-ilegala Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:02:28 +0300 Compania Google a acceptat sa plateasca o penalitate de 500 de milioane de dolari Statelor Unite, pentru inchiderea unei investigatii legata de permisiunea data farmaciilor canadiene de a se promova pe site-ul sau, transmite AFP.Motorul de cautare a difuzat "anunturi de publicitate pentru farmaciile online cu sediul in Canada si viza consumatorii americani care importau medicamente ce necesitau prescriptie medicala in Statele Unite", potrivit departamentului de justitie."Am interzis promovarea medicamentelor cu prescriptie in SUA de catre companiile farmaceutice canadiene cu ceva timp in urma", a declarat un purtator de cuvant al Google. "Evident ca nu ar fi trebuit sa acceptam acest gen de publicitate inca de la inceput", a adaugat acesta.Suma pe care compania a acceptat s-o plateasca reprezinta o rambursare a veniturilor Google din publicitatea difuzata, precum si din comercializarea produselor farmaceutice canadiene pe teritoriul Statelor Unite. Autoritatile americane sustin ca Google era constient de aceasta activitate ilegala inca din 2003, iar gigantul internetului nu promova medicamentele provenind din laboratoarele straine, cu exceptia celor canadiene. Legile americane interzic comercializarea medicamentelor straine care necesita reteta medicala in SUA. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-va-plati-500-milioane-dolari-pentru-inchiderea-unei-investigatii-in-sua-privind-publicitatea/ google-va-plati-500-milioane-dolari-pentru-inchiderea-unei-investigatii-in-sua-privind-publicitatea Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:31:17 +0300 Google a acceptat să plătească 500 de milioane de dolari în Statele Unite, una dintre cele mai mari penalizări de acest tip din SUA, pentru închiderea unei investigaţii legate de permisiunea dată farmaciilor canadiene de a-şi promova produsele pe site-ul său, transmite Reuters. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cati-vizitatori-unici-sunt-pe-internetul-romanesc-intr-un-minut-cele-mai-vizitate-site-uri-sunt-cele-de-sport-si-de-stiri/ cati-vizitatori-unici-sunt-pe-internetul-romanesc-intr-un-minut-cele-mai-vizitate-site-uri-sunt-cele-de-sport-si-de-stiri Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:32:04 +0300 Într-un minut pe internetul românesc sunt 36.554 de vizitatori unici, se înregistrează 10.220 de căutări, 36.659 de vizite şi 67.659 de afişări, iar cele mai vizitate site-uri sunt cele de sport şi de ştiri, potrivit unui studiu făcut de trafic.ro cu ocazia lansării noilor statistici în timp real. Pentru studiu a fost ales minutul cu cele mai multe afişări de vineri, 12 august, de la 14.05.00 la 14.05.59. A fost un minut încărcat, în comparaţie cu media lunii iulie, când s-au înregistrat 8.120 de vizite şi 44.980 de afişări pe minut. În minutul analizat au fost înregistrate 10.220 de căutări, ceea ce înseamnă mai mult de 167 de căutări pe secundă. Dintre acestea, 98% au fost pe Google, 1,6%, pe Yahoo şi 0,4%, pe Bing. Topul cuvintelor cheie utilizate include: jocuri (122 de căutari), ziare (76 de căutari), jocuri online (62 de căutări), rezultate bac (30 de căutări), sport (20 de căutări), dex (18 de căutări), mersul trenurilor şi cazare păltiniş (câte 17 căutări), horoscop (16 căutări) şi vremea (13 căutari). În medie, într-un minut, conform statisticilor de pe luna iulie, se fac aproximativ 6.260 de căutări pe motoarele de căutare. Prin celelalte servicii ale sale, Google a fost, de asemenea, şi cel mai bun referent pentru site-urile româneşti în minutul respectiv, cu 278 de clickuri înregistrate, urmat, în ordine, de Facebook (cu 116 clickuri), e-ziare.ro (103 clickuri), retete-gustoase.ro (54 de clickuri), prosport.ro (49 de clickuri), gsp.ro (33 de clickuri), ziar.com (29 de clickuri), adevarul.ro (24 de clickuri), click.ro (20 de clickuri), sport.ro şi stirileprotv.ro (cu câte 17 clickuri). Într-un ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-il-omagiaza-pe-scriitorul-argentinian-jorge-luis-borges-la-112-ani-de-la-nasterea-sa/ google-il-omagiaza-pe-scriitorul-argentinian-jorge-luis-borges-la-112-ani-de-la-nasterea-sa Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:32:14 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, miercuri, logoul pentru a-l omagia pe Jorge Luis Borges, la împlinirea a 112 de ani de la naşterea celebrului romancier şi poet argentinian. Jorge Luis Borges s-a născut la Buenos Aires, în Argentina, pe 24 august 1899, şi este considerat unul dintre cei mai mari scriitori din secolul al XX-lea. Printre operele sale cele mai cunoscute se află romane şi eseuri, precum "Istoria universală a infamiei", "Istoria eternităţii", "Ficţiuni", "Cartea de nisip", dar şi volume de poezie precum "Cuaderno San Martín". Romancier, poet, eseist, Jorge Luis Borges este faimos pentru povestirile sale fantastice, în care a combinat cu măiestrie idei filosofice şi metafizice cu temele clasice ale fantasticului (dublul, realitatea paralelă a visului, cărţile misterioase şi vrăjite, salturile în timp). Adjectivul "borgezian" defineşte concepţia despre viaţă ca poveste ("fiction"), ca minciună, ca operă contrafăcută, dată drept adevărată - ca în faimoasele sale recenzii de cărţi imaginare. În logoul Google de miercuri internauţii pot recunoaşte imaginea celebrului scriitor argentinian sprijinindu-se în binecunoscutul său baston. Prima literă "G" este un arc de cerc, urmată de un edificiu ce reprezintă litera "O", urmat apoi de un alt "O" sub forma unui pod. A doua literă "G" din logoul Google - o clădire - are drept codiţă bastonul lui Borges, iar imaginea scriitorului este inclusă în litera "L", urmată de litera "E". Acest decor a fost inspirat de lucrările sale literare. Cei care sunt familiarizaţi cu romanele scriitorului argentinian pot recunoaşte câteva peisaje literare elaborate de acest scriitor argentinian. Jorge Luis Borges, deşi a fost propus aproape în fiecare an, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-gets-more-like-google/ facebook-gets-more-like-google Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:30:35 +0300 (CNN) -- When Google's not-the-Facebook social network, Google Plus, launched earlier this summer, one thing stood out for many tech pundits: privacy settings. On Facebook, users had to navigate confusing lists on settings pages in order to control seemingly simple and important things, like who could see their photos or status updates or which books they like. Google Plus made such decisions easier since it let users decide who would receive a given post or photo right when they created and then posted it. Facebook seems to have taken notice of this subtle but significant difference. The world's largest social network on Tuesday announced changes to its privacy settings that allow users to choose who will see a photo or status update right when they post it -- much like was already the case on Google Plus. "You have told us that 'who can see this?' could be clearer across Facebook, so we have made changes to make this more visual and straightforward," Facebook's Chris Cox writes in a blog post on the topic. "The main change is moving most of your controls from a settings page to being inline, right next to the posts, photos and tags they affect. Plus there are several other updates here that will make it easier to understand who can see your stuff (or your friends') in any context." An example will help make sense of all this social-media-speak. Say you want to post a photo from a friend's recent birthday party -- and you only want your good friends to be able ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/court-clears-cloud-music-providers-to-expand-features/ court-clears-cloud-music-providers-to-expand-features Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:30:51 +0300 (CNN) -- A court ruling this week clears up some gray areas in cloud music. The decision by the U.S. District Court in New York could pave the way for Google's Music, Amazon.com's Cloud Player, Dropbox and other providers of online storage services to add time-saving features. Amazon and Google have been cautious in how they implemented their respective Web-based music lockers, a CNN study found. Amazon Cloud Drive and Music Beta by Google each upload users' entire music catalog and store separate copies of each track, a very lengthy process even with today's broadband Internet speeds, according to the study. Technically, they could check a song for an exact match on their servers in order to save people the time of uploading everything. But they don't, in an effort either to play it safe amidst murky law or to partially appease record labels that the two technology companies have tried negotiating with before. Apple is readying a program called iTunes Match, which is part of the upcoming iCloud suite of Web tools, that can do just that. For $25 per year, iTunes Match will scan a person's music library against the iTunes Store's catalog, and if it finds a match, it will unlock access to that track. Before doing this, Apple secured agreements with the record labels. "It takes just minutes, not weeks," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said onstage at a conference in June. A "locker in the sky," like Google's or Amazon's, "takes weeks" to download a person's entire library, he said. Dropbox, a fast-growing file-storage utility, previously used ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-makes-its-privacy-settings-act-more-like-google/ facebook-makes-its-privacy-settings-act-more-like-google Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:31:01 +0300 (CNN) -- When Google's not-the-Facebook social network, Google Plus, launched earlier this summer, one thing stood out for many tech pundits: privacy settings. On Facebook, users had to navigate confusing lists on settings pages in order to control seemingly simple and important things, like who could see their photos or status updates or which books they like. Google Plus made such decisions easier since it let users decide who would receive a given post or photo right when they created and then posted it. Facebook seems to have taken notice of this subtle but significant difference. The world's largest social network on Tuesday announced changes to its privacy settings that allow users to choose who will see a photo or status update right when they post it -- much like was already the case on Google Plus. "You have told us that 'who can see this?' could be clearer across Facebook, so we have made changes to make this more visual and straightforward," Facebook's Chris Cox writes in a blog post on the topic. "The main change is moving most of your controls from a settings page to being inline, right next to the posts, photos and tags they affect. Plus there are several other updates here that will make it easier to understand who can see your stuff (or your friends') in any context." An example will help make sense of all this social-media-speak. Say you want to post a photo from a friend's recent birthday party -- and you only want your good friends to be able ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-privacy-settings-get-more-like-google/ facebook-privacy-settings-get-more-like-google Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:30:35 +0300 (CNN) -- When Google's not-the-Facebook social network, Google Plus, launched earlier this summer, one thing stood out for many tech pundits: privacy settings. On Facebook, users had to navigate confusing lists on settings pages in order to control seemingly simple and important things, like who could see their photos or status updates or which books they like. Google Plus made such decisions easier since it let users decide who would receive a given post or photo right when they created and then posted it. Facebook seems to have taken notice of this subtle but significant difference. The world's largest social network on Tuesday announced changes to its privacy settings that allow users to choose who will see a photo or status update right when they post it -- much like was already the case on Google Plus. "You have told us that 'who can see this?' could be clearer across Facebook, so we have made changes to make this more visual and straightforward," Facebook's Chris Cox writes in a blog post on the topic. "The main change is moving most of your controls from a settings page to being inline, right next to the posts, photos and tags they affect. Plus there are several other updates here that will make it easier to understand who can see your stuff (or your friends') in any context." An example will help make sense of all this social-media-speak. Say you want to post a photo from a friend's recent birthday party -- and you only want your good friends to be able ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/webrelease-htc-sensation-intra-in-oferta-cosmote-romania/ webrelease-htc-sensation-intra-in-oferta-cosmote-romania Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:02:10 +0300 Cea mai noua senzatie din portofoliul COSMOTE Romania o reprezinta super telefonul inteligent multimedia cu procesor dual core - HTC Sensation, disponibil acum in toate magazinele COSMOTE Romania si Germanos. Terminalul dispune de un ecran tactil Super LCD de 4,3 inci cu rezolutia de 540 x 960 pixeli, printre cele mai mari de pe piata, care este protejat cu sticla speciala Gorilla Glass, ce acopera complet fata telefonului. HTC Sensation este un telefon inteligent 3G care permite rate de transfer de pana la 14,4 Mbps, in functie de calitatea semnalului disponibil in zona in care este folosit, si poate fi, de asemenea, conectat la retele Wi-Fi. Conectivitatea este completata de portul USB si Bluetooth. Terminalul foloseste sistemul de operare Android 2.3 Gingerbread, iar experienta utilizarii este completata de interfata grafica HTC Sense UI 3.0 ce permite personalizarea ecranului si accesarea facila a aplicatiilor. Terminalul are un procesor dual-core de 1,2 GHz, 768 MB RAM de memorie, capacitate de stocare de 1 GB, plus 8 GB disponibili pe cardul de memorie livrat impreuna cu telefonul. Zona multimedia este reprezentata de o camera foto de 8 MPx, cu rezolutia de 3264x2448 pixeli, autofocus si flash cu led dublu, respectiv stabilzator de imagine, senzor de detectie faciala si multe altele. Camera poate si filma la 1080p/30 cadre pe secunda, full HD, inregistrand stereo sunetul ambiental. Terminalul dispune de asemenea de o camera secundara VGA, excelenta pentru apeluri video. HTC Sensation permite accesul direct la YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail iar navigarea pe internet este ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/amazon-dropbox-google-and-you-win-in-cloud-music-decision/ amazon-dropbox-google-and-you-win-in-cloud-music-decision Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:00:54 +0300 (WIRED) -- The disk drives powering Dropbox, Amazon's Cloud Drive, and Google Music likely issued a small sigh of relief Monday, after a federal court judge found that the MP3tunes cloud music service didn't violate copyright laws when it used only a single copy of a MP3 on its servers, rather than storing 50 copies for 50 users. For Amazon and Google's nascent cloud music services, the decision clears the way for them to make it easier and faster for customers to use their music services; gives them legal cover to reduce the amount of disk space needed per user; makes it less likely that new customers of their music services will bust through their ISPs data caps when signing up; and clears the way for the companies to let users add songs found on webpages and through search to their lockers with a single-click -- all without either being sued by record labels for doing so. Monday's decision centers on MP3tunes, a cloud-based online music locker service, that allows a customer to upload the music from their hard drives to a "locker" on the web, where they can play back the songs from any connected device. But instead of uploading all of a user's songs, MP3tunes' software would check the library for previously uploaded songs and if a match existed, the song would just be added to the locker without requiring an upload. No matter how many customers "uploaded" that song, MP3tunes kept only a single copy. WIRED: MP3tunes 'safe harbor' challenge is legal test EMI, whose artists include ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-10-things-it-does-better/ google-10-things-it-does-better Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:30:36 +0300 Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular tech-news blog. He writes occasional columns about social networking and tech for CNN.com. (CNN) -- Google+, Google's new social networking service, might cautiously be called a hit. With 25 million visitors at last count, Google+ may well be the fastest-growing social network to launch thus far. A glance at Google+'s most popular users, however, would indicate that the social service is still a playground for tech's early adopters. The unofficial leaderboard of the site's "most circled" users is dominated by technologists -- from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Even I make the list -- and while that's surely flattering, I'm hardly a household name. This is the next great challenge for Google+ -- mainstream users may now be hearing about the service from time to time, but in a world of social networking overload, why would anyone spend time on Google+? It's a question I struggle to answer: Google+ is certainly more fun to use than some of its rivals, but pinning down its specific advantages can be a challenge. After all, the main features of the service are familiar: Post text updates, photos, videos and links to your friends from the Web or your mobile device. What's the big deal? I polled the Google+ community for answers to Google's marketing conundrum, and 10 distinct differences emerged. Could these be enough to convince the masses? 1. "Circles" Overwhelmingly, Google+ users say they prefer Google+'s ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-se-alatura-rebelilor-din-libia-schimba-numele-unei-piete-cu-cel-folosit-inainte-de-regimul-gaddafi/ google-se-alatura-rebelilor-din-libia-schimba-numele-unei-piete-cu-cel-folosit-inainte-de-regimul-gaddafi Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:01:29 +0300 O piaţă din Tripoli a revenit, pe harta Google, la denumirea sa de dinaintea regimului Gaddafi. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sony-ericsson-a-lansat-primul-telefon-android-sub-marca-walkman/ sony-ericsson-a-lansat-primul-telefon-android-sub-marca-walkman Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:32:08 +0300 Sony Ericsson au prezentat primul telefon inteligent sub marca Walkman, bazat pe sistemul de operare Google Android. Noul smartphone se numeste Live with Walkman si are integrate functii multimedia avansate, plus o integrare foarte stransa cu reteaua de socializare Facebook. Live with Walkman este bazat pe un procesor la 1Ghz si foloseste un display tactil de 3,2 inci cu o rezolutie de 320x480 pixeli. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/o-piata-din-tripoli-revine-pe-harta-google-la-denumirea-sa-de-dinaintea-regimului-kadhafi/ o-piata-din-tripoli-revine-pe-harta-google-la-denumirea-sa-de-dinaintea-regimului-kadhafi Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:31:57 +0300 Serviciul de hărţi online al Google a schimbat numele unei zone din Tripoli în cel folosit înainte de venirea la putere a lui Muammar Kadhafi, în urmă cu patru decenii, relatează Al-Jazeera, în pagina electronică. Modificarea a fost făcută duminică seara, la câteva ore după ce rebelii au intrat în Tripoli. Aceasta se referă la Piaţa Verde, redenumită Piaţa Martirilor pe harta online a oraşului Tripoli. Schimbarea a fost făcută rapid deoarece Google le permite utilizatorilor să actualizeze hărţile sale. Un utilizator a făcut acest lucru duminică noaptea, Google a aprobat modificarea şi a făcut-o vizibilă publicului. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-au-dat-lovitura-sefii-companiilor-dupa-ce-au-fost-concediati/ cum-au-dat-lovitura-sefii-companiilor-dupa-ce-au-fost-concediati Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:31:58 +0300 Atât de mare impact au avut business-urile pe care le-au creat, încât au fost înlocuiţi din funcţiile de conducere cu alţi manageri experimentaţi, foşti preşedinţi în firme concurente. Câţiva dintre aceştia antreprenori s-au întors, însă, pe poziţii cheie în propriile companii. Alţii, mânaţi de ambiţie, şi-au fondat alte afaceri, iar ceilalţi s-au retras în diverse colţuri ale lumii, bucurându-se de compensaţiile primite. Absolvenţi ai Universităţii Stanford, Larry Page şi Sergey Brin au făcut parte din echipă fondatoare a Google în 1998. Trei ani mai târziu însă, Eric Schmidt a preluat cârmele companiei, devenind CEO-ul organizaţiei care acapera tot mai mult din piaţă online. Astăzi, Schmidt a devenit preşedintele executiv al firmei, în timp ce Larry Page a reocupat funcţia de director executiv la Google. La acea vreme, Page a declarat: "Eric este un lider extraordinar şi am învăţat nenumărate lecţii de la el. Sfaturile şi ajutorul sau vor fi nepreţuite pentru mine, acum că am ocupat un nou rol în firmă". Citeşte mai multe pe www.incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/after-blackouts-web-access-returns-to-libya/ after-blackouts-web-access-returns-to-libya Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:00:33 +0300 (CNN) -- If residents of a chaotic Tripoli were still awake in the early-morning hours Monday, they may have read this: "Welcome to all our brothers & sisters from inside Tripoli on Twitter... Internet returns to them first time in a long time! #Feb17 #Libya." The message on Twitter came from the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, an opposition group that has long spoken out against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi. Internet service was, indeed, returning Monday to Tripoli and other parts of Libya. In a digital age in which the free flow of online information is credited with everything from helping topple dictators to abetting riots, that could be taken as a signal of emerging freedom almost as strong as the rebel forces advancing on Gadhafi's last stronghold. Google's "transparency report," a tool that documents how the company's products are being used in countries where Internet freedom is limited, shows a dramatic spike in Libyan usage at about 11:30 p.m. GMT on Sunday. On the website of Libya Telecom & Technology, the country's main Internet service provider, a message in Arabic posted at about midnight local time announced a change: "Congratulations, Libya, on emancipation from the rule of the tyrant," it said, according to a translation by Renesys, a New Hampshire-based company that monitors Web usage. Fewer than 6% of Libyans are on the Internet, according to the ITU, an agency of the United Nations that focuses on the Internet and communications. Some observers believe this has slowed the pace of revolution in the country. By comparison, about ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/after-months-of-blackouts-web-access-returns-to-libya/ after-months-of-blackouts-web-access-returns-to-libya Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:30:55 +0300 (CNN) -- If residents of a chaotic Tripoli were still awake in the early-morning hours Monday, they may have read this: "Welcome to all our brothers & sisters from inside Tripoli on Twitter... Internet returns to them first time in a long time! #Feb17 #Libya." The message on Twitter came from the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, an opposition group that has long spoken out against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi. Internet service was, indeed, returning Monday to Tripoli and other parts of Libya. In a digital age in which the free flow of online information is credited with everything from helping topple dictators to abetting riots, that could be taken as a signal of emerging freedom almost as strong as the rebel forces advancing on Gadhafi's last stronghold. Google's "transparency report," a tool that documents how the company's products are being used in countries where Internet freedom is limited, shows a dramatic spike in Libyan usage at about 11:30 p.m. GMT on Sunday. On the website of Libya Telecom & Technology, the country's main Internet service provider, a message in Arabic posted at about midnight local time announced a change: "Congratulations, Libya, on emancipation from the rule of the tyrant," it said, according to a translation by Renesys, a New Hampshire-based company that monitors Web usage. Fewer than 6% of Libyans are on the Internet, according to the ITU, an agency of the United Nations that focuses on the Internet and communications. Some observers believe this has slowed the pace of revolution in the country. By comparison, about ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/eric-schmidt-google-are-nevoie-de-televiziune/ eric-schmidt-google-are-nevoie-de-televiziune Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:02:28 +0300 Eric Schmidt, preşedinte executiv al Google, va susţine, vineri, un discurs la Edinburgh International Television Festival, fiind prima persoană din afara industriei TV care va face acest lucru. Potrivit unor surse apropiate lui Schmidt, acesta va veni, în discursul său, cu un mesaj optimist pentru executivii din industria TV prezenţi la eveniment: "Google are nevoie de voi", informează Media Guardian. Se estimează, de asemenea, că Schmidt le va spune delegaţilor că Google vrea să ajute industria TV, pentru un viitor mai bun. Un astfel de discurs ar însemna o schimbare semnificativă din partea Google, care a fost în conflict cu multe companii TV pentru încălcarea drepturilor de autor. Ar fi surprinzător dacă Schmidt nu ar veni cu un discurs împăciuitor, dar apropiaţii Google susţin că este mai mult decât o strategie de moment. În pofida faptului că Google intenţionează să publice online hărţi care să cuprindă toate străzile din lume şi să digitalizeze toate cărţile, mulţi specialişti consideră că, de fapt, compania de internet resimte din ce în ce mai mult nevoia unor conţinuturi. Chiar dacă Google are venituri anuale de circa 30 de miliarde şi o cotă de 85% pe piaţa mondială a motoarelor de căutare, compania are nevoie de conţinuturi convingătoare şi implicit de noi advertiseri. În discursul său, Schmidt va pune accent pe faptul că televiziunile şi Google trebuie să colaboreze, pentru a genera mai multe profituri şi pentru a livra mai multe conţinuturi. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/group-listening-rooms-turn-up-volume-on-web-music/ group-listening-rooms-turn-up-volume-on-web-music Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:30:58 +0300 (WIRED) -- The club was dead. I'd almost forgotten I was there until someone started talking to me. But then the DJ played a new song and soon three people I knew were chatting amongst themselves, even though I'd never introduced any of them to each other. This didn't happen in some dingy meatspace dance club -- it happened on Turntable.fm, in an online listening room created by urban omnivore service Foodspotting. One of the people I ran into was a lawyer and blogger friend, the other a former colleague, and the third was Fiona Tang, the head of outreach for Foodspotting. The music floated from Janet Jackson (my choice) to a Toro Y Moi remix, and the conversation included lamentations on how none of us were actually getting any work done. "I think every time we've used it, we've ran into people we know," Tang said later in an e-mail to Wired.com. "It's gone viral within the startup community and appealed to so many people. Our team used to just play music on our laptops, taking turns to DJ manually, going around the office one by one, but now we love that it's automated via Turntable.fm. It's a good way to re-energize the team during the afternoon lull." The recent surge in online group listening services is just the latest indication that the future of the music industry lies somewhere in the cloud. In their still-nascent forms, they all offer roughly the same service -- a place for people to gather online and take turns playing music ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/group-listening-rooms-turn-up-volume-on-web/ group-listening-rooms-turn-up-volume-on-web Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:30:35 +0300 (WIRED) -- The club was dead. I'd almost forgotten I was there until someone started talking to me. But then the DJ played a new song and soon three people I knew were chatting amongst themselves, even though I'd never introduced any of them to each other. This didn't happen in some dingy meatspace dance club -- it happened on Turntable.fm, in an online listening room created by urban omnivore service Foodspotting. One of the people I ran into was a lawyer and blogger friend, the other a former colleague, and the third was Fiona Tang, the head of outreach for Foodspotting. The music floated from Janet Jackson (my choice) to a Toro Y Moi remix, and the conversation included lamentations on how none of us were actually getting any work done. "I think every time we've used it, we've ran into people we know," Tang said later in an e-mail to Wired.com. "It's gone viral within the startup community and appealed to so many people. Our team used to just play music on our laptops, taking turns to DJ manually, going around the office one by one, but now we love that it's automated via Turntable.fm. It's a good way to re-energize the team during the afternoon lull." The recent surge in online group listening services is just the latest indication that the future of the music industry lies somewhere in the cloud. In their still-nascent forms, they all offer roughly the same service -- a place for people to gather online and take turns playing music ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-au-pierdut-microsoft-si-cisco-cateva-miliarde-de-dolari-care-sunt-cele-mai-neinspirate-achizitii-din-it/ cum-au-pierdut-microsoft-si-cisco-cateva-miliarde-de-dolari-care-sunt-cele-mai-neinspirate-achizitii-din-it Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:31:52 +0300 Vestea că Google a achiziţionat Motorola a făcut valvă în lumea IT, iar mulţi s-au grăbit să spună că Google a luat o decizie neinspirată. Business Insider a făcut un top cu cele mai puţin profitabile tranzacţii din industria de profil. 1. Colaborarea AOL-Time Warner Este probabil una dintre cele mai neinspirate decizii de business din domeniu, care a irosit câteva miliarde de dolari a investitorilor. 2. Terra Networks a achiziţionat Lycos După această tranzacţie, compania Lycos a ajuns, în doar patru ani, să valoreze doar 95 de milioane de dolari de la 12,5 miliarde de dolari cât era evaluată anterior. Motivul: Terra Networks a cumpărat-o exact în timpul "bulei dotcom" din 2000. Citeşte mai multe despre cele mai neinspirate achiziţii din IT pe www.incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/skype-achizitioneaza-groupme/ skype-achizitioneaza-groupme Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:02:27 +0300 Skype a ajuns la un acord cu GroupMe pentru achizitonarea companiei new-yorkeze, o miscare prin care gigantului de Internet ii sporesc afacerile in furnizarea de servicii de mesagerie pe smartphone-uri. Aplicatiile GroupMe, infiintata abia cu un an in urma, permit utilizatorilor sa participe la conferinte online cu cercurile de prieteni sau colegi, scrie Wall Street Journal.Astfel, Skype intra in competitie cu grei precum Apple, Google si Facebook, care furnizeaza deja servicii de mesagerie pe smartphonuri pentru grupuri. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ritm-impresionant-de-crestere-google-a-ajuns-la-25-de-milioane-de-utilizatori-ar-trebui-facebook-sa-se-teama/ ritm-impresionant-de-crestere-google-a-ajuns-la-25-de-milioane-de-utilizatori-ar-trebui-facebook-sa-se-teama Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:01:23 +0300 Nu există nici o îndoială că Google+ a devenit rapid cea mai de succes reţea de socializare pe care a lansat-o vreodată Google, strângând mai mult de 25 de milioane de utilizatori în câteva săptămâni. Deşi este încă la mare distanţă în urma bazei de utilizatori ai Facebook, care numără peste 750 de milioane utilizatori, platforma socială de căutare a companiei se pare că a atras atenţia Facebook, în special cu recenta lansare a Google+ social games, scrie portalul gigaom.com. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/subiectele-zilei-miron-cozma-daca-ajung-presedinte-il-bag-in-puscarie-pe-ion-iliescu-perla-litoralului-cazare-comunista-plaje-de-lux-la-scoala-este-copil-acasa-este-mama-papirusul-din-mangalia-pierdut-la-rusi-se-intoarce-acasa-dupa-50-de-ani-cei/ subiectele-zilei-miron-cozma-daca-ajung-presedinte-il-bag-in-puscarie-pe-ion-iliescu-perla-litoralului-cazare-comunista-plaje-de-lux-la-scoala-este-copil-acasa-este-mama-papirusul-din-mangalia-pierdut-la-rusi-se-intoarce-acasa-dupa-50-de-ani-cei Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:32:21 +0300 Comando din umbra: lunetistii, luptatorii invizibili. Tragatorii din fortele speciale ale Politiei Romane participa la misiuni atat de la distanta, cat si direct la capturarea infractorilor periculosi. Interventia tragatorilor de elita reprezinta unul dintre cele mai discrete servicii pe care politistii trebuie sa le faca in cadrul misiunilor speciale. Nu fac zgomot, nu se misca si nu-i vede nimeni. Au tot timpul tinta in vizor si pentru ei fiecare fractiune de secunda conteaza. Si asta pentru ca, in cazul lor nu exista termenul de "misiune ratata". Ei sunt lunetistii, tragatorii de elita pe care fortele de ordine se bazeaza la cele mai complicate interventii. Gheorghe Mitran are 40 de ani si se poate lauda ca este unul dintre cei mai vechi din Serviciul pentru Interventii si Actiuni Speciale (SIAS). El este in acest serviciu inca de la infiintare, acum 16 ani, relateaza Romania Libera. Miron Cozma: Daca ajung presedinte il bag in puscarie pe Ion Iliescu. In urma cu doua decenii avea o armata de zeci de mii de insi gata sa-l urmeze. Zece ani, la auzul numelui sau politicienii tremurau. Avea o putere imensa. A vrut sa rastoarne guverne, i-a iesit o data. A impus oameni si isi permitea orice. S-a casatorit cu un iepuras Playboy. A fost la un pas de a arunca tara in razboi civil. "Trupele" sale i-au batut pe jandarmi intr-o batalie ca o conflagratie medievala. A umilit un prim-ministru pe care l-a obligat sa intre pe geam, sa-i cerseasca "pacea". A facut puscarie 11 ani, pentru subminarea puterii de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/german-official-ditch-facebook39s-39like39-buttons/ german-official-ditch-facebook39s-39like39-buttons Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:30:50 +0300 A government official in Germany has ordered websites to stop using Facebook's "like" button, saying they give away personal information. Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, issued a statement Friday saying analysis by his office showed that using the popular buttons transfers data to Facebook's servers in the United States. That would violate German and European Union data-protection laws, he said. Weichert, of the Independent Center for Privacy Protection, ordered website owners in his north German state to remove "like" buttons or possibly face a fine. "Whoever visits facebook.com or uses a plug-in must expect that he or she will be tracked by the company for two years," Weichert said in the statement. "Facebook builds a broad individual -- and for members even a personalized -- profile." Weichert's full statement [in German] Facebook strongly denied Weichert's claims. "We firmly reject any assertion that Facebook is not compliant with EU data-protection standards," said Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes. "The Facebook 'like' button is such a popular feature because people have complete control over how their information is shared through it. "For more than a year, the plug-in has brought value to many businesses and individuals every day." He said Facebook will review materials produced by the agency "both on our own behalf and on the behalf of web users throughout Germany." The "like" button was unveiled last spring at Facebook's F8 developers conference. Appearing on many websites (including CNN.com), the button allows users to quickly share links on Facebook without ever leaving the original site. The Associated Press on Friday quoted ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-check-google-motorola-those-scary-scary-flash-mobs/ tech-check-google-motorola-those-scary-scary-flash-mobs Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:30:54 +0300 (CNN) -- This week on the Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, Stephanie Goldberg and Brandon Griggs discuss Google's massive, $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility. Everyone's talking about Motorola's 17,000 patents, which could provide Google some cover in legal battles with Apple and Microsoft. But what will this mean for non-Motorola companies that make phones using Google's Android operating system? We also take a look atthe rebranding of "flash mobs" from innocent, if sometimes silly, spontaneous gatherings to, at least in some people's eyes, an opportunity for crime and other shenanigans? Is there something to this? Or is blaming social media for crime just a cop-out? Our Reader Comments of the Week come from a story detailing a report that 90 percent of video-game players, even the most hardcore ones, never finish the games they start. And our Tech Fail of the Week goes to a fellow who, to paraphrase fictional movie-Mark Zuckerberg, would have invented Facebook if he had invented Facebook. To listen, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can add Tech Check to your RSS feed here or subscribe or listen on iTunes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-streetview-va-acoperi-o-parte-a-junglei-amazoniene/ google-streetview-va-acoperi-o-parte-a-junglei-amazoniene Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:02:37 +0300 Serviciul Google StreetView, care permite explorarea online a multor orase prin intermediul unor panorame dinamice de 360 de grade, va fi in curand disponibil pentru mai multe sectiuni ale fluviului Amazon. Parte a unui program dezvoltat in colaborare cu Foundation for a Sustainable Amazon, noul serviciu va oferi acces oricarui utilizator de internet catre unul dintre cele mai izolate (dar interesante) locuri de pe planeta. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-to-dig-up-the-best-sources/ how-to-dig-up-the-best-sources Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:01:01 +0300 Editor's note: This piece is part of a CNN.com series about storytelling and reporting skills called iReport Boot Camp. In this edition, CNN.com technology writer John D. Sutter shares his advice on finding great sources. Read up, then give Sutter's advice a try in this week's iReport Boot Camp challenge. (CNN) -- Characters make or break stories. If you're writing about -- or photographing -- a unique, knowledgeable or quirky person, then readers are sure to remember your work. If the people you interview are boring and uninformed, you run the risk of telling a story that is, at best, forgettable and, at worst, wrongheaded. But don't fret, boot campers. Finding fascinating sources isn't as hard as it sounds. (Choosing a story topic, which was your assignment last week, is actually the hardest part, I think. So congrats on making it to week two.) Here are a few tips on how to approach the source selection process. If you have any questions, feel free to holler in the comments section, or join us for a roundtable discussion of this iReport Bootcamp topic on August 25. Read about the topic It's not an awesome idea to go hunting for sources until you understand generally what kind of people are out there and what issues are at stake. Read other news coverage, government reports, books and scholarly articles to figure out who the experts are in this field. Who do other reporters quote? What kinds of people are missing from these stories? Then reach out to them directly. It can be scary ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-isi-modifica-logoul-pentru-a-l-omagia-pe-george-enescu/ google-isi-modifica-logoul-pentru-a-l-omagia-pe-george-enescu Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:02:33 +0300 Google si-a modificat, vineri, logoul pentru a-l omagia pe George Enescu, la implinirea a 130 de ani de la nasterea celebrului compozitor roman. Noul logo al Google il prezinta pe Enescu in timp ce canta la vioara. Totodata, in noul logo, peste cuvantul "Google" apare un portativ cu note muzicale.Anul acesta, Google l-a mai omagiat pe sculptorul roman Constantin Brancusi. Astfel, pe 19 februarie, Google a celebrat 135 de ani de la nasterea lui Constantin Brancusi, noul logo fiind alcatuit din imagini ale unor lucrari realizate de celebrul sculptor, printre care "Domnisoara Pogany" si "Sarutul".George Enescu (nascut pe 19 august 1881, la Liveni, Botosani - decedat pe 4 mai 1955, la Paris) este considerat unul dintre cei mai importanti muzicieni romani. Personalitatea sa artistica s-a manifestat in multiple ipostaze: compozitor, violonist, pedagog, pianist si dirijor.George Enescu a inceput sa cante la vioara la varsta de 4 ani, primind indrumari muzicale de la parintii sai si de la un vestit lautar, Niculae Chioru. De la varsta de 5-6 ani dateaza primele sale incercari de compozitie. Studiul profesionist al muzicii i s-a datorat, pentru inceput, profesorului Eduard Caudella, potrivit site-ului Muzeului National "George Enescu" din Bucuresti.Intre anii 1888 - 1894, studiaza la Conservatorul din Viena, avandu-i ca profesori, printre altii, pe Joseph Hellmesberger jr. (vioara) si pe Robert Fuchs (compozitie). La varsta de 8 ani debuteaza ca violonist. Presa vieneza l-a numit "un Mozart roman".Dupa absolvirea Conservatorului din Viena, isi continua studiile la Conservatorul din Paris (1895 - 1899), sub indrumarea lui Martin Pierre Marsick (vioara), Andre ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-il-omagiaza-pe-george-enescu-la-130-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-compozitorului-roman/ google-il-omagiaza-pe-george-enescu-la-130-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-compozitorului-roman Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:01:16 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, vineri, logoul pentru a-l omagia pe George Enescu, la împlinirea a 130 de ani de la naşterea celebrului compozitor român. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/link-fest-topul-celor-mai-neinspirate-achizitii-in-sectorul-it/ link-fest-topul-celor-mai-neinspirate-achizitii-in-sectorul-it Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:02:22 +0300 - Google tocmai a cumparat divizia de telefoane mobile a Motorola pentru 12,5 miliarde dolari, ocazie numai buna pentru site-ul businessinsider.com de a realiza un top al celor mai neinspirate achizitii in sectorul IT, majoritatea acestora avand loc inaintea spargerii bulei dotcom in 2000.- Oricine are o adresa de e-mail primeste din cand in cand spam de genul “ati castigat la loterie o suma de X dolari/euro/lire sterline”, sau oferte de a cumpara sisteme de joc care garanteaza castiguri imense. In mod normal nu ai cum sa crezi asa ceva, insa americanii sunt “tepuiti” anual cu 120 milioane de dolari (via).- In primii 46 de ani de functionare, McDonald`s a vandut 100 miliarde de hamburgeri. Pentru comparatie, numarul aplicatiilor descarcate de pe App Store va ajunge la 100 miliarde in anul 2014, la 5 ani si jumatate de la deschidere. Un interesant infografic pe aceasta tema gasiti aici.- Cu cat petreci mai mult timp la TV, cu atat traiesti mai putin – potrivit unui studiu realizat in Australia, fiecare ora petrecuta in fata TV dupa varsta de 25 de ani iti scurteaza viata cu 21,8 minute. Oare se intampla la fel si cu cei care stau prea mult la calculator?- In ciuda scaderilor recente de pe Wall-Street, in ce priveste indicatorul S&P 500, tinta de crestere pentru sfarsitul anului este de 16% fata de nivelul actual. Greu de crezut ca se va intampla acest lucru, desi castigurile companiilor cotate la bursa vor continua sa creasca cel mai probabil si in trimestrele urmatoare.Comenteaza pe blogul lui ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/a-obtinut-motorola-pretul-corect-de-la-google-un-actionar-nemultumit-da-in-judecata-compania/ a-obtinut-motorola-pretul-corect-de-la-google-un-actionar-nemultumit-da-in-judecata-compania Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:02:15 +0300 Un acţionar Motorola Mobility dă în judecată compania şi pe CEO-ul Sanjay Jha, care, în opinia sa, nu a obţinut cel mai bun preţ de la Google. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/motorla-defy-aproape-indistructibil/ motorla-defy-aproape-indistructibil Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:02:47 +0300 Motorola a lasnat cea de-a doua generatie a telefonului inteligent Defy, cunoscut pentru rezistenta sa deosebita la abuzuri din partea utilizatorilor. Noul model, numit simplu Defy+, promite sa reziste la socuri puternice si chiar la scufundari de scurta durata si este bazat pe sistemul de operare Google Android. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lupta-celor-patru-titani-it-pentru-suprematia-in-era-digitala-cum-se-ataca-google-apple-facebook-si-amazon/ lupta-celor-patru-titani-it-pentru-suprematia-in-era-digitala-cum-se-ataca-google-apple-facebook-si-amazon Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:31:17 +0300 Google, Apple, Facebook şi Amazon sunt cei patru titani ai industriei IT care îşi dispută în acest moment supremaţia în era digitală. Aproape nimeni nu poate scăpa de ei. Reuşesc să scoată bani din aproape toate buzunarele şi deţin controlul asupra unor segmente vaste ale economiei globale. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/windows-la-cel-mai-mic-nivel-din-ultimii-20-de-ani-va-disparea-sistemul-de-operare/ windows-la-cel-mai-mic-nivel-din-ultimii-20-de-ani-va-disparea-sistemul-de-operare Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:01:42 +0300 Cota de piaţă a Windows, sistemul de operare care aduce anual Microsoft aproximativ un sfert din venituri, a coborât în acest an la cel mai mic nivel din ultimele două decenii, iar viitorul platformei pare în acest moment sumbru, potrivit unei analize a cotidianului american The Wall Street Journal, care se întreabă cum va face faţă gigantul software unei lumi în care telefoanele mobile şi tabletele pot face aproape aceleaşi operaţiuni pe care nu de mult doar PC-urile le puteau realiza. Sistemul de operare Windows a generat 19 miliarde de dolari venituri în ultimul an fiscal şi a produs 12,3 miliarde profit - aproape o jumătate din profitul Microsoft, compania condusă de Steve Balmer. Cu toate acestea, veniturile Windows au scăzut în fiecare din ultimele două trimestre. Între timp vânzările de smartphone-uri care rulează platforma Google Android şi iPhone-urile de la Apple au crescut în acest an, iar cererea pentru tabletele iPad de la Apple "mănâncă" din vânzările de laptop-uri, dispozitive pe care în mare parte rulează Windowsul. Potrivit mai multor analişti, cota Windows pe piaţa PC din trimestrul trecut a înregistrat cel mai scăzut nivel din ultimele două decenii. Microsoft se bazează pe următoarea versiune de Windows, numită Windows 8, pentru a reporni creşterea vânzărilor, dar sistemul de operare pe care Microsoft l-a reproiectat pentru a rula mai bine pe computerele cu touch-screen nu va fi lansat mai devreme de toamna anului 2012. Citeşte mai multe despre ce s-ar putea întâmpla cu Windows pe www.zf.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-viata-la-bloc-in-apartamente-de-milioane-de-euro-cum-a-devenit-pirateria-software-sport-national-in-romania-megatranzactia-dintre-google-si-motorola-transformata-in-desen-animat-cum-arata-steve-jobs-in-rolul-lui-darth-vader/ business-report-viata-la-bloc-in-apartamente-de-milioane-de-euro-cum-a-devenit-pirateria-software-sport-national-in-romania-megatranzactia-dintre-google-si-motorola-transformata-in-desen-animat-cum-arata-steve-jobs-in-rolul-lui-darth-vader Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:02:17 +0300 Confuzia generatiei 2011: cel mai aspru bac, cea mai usoara admitere. Cel mai prost bacalaureat din ultimii 20 de ani a lasat in urma prapad: mii de locuri la facultate neocupate, disparitia aproape totala a locurilor cu taxa si temerile angajatorilor cu privire la perspectivele pietei muncii peste trei ani. Fie pentru ca ati trait stresul pe propria piele, fie din auzite, va amintiti probabil de vremurile cand concurenta la admiterea la facultate era de 20-30 (ba chiar peste o suta) de candidati pe loc. Chiar daca, de la an la an, situatiile de acest tip s-au rarit, au existat si in ultimii ani facultati unde, ca sa ai acces, trebuia sa ai in spate ani de studii serioase si sa dai la o parte peste zece absolventi de liceu cu aceleasi preferinte academice, relateaza Capital. Scandal la varf in SIF Moldova. Acuze grave la adresa fostului presedinte. Dupa SIF Oltenia, un nou scandal ridica valul despre felul in societatile de investitii financiare (SIF) sunt inselate de chiar membrii conducerilor lor. Fostul presedinte al SIF Moldova (SIF2) a aprobat intrainarea unui spatiu comercial din Bacau, pe care l-ar fi cumparat fara sa sa adune alte oferte competitive si eludand astfel deciziile AGA, potrivit unei serii de rapoarte trimise de SIF Moldova Bursei de Valori Bucuresti (BVB) si Autoritatii pietei de capital (Comisia Nationala a Valorilor Mobiliare, CNVM). Anul trecut, la sase ani dupa tranzactie, Alexandru Matei, presedinte al SIF Moldova intre 1997 si 2005 si vicepresedinte al predecesoarei acesteia (Fondul Proprietatii Private II), a prezentat ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-megatranzactia-dintre-google-si-motorola-transformata-in-desen-animat-cum-arata-steve-jobs-in-rolul-lui-darth-vader/ video-megatranzactia-dintre-google-si-motorola-transformata-in-desen-animat-cum-arata-steve-jobs-in-rolul-lui-darth-vader Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:31:22 +0300 Taiwanezii de la Next Media Animation, care crează animaţii pe tema unor evenimente recente, au realizat un film despre preluarea de către Google a diviziei Motorola Mobility pentru suma de 12,5 miliarde de dolari, informează Mashable. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/standard-poor39s-recomanda-investitorilor-sa-vanda-actiunile-google-dupa-preluarea-motorola-mobility/ standard-poor39s-recomanda-investitorilor-sa-vanda-actiunile-google-dupa-preluarea-motorola-mobility Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:32:11 +0300 Agentia de evaluare financiara Standard & Poor's a modificat recomandarea pentru actiunile Google, de la "Cumpara" la "Vinde", dupa decizia motorului de cautare de a prelua producatorul de telefoane Motorola Mobility pentru 12,5 miliarde de dolari, potrivit International Business Times. De asemenea, S&P a redus tinta de pret pentru actiunile Google la 500 dolari de la 700 dolari.Scott Kessler, director de cercetare la S&P, arata ca nu este sigur daca brevetele de inventie ale Motorola vor ajuta Google in procesele legate de dreptul de proprietate intelectuală cu privire la sistemul de operare Android.In plus, achizitia va afecta cresterea Google precum si marjele de profit si bilantul, avand in vedere ca Motorola a inregistrat pierderi nete de 56 milioane de dolari in al doilea trimestru al anului.Google a anuntat luni ca a ajuns la un acord pentru a cumpara cu 12,5 miliarde de dolari producatorul de telefoane mobile Motorola Mobility. Aceasta este cea mai mare tranzactie din istoria Google si una care poate schimba raportul de forte pe piata smartphone-urilor. Pana in prezent s-au vandut peste 150 de milioane de telefoane cu Android, iar achizitia va avea un impact important asupra pietei. Google va detine practic un producator de telefoane mobile care va ajunge sa concureze cu alte companii care vand telefoane ce utilizeaza sistemul de operare Android. Tranzactia va intari pozitia Google in segmentul brevetelor de inventie unde compania statea destul de slab si putea fi usor atacata de concurenta.Google spune ca achizitia va ajuta mult avansul sistemului de operare Android si adauga ca platforma ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-megatranzactia-dintre-google-si-motorola-transformata-in-desen-animat-cum-arata-steve-jobs-in-rolul-lui-darth-vader-si-fondatorii-google-calare-pe-un-ponei/ video-megatranzactia-dintre-google-si-motorola-transformata-in-desen-animat-cum-arata-steve-jobs-in-rolul-lui-darth-vader-si-fondatorii-google-calare-pe-un-ponei Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:01:52 +0300 Taiwanezii de la Next Media Animation, care crează animaţii pe tema unor evenimente recente, au realizat un film despre preluarea de către Google a diviziei Motorola Mobility pentru suma de 12,5 miliarde de dolari, informează Mashable. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/quiz-how-do-i-apply-for-jobs-online/ quiz-how-do-i-apply-for-jobs-online Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:30:53 +0300 Editor's note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind the humor blog and book Stuff Hipsters Hate. When they're not trolling Brooklyn for new material, Ehrlich works as an associate editor at Mashable.com and Bartz is news editor at Psychology Today. Got a question about etiquette in the digital world? Contact them at netiquette@cnn.com. (CNN) -- For the most part, e-mail makes our lives easier. It allows for instant written communication. It grants us permission to politely ignore friends and contacts for hours or even days at a time. It prevents us from having to actually get up and talk to other people in our offices and eliminates the need to use one's vocal chords for entire 24-hour stretches. But there's one realm where e-mail makes life unnecessarily confusing: The online job application process. A gleaming white new message pane just isn't the ideal space for cobbling together what was once a little packet printed on fancy résumé paper and mailed to the hiring manager in a large orange envelope. The U.S. economy added 117,000 jobs last month, perhaps a sign that looking for a new gig won't be a Herculean feat for much longer now. Test your e-application know-how and ace the logistics of the application process. (How you actually perform at the interview, well, that's your own problem.) 1. Ahoy, a job listing for a position that actually interests you! The classified says to send a résumé and cover letter to such-and-such e-mail. You polish up your resume and: a) Attach it to the e-mail ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/htc-a-dat-in-judecata-apple-pentru-incalcarea-unor-tehnologii-brevetate/ htc-a-dat-in-judecata-apple-pentru-incalcarea-unor-tehnologii-brevetate Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:32:49 +0300 ​Producatorul taiwanez de telefoane inteligente HTC a dat in judecata Apple in Statele Unite ale Americii, acuzand producatorul american ca i-a folosit in mod ilegal tehnologii brevetate, informeaza BBC. HTC incearca sa obtina in instanta blocarea importurilor pe piata americana a produselor Apple. Acesta este cel mai recent pas in disputa legala dintre cele doua companii pe tema incalcarii de tehnologii brevetate, dupa ce in luna iulie din acest an o decizie preliminara a Comisiei Internationale pentru Comert din SUA a decis ca HTC a incalcat doua brevete ale Apple.HTC a anuntat in iulie ca va face recurs la aceasta decizie a Comisiei Internationale pentru Comert din SUA , iar o hotarare finala ar urma sa fie data pe 6 decembrie de o comisie speciala. "Razboiul" vanzarilor de telefoane mobile inteligente (smartphone-uri) a luat o noua intorsatura luni, cand Google a anuntat ca a ajuns la un acord pentru a cumpara cu 12,5 miliarde dolari compania producatoare de telefoane mobile Motorola Mobility. Achizitia Motorola Mobility (MMI) ar putea oferi o mai mare protectie in aceasta disputa a brevetelor de inventie pentru toti producatorii de terminale Android."Portofoliul de patente MMI va ajuta cel mai probabil Google sa protejeze producatorii de terminale mobile care folosesc sistemul de operare Android impotriva litigiilor cu Apple si Microsoft", se mentioneaza intr-o nota a firmei de cercetare Bernstein Research, citata de BBC.Motorola, Nokia, HTC, Apple, Google si Samsung sunt implicate in prezent in unul sau mai multe procese pe tema incalcarii anumitor tehnologii brevetate.Vanzarile de smartphone-uri au readus pe crestere piata ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-il-omagiaza-pe-matematicianul-pierre-de-fermat-parinte-al-calculului-diferential/ google-il-omagiaza-pe-matematicianul-pierre-de-fermat-parinte-al-calculului-diferential Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:32:41 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, miercuri, logoul pentru a-l omagia pe Pierre de Fermat, considerat "părinte" al calculului diferenţial şi al teoriei numerelor, de la a cărui naştere se împlinesc 410 ani. Noul logo al Google reprezintă o tablă pe care este scrisă cu cretă teorema enunţată de Fermat. "Am descoperit o demonstraţie cu adevărat minunată, pentru această teoremă, însă acest doodle (desen n.r.) este prea mic să o cuprindă", se arată în descrierea noului logo. Marea teorema a lui Fermat a fost enunţată de acesta în anul 1637, iar demonstraţia completă a fost realizată abia peste 357 de matematicianul englez Andrew Wiles. Teorema enunţă o metodă de găsire a punctelor de maxim şi minim ale unei funcţii derivabile. Valoarea derivatei în aceste puncte este 0. Astfel, problema determinării punctelor de maxim şi minim ale unei funcţii se reduce la rezolvarea unei ecuaţii. Pierre de Fermat s-a născut pe 17 august 1601 la Montauban, Franţa, şi a fost un avocat, funcţionar public şi matematician francez, cunoscut pentru contribuţiile sale vaste în diferite domenii ale matematicii, precursor al calculului diferenţial, geometriei analitice şi calculului probabilităţilor. Lui Fermat îi este atribuit într-o măsură mai mică calculul modern, în special, pentru contribuţia sa referitoare la tangente şi punctele staţionare. Fermat este considerat de unii autori "părinte" al calculului diferenţial şi al teoriei numerelor. A avut contribuţii şi în geometria analitică şi probabilitate. Matematicianul s-a stins din viaţă pe 12 ianuarie 1665, la Castres, Franţa. Google îşi modifică frecvent logoul pentru a marca evenimente importante ale istoriei universale sau pentru a celebra mari personalităţi. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/topul-celor-mai-importante-10-achizitii-ale-google/ topul-celor-mai-importante-10-achizitii-ale-google Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:32:07 +0300 Preluarea Motorola pentru 12,5 miliarde de dolari este cea mai importantă achiziţie din istoria companiei Google. De fapt, este mai mare decât primele zece cele mai importante achiziţii de până acum, în total, şi doar a treia care depăşeşte un miliard de dolari. Finalizarea procesului de achiziţie a Motorola se va încheia cel mai târziu la începutul anului viitor, potrivit Networkworld.com. Top 10 al celor mai importante achiziţii Google 1. DoubleClick, tehnologia pentru afişare de publicitate - 3,1 miliarde dolari, tranzacţie finalizată în martie 2008; 2. YouTube - 1,65 miliarde dolari, finalizată în noiembrie 2006; 3. AdMob, agenţie de publicitate mobilă - 750 de milioane de dolari, tranzacţie finalizată în luna mai 2010; 4. ITA Software, dezvoltator software pentru călătorii - 700 de milioane de dolari, tranzacţie finalizată în aprilie 2011; Citeşte mai multe despre topul celor mai importante achiziţii ale Google pe www.gandul.info. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lovitura-grea-pentru-google-cautarile-pe-motorul-bing-al-rivalilor-de-la-microsoft-ar-avea-rezultate-de-o-calitate-mai-buna/ lovitura-grea-pentru-google-cautarile-pe-motorul-bing-al-rivalilor-de-la-microsoft-ar-avea-rezultate-de-o-calitate-mai-buna Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:31:42 +0300 Rezultatele oferite de motoarele de căutare Bing şi Yahoo ar putea fi mai bune decât cele ale Google, potrivit unei analize realizate de compania Experian Hitwise care arată că peste 80% dintre căutările celor două motoare sunt "de succes", relatează The Christian Science Monitor. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/will-google-moto-deal-better-phones/ will-google-moto-deal-better-phones Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:30:30 +0300 (CNN) -- There was a frenzy of tech news across the Internet on Monday morning about Google's acquisition of Motorola's mobile phone division. Missing from the flurry of opinions, however, is this: The $12.5 billion deal, while significant, may not result in better mobile phones on Google's Android operating system. Consequently, there's not much reason yet for consumers to care. Sure, Google, in a blog post announcing this deal, says that owning Motorola Mobility will help bolster the Android platform. But the search-engine-turned-tech-juggernaut does so in only the vaguest of terms: "Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers everywhere," Google CEO Larry Page writes in the blog post. Analysts, however, are highlighting the subtext of this move: Google is getting bombarded with patent attacks from Apple and Microsoft and therefore, as a defensive move, needed to acquire Motorola's tens of thousands of patents. That's fascinating for businesspeople. But it doesn't mean much, necessarily, for the phone offerings that Google and Motorola will put out together. "The core reason for the acquisition is to acquire patents around mobile devices to protect Android from the myriad lawsuits that have embroiled it over the past year including suits from Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple," Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told the Wall Street Journal, which has a nice wrap-up of what tech analysts are saying about this deal. Motorola is just one of several handset manufacturers -- along with Dell, HTC, LG, Samsung and others -- that make Android-powered phones. But this deal could ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cand-altii-pierd-el-castiga-romanul-care-le-a-luat-fata-miliardarilor-latifundiarii-pun-camere-video-pe-miriste-si-gps-pe-tractoare-cum-ii-fura-angajatii-constantin-stroe-a-confirmat-aparitia-unui-nou-model-dacia-anul-viitor/ business-report-cand-altii-pierd-el-castiga-romanul-care-le-a-luat-fata-miliardarilor-latifundiarii-pun-camere-video-pe-miriste-si-gps-pe-tractoare-cum-ii-fura-angajatii-constantin-stroe-a-confirmat-aparitia-unui-nou-model-dacia-anul-viitor Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:01:42 +0300 Ce firme cauta acum investitorii. Consultantii de pe piata de fuziuni si achizitii spun ca firmele din agricultura, energie (mai ales cele din energie verde, IT&C si industrie) inca atrag atentia investitorilor, la fel cum au facut-o in ultimii doi - trei ani. Victor Capitanu, Partener la casa de investitii Capital Partners, spune pentru startups.ro ca in domeniul energiei regenerabile interesul vine mai ales din partea investitorilor strategici. Florian Nitu, Managing Partner la casa de avocatura Popovici Nitu si Asociatii, spune ca experienta crizei financiare internationale si a celei sistemice, care i-a urmat, au reconfigurat structura apetitului investitional. "Evident, investitiile de ordin financiar speculativ ori cu profil de risc ridicat s-au redus semnificativ, daca nu chiar, in formele cele mai indraznete, au si incetat. Efectul diametral opus a fost acela al investitiilor in resurse primare sau in procesarea de resurse primare. Asa se justifica o avalansa de investitii in agricultura sau domenii imobiliare destinate agriculturii, in industria alimentara, in domeniul tuturor resurselor naturale primare (petrol, gaze, energie); in acest sector, vedeta este energia verde cu investitii in parcuri eoliene sau fotovoltaice de mai multe miliarde de euro, lansate in ultimii trei ani", detaliaza pentru startups.ro Florian Nitu, scrie Startups.ro Erste: Vanzarea activelor riscante ar putea foarte usor sa coboare pretul petrolului sub 100 dolari/baril. Ne reducem substantial estimarile pentru OMV. Analistii grupului financiar austriac Erste si-au redus cu 15% tinta de pret pentru actiunile OMV la 12 luni, pe fondul rezultatelor sub asteptari raportate de compania petroliera pentru primul semestru si turbulentelor recente de pe ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-cumpara-divizia-de-telefoane-mobile-a-motorola-pentru-125-miliarde-dolari/ google-cumpara-divizia-de-telefoane-mobile-a-motorola-pentru-125-miliarde-dolari Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:01:39 +0300 Google a anuntat ca a ajuns la un acord pentru a cumpara cu 12,5 miliarde dolari compania producatoare de telefoane mobile Motorola Mobility. Este cea mai mare tranzactie din istoria Google si una care poate schimba raportul de forte pe piata smartphone-urilor. Pana in prezent s-au vandut peste 150 de milioane de telefoane cu Android, iar achizitia va avea un impact important asupra pietei. Google va detine practic un producator de telefoane mobile care va ajunge sa concureze cu alte companii care vand telefoane ce utilizeaza sistemul de operare Android.Practic Google va detine acum un produicator de smartphone-uri pentru care plateste 40 dolari/actiune, cu 63% peste pretul actiunilor Motorola la inchiderea burselor, vineri.Tranzactia are o importanta imensa pentru Google fiindca va intari pozitia Google in segmentul brevetelor de inventie unde compania statea destul de slab si putea fi usor atacata de concurenta,Google spune ca achizitia va ajuta mult avansul sistemului de operare Android si adauga ca platforma va ramane una deschisa, iar achizitia nu va schimba strategia pentru Android.Tranzactia va trebui sa fie aprobata de autoritatile de reglementare si e de asteptat ca intreg procesul sa se incheie la final de 2011 sau inceput de 2012, daca totul decurge bine.Motorola Mobility s-a desprins la inceputul acestui an de grupul Motorola care acum cinci ani a inceput sa aiba dificultati importante in segmentul telefoanelor mobile si fiindca nu a reactionat destul de repede pentru a scoate modele touch-screen competitive.Motorola Mobility a inregistrat in 2009 pierderi de 1,2 miliarde dolari, iar anul trecut a obtinut profit operational ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-grid-10-o-tableta-android-altfel/ video-grid-10-o-tableta-android-altfel Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:01:31 +0300 Dincolo de designul exterior diferit, majoritatea tabletelor bazate pe sistemul de operare Google Android sunt aproape identice. Acelasi procesor in interior, aceeasi rezolutie a display-ului, acelasi sistem de operare, cu aceeasi interfata. Fusion Garage au lansat o tableta cu un sistem de operare derivat din Android, dar radical diferit ca interfata si mod de utilizare. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fans-complain-39michael-forever39-tribute-includes-critic/ fans-complain-39michael-forever39-tribute-includes-critic Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:30:41 +0300 Los Angeles (CNN) -- Promoters yanked the rock band KISS from the Michael Jackson tribute show Tuesday after fans called their attention to negative remarks KISS leader Gene Simmons made about the pop star in the weeks after his death. The reversals came a day after Katherine Jackson appeared live on CNN to announce the addition of KISS to the lineup for "Michael Forever: The Tribute Concert," scheduled for October 8 in Cardiff, Wales. "We have listened to Michael's fans and are grateful to have been alerted to these unfortunate statements by Gene Simmons," Global Live Events CEO Chris Hunt told CNN Tuesday. Fan clubs appeared in open revolt against the tribute show after promoters added the group. Fan websites pointed to published interviews in which Simmons spoke about his suspicions that Jackson, who was acquitted of child molestation in 2005, was a pedophile. The executors of the Michael Jackson estate also spoke out late Monday, sending a letter to the promoters saying they were "especially disappointed" by the announcement that KISS was in the show. The estate asked promoters to provide an explanation. "As I am sure you are aware, Mr. Simmons has made numerous disparaging public comments about Michael Jackson after his passing," estate lawyer Howard Weitzman wrote in the letter obtained by CNN. He called media coverage of the controversy "extraordinarily embarrassing." The estate, which has not sanctioned the event, also questioned the promoters' promise to share profits with charities and a provision in the terms of the ticket sale that so long as 50% of the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/megatranzactia-dintre-google-si-motorola-cum-se-va-schimba-telefonul-tau/ megatranzactia-dintre-google-si-motorola-cum-se-va-schimba-telefonul-tau Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:31:27 +0300 Google, compania care deţine cel mai mare motor de căutare pe Internet din lume şi care a dezvoltat sistemul de operare Android, ce rulează pe aproape jumătate dintre smartphone-urile din întreaga lume, a cumpărat Motorola Mobility Holdings pentru 12,5 miliarde de dolari. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cele-mai-mari-10-achizitii-din-istoria-google/ cele-mai-mari-10-achizitii-din-istoria-google Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:31:31 +0300 Preluarea Motorola pentru 12,5 miliarde de dolari este cea mai importantă achiziţie din istoria companiei Google. De fapt, este mai mare decât primele zece cele mai importante achiziţii de până acum, în total, şi doar a treia care depăşeşte un miliard de dolari. Finalizarea procesului de achiziţie a Motorola se va încheia cel mai târziu la începutul anului viitor, potrivit Networkworld.com. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google39s-motorola-deal-seen-as-cold-war-arms-race/ google39s-motorola-deal-seen-as-cold-war-arms-race Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:00:57 +0300 (CNN) -- Open warfare between technology giants is nothing new, but when Google this week announced it was acquiring Motorola's mobile division, the conflict over mobile phones went nuclear. Behind the headlines of the $12.5 billion deal, say analysts, is a Cold War-style arms race, with leading firms racing to stockpile the patents that will serve as weapons of mutually-assured destruction. But as Google squares off against Apple, Microsoft and the creators of BlackBerry, the question is: will anyone benefit from this escalation in potential hostilities or, like the standoff between America and the Soviet Union, will it ultimately prove futile? Industry observers say Google's latest deal, which saw it pay a 63% premium on shares, is primarily aimed at laying its hands on Motorola's arsenal of patents -- legally protected innovations built up over years at the frontline of cell phone development. Most of these estimated 24,000 patents have little intrinsic value, says Lee Simpson, a London-based analyst at Jeffries International, but a core 500 or so represent the mother lode, giving Google ownership of key cellular communication technology. And it is these patents that Google will turn to should it be accused of stealing Apple's own legally-protected iPhone innovations to enhance Google's Android operating system -- a software now used on many popular handsets. Apple upgraded its arsenal last month when it jointly with Microsoft led a $4.5 billion consortium buy up of the bankrupt Nortel Corp. The deal, giving access to 6,000 key communications technology patents, was at the time seen as a blow to Android. Intellectual property analyst ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/did-google-just-turn-motorola-into-the-new-super-tivo/ did-google-just-turn-motorola-into-the-new-super-tivo Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:31:01 +0300 (WIRED) -- The best-case scenario for consumers if the proposed Google-Motorola deal goes through might be that cable TV gets a whole lot better. Earlier, we touched on Motorola's sizable patent portfolio and its position as a leading maker of TV set-top boxes. Now, let's put the two together, add Google TV's promising software interface and utter failure of its hardware, and cook up a brand new go-to-market strategy for Google TV. Steve Jobs (who knows a thing or two about a thing or two) laid this problem out very clearly a year ago, explaining why Google TV would fail and why Apple TV is still just "a hobby": "The problem with innovation in the television industry is the go-to-market strategy. The television industry has a subsidized model that gives everyone a set-top box for free, or for $10 per month. That pretty much squashes any opportunity for innovation, because nobody's willing to buy a set top box. Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us. Ask Google in a few months. The only way that's ever going to change is if you can really go back to square one, tear up the set top box, redesign it from scratch with a consistent UI across all these different functions, and get it to consumers in a way that they're willing to pay for it. And right now there's no way to do that. The TV is going to lose until there's a viable -- go to market strategy. Otherwise you're just making another TiVo. It's not a problem with ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/anuntul-care-a-readus-increderea-pe-piata-de-capital-bursa-de-la-new-york-a-inchis-luni-in-crestere-datorita-ofertei-google-pentru-motorola-mobility/ anuntul-care-a-readus-increderea-pe-piata-de-capital-bursa-de-la-new-york-a-inchis-luni-in-crestere-datorita-ofertei-google-pentru-motorola-mobility Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:31:37 +0300 Bursa de la New York a închis luni în creştere pentru cea de-a treia şedinţă consecutiv, datorită optimismului generat de oferta de 12,5 miliarde de dolari lansată de Google pentru Motorola Mobility, transmite Reuters. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fans-complain-39michael-forever39-tribute-includes-jackson-critic/ fans-complain-39michael-forever39-tribute-includes-jackson-critic Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:31:01 +0300 Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson fan clubs appeared in open revolt against a tribute show for the late pop star after promoters added the rock band KISS to the concert lineup on Monday. Fan objected because of negative comments KISS leader Gene Simmons made about Jackson in interviews the days and weeks after his death two years ago. Simmons spoke about his suspicions that Jackson, who was acquitted of child molestation in 2005, was a pedophile. "In the days following Michael Jackson's death, Gene Simmons has made slanderous, derogatory comments about Michael and his children," the fan site United For Michael Jackson's Legacy said. "It is quite ironic that Simmons has now agreed to himself pay tribute to the man he called a child predator." Promoters, who had hoped the addition of the legendary group would bolster their lineup, said they were unaware of Simmons' statements when they booked KISS for the show. The fan website MJ4Justice was one of several calling for a boycott of "Michael Forever: The Tribute Concert" scheduled for October 8 in Cardiff, Wales. "Either they don't have access to computers, telephones or do not know how to use GOOGLE," MJ4Justice said in an online statement. "But, There is NO excuse for the Tribute organizers NOT to know Gene Simmons should not be part of any Michael Jackson Tribute Event." Global Live Events executives appeared with Jackson matriarch Katherine Jackson on CNN Monday to announce the signing of KISS. "I know he would be very excited about KISS," Michael Jackson's mother said. But within minutes, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tranzactia-care-a-readus-increderea-pe-piata-de-capital-bursa-de-la-new-york-a-inchis-luni-in-crestere-datorita-ofertei-google-pentru-motorola-mobility/ tranzactia-care-a-readus-increderea-pe-piata-de-capital-bursa-de-la-new-york-a-inchis-luni-in-crestere-datorita-ofertei-google-pentru-motorola-mobility Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:01:27 +0300 Bursa de la New York a închis luni în creştere pentru cea de-a treia şedinţă consecutiv, datorită optimismului generat de oferta de 12,5 miliarde de dolari lansată de Google pentru Motorola Mobility, transmite Reuters. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-moto-deal-may-not-produce-better-phones/ google-moto-deal-may-not-produce-better-phones Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:30:32 +0300 (CNN) -- There was a frenzy of tech news across the Internet on Monday morning about Google's acquisition of Motorola's mobile phone division. Missing from the flurry of opinions, however, is this: The $12.5 billion deal, while significant, may not result in better mobile phones on Google's Android operating system. Consequently, there's not much reason yet for consumers to care. Sure, Google, in a blog post announcing this deal, says that owning Motorola Mobility will help bolster the Android platform. But the search-engine-turned-tech-juggernaut does so in only the vaguest of terms: "Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers everywhere," Google CEO Larry Page writes in the blog post. Analysts, however, are highlighting the subtext of this move: Google is getting bombarded with patent attacks from Apple and Microsoft and therefore, as a defensive move, needed to acquire Motorola's tens of thousands of patents. That's fascinating for businesspeople. But it doesn't mean much, necessarily, for the phone offerings that Google and Motorola will put out together. "The core reason for the acquisition is to acquire patents around mobile devices to protect Android from the myriad lawsuits that have embroiled it over the past year including suits from Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple," Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told the Wall Street Journal, which has a nice wrap-up of what tech analysts are saying about this deal. Motorola is just one of several handset manufacturers -- along with Dell, HTC, LG, Samsung and others -- that make Android-powered phones. But this deal could ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/motorola-deal-boosts-google39s-move-into-home-automation/ motorola-deal-boosts-google39s-move-into-home-automation Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:31:02 +0300 (CNN) -- One lesser-known aspect of Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility: It brings the technology giant a step closer to offering a Google baby monitor. Google announced in May its ambitions of getting into the home automation business. Monday's step toward buying a hardware maker is poised to play into that goal. At the Google I/O conference in May, Google demonstrated concepts for home appliances that could communicate wirelessly with each other and with Android phones and tablets. Google's Joe Britt showed an alarm clock that can be set, using a mobile application, to turn on lights and music in the bedroom at a specified time. "We'd like to think of your entire home as an accessory," Britt said then. "Android is the operating system for your home." In addition to providing software, which is where Google's expertise lies, the technology giant is looking to design connected hardware and appliances for the home. This could help Google capitalize on a fairly young industry that has yet to break into the mainstream. In a blog post Monday, Google CEO Larry Page cited Motorola's development of "home devices" as an impetus for working more closely with the manufacturer. Page expressed that same enthusiasm in a conference call later in the day, sentiments that were echoed by Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha. With the proposed Motorola acquisition, Google risks straining its relationships with other smartphone makers who rely on Android, wrote Charles Golvin, a Forrester Research consumer product analyst, in an online report. But Google is willing to weather that storm to bolster ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-the-google-moto-deal-may-not-result-in-better-phones/ why-the-google-moto-deal-may-not-result-in-better-phones Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:00:52 +0300 (CNN) -- There was a frenzy of tech news across the Internet on Monday morning about Google's acquisition of Motorola's mobile phone division. Missing from the flurry of opinions, however, is this: The $12.5 billion deal, while significant, may not result in better mobile phones on Google's Android operating system. Consequently, there's not much reason yet for consumers to care. Sure, Google, in a blog post announcing this deal, says that owning Motorola Mobility will help bolster the Android platform. But the search-engine-turned-tech-juggernaut does so in only the vaguest of terms: "Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers everywhere," Google CEO Larry Page writes in the blog post. Analysts, however, are highlighting the subtext of this move: Google is getting bombarded with patent attacks from Apple and Microsoft and therefore, as a defensive move, needed to acquire Motorola's tens of thousands of patents. That's fascinating for businesspeople. But it doesn't mean much, necessarily, for the phone offerings that Google and Motorola will put out together. "The core reason for the acquisition is to acquire patents around mobile devices to protect Android from the myriad lawsuits that have embroiled it over the past year including suits from Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple," Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told the Wall Street Journal, which has a nice wrap-up of what tech analysts are saying about this deal. Motorola is just one of several handset manufacturers -- along with Dell, HTC, LG, Samsung and others -- that make Android-powered phones. But this deal could ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-cumpara-motorola-mobility-cu-125-miliarde-de-dolari/ google-cumpara-motorola-mobility-cu-125-miliarde-de-dolari Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:01:07 +0300 Google va cumpăra Motorola Mobility cu 12,5 miliarde de dolari, gigantul american de internet propunând un preţ de 40 de dolari pe acţiune, cu 63% mai mult decât cotaţia titlurilor la închiderea bursei vineri. Potrivit AFP, Tranzacţia a primit susţinerea unanimă a consiliilor de administraţie ale celor două grupuri şi ar urma fi finalizată la finalul lui 2011 sau la începutul anului viitor. "Achiziţia Motorola Mobility va permite Google dezvoltarea sistemului Android", a precizat grupul american, precizând că sistemul de operare va rămâne deschis tuturor fabricanţilor de telefoane mobile. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/liana-buzea-internetul-da-prima-veste-a-coagularilor-sociale/ liana-buzea-internetul-da-prima-veste-a-coagularilor-sociale Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:02:07 +0300 "Folosind Facebook si Twitter, in septembrie 2010, aceste doua tinere au mobilizat 200.000 de voluntari care si-au petrecut o zi curatand gunoaie in Romania. Ele au dovedit ca scepticii s-au inselat". Este vorba despre Liana Buzea si Anamaria Hancu, doua nume rostite pe 4 iulie anul acesta de ambasadorul SUA in Romania, Mark Gitenstein. Dupa ce a reusit cu "Let's Do It, Romania", Liana Buzea aduna oamenii pentru un nou demers: "Plantam fapte bune in Romania!". Cum se coaguleaza o miscare sociala pe internet, care este forta retelelor sociale in Romania, care sunt pasii de la mesaj electronic la actiune si ce sanse au proiectele romanesti online - sunt doar cateva dintre intrebarile la care Liana Buzea a raspuns, intr-un interviu acordat HotNews.ro.Rep: Plecam de la campania "Let's Do It, Romania". Cum ati reusit sa coagulati atatia oameni pentru aceasta actiune? L.B: In primul rand, mobilizarea s-a facut pe mai multe canale. Cel de social-media a folosit in mare parte la notoritate. Dar la mobilizare s-au folosit retele de organizatii, cluburi, fie din mediu, fie din alte domenii, contactarea autoritatilor locale. In multe judete din tara, societatea civila nu este atat de puternica si autoritatile locale sunt cele care pot sa fie un model pe care lumea, la nivel de comunitate locala, sa il urmeze. Pe de alta parte, in momentul in care am inceput sa primim sustinere media, pe TV, ne-a fost mult mai usor sa fim credibili si in momentul in care mergeam cu mesaje in comunitatea locala lumea sa spuna: da, va ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cele-mai-importante-branduri-media-care-vor-exista-si-peste-zece-ani/ cele-mai-importante-branduri-media-care-vor-exista-si-peste-zece-ani Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:01:46 +0300 In urmatorii zece ani informatiile vor proveni, probabil, din surse mult mai variate decat in ziua de azi, iar schimbarile tehnologice si a modelelor de afaceri vor crea invingatori si invinsi in randul brandurilor actuale. Publicatia Business Insider a incercat sa prezica ce branduri vor mai exista la finele acestei decade.Probabil ca The New York Times va renunta la print, insa brandul va continua sa existe. Numele si produsul sunt prea valoroase pentru a disparea completTwitter este o platforma pe care nicio publicatie nu isi permite sa o neglijeze si se pare ca va continua sa existe. Ar putea chiar sa devina un instrument mult mai bun pentru a citi si a redacta stirile prin intermediul observatiilor, fotografiilor si clipurilor video postate de martorii oculari.Google continua sa fie principalul motor de cautare, iar Google News se bucura de o audienta uriasa. Business Insider este de parere ca Google News va fi unul dintre cele mai importante aplicatii in acest domeniu, avand in vedere ca se asteapta Google sa imbunatateasca acest serviciu si, probabil, sa il integreze in Google+.Facebook este una dintre cele mai importante platforme de distribuţie a informaţiilor din lume, iar in urmatorii zece ani ar trebui sa creasca in relevanta, in special pe partea de stiri localeReteaua TV in limba spaniola Univision se va schimba semnificativ in urmatorii ani, iar pe măsură ce populaţia vorbitoare de limba spaniolă va deveni din ce in ce mai nuneroasa în SUA, compania va creste in dimensiune si in influenta.Stirile financiare nu isi vor pierde din relevanta ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-introduce-mai-multe-jocuri-printre-care-si-popularul-angry-birds/ google-introduce-mai-multe-jocuri-printre-care-si-popularul-angry-birds Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:01:29 +0300 Google face un pas în plus în competiţia sa cu reţeaua de socializare Facebook, instalând o pagină de jocuri pe site-ul său de socializare Google+, printre care şi "Angry Birds", un joc foarte popular creat de compania Rovio, informează Brand Republic. Google a anunţat pe blogul oficial al companiei că a introdus un buton pentru jocuri pe Google+. În prezent sunt disponibile 16 jocuri, printre care "Zynga Poker", "Zombie Lane" şi "Sudoko". Utilizatorii îşi pot invita prietenii să joace jocuri împreună online. "Experienţele pe care le împărtăşim sunt importante pentru relaţiile noastre. Vrem să facem astfel încât jocurile online să fie la fel de amuzante şi să aibă aceeaşi semnificaţie ca jocurile din viaţa reală", a declarat Vic Gundotra, reprezentant Google. La numai câteva ore după ce Google a anunţat introducerea jocurilor, Facebook a dezvăluit mai multe aplicaţii noi, printre care Game Ticker, care transformă coloana Facebook Chat într-un flux care afişează activităţile utilizatorilor în diferite jocuri. Google+ s-a lansat la începutul lunii iulie. Platforma a atras 20 de milioane de vizitatori pe site, în numai trei săptămâni de la lansare. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tweet-here-often-pick-up-lines-for-the-technorati/ tweet-here-often-pick-up-lines-for-the-technorati Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:31:11 +0300 (CNN) -- If you're sick of all your tech-literate friends bragging about their digital stature -- Twitter followers, Google+ invites, Klout scores -- then you will love McSweeney's list of pick-up lines "for the modern Internet persona." Keep in mind that these lines are designed to be purposefully "ineffective." But that shouldn't stop you from trying a few out in a Silicon Valley bar. If you do, please -- really, please -- report back to us on whether you get any would-be dates to look up from their smartphones and crack an analog smile. Here are some excerpts from the list: -- "Give me your number and I'll throw in a Google+ invite. I'd put you in my 'Babe' Circle." -- "My Klout score is an 83, which makes me a Thought Leader ..." -- "My U.S. Alexa ranking is 22K, which is fairly impressive for a blog about soft cheeses ..." -- "Do you come here often? I do. I'm the Foursquare mayor, actually, which means I come here more than anyone else. That reminds me, I need to check-in ..." Forbes writer Kashmir Hill apparently found this pretty funny, too. She wrote a list of her own digital-era updates to classic pick-up lines. Here's one of her updated lines: Original: "Do you have a quarter? I need to call my mother and tell her I've met the woman of my dreams." Digital version: "Could I borrow your smartphone? I need to post a Facebook status update that I've met the woman of my dreams, in order to make all the ex-girlfriends I'm ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-to-avoid-tethering-fees-with-an-unlocked-phone/ how-to-avoid-tethering-fees-with-an-unlocked-phone Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:30:59 +0300 Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- Two leading U.S. wireless carriers, Verizon and AT&T, appear to be cracking down on mobile "tethering" -- or using a cell phone to get a laptop onto the Internet. To get a sense of how consumers can avoid tethering fees these carriers charge, I spoke with Myriam Joire, mobile editor for tech blog Engadget. It can be tricky to do this without getting caught. And these instructions should come with a disclaimer: Avoiding tethering fees is a breach of most mobile contracts. Carriers have been catching people who use free tethering apps for jailbroken or rooted phones, such as MyWi. But there is another way to avoid tethering charges: Use an unlocked, unbranded smartphone. Joire recently sat down with me to explain how to do this. For a phone to be unlocked (or unlockable) it must have a SIM card -- the component that houses the user's account data. This means it must be operate on GSM network technology. In the United States, the only two GSM carriers are AT&T and T-Mobile. Phones that run on networks using CDMA technology (such as Verizon, Sprint and most discount carriers) lack SIM cards. The key to this strategy is to do your homework, she said. First, research which GSM carrier provides the best service in the locations where you spend the most time or travel to most often. (Rootmetrics ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/spot-on-handwriting-analysis-surprises-ireporters/ spot-on-handwriting-analysis-surprises-ireporters Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:30:58 +0300 Editor's note: As part of CNN's Defining America project, CNN iReport is conducting a cultural census. We're asking people to share a self-portrait, show off their handwriting, tell us what they typically eat for dinner, and more. This piece is part of our series focusing on the handwriting project. (CNN) -- Following his mother's practice of nice penmanship, Philip Dahlheimer has always written with a little bit of flair. He's comfortable with his handwriting and feels it is an extension of himself. His writing sends a certain message: He's a fast writer, but he cares about legibility at the same time, he says. For CNN iReport's cultural census project, we collected more than 200 handwriting samples and selected a handful to be analyzed by an expert. We wanted to find out just what handwriting can say about a person -- and whether the impression it gives is at all accurate. Bart Baggett, a handwriting expert for the past 25 years, examined the samples and came to some conclusions about each person's personality. Baggett, who is based out of Los Angeles, has been qualified in court and has written books on handwriting analysis. After Baggett dissected everyone's handwriting, we called back the iReporters to get their impressions. Seven of the eight iReporters overwhelmingly agreed with their handwriting analysis, including Dahlheimer. "Maybe I ought to marry him? He's got it down to a T," Dahlheimer said with a laugh. "He got that all from handwriting? Maybe he Googled me and made it all up? That's funny." When it comes to finding hints ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/angry-birds-other-games-come-to-google/ angry-birds-other-games-come-to-google Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:30:55 +0300 (WIRED) -- Google upped the ante in its challenge to Facebook Thursday by introducing games into its nascent social network Google+. Just as in Facebook, Google+ users will now be able to play games such as Angry Birds, Zynga Poker, and Crime City -- and bug their friends with notices of their latest achievements and high scores. But Google promised Thursday there's a difference between its network and Facebook's -- those notifications won't show up in the general "stream" of updates users see. So you'll only run across your friends' gaming-centered notifications when you go to play a game yourself. Google says it's starting now with just a few handpicked titles, but that it's looking to work with more developers -- announcing a developer's blog -- where many hope Google will soon announce an API for Google Plus. The announcement isn't unexpected. Google's going head-to-head with Facebook to try to win back the identity/sharing war that Facebook has won. And games have been a huge part of Facebook's success, bringing users back daily to raise virtual chickens or run virtual street gangs. Zynga, built almost entirely on top of Facebook's platform, has filed for an IPO and reported that it made $16.8 million dollars in net income the first three months of the year, while booking $243 million in revenue -- nearly all of that money coming from power Facebook users. WIRED: How Facebook games harvest big bucks Google's games announcement shows that it's doubling down on its bet that users are tired of Facebook's ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/new-facebook-messenger-app-could-rival-texting/ new-facebook-messenger-app-could-rival-texting Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:30:33 +0300 (CNN) -- Smartphone owners may have to ask themselves: why text when there's Facebook Messenger? That's a question the cellular carriers will lament as the biggest technology players pile into what's known as the mobile-messaging space. Facebook joined the fray on Tuesday with the release of Messenger for iPhone and Android. Facebook's Messages feature, which allows people to communicate privately with friends on the social network and recently with e-mail acquaintances, is already built into the Facebook apps. However, the new standalone Messenger software is a cornerstone for Facebook's ambition to become the communications hub on phones, Facebook employees working on the messaging product have said in interviews. To design the app, Facebook acquired the development team that built a program called Beluga. It allows users to include photos and location coordinates with each message and can also send text messages to phone numbers, much like the new Facebook app. Andrew Bosworth, a Facebook product director, discussed the potential need for a dedicated client in an March interview, days after the Beluga engineers started at the Palo Alto, California, company. "One click from the home screen is a valuable trait," he said, contrasted with the need to open the full Facebook app in order seek new messages. "They've built specifically for mobile-to-mobile. Our messages stuff was built for a convergence between mobile and Web and e-mail and a bunch of other things." Bosworth suggested that a standalone messenger was "the next step" in Facebook's plans. As it turns out, it was. But cell operators, which derive substantial profits from texting plans and per-message ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/samsung-tablet-banned-in-europe/ samsung-tablet-banned-in-europe Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:00:20 +0300 (CNN) -- Apple won a significant victory on Tuesday in its campaign against Samsung Electronics over alleged intellectual-property infringements. Samsung has been ordered to remove the Galaxy Tab 10.1, a touchscreen tablet computer that runs Google's Android software, from stores in Europe as part of an ongoing legal dispute between its creator and Apple, which makes the iPad. The preliminary injunction from a Dusseldorf, Germany, district court extends to 26 countries that belong to the European Union, excluding the Netherlands. Certain laws in the Netherlands differ from those in the other nations, but Apple has filed a separate lawsuit in courts there, Florian Mueller, an analyst covering intellectual-property law, wrote on his blog. "Preliminary injunctions in Germany take immediate effect, though an EU-wide one may require additional registrations in other countries," Mueller wrote. While the decision could be reversed, the ban on sales of the Galaxy Tab could last more than a year, he said. The block only affects the Samsung tablet with a 10.1-inch touchscreen, not the various 7-inch versions. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has panned 7-inch tablets, calling them "tweeners," and saying, "We think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum screen size required to make great tablet apps." An Apple spokeswoman confirmed that the company had received notice of the injunction ruling. A Samsung spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. "It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging," Apple has said. "This kind of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/your-phone-bill-can-be-a-credit-card-but-with-some-risks/ your-phone-bill-can-be-a-credit-card-but-with-some-risks Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:00:51 +0300 Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- Could your phone bill act like your credit card -- and should it? Wireless carriers have begun offering that very option, expanding beyond already existing donations-via-text-message programs. But the consumer advocacy group Consumers Union is voicing serious concerns about the practice. This month T-Mobile is rolling out its plan to let its customers buy digital content and services (such as games, magazines and more) through their mobile Web browser and charging them on their phone bill. T-Mobile has offered this service, called direct carrier billing, since 2009 for apps purchased through Google's Android Market. But by expanding it to browser-based purchases, it's now becoming available to T-Mobile users on any type of Web-enabled mobile device -- potentially even feature phones. Most wireless carriers offer some form of direct carrier billing, but it is unusual to extend it to browser-based purchases. According to Consumers Union, "T-Mobile's announcement is just the latest development in emerging mobile payment services that raises concerns about whether consumers will be protected from fraud or merchant mistakes." Regarding consumer protection, T-Mobile has explained that "Payments that are processed using direct carrier billing will be secured and monitored by both T-Mobile and the billing service partners. Extensive fraud controls, age-appropriate content blocking and spending limit management tools will be available to provide T-Mobile customers with a secure environment for purchasing premium content from trusted ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-messenger-app-could-rival-texting/ facebook-messenger-app-could-rival-texting Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:00:35 +0300 (CNN) -- Smartphone owners may have to ask themselves: why text when there's Facebook Messenger? That's a question the cellular carriers will lament as the biggest technology players pile into what's known as the mobile-messaging space. Facebook joined the fray on Tuesday with the release of Messenger for iPhone and Android. Facebook's Messages feature, which allows people to communicate privately with friends on the social network and recently with e-mail acquaintances, is already built into the Facebook apps. However, the new standalone Messenger software is a cornerstone for Facebook's ambition to become the communications hub on phones, Facebook employees working on the messaging product have said in interviews. To design the app, Facebook acquired the development team that built a program called Beluga. It allows users to include photos and location coordinates with each message and can also send text messages to phone numbers, much like the new Facebook app. Andrew Bosworth, a Facebook product director, discussed the potential need for a dedicated client in an March interview, days after the Beluga engineers started at the Palo Alto, California, company. "One click from the home screen is a valuable trait," he said, contrasted with the need to open the full Facebook app in order seek new messages. "They've built specifically for mobile-to-mobile. Our messages stuff was built for a convergence between mobile and Web and e-mail and a bunch of other things." Bosworth suggested that a standalone messenger was "the next step" in Facebook's plans. As it turns out, it was. But cell operators, which derive substantial profits from texting plans and per-message ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/coal-is-critical-to-america39s-future/ coal-is-critical-to-america39s-future Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:00:48 +0300 Editor's note: Steve Miller is president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a coal industry group. This essay is a repsonse to a previous Opinion article, "Why America has to get off coal." (CNN) -- Environmental interest groups recently rejoiced at the news that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's foundation was donating $50 million to the Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" campaign. However, this campaign -- if successful -- would do more than move America beyond coal. It would go a long way to moving America beyond jobs, economic growth, energy security and global competitiveness. There are challenges inherent with using every energy resource. But if the United States backs away from any of our domestic resources because it poses challenges, we will soon find ourselves with fewer, more expensive supplies of energy. The job before us is to provide political and private sector leadership that addresses these challenges. Rather than a plan to limit choices, these times require leadership to increase the sources of affordable, reliable, environmentally compatible energy. These times require leadership to spur competition that will hold down price increases and generate technological innovations to reduce emissions globally. While the Sierra Club and Bloomberg spend their time and money pushing an agenda that would take energy options off the table, they instead should acknowledge coal's importance to the United States and focus on ways to use it more efficiently and with an even smaller environmental footprint. Coal plays a critical role in keeping electricity affordable, even as household energy costs are surging upward. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/prima-victorie-pentru-apple-in-lupta-cu-samsung-o-instanta-din-germania-a-interzis-temporar-vanzarile-tabletelor-galaxy-la-nivelul-ue/ prima-victorie-pentru-apple-in-lupta-cu-samsung-o-instanta-din-germania-a-interzis-temporar-vanzarile-tabletelor-galaxy-la-nivelul-ue Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:31:27 +0300 Apple a obţinut, într-o instanţă din Germania, o victorie importantă în lupta cu rivalul Samsung Electronics, tribunalul interzicând temporar companiei sud-coreene să vândă tabletele Galaxy în Uniunea Europeană, cu excepţia Olandei, transmite Reuters. Ordinul judecătoresc dat de o instanţă din Dusseldorf vine la o săptămână după ce Samsung a fost forţat, printr-un proces similar, să întârzie lansarea tabletei Galaxy în Australia. Apple susţine că telefoanele şi tabletele Samsung Galaxy "copiază slugarnic" iPhone şi iPad. Compania americană a intentat acţiuni în justiţie în Statele Unite, Australia, Europa şi alte zone, sperând să blocheze produsele rivale. Gadget-urile Samsung sunt construite în jurul sistemului de operare Android dezvoltat de Google. Divizia mobilă a Samsung, care produce telefoane mobile şi tablete, a generat 30% din veniturile gigantului sud-coreean în trimestrul al doilea. Restul vânzărilor sunt obţinute din chip-uri de memorie şi televizoare, sectoare unde Samsung este lider global. Compania este cel mai mare producător de electronice din Asia, cu venituri de 142 miliarde de dolari anul trecut. Samsung a anunţat că va contesta decizia. "Acţiunea a fost intentată fără ca Samsung să fie anunţată, iar ordinul judecătoresc a fost emis fără vreo convocare la audieri sau solicitare către Samsung", se arată într-un comunicat al companiei. Gadget-urile Galaxy sunt considerate principalii competitori ai iPhone şi iPad. Experţi din industria de profil consideră că Samsung ar putea lansa în Europa o variantă uşor modificată a Galaxy Tab 10.1 pentru a ocoli ordinul judecătoresc, la fel cum intenţionează să facă în Australia. O altă variantă ar fi plata unor drepturi de proprietate intelectuală către Apple. Vlad Popescu, vlad.popescu@mediafax.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-messenger-app-challenges-cell-carrier-39control39/ facebook-messenger-app-challenges-cell-carrier-39control39 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:00:51 +0300 (CNN) -- Smartphone owners may have to ask themselves: why text when there's Facebook Messenger? That's a question the cellular carriers will lament as the biggest technology players pile into what's known as the mobile-messaging space. Facebook joined the fray on Tuesday with the release of Messenger for iPhone and Android. Facebook's Messages feature, which allows people to communicate privately with friends on the social network and recently with e-mail acquaintances, is already built into the Facebook apps. However, the new standalone Messenger software is a cornerstone for Facebook's ambition to become the communications hub on phones, Facebook employees working on the messaging product have said in interviews. To design the app, Facebook acquired the development team that built a program called Beluga. It allows users to include photos and location coordinates with each message and can also send text messages to phone numbers, much like the new Facebook app. Andrew Bosworth, a Facebook product director, discussed the potential need for a dedicated client in an March interview, days after the Beluga engineers started at the Palo Alto, California, company. "One click from the home screen is a valuable trait," he said, contrasted with the need to open the full Facebook app in order seek new messages. "They've built specifically for mobile-to-mobile. Our messages stuff was built for a convergence between mobile and Web and e-mail and a bunch of other things." Bosworth suggested that a standalone messenger was "the next step" in Facebook's plans. As it turns out, it was. But cell operators, which derive substantial profits from texting plans and per-message ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/survey-apps-store-too-much-personal-data/ survey-apps-store-too-much-personal-data Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:00:35 +0300 (WIRED) -- An uncomfortably large percentage of mobile applications are storing sensitive user account information unencrypted on owners' smartphones, according to a new survey of 100 consumer smartphone apps. Some 76% of the apps tested stored cleartext usernames on the devices, and 10% of the tested applications, including popular apps LinkedIn and Netflix, were found storing passwords on the phone in cleartext. Conducted by digital security firm ViaForensics, the testing occurred over a period of over eight months and spanned multiple categories, ranging from social networking applications to mobile banking software. The firm tested apps only for iOS and Android, the market's leading mobile platforms. "If I get my hands on someone's lost phone, it could take me ten minutes to find an account username and password," said Ted Eull, techology services vice president at ViaForensics, in an interview. ViaForensics sells mobile security tools and services to corporations, attorneys and government agencies. User names ranked highest on the list of discoverable data. App data -- the term ViaForensics uses for private information exchanged using the applications -- came in second place, with such data recovered from 69% of tested apps. Mint.com's iPhone and Android apps, which are used for maintaining financial account information, were found to store user transaction history and balance information on the phone. The Android version of the Mint app stores the user's PIN on the phone unencrypted, ViaForensics found. "We're already working on ways to make this experience better," said Jason Yiin, lead mobile engineer at Mint.com, in an interview. "At the moment, if users are highly ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-blocks-sale-of-samsung-tablet-in-europe/ apple-blocks-sale-of-samsung-tablet-in-europe Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:30:58 +0300 (CNN) -- Apple won a significant victory on Tuesday in its campaign against Samsung Electronics over alleged patent infringements. Samsung has been ordered to remove the Galaxy Tab 10.1, a touchscreen tablet computer that runs Google's Android software, from stores in Europe as part of an ongoing legal dispute between its creator and Apple, which makes the iPad. The preliminary injunction from a Dusseldorf, Germany, district court extends to 26 countries that belong to the European Union, excluding the Netherlands. Certain laws in the Netherlands differ from those in the other nations, but Apple has filed a separate lawsuit in courts there, Florian Mueller, an analyst covering intellectual property law, wrote on his blog. "Preliminary injunctions in Germany take immediate effect, though an EU-wide one may require additional registrations in other countries," Mueller wrote. While the decision could be reversed, the ban on sales of the Galaxy Tab could last more than a year, he said. The block only affects the Samsung tablet with a 10.1-inch touchscreen, not the various 7-inch versions. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has panned 7-inch tablets, calling them "tweeners," and saying, "We think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum screen size required to make great tablet apps." An Apple spokeswoman confirmed that the company had received notice of the injunction ruling. A Samsung spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. "It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging," Apple has said. "This kind ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/survey-finds-smartphone-apps-store-too-much-personal-data/ survey-finds-smartphone-apps-store-too-much-personal-data Tue, 9 Aug 2011 16:00:50 +0300 (WIRED) -- An uncomfortably large percentage of mobile applications are storing sensitive user account information unencrypted on owners' smartphones, according to a new survey of 100 consumer smartphone apps. Some 76% of the apps tested stored cleartext usernames on the devices, and 10% of the tested applications, including popular apps LinkedIn and Netflix, were found storing passwords on the phone in cleartext. Conducted by digital security firm ViaForensics, the testing occurred over a period of over eight months and spanned multiple categories, ranging from social networking applications to mobile banking software. The firm tested apps only for iOS and Android, the market's leading mobile platforms. "If I get my hands on someone's lost phone, it could take me ten minutes to find an account username and password," said Ted Eull, techology services vice president at ViaForensics, in an interview. ViaForensics sells mobile security tools and services to corporations, attorneys and government agencies. User names ranked highest on the list of discoverable data. App data -- the term ViaForensics uses for private information exchanged using the applications -- came in second place, with such data recovered from 69% of tested apps. Mint.com's iPhone and Android apps, which are used for maintaining financial account information, were found to store user transaction history and balance information on the phone. The Android version of the Mint app stores the user's PIN on the phone unencrypted, ViaForensics found. "We're already working on ways to make this experience better," said Jason Yiin, lead mobile engineer at Mint.com, in an interview. "At the moment, if users are highly ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/newspaper-giant-tribune-co-developing-tablet-device/ newspaper-giant-tribune-co-developing-tablet-device Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:30:55 +0300 (CNN) -- Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own. The Tribune Co., one of the largest U.S. news enterprises, is working on a touchscreen tablet that it plans to offer to newspaper subscribers, according to people briefed on the plans. The Chicago company owns a handful of major daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, along with 23 television stations. Tribune also owns the Los Angeles Times, which is my former employer. The tablet is expected to run a modified version of Google's Android operating system and prominently feature software for the owner's hometown newspaper, according to interviews with more than half a dozen current and former Tribune employees. They requested anonymity for fear of losing their jobs or of souring relations with a former employer. Tribune aims to offer the tablet for free, or at a highly subsidized price, to people who agree to sign up for extended subscriptions to one of its papers and possibly a wireless-data plan with a partner cellular carrier, said five people briefed on the project. The initiative, a major one for the national media company hoping to emerge soon from bankruptcy, spans several cities and includes various consultants and partner organizations, the people said. Tribune has been in discussions with Samsung Electronics and others to build the hardware, three people said. Spokesmen for Tribune and Samsung Mobile declined to comment. The project has proved to be a more complicated undertaking than expected. Tribune had set a mid-August deadline to begin ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/newspaper-giant-developing-tablet-device/ newspaper-giant-developing-tablet-device Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:30:31 +0300 (CNN) -- Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own. The Tribune Co., one of the largest U.S. news enterprises, is working on a touchscreen tablet that it plans to offer to newspaper subscribers, according to people briefed on the plans. The Chicago company owns a handful of major daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, along with 23 television stations. Tribune also owns the Los Angeles Times, which is my former employer. The tablet is expected to run a modified version of Google's Android operating system and prominently feature software for the owner's hometown newspaper, according to interviews with more than half a dozen current and former Tribune employees. They requested anonymity for fear of losing their jobs or of souring relations with a former employer. Tribune aims to offer the tablet for free, or at a highly subsidized price, to people who agree to sign up for extended subscriptions to one of its papers and possibly a wireless-data plan with a partner cellular carrier, said five people briefed on the project. The initiative, a major one for the national media company hoping to emerge soon from bankruptcy, spans several cities and includes various consultants and partner organizations, the people said. Tribune has been in discussions with Samsung Electronics and others to build the hardware, three people said. Spokesmen for Tribune and Samsung Mobile declined to comment. The project has proved to be a more complicated undertaking than expected. Tribune had set a mid-August deadline to begin ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/texas-town-turns-off-water-leaving-residents-boiling-mad/ texas-town-turns-off-water-leaving-residents-boiling-mad Mon, 8 Aug 2011 21:00:49 +0300 Dallas (CNN) -- Residents of Kemp, Texas are boiling, and it's not just because of the stifling heat. As temperatures soared to the triple digits for the 37th consecutive day Sunday, city officials made an emergency decision to shut off the town's water supply. "Right now our water towers have no water in them at all," said the town's mayor, Donald Kile. "According to the weather forecast we got no relief coming. We're believing and we're praying for rain." In the meantime, Kile said the water supply could remain shut off for days while the towers refill. A combination of high water demand and old pipes caused major ruptures along waterlines and forced the city to resort to emergency procedures, Kile said. Kemp residents were given two hours' notice of the decision by door-to-door visits from utilities officials, the mayor said. One woman used the visit from the city as an opportunity to express her frustrations. It's "107 degrees in my blood because you people, and those people down there will not get off their duff and fix this," shouted 57-year-old Kay Bloomfiled while brandishing a finger at the utility worker and crumpling the notice in her fist. The city will continue to provide bottled water to residents at city hall until the water supply is restored. but for Bloomfield, it's not enough. "I've got two grandkids I had to bathe in the sink in there!" she told CNN affiliate WFAA-TV. "It's a necessity, you have to have water." Temperatures are forecast to remain high in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/a-month-with-google-here39s-why-it-has-legs/ a-month-with-google-here39s-why-it-has-legs Mon, 8 Aug 2011 18:30:38 +0300 (ArsTechnica) -- If you're a stranger who follows me on Google+, you might think I rarely use the service. That's because the majority of my posts have been limited to the seven circles I created for friends, acquaintances, family, Ars staffers, and other people I like to expose to various aspects of my personality. You had no idea? That's exactly the point. After one month with Google+, it's clear to me that this -- sending updates to certain groups of people and not to others -- is the main appeal of the service. I was one of the first people to loudly declare that you can do the same thing on Facebook, but so few people know this that it's basically a nonexistent feature; that's the problem with Facebook. With Google+, sending out certain updates to some people and other updates to other people is right at the forefront of the experience. You are always asked to make a conscious decision about your social circles and about which circles get to see which posts. Some people don't like this approach. I do, but it took a while. Truth be told, I was a fierce skeptic of Google+ when it was first announced, and I wasn't pleased at the idea of using it every day for a month. (Every single day?) As the Ars forums might say, Google+ was Yet Another Social Network (YASN), and one led by the company behind the spectacular privacy failure that was Google Buzz. Google's previous social network, Orkut, failed to impress (at ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/def-con-teaches-8-year-olds-to-hack/ def-con-teaches-8-year-olds-to-hack Mon, 8 Aug 2011 18:30:36 +0300 Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- Joseph Horman already had seen the lock-picking videos on YouTube. But it was a different thing entirely for the 13-year-old puzzle-lover to get lessons in lock picking and computer hacking at an event sanctioned by adults. The world's largest gathering of computer hackers -- DEF CON, which is happening this weekend at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas -- held its first-ever hacking classes for kids this year, at an event appropriately called DEF CON Kids. Sessions in hacking were designed for kiddos ages 8 to 16. A common parent's reaction to something this might be: They're teaching them what?! But hear these hackers out. Their intentions are good. Take Horman's uncle, Adam Steed, a computer security professional in Salt Lake City, Utah, who brought his nephew to these training sessions because he already was fascinated with games and coding. (He actually has written his own computer game, called "Blooks," in which players "try to build as many buildings as you can while avoiding enemies," he said.) "You can watch lock-picking videos on YouTube, but where do you hear the ethical side of this?" said Steed, the uncle. "Not on YouTube." He added: "I would rather someone learn in a controlled environment. They're going to learn it anyway." Horman, the video game-writing nephew, sat attentively in the second row of a small classroom on Saturday, fiddling with a Rubik's Cube during sessions with titles like "Secrets Revealed," "Meet the Feds" and "Google Hacking." That last class title is a bit misleading, since instructor-hacker Johnny Long focused ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/a-month-with-google-why-this-social-network-has-legs/ a-month-with-google-why-this-social-network-has-legs Mon, 8 Aug 2011 18:00:58 +0300 (ArsTechnica) -- If you're a stranger who follows me on Google+, you might think I rarely use the service. That's because the majority of my posts have been limited to the seven circles I created for friends, acquaintances, family, Ars staffers, and other people I like to expose to various aspects of my personality. You had no idea? That's exactly the point. After one month with Google+, it's clear to me that this -- sending updates to certain groups of people and not to others -- is the main appeal of the service. I was one of the first people to loudly declare that you can do the same thing on Facebook, but so few people know this that it's basically a nonexistent feature; that's the problem with Facebook. With Google+, sending out certain updates to some people and other updates to other people is right at the forefront of the experience. You are always asked to make a conscious decision about your social circles and about which circles get to see which posts. Some people don't like this approach. I do, but it took a while. Truth be told, I was a fierce skeptic of Google+ when it was first announced, and I wasn't pleased at the idea of using it every day for a month. (Every single day?) As the Ars forums might say, Google+ was Yet Another Social Network (YASN), and one led by the company behind the spectacular privacy failure that was Google Buzz. Google's previous social network, Orkut, failed to impress (at ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/o-masina-google-care-se-conduce-singura-a-facut-accident-dar-cand-la-comanda-se-afla-un-om/ o-masina-google-care-se-conduce-singura-a-facut-accident-dar-cand-la-comanda-se-afla-un-om Mon, 8 Aug 2011 15:02:13 +0300 ​Una dintre masinile Google capabile sa ruleze singure a intrat in spatele unui alt autorism, reiese dintr-o fotografie publicata de Jalopnik. Incidentul a fost recunoscut de Google, dar compania sustine ca de vina nu a fost tehnologia, ci soferul, pentru ca in acel moment acesta conducea, scrie Los Angeles Times.Citeste articolul complet pe 0-100.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/def-con-trains-8-year-olds-in-hacking/ def-con-trains-8-year-olds-in-hacking Sun, 7 Aug 2011 09:00:51 +0300 Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- Joseph Horman already had seen the lock-picking videos on YouTube. But it was a different thing entirely for the 13-year-old puzzle-lover to get lessons in lock picking and computer hacking at an event sanctioned by adults. The world's largest gathering of computer hackers -- DEF CON, which is happening this weekend at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas -- held its first-ever hacking classes for kids this year, at an event appropriately called DEF CON Kids. Sessions in hacking were designed for kiddos ages 8 to 16. A common parent's reaction to something this might be: They're teaching them what?! But hear these hackers out. Their intentions are good. Take Horman's uncle, Adam Steed, a computer security professional in Salt Lake City, Utah, who brought his nephew to these training sessions because he already was fascinated with games and coding. (He actually has written his own computer game, called "Blooks," in which players "try to build as many buildings as you can while avoiding enemies," he said.) "You can watch lock-picking videos on YouTube, but where do you hear the ethical side of this?" said Steed, the uncle. "Not on YouTube." He added: "I would rather someone learn in a controlled environment. They're going to learn it anyway." Horman, the video game-writing nephew, sat attentively in the second row of a small classroom on Saturday, fiddling with a Rubik's Cube during sessions with titles like "Secrets Revealed," "Meet the Feds" and "Google Hacking." That last class title is a bit misleading, since instructor-hacker Johnny Long focused ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-strans-25-de-milioane-de-utilizatori-intr-o-luna-unde-se-va-situa-in-2012-fata-de-facebook-si-twitter/ google-a-strans-25-de-milioane-de-utilizatori-intr-o-luna-unde-se-va-situa-in-2012-fata-de-facebook-si-twitter Sat, 6 Aug 2011 13:01:18 +0300 Google+, reţeaua de socializare a celui mai mare motor de căutare din lume, a atras peste 25 de milioane de utilizatori în mai puţin de o lună, depăşind numărul înregistrat de Facebook sau MySpace în aceeaşi perioadă de la lansare, scrie Bloomberg. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/def-con-the-event-that-scares-hackers/ def-con-the-event-that-scares-hackers Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:30:48 +0300 Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- In the Masquerade wing of the Rio Hotel and Casino in the gambling capital of the world, there's a giant statue of a head hanging over a lobby of slot machines. The masked figure has two faces and four digital eyes -- clairvoyant blue -- that track back and forth constantly, as if recording the movements of everyone who enters. That awkwardly self-conscious -- even slightly paranoid -- feeling you get from seeing being watched by that enormous casino head is pretty much a steady-state for most of the hackers who attend the DEF CON hacker event, taking place at the Rio this weekend. Started 19 years ago as an underground gathering of sometimes-nefarious computer wizards, DEF CON has sprawled into a 15,000-person, four-day convention where anyone with $150 -- in cash only, please, lest these hackers give up their identities -- can learn the latest tricks and trade of computer hacking, lock picking and security breaching. The aim of the event is to better inform both insiders and everyday people about the risks of operating in our increasingly digital world and to work on solutions. But the practical result of gathering this many highly skilled hackers in one building -- in a Las Vegas casino, no less -- is that everyone here is experiencing some level of terror. Insiders say there's no place on Earth where you're more likely to get hacked. "You're on the most hostile network in the world. If you can perform business here, you can do it anywhere," said Brian Markus, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what-makes-spotify-different/ what-makes-spotify-different Fri, 5 Aug 2011 19:30:34 +0300 (CNN) -- Ever since online music service Spotify launched in the United States last month, it has caused about as much confusion as it has excitement. Partly that's because, at least on first glance, it doesn't seem entirely new. Spotify looks like iTunes -- only with greener colors. It wants Pandora-level popularity. And it's built on the assumption that people want to rent music instead of buying it, much like Rdio, Napster (the legal version), Rhapsody and a host of others. So what exactly makes Spotify different? And how do other services compare? Here's a quick look at the current online music lineup: Spotify It's a streaming music service, meaning you play tunes from the Web instead of your personal hard drive or phone. Premium subscribers can download songs, but Spotify has gotten so much buzz in part because it offers a robust service free. Its catalogue of music is among the largest, with 15 million songs. Essentially, Spotify wants you to rent songs rather than own them. And, unlike on some other sites, you can choose exactly which tracks you want to listen to on this service -- instead of picking a genre. Pandora With 100 million users, Pandora is one of the most popular online music sites in the United States. Visitors to Pandora.com choose a song title or an artist they like, and then Pandora's computers create a radio station out of songs that are musically similar. So, if you create a station for Arcade Fire, you might hear some obscure indie artists mixed in with Coldplay ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/as-android-gets-popular-so-does-android-malware/ as-android-gets-popular-so-does-android-malware Fri, 5 Aug 2011 17:31:10 +0300 Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- As Android devices get more popular, they're becoming a more attractive target for cybercriminals. Consequently, if you use an Android smartphone you are now 2.5 times more likely to encounter malware (malicious software) than you were six months ago. This isn't just about apps. This year, 30% of Android users are likely to encounter a Web-based threat such as phishing scams, "drive by downloads" and browser exploits. This is according to a new threat report from Lookout Mobile Security. Obviously, Lookout is selling mobile-security tools. However, individual and collective mobile security risks are real. Whether you opt to pay for mobile security, use a free service or manage it yourself, you should be aware of the risks and use basic mobile safety skills. Cybercriminals aren't simply targeting Android devices more often, they're also getting sneakier about it. Specifically, Lookout notes that attackers are using new techniques to distribute malware to phones. These include "malvertising" (ads served up through legitimate apps that lead you to a fake Android market and trick you into downloading malware, like GGtracker) and "upgrade attacks" (where the initially downloaded app is clean, but later upgrades deploy malware). How can mobile malware harm you? First of all, cybercriminals can rack up charges to your phone bill through "carrier billing," a payment option that wireless carriers are increasingly pushing -- and which Google ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what-makes-spotify-different-a-brief-guide-to-online-music/ what-makes-spotify-different-a-brief-guide-to-online-music Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:31:08 +0300 (CNN) -- Ever since online music service Spotify launched in the United States last month, it has caused about as much confusion as it has excitement. Partly that's because, at least on first glance, it doesn't seem entirely new. Spotify looks like iTunes -- only with greener colors. It wants Pandora-level popularity. And it's built on the assumption that people want to rent music instead of buying it, much like Rdio, Napster (the legal version), Rhapsody and a host of others. So what exactly makes Spotify different? And how do other services compare? Here's a quick look at the current online music lineup: Spotify It's a streaming music service, meaning you play tunes from the Web instead of your personal hard drive or phone. Premium subscribers can download songs, but Spotify has gotten so much buzz in part because it offers a robust service free. Its catalogue of music is among the largest, with 15 million songs. Essentially, Spotify wants you to rent songs rather than own them. And, unlike on some other sites, you can choose exactly which tracks you want to listen to on this service -- instead of picking a genre. Pandora With 100 million users, Pandora is one of the most popular online music sites in the United States. Visitors to Pandora.com choose a song title or an artist they like, and then Pandora's computers create a radio station out of songs that are musically similar. So, if you create a station for Arcade Fire, you might hear some obscure indie artists mixed in with Coldplay ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/black-entrepreneurs-pitch-dreams-to-silicon-valley/ black-entrepreneurs-pitch-dreams-to-silicon-valley Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:30:33 +0300 CNN's Soledad O'Brien is chronicling the NewMe Accelerator journey in "Black in America 4," which is scheduled to air November 13. San Francisco (CNN) -- Hank Williams has performed dozen of times to audiences like the one here on Thursday at the Kapor Capital investment firm. This time, however, the 46-year-old software veteran wasn't the only black person in the room, as is often the case at fundraising meetings in Silicon Valley. Williams is a member of the NewMe Accelerator's inaugural class. The tech incubator was formed to help minorities get advice from successful executives and put their new Internet ventures in front of investors. For two months, eight black entrepreneurs worked (and some lived) together in a rented house in Mountain View, California, which is the same city Google, a NewMe sponsor, calls home. Having removed himself from the Silicon Valley technology scene for a decade, Williams re-emerged on Thursday to demonstrate the project he's been working on for four years with two colleagues in New York. When Spaces begins testing in the next few weeks, people will be able to sign up for an online storage locker, which allows them to organize, search and transmit various types of data. It can handle files, e-mails, calendars, Twitter messages and other digital information that competitors generally don't facilitate. The concept is unique, yet familiar to investors salivating over the unexpected success of another new Web-storage service, Dropbox. Williams' Kloud.co been self-funded so far, but he is about ready to exchange equity in his company for cash. Before the dotcom bubble burst a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-hopefuls-who-don39t-fit-the-mold-pitch-to-investors/ tech-hopefuls-who-don39t-fit-the-mold-pitch-to-investors Fri, 5 Aug 2011 06:30:52 +0300 CNN's Soledad O'Brien is chronicling the NewMe Accelerator journey in "Black in America 4," which is scheduled to air November 13. San Francisco (CNN) -- Hank Williams has performed dozen of times to audiences like the one here on Thursday at the Kapor Capital investment firm. This time, however, the 46-year-old software veteran wasn't the only black person in the room, as is often the case at fundraising meetings in Silicon Valley. Williams is a member of the NewMe Accelerator's inaugural class. The tech incubator was formed to help minorities get advice from successful executives and put their new Internet ventures in front of investors. For two months, eight black entrepreneurs worked (and some lived) together in a rented house in Mountain View, California, which is the same city Google, a NewMe sponsor, calls home. Having removed himself from the Silicon Valley technology scene for a decade, Williams re-emerged on Thursday to demonstrate the project he's been working on for four years with two colleagues in New York. When Spaces begins testing in the next few weeks, people will be able to sign up for an online storage locker, which allows them to organize, search and transmit various types of data. It can handle files, e-mails, calendars, Twitter messages and other digital information that competitors generally don't facilitate. The concept is unique, yet familiar to investors salivating over the unexpected success of another new Web-storage service, Dropbox. Williams' Kloud.co been self-funded so far, but he is about ready to exchange equity in his company for cash. Before the dotcom bubble burst a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/asian-markets-follow-wall-street-sell-off/ asian-markets-follow-wall-street-sell-off Fri, 5 Aug 2011 06:00:41 +0300 (CNN) -- Asian stock markets are recording sharp declines Friday, extending a global equity sell-off after Wall Street had its worst day since the 2008 financial crisis. Hong Kong's Hang Seng opened down more than 4%. Australia's All Ordinaries was down more than 4%, and Japan's Nikkei and South Korea's Kospi had also shed 3% China's Shanghai SE Composite Index was down 2%. The falls came after the Dow tumbled 512 points Thursday -- its ninth deepest point drop ever -- as fear about the global economy spooked investors. "The conventional wisdom on Wall Street was that the economy was growing -- that the worst was behind us," said Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital. "Now what people are realizing is the stimulus didn't work, and we may be headed back to recession." Read more about the U.S. stocks' sell-off U.S. markets had been already sharply lower on widespread worries, including the weak job market. But the selling gained momentum, as Japanese and European policymakers stepped in with dramatic measures to shore up their financial markets. All three major indexes tumbled more than 4% Thursday and erased all their gains for the year. The indexes have also pushed into "correction" territory -- defined as a 10% drop from recent highs. The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 have all fallen 10% in just the last 10 days. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 512 points, or 4.3%, with Alcoa, Caterpillar and Bank of America among the biggest drags on the blue chip ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/asian-markets-follow-wall-street-plunge/ asian-markets-follow-wall-street-plunge Fri, 5 Aug 2011 04:00:48 +0300 (CNN) -- Asian stock markets are recording sharp declines Friday, extending a global equity sell-off after Wall Street had its worst day since the 2008 financial crisis. Australia's All Ordinaries dropped 4%, Japan's Nikkei shed 3.8% and South Korea's Kospi lost 4.2%. The Dow tumbled 512 points Thursday -- its ninth deepest point drop ever -- as fear about the global economy spooked investors. "The conventional wisdom on Wall Street was that the economy was growing -- that the worst was behind us," said Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital. "Now what people are realizing is the stimulus didn't work, and we may be headed back to recession." U.S. markets were already sharply lower on widespread worries, including the weak job market. But the selling gained momentum as Japanese and European policymakers stepped in with dramatic measures to shore up their financial markets. There's "total fear" in the market, said Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at the world's largest money manager, BlackRock. All three major indexes tumbled more than 4% Thursday and erased all their gains for the year. The indexes have also pushed into "correction" territory -- defined as a 10% drop from recent highs. The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 have all fallen 10% in just the last 10 days. "In the last two weeks, we've been through the ringer," said Rich Ilczyszyn, market strategist with futures broker Lind-Waldock. "When we start looking at the recovery, there's nothing to hang our hats on anymore." The market's fear gauge -- the VIX -- surged 35.8% to a reading ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cnn-student-news-summer-news-quiz-august-4-2011/ cnn-student-news-summer-news-quiz-august-4-2011 Thu, 4 Aug 2011 19:01:13 +0300 (CNN Student News) -- August 4, 2011 Go to our homepage to download PDF maps related to today's quiz. Know your news -- Take this quiz to test your knowledge of some summer headlines. Answer the questions using the interactive, multiple-choice quiz above, or write your answers below in the space provided. 1. Which shuttle landed on July 21, marking the end of the U.S. space shuttle program? * * 2. The British newspaper "News of the World" shut down after what allegations surfaced about its newsgathering? * * 3. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" beat which movie's record for best opening weekend sales? * * 4. This summer, the U.S. Congress and the White House held negotiations over the national debt ceiling, which was reached on May 16. What was the ceiling at that point in time and throughout most of the summer? * * 5. What European country was hit hardest by a deadly outbreak of E. coli early this summer? * * 6. Which African country split into two on July 9 to form the world's newest nation? * * 7. In late July, the National Football League's lockout ended after an agreement was reached between owners and players. When did the lockout begin? * * 8. What European capital city experienced a deadly bombing attack on July 22? * * 9. Which country won the championship match of the Women's World Cup on July 17? * * 10. What is the name of Google's new social media website, which was launched in late ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-de-ce-este-google-chrome-cel-mai-rapid-browser-din-lume-descarca-l-si-tu/ video-de-ce-este-google-chrome-cel-mai-rapid-browser-din-lume-descarca-l-si-tu Thu, 4 Aug 2011 16:31:38 +0300 Compania Google a lansat de curând cea mai nouă versiune a browserului său, Chrome 13, care vine cu o îmbunătăţire esenţială, scrie Business Insider. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/prostituatele-din-romania-au-ajuns-personaje-de-carte-prin-intermediul-serviciului-google-street-view/ prostituatele-din-romania-au-ajuns-personaje-de-carte-prin-intermediul-serviciului-google-street-view Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:31:43 +0300 Mishka Henner, o fotografă de origine belgiană, a publicat un album fotografic în care a surprins prostituate din toată Europa, descoperite cu ajutorul serviciului online Google Street View, scrie www.gizmodo.com. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/massive-cyberspying-case-exposed/ massive-cyberspying-case-exposed Thu, 4 Aug 2011 02:30:11 +0300 London (CNN) -- U.S. government agencies, the United Nations, defense contractors and Olympic bodies have all been targeted by a single intruder in an "unprecedented" campaign of cyberspying, says a new report by a computer-security firm. The operation, which targeted agencies and groups in 14 countries, bears the hallmarks of state-sponsored espionage, according to the report by security company McAfee. Other cybersecurity experts downplayed the report's findings, however. McAfee said the attacks, which it calls Operation Shady RAT, have allowed hackers potentially to gain access to military and industrial secrets from 72 targets, most of them in the United States, over a five-year period. McAfee did not name all the targets but said the sheer scope of victims, including 14 U.S. government bodies; the governments of Canada, India, South Korea and Taiwan; defense contractors; the International Olympic Committee; and even a cybersecurity company, indicates no one is safe. Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's vice president of threat research, said attacks on political nonprofit groups indicated a "state actor" could be behind the operation. He declined to name a specific country, but media reports have pointed a finger at China. Others have cast doubt on Alperovitch's claim, saying the report sheds no new light on the world of cybersecurity and makes sweeping assumptions about the impact of the hacking operations. In his 14-page report on McAfee's findings, Alperovitch asserts that Operation Shady RAT may have cost its victims billions in terms of lost revenues and stolen secrets. "What we have witnessed over the past five to six years has been nothing short of a historically ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/massive-cyberspying-operation-targeted-us-un-others/ massive-cyberspying-operation-targeted-us-un-others Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:00:51 +0300 London (CNN) -- U.S. government agencies, the United Nations, defense contractors and Olympic bodies have all been targeted by a single intruder in an "unprecedented" campaign of cyberspying, says a new report by a computer-security firm. The operation, which targeted agencies and groups in 14 countries, bears the hallmarks of state-sponsored espionage, according to the report by security company McAfee. Other cybersecurity experts downplayed the report's findings, however. McAfee said the attacks, which it calls Operation Shady RAT, have allowed hackers potentially to gain access to military and industrial secrets from 72 targets, most of them in the United States, over a five-year period. McAfee did not name all the targets but said the sheer scope of victims, including 14 U.S. government bodies; the governments of Canada, India, South Korea and Taiwan; defense contractors; the International Olympic Committee; and even a cybersecurity company, indicates no one is safe. Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's vice president of threat research, said attacks on political nonprofit groups indicated a "state actor" could be behind the operation. He declined to name a specific country, but media reports have pointed a finger at China. Others have cast doubt on Alperovitch's claim, saying the report sheds no new light on the world of cybersecurity and makes sweeping assumptions about the impact of the hacking operations. In his 14-page report on McAfee's findings, Alperovitch asserts that Operation Shady RAT may have cost its victims billions in terms of lost revenues and stolen secrets. "What we have witnessed over the past five to six years has been nothing short of a historically ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-to-write-and-read-online-reviews/ how-to-write-and-read-online-reviews Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:30:50 +0300 Editor's note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind humor blog and book Stuff Hipsters Hate. When they're not trolling Brooklyn for new material, Ehrlich works as an associate editor at Mashable.com and Bartz is news editor at Psychology Today. Got a question about etiquette in the digital world? Contact them at netiquette@cnn.com. (CNN) -- Critics are considered the authorities on taste, the owners of discerning palates who tell the less-refined masses what to eat, see and do. Offering up a nuanced and well-reasoned opinion affirms your authority. If we want to look at the benevolent side of the coin, it even wafts your helpful verdict on curious listeners like fragrant perfume from a thousand blooming roses. At least, this was the case 30 years ago, when film, art, theater and restaurant critics were erudite creatures with tons of training. But a funny thing has happened in recent decades. We've turned our slumped backs on the professionals and opened our ears to complete strangers' rulings. Forfeiting expertise, we've unwittingly crowdsourced our basic entertainment-related decisions, trading quality for quantity and nuance for general agreement. Suddenly, everyone's a critic -- am adage that is now, fittingly, the name of a film rating community. Yelp closed out 2010 with 15 million reviews and a staggering 41 million monthly visitors. Google's star system encourages anyone searching for an establishment to add their two cents. Some sites, such as Rotten Tomatoes, juxtapose professional ratings with site visitors', while others like NabeWise (a sort of Yelp for neighborhoods) leave the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/android-captures-nearly-50-of-global-smartphone-market/ android-captures-nearly-50-of-global-smartphone-market Wed, 3 Aug 2011 00:01:01 +0300 (Mashable) -- Google Android captured 48% of the smartphone market in Q2 of 2011, hitting an all-time high, according to a report by market research firm Canalys. The platform has been making big strides during the past year, overtaking Symbian in Q4 of 2010 to become the top smartphone platform, representing a 32.9% market share at that time. Smartphone adoption continues to grow rapidly across the world, reaching a total of 107.7 million units shipped in Q2 of 2011, a 73% year-on-year growth. Android was the biggest driver of smartphone shipments in Q2, as Android-based smartphone shipments were up 379% year-over-year, coming in at 51.9 million total units shipped. The report cites successful Android-based products from vendors such as Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, ZTE and Huawei, as a catalyst for the platform's growth. Apple also fared well, with iOS overtaking Nokia's Symbian platform to rise from third to second place. A total of 20.3 million iPhones were shipped and Apple raked in a market share of 19%. Apple also became the world's leading individual smartphone vendor, stripping Nokia of its long-held leadership position. Samsung also passed Nokia, which has faced a rapid decline in demand across many markets. However, Nokia is still holding strong at number one in emerging markets, including Brazil, Russia, India and China. © 2010 MASHABLE.com. All rights reserved. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/five-years-of-ireport/ five-years-of-ireport Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:01:01 +0300 Editor's Note: Today is iReport's fifth birthday! In honor of five years of a revolution in citizen journalism, we look back at where iReport started, what makes it tick, and where it's headed. Lila King is participation director at CNN Digital, where she looks after iReport and all manner of participatory storytelling. She and a tiny-but-mighty team of true believers launched iReport together in 2006. Atlanta (CNN) -- Once upon a time, in a dark corner of CNN's Atlanta headquarters, there was a messy pile of VHS tapes covered in remnants of packing tape. It was January 2005, shortly after an earthquake had triggered a massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean. CNN, along with many news organizations, had put out a call for footage of the event. With mailing instructions. Like, physical mail. What came back were tapes of all colors and sizes, sent over the course of several weeks, that showed dramatic footage of the event captured by people who had lived through it. For the rest of us, seeing those waves push through entire towns helped us understand how truly enormous and ruinous the tsunami had been and how much help would be needed to overcome it. That's the magic of television storytelling. Images and sound take you right into the heart of events and make it possible to imagine what it must have been like, to sympathize and understand. But the professionals and their cameras are not always there when the story breaks. Hence the box of tsunami tapes in early 2005. Over the next few ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/some-small-businesses-overwhelmed-by-daily-deal-rush/ some-small-businesses-overwhelmed-by-daily-deal-rush Tue, 2 Aug 2011 14:30:49 +0300 Washington (CNN) -- When the owner of the Hillbrook Inn went looking for ways to boost business, she turned to a new and increasingly popular tool: daily deal sites like LivingSocial and Groupon. The 10-guestroom bed and breakfast near Charles Town, West Virginia, listed a one-night stay on LivingSocial in March for half off the usual rate. Owner Carissa Zanella and her staff weren't waiting long for responses. "It was a mad rush," said Zanella. "We had two computers and three phones and employees waiting to answer. We were answering nonstop, to the point that we had messages backed up on our machine." The Hillbrook Inn's experience is not unique. As daily deal sties continue to grow in popularity, businesses are turning to them as a way to bring in new clients. At the same time, however, some merchants feel overwhelmed by the rush for discounts and are questioning whether the bottom-line boost is worth the logistics headache. Once Zanella's surge of new bookings subsided, it was clear to her that she wasn't fully prepared for the sudden rush of interest. Before the deal ran, Zanella found herself questioning whether it was going to be worth it. Now, she said she believes LivingSocial should provide small businesses with more information on what to expect. "I don't feel they gave us enough information on that," she said. "It happens so fast. I expected people to call, but I did not expect buyers to not look at our website before they purchased the deal." The inn sold 498 one-night stays in the six ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-android-a-cucerit-aproape-50-din-piata-smartphone-urilor/ google-android-a-cucerit-aproape-50-din-piata-smartphone-urilor Tue, 2 Aug 2011 09:02:03 +0300 Sistemul de operare Android, lansat de compania americana Google, a castigat aproape 50% din piata de smartphone-uri la nivel mondial, dominand mai ales in regiunea Asia-Pacific, arata un studiu al companiei de cercetare Canalys citat de Reuters. Android, achizitionat de Google in anul 2005 si lansat pe telefoanele in 2008, este utilizat de aproape toti marii producatori de telefoane mobile, inclusiv HTC, LG, Motorola si Samsung. Este cea mia folosita platforma in 35 din 56 de tari incluse in analiza Canalys, rezultand o cota de piata de 48%, spune firma de cercetare. In comparatie, Apple, care livrat 20,3 milioane de iPhone-uri, este un al doilea in clasament cu o cota de piata de 19%, dar a preluat producatorul finlandez de telefoane Nokia ca cel mai mare furnizor de smartphone-uri individuale. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-postasul-gmail-cel-mai-recent-episod-al-rivalitatii-dintre-google-si-microsoft/ video-postasul-gmail-cel-mai-recent-episod-al-rivalitatii-dintre-google-si-microsoft Tue, 2 Aug 2011 08:01:11 +0300 Microsoft pare să-şi atace din nou rivalii de la Google, printr-un filmuleţ postat pe YouTube care face senzaţie printre internauţi, scrie Huffington Post. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/emanatia-lui-zamolxe/ emanatia-lui-zamolxe Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:02:28 +0300 I​n urma cu o saptamina, pe 25 iulie, o colega din Asociatie (L.V.) ne-a atras atentia asupra unui eveniment ce urma sa aiba loc la inceputul lui august: “Am primit de curand o invitatie de inscriere in acest forum. O transmit mai departe, asemenea initiative pot duce la lucruri foarte interesante: http://www.romania-juna.eu/participare/forum/” Am aruncat o scurta privire la pagina respectiva; si mie, la fel ca si colegei mele, de altfel, Forumul Romania Juna mi s-a parut a fi o actiune interesanta si bine venita. Discursul public se axeaza foarte rar pe teme strategice, iar lansarea unui mecanism structurat de dezbatere a viitorului Romaniei, mai ales unul care sa implice tineri specialisti, ar raspunde unei necesitati reale a societatii. Nu stiam nimic despre Liga Studentilor Romani din Strainatate (LSRS), iar chemarea la “pelerinaj” parea putin ciudata, dar mesajul bine inchegat si, mai ales, patronajul asigurat de Banca Nationala si de Institutul Bancar Roman confereau respectabilitate evenimentului. Probabil ca lucrurile s-ar fi oprit aici daca o alta colega (A.F.), mai curioasa, nu ar fi inceput sa se uite mai cu atentie la materiale postate pe site-ul Romania Juna. Rugaciune cu instructiuni de administrare “Stăpâne Doamne Iisuse Hristoase, Fiule şi Cuvântul lui Dumnezeu” incepe rugaciunea “compusa de Parintii de la Manastire Putna” si postata pe pagina dedicata “pelerinajului”. “Se cuvine a fi rostită în fiecare zi de toţi tinerii care-şi iubesc neamul şi ţara” au grija sa ne instruiasca cei de la Liga. Oauuu!!! Rugaciuni cu instructiuni de folosire pe un site al “tinerilor români educați la cel ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sci-fi-prophet-wraps-high-tech-trilogy/ sci-fi-prophet-wraps-high-tech-trilogy Mon, 1 Aug 2011 05:00:34 +0300 (CNN) -- "When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart." That bit of wisdom from Hubertus Bigend, the brilliant Belgian billionaire at the center of sci-fi author, William Gibson's latest novel, "Zero History." Bigend (pronounced Bayh-jhan) is the morally ambiguous mastermind behind a global marketing operation, the Google of trend forecasting. He's a "cool hunter," reminiscent of Charles Foster Kane with an Andy Warhol eye for spotting emerging underground trends. Also returning is Hollis Henry, a semi-famous former singer from a 90s indie band, she's been hired by Bigend to uncover the identity of the designer behind the mysterious clothing brand, The Gabriel Hounds. "Zero History" is the final chapter in a trilogy that Gibson began with "Pattern Recognition" in 2003 and continued in 2007's "Spook Country." The London-based caper also involves paramilitary contractors, computer hackers, base-jumping spies, black market jeans dealers and something called the Festo AirPenguin. It's a long way from Gibson's 1984 award-winning debut novel, "Neuromancer," a classic which helped launch the "cyberpunk" genre. He's been called a sci-fi prophet, and is credited with coining the term, "cyberspace" when the Internet was still largely unknown. Mystical P.I. in 'City of the Dead' More recently, Gibson isn't writing so much science fiction but what he calls, "speculative fiction of the very recent past." Instead of an imagined future, in "Zero History" Gibson examines the present-day impact of new technologies, the current tension between the cutting edge and the mainstream and how all of it is branded, marketed and manipulated for profit. CNN recently spoke with ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/our-web-freedom-at-the-mercy-of-tech-giants/ our-web-freedom-at-the-mercy-of-tech-giants Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:30:54 +0300 Editor's note: Rebecca MacKinnon, a Bernard Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, is the author of "Consent of the Networked," which will be published by Basic Books in January 2012. She is a co-founder of Global Voices Online, an international network of bloggers, and was CNN's Beijing Bureau Chief from 1998-2001 and Tokyo Bureau Chief from 2001-2003. She spoke at the TED Global conference this month in Edinburgh, UK. TED is a nonprofit dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading," which it makes available through talks posted on its website. (CNN) -- Wael Ghonim, Google executive by day, secret Facebook activist by night, famously declared right after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down in February: "If you want to liberate a society just give them the Internet." Overthrowing a government is one thing. But building a sustainable democracy is turning out to be more difficult, and the Internet's role in that process is much less clear. In March, Egyptian activists stormed state security offices around the country. Some people found their own surveillance files, still intact, full of transcripts of their mobile phone text messages, e-mail exchanges and even Skype chats. Watch Rebecca MacKinnon's TED talk One activist even found a contract sent from a Western company to the Egyptian state security bureau for the sale of surveillance technology. Activists in Egypt assume that the transitional government still has such technologies at its disposal. In Tunisia, censorship returned in May, not nearly as extensive as before, but still the transitional government decided that some Web pages could ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lichiditatile-sua-au-scazut-de-la-100-de-miliarde-de-dolari-la-doar-54-de-miliarde-in-numai-8-zile/ lichiditatile-sua-au-scazut-de-la-100-de-miliarde-de-dolari-la-doar-54-de-miliarde-in-numai-8-zile Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:32:05 +0300 Cu numai doua zile inainte de termenul limita pana la care SUA trebuie sa majoreze plafonul datoriei publice pentru a evita incapacitatea de plata, Trezoreria americana dispune de doar 54 de miliarde de dolari, in conditiile in care acum opt zile avea peste 100 de miliarde, potrivit Business Insider. "Poate ca aceasta veste ii va trezi pe idiotii iresponsabile de la Washington", scriu jurnalistii publicatiei americane. In cursul acestei saptamani, presa a relatat ca, potrivit celor mai recente rapoarte financiare, compania Apple detine cu 3,5 miliarde de dolari mai multi bani cash decat trezoreria Statelor Unite. "Acum Apple are si mai multi bani decat SUA. Pana la inceputul saptamanii viitoare, daca Congresul nu va ajunge la un acord, Statele Unite vor avea mai putini bani si decat Google, apoi Salesforce.com, sau chiar Pets.com", comenteaza ironic cei de la Business Insider, care pun la dispozitie si un grafic care arata cum au scazut lichiditatile SUA in ultimele zile. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sci-fi-prophet-wraps-hi-tech-trilogy/ sci-fi-prophet-wraps-hi-tech-trilogy Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:00:51 +0300 (CNN) -- "When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart." That bit of wisdom from Hubertus Bigend, the brilliant Belgian billionaire at the center of sci-fi author, William Gibson's latest novel, "Zero History." Bigend (pronounced Bayh-jhan) is the morally ambiguous mastermind behind a global marketing operation, the Google of trend forecasting. He's a "cool hunter," reminiscent of Charles Foster Kane with an Andy Warhol eye for spotting emerging underground trends. Also returning is Hollis Henry, a semi-famous former singer from a 90s indie band, she's been hired by Bigend to uncover the identity of the designer behind the mysterious clothing brand, The Gabriel Hounds. "Zero History" is the final chapter in a trilogy that Gibson began with "Pattern Recognition" in 2003 and continued in 2007's "Spook Country." The London-based caper also involves paramilitary contractors, computer hackers, base-jumping spies, black market jeans dealers and something called the Festo AirPenguin. It's a long way from Gibson's 1984 award-winning debut novel, "Neuromancer," a classic which helped launch the "cyberpunk" genre. He's been called a sci-fi prophet, and is credited with coining the term, "cyberspace" when the Internet was still largely unknown. Mystical P.I. in 'City of the Dead' More recently, Gibson isn't writing so much science fiction but what he calls, "speculative fiction of the very recent past." Instead of an imagined future, in "Zero History" Gibson examines the present-day impact of new technologies, the current tension between the cutting edge and the mainstream and how all of it is branded, marketed and manipulated for profit. CNN recently spoke with ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/10-intrebari-capcana-de-care-te-lovesti-la-interviu-si-cum-le-faci-fata-ce-te-intreaba-sefii-google/ 10-intrebari-capcana-de-care-te-lovesti-la-interviu-si-cum-le-faci-fata-ce-te-intreaba-sefii-google Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:01:10 +0300 Un interviu pentru un job într-unul din cele 75 de campusuri Google din jurul lumii ar putea aduce mai degrabă cu o serie de examinări preliminarii pentru acceptul într-o fraternitate, decât un job hunting. Şi asta deoarece candidaţii se confruntă cu întrebări de genul "Câte benzinării există în ţară?" sau "Cum măsori 4 galoane de apă folosind un ulcior între 3 şi 5 galoane?" Vezi restul întrebărilor şi cum trebuie să răspunzi la ele pe www.incont.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-te-intreaba-la-un-interviu-sefii-de-la-google-10-intrebari-capcana-si-cum-sa-le-faci-fata/ ce-te-intreaba-la-un-interviu-sefii-de-la-google-10-intrebari-capcana-si-cum-sa-le-faci-fata Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:01:43 +0300 Un interviu pentru un job într-unul din cele 75 de campusuri Google din jurul lumii ar putea aduce mai degrabă cu o serie de examinări preliminarii pentru acceptul într-o fraternitate, decât un job hunting. Şi asta deoarece candidaţii se confruntă cu întrebari de genul "Câte benzinării există în ţară?" sau "Cum măsori 4 galoane de apă folosing un ulcior între 3 şi 5 galoane?" Citeşte mai multe despre întrebările-capcană de la interviuri pe www.incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/new-wave-of-location-apps-mark-39paradigm-shift39/ new-wave-of-location-apps-mark-39paradigm-shift39 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:30:37 +0300 (CNN) -- As location-based apps go, Foursquare or Gowalla will work just fine if you're looking for the spot where all your buddies are having a beer. But what if they discovered an awesome, out-of-the-way spot six months ago? Or, better yet, what if you didn't even know you were looking for a watering hole until your phone told you there's one around the corner you shouldn't miss? As the novelty of the simple check-in fades, and the abilities of GPS-based location technology expand, some new mobile apps -- call them "discovery apps" -- are looking to parlay mobile "noise" into useful, place-based tips. "It feels like the paradigm shift in the late '90s when Google came along," said Babak Pahlavan, CEO of Cleversense, which released the app Alfred this month. "There's an information overload -- to find something useful for you is a very daunting task. It's time for a new shift; it's time to make sense of it and make it useful for you." Alfred has been called "Pandora for the real world." Users feed it information about their favorite places (mainly restaurants, bars and coffee shops). Then, theoretically, Alfred -- a mustachioed robot butler -- can suggest similar spots that are nearby, no matter where you are. The free app, currently on Apple's iOS system, with Android and Windows Phone versions in the works, was rolled out this month and took top honors in the "Startup Idol" contest at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado. The app, which was two years in the making, uses a Web-crawling ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/are-internet-explorer-users-dumb/ are-internet-explorer-users-dumb Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:30:52 +0300 (CNN) -- Are users of other Web browsers smarter than the people who use Microsoft's Internet Explorer? A new survey doesn't quite say so. But it sure as heck suggests it. The survey by AptiQuaint, a Vancouver-based Web consulting company, gave more than 100,000 participants an IQ test, while monitoring which browser they used to take the test. The result? Internet Explorer users scored lower than average, while Chrome, Firefox and Safari users were slightly above average. And users of the more obscure Camino and Opera browsers, as well as those using Explorer with Chrome Frame (a plug-in designed to let users view emerging HTML5 content), had what AptiQuaint called "exceptionally higher" IQ levels. Those numbers, it should be noted, probably aren't very scientific. The field of test-takers was self-selecting -- people who chose, on their own, to take an IQ test instead of a scientifically selected study group. They found the test through Web searches or ads the company placed online. The report suggests that people using Explorer, the built-in, default browser for Windows-based computers, may be more resistant to change. A similar study in 2006 showed users on the then-current IE browser scored above average. Internet Explorer is the world's most popular browser, with about a 43% share, according to StatCounter. Firefox has just under 30%, and Google's Chrome has 19%, according to a report from May. Users of Internet Explorer 6, released in 2001, scored the lowest on the tests, at just over 80. Users of Opera, the Norway-based browser, scored the highest at well over 120. (What ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/new-wave-of-location-based-apps-mark-a-39paradigm-shift39/ new-wave-of-location-based-apps-mark-a-39paradigm-shift39 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:31:11 +0300 (CNN) -- As location-based apps go, Foursquare or Gowalla will work just fine if you're looking for the spot where all your buddies are having a beer. But what if they discovered an awesome, out-of-the-way spot six months ago? Or, better yet, what if you didn't even know you were looking for a watering hole until your phone told you there's one around the corner you shouldn't miss? As the novelty of the simple check-in fades, and the abilities of GPS-based location technology expand, some new mobile apps -- call them "discovery apps" -- are looking to parlay mobile "noise" into useful, place-based tips. "It feels like the paradigm shift in the late '90s when Google came along," said Babak Pahlavan, CEO of Cleversense, which released the app Alfred this month. "There's an information overload -- to find something useful for you is a very daunting task. It's time for a new shift; it's time to make sense of it and make it useful for you." Alfred has been called "Pandora for the real world." Users feed it information about their favorite places (mainly restaurants, bars and coffee shops). Then, theoretically, Alfred -- a mustachioed robot butler -- can suggest similar spots that are nearby, no matter where you are. The free app, currently on Apple's iOS system, with Android and Windows Phone versions in the works, was rolled out this month and took top honors in the "Startup Idol" contest at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado. The app, which was two years in the making, uses a Web-crawling ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-si-samsung-depasesc-nokia-la-vanzarile-de-smartphone-uri-dupa-15-ani-de-suprematie-producatorul-finlandez-a-sarit-direct-pe-locul-trei-la-vanzari/ apple-si-samsung-depasesc-nokia-la-vanzarile-de-smartphone-uri-dupa-15-ani-de-suprematie-producatorul-finlandez-a-sarit-direct-pe-locul-trei-la-vanzari Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:01:32 +0300 Apple şi Samsung au pus capăt în trimestrul al doilea dominaţiei de 15 ani a Nokia pe piaţa smartphone, împingând producătorul finlandez până pe locul al treilea, potrivit unor rapoarte prezentate vineri de mai multe companii de cercetare de piaţă, transmite Reuters. Nokia a inventat conceptul de smartphone în 1996, cu modelul Communicator, însă inovaţiile aduse în ultimii ani pe această nişă de principalii rivali şi declinul constant al propriilor vânzări a trimis compania de pe primul loc direct pe cel de-al treilea în trimestrul doi. Apple a vândut în perioada analizată 20,3 milioane de iPhone-uri, deşi modelul de actualitate iPhone 4 este mai vechi de un an. În mod normal, succesul unui astfel de telefon nu durează atât de mult. Analiştii estimează că Samsung a vândut 19 milioane de smartphone-uri în trimestrul al doilea, cu mult peste cele 16,7 milioane comercializate de Nokia, datorită cererii uriaşe pentru telefoane cu sistemul de operare Android dezvoltat de Google. "Portofoliul Galaxy al Samsung s-a dovedit foarte poular, în special modelul de top S2 cu Android", a declarat un analist al Strategy Analytics. Strategy Analytics estimează că piaţa smartphone a crescut în trimestrul al doilea, ca volum al vânzărilor, cu 76% faţă de nivelul din aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut. ABI Research sunt mai precauţi, calculând o creştere de numai 62%. Piaţa telefoanelor mobile în general a crescut cu 11,3% în aceeaşi perioadă, la 365,4 milioane de unităţi vândute, potrivit IDC. Creşterea pieţei telefoanelor a încetinit faţă de primul trimestru, când a fost înregistrat un avans de 16,8%, din cauza scăderii volumului vânzărilor modelelor simple, de bază, pentru prima dată în ultimele şapte trimestre. Evoluţia negativă a fost determinată de reducerea cheltuielilor de consum. Strategy Analytics estimează că piaţa ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/iphone-app-brings-roman-london-to-life/ iphone-app-brings-roman-london-to-life Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:00:56 +0300 London (CNN) -- The Romans may have left Britain in the 5th century A.D., but they left their mark on the country after nearly four centuries of occupation. The settlement of Londinium, now the thriving city of London, was built by the Romans around the middle of the first century A.D., and is one of the enduring legacies of the Roman invasion. Some sites, such as the ruins of the ancient roman wall, are still standing but much of the city's ancient history remains buried. Now, a new -- and free -- application for iPhone and iPad is unearthing Roman London and bringing it back to life virtually. The app, called Streetmusuem:Londinium, is a joint venture from the London Museum of Archaeology and the TV channel History. With the app, users can hold up their phone around London and activate video vignettes of Roman scenes against the modern backdrop using an augmented reality feature. They can virtually excavate a patch of soil by rubbing their fingers on the screen to reveal items from the Museum of London's core collection as well as bring up key information about the items. Roy Stephenson is Head of Archaeological Collections and Archive at the Museum of London and was responsible for creating content for the app. "I really want people to absorb history, that there's more to it than the museum or gallery," he said. "If you walk down the street, you're in it, you're in the historic landscape, and it's all around you," he continued. His hope is that users will be intrigued to further explore the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/app-brings-roman-london-to-life/ app-brings-roman-london-to-life Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:00:45 +0300 London (CNN) -- The Romans may have left Britain in the 5th century A.D., but they left their mark on the country after nearly four centuries of occupation. The settlement of Londinium, now the thriving city of London, was built by the Romans around the middle of the first century A.D., and is one of the enduring legacies of the Roman invasion. Some sites, such as the ruins of the ancient roman wall, are still standing but much of the city's ancient history remains buried. Now, a new -- and free -- application for iPhone and iPad is unearthing Roman London and bringing it back to life virtually. The app, called Streetmusuem:Londinium, is a joint venture from the London Museum of Archaeology and the TV channel History. With the app, users can hold up their phone around London and activate video vignettes of Roman scenes against the modern backdrop using an augmented reality feature. They can virtually excavate a patch of soil by rubbing their fingers on the screen to reveal items from the Museum of London's core collection as well as bring up key information about the items. Roy Stephenson is Head of Archaeological Collections and Archive at the Museum of London and was responsible for creating content for the app. "I really want people to absorb history, that there's more to it than the museum or gallery," he said. "If you walk down the street, you're in it, you're in the historic landscape, and it's all around you," he continued. His hope is that users will be intrigued to further explore the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/galerie-foto-top-12-reclame-care-pot-fi-vazute-din-spatiu-vezi-aici-din-ce-materiale-sunt-facute-si-unde-sunt-amplasate/ galerie-foto-top-12-reclame-care-pot-fi-vazute-din-spatiu-vezi-aici-din-ce-materiale-sunt-facute-si-unde-sunt-amplasate Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:31:45 +0300 Numeroase companii au ales să îşi amplaseze reclamele în locuri ciudate, cum ar fi pe câmp sau pe acoperişurile clădirilor, acolo unde niciun trecător nu le poate vedea. Ele pot fi însă văzute prin satelit, cu ajutorul numeroaselor site-uri care folosesc materiale oferite de programul Google Satellite, informează Business Insider. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-microsoft-ironizeaza-google-printr-un-filmulet-cu-un-personaj-care-isi-baga-nasul-amuzat-in-mail-urile-utilizatorilor-de-gmail/ video-microsoft-ironizeaza-google-printr-un-filmulet-cu-un-personaj-care-isi-baga-nasul-amuzat-in-mail-urile-utilizatorilor-de-gmail Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:31:58 +0300 ​Microsoft ar fi prezentat la o conferinta a dezvoltatorilor un filmulet ironic la adresa Google in care un personaj numit GmailMan se uita amuzat prin mail-urile utilizatorilor de Gmail fara a-i pasa de dreptul la intimitate, scrie CNET. Clipul a fost obtinut de o jurnalista de la site-ul ZDNet si, chiar daca Microsoft nu a confirmat ca l-ar fi realizat, toate semnele arata ca asa este.Clipul TheGmailMan are in centrul sau un personaj care se uita nonsalant si amuzat prin mail-urile utilizatorilor de Gmail si le spune acestora ce a vazut acolo, spre oroarea lor. Microsoft ironizeaza servciul de publicitate contextuala Google AdWords care afiseaza reclame in functie de continutul mail-ului fiecarui utilziator.In clip, privitorii sunt indemnati sa cumpere suita Office 365 lansata recent de Microsoft si se spune ca acest serviciu ofera o experienta cu totul diferita fata de Gmail. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-si-samsung-au-depasit-nokia-in-trimestrul-al-doilea-in-topul-vanzarilor-de-smartphone-uri/ apple-si-samsung-au-depasit-nokia-in-trimestrul-al-doilea-in-topul-vanzarilor-de-smartphone-uri Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:01:37 +0300 Apple şi Samsung au pus capăt în trimestrul al doilea dominaţiei de 15 ani a Nokia pe piaţa smartphone, împingând producătorul finlandez până pe locul al treilea, potrivit unor rapoarte prezentate vineri de mai multe companii de cercetare de piaţă. Nokia a inventat conceptul de smartphone în 1996, cu modelul Communicator, însă inovaţiile aduse în ultimii ani pe această nişă de principalii rivali şi declinul constant al propriilor vânzări a trimis compania de pe primul loc direct pe cel de-al treilea în trimestrul doi. Apple a vândut în perioada analizată 20,3 milioane de iPhone-uri, deşi modelul de actualitate iPhone 4 este mai vechi de un an. În mod normal, succesul unui astfel de telefon nu durează atât de mult. Analiştii estimează că Samsung a vândut 19 milioane de smartphone-uri în trimestrul al doilea, cu mult peste cele 16,7 milioane comercializate de Nokia, datorită cererii uriaşe pentru telefoane cu sistemul de operare Android dezvoltat de Google. "Portofoliul Galaxy al Samsung s-a dovedit foarte poular, în special modelul de top S2 cu Android", a declarat un analist al Strategy Analytics. Strategy Analytics estimează că piaţa smartphone a crescut în trimestrul al doilea, ca volum al vânzărilor, cu 76% faţă de nivelul din aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut. ABI Research sunt mai precauţi, calculând o creştere de numai 62%. Piaţa telefoanelor mobile în general a crescut cu 11,3% în aceeaşi perioadă, la 365,4 milioane de unităţi vândute, potrivit IDC. Creşterea pieţei telefoanelor a încetinit faţă de primul trimestru, când a fost înregistrat un avans de 16,8%, din cauza scăderii volumului vânzărilor modelelor simple, de bază, pentru prima dată în ultimele şapte trimestre. Evoluţia negativă a fost determinată de reducerea cheltuielilor de consum. Strategy Analytics estimează că piaţa telefoanelor ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/kpmg-veniturile-bancilor-amenintate-de-noile-modele-de-business-cum-isi-protejeaza-bancile-locul-detinut-in-lantul-platilor-mobile/ kpmg-veniturile-bancilor-amenintate-de-noile-modele-de-business-cum-isi-protejeaza-bancile-locul-detinut-in-lantul-platilor-mobile Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:32:20 +0300 Pe masura ce platile efectuate de pe telefoane si alte echipamente mobile cresc in popularitate numeroase banci isi reevalueaza sau isi dezvolta noi modele de plati la nivel global. Franta lanseaza intens asemenea parteneriate. Arabii la fel. In SUA trendul e prezent de ani buni de zile. Competitia crescuta din partea unor jucatori ne-traditionali in industria platilor precum Apple, Google si PayPal forteaza bancile sa se adapteze rapid pentru a-si proteja veniturile provenite din plati si pentru a beneficia de avantajele oferite de noile platforme mobile, se arata intr-un raport al KPMG. Studiul a fost realizat la nivel international si s-a derulat in randul executivilor din domeniile bancar si al serviciilor financiare. Citeste raportul complet in atasamentCu aproape 85 de procente dintre participantii la studiu afirmand ca platile mobile vor avea o importanta semnificativa pentru afacerile lor in urmatorii unul pana la patru ani, KPMG a identificat un grup de banci care actioneaza rapid pentru a capitaliza aceasta tendinta de piata si pentru a-si loializa astfel clientii, a-si reduce costurile si – in final – a-si asigura locul in noul lant valoric al platilor efectuate prin intermediul echipamentelor mobile.  In raportul KPMG, Monetizing Mobile: How Banks are Preserving their place in the payment value chain respondentii au evidentiat un numar tot mai mare de provocari care incetinesc comercializarea serviciilor de plati mobile. Mai mult de 70% dintre executivii din industriile bancara si a serviciilor financiare au mentionat preocuparile legate de securitatea serviciilor ca fiind cea mai mare bariera in calea adoptiei acestora, o provocare care ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-traffic-falls-as-users-spend-less-time-on-site/ google-traffic-falls-as-users-spend-less-time-on-site Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:31:00 +0300 (Mashable) -- After a running start, Google+'s growth may be slowing down a bit. A report from Experian Hitwise found both traffic and users' average time on the social network fell last week in the U.S. Total visits to Google+ declined about 3% to 1.79 million in the U.S. for the week ending July 23 compared to the previous seven days, according to the research company. The site received 1.86 million visits the prior week. Average time on the site was down 10%, from 5 minutes, 50 seconds to 5 minutes, 15 seconds. Matt Tatham, a rep for Experian Hitwise, was careful not to overplay the findings. "This is not a huge drop," he says. The company extrapolates its figures from data from ISPs and from an opt-in panel of about 2.5 million users. The report comes after Google+'s traffic enjoyed a steady climb since its June 28 debut. Last week, comScore reported that the network hit 20 million unique visitors. Some were so enamored with Google+ that they closed out their Facebook accounts and moved all their activity to the new network. What do you think? Has the novelty of Google+ worn off or is this just a blip on the road to world domination? Let us know in the comments. See the original article on Mashable.com © 2010 MASHABLE.com. All rights reserved. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/future-of-computing-looks-thinner/ future-of-computing-looks-thinner Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:30:56 +0300 (WIRED) -- Our notebooks, ultrabooks and desktop PCs are all getting thinner -- thin enough that Kate Moss in her heroin-chic heyday could have sported something like the 13-inch MacBook Air down the runway and it wouldn't have overwhelmed her almost nonexistent frame. It's no surprise. We've been seeing computers slim down ever since those giant room-sized computers that spawned the digital age, and the introduction of the first PCs in the decades that followed. But for a while, we were continually adding features such as hard drive space, optical drives, SD card slots to our notebooks and PCs. Now, as storage migrates toward online servers, and media is more likely to be streamed rather than viewed from a DVD or Blu-ray disc, many of those onboard features are shrinking down, or getting nixed altogether. Consumers are favoring size and portability over a heftier 'do-it-all' type machine. "Size will most certainly be an important driver when consumers look for their next PC or notebook," especially with tablets at the forefront of consumers' minds todays, says Desiree Davis, Senior Manager with Resolve Market Research. The skinny: In recent years, we've been seeing ultra-portable notebooks like Apple's MacBook Airs ditch the optical drive so they can achieve a slim silhouette. The Mac Mini desktop also lost the optical drive in its latest iteration. And now, both MacRumors and TUAW are reporting that Apple is working on ultra-thin 15- and 17-inch notebooks as well, likely to fall under the MacBook Pro umbrella and hit the market around the holiday season. If this ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/samsung-galaxy-r-fratele-mai-mic-al-seriei-s/ samsung-galaxy-r-fratele-mai-mic-al-seriei-s Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:32:05 +0300 Samsung a lansat un nou model al familiei de telefoane inteligente Galaxy, bazate pe sistemul de operare Google Android. Noul terminal este o varianta simplificata a varfului de gama, Galaxy S, cu care se aseamana atat din punct de vedere estetic, cat si tehnic. Ca design, partea frontala a aparatului este extrem de asemanatoare cu cea a modelului superior, dat aparatul este putin mai gros si are spatele acoperit cu un capac metalic. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/48-de-ore-pe-hotnewsro-statul-impotent-culisele-si-cauzele-esecului-de-la-vinzarea-pachetului-de-actiuni-la-omv-petrom-daniel-daianu-la-rfi-la-toamna-vom-avea-un-nou-episod-care-va-tulbura-apele-disputele-politice-din-sua-au-loc-fara-a-se-mai-respec/ 48-de-ore-pe-hotnewsro-statul-impotent-culisele-si-cauzele-esecului-de-la-vinzarea-pachetului-de-actiuni-la-omv-petrom-daniel-daianu-la-rfi-la-toamna-vom-avea-un-nou-episod-care-va-tulbura-apele-disputele-politice-din-sua-au-loc-fara-a-se-mai-respec Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:32:01 +0300 Daniel Daianu la RFI: La toamna vom avea un nou episod care va tulbura apele Noi turbulente ar putea aparea la toamna pe pietele financiare, spune, la RFI, fostul ministru de Finante Daniel Daianu. De aceea, el sugereaza ca FMI si Romania sa creioneze o strategie de rezerva pentru o situatie de acest gen, care va avea in prim plan tari ca Grecia si Portugalia.Statul impotent: culisele si cauzele esecului de la vinzarea pachetului de actiuni la OMV Petrom Plecam de la premisa ca Guvernul Boc chiar a vrut sa vinda pachetul Petrom. (Daca au mimat doar, pentru a scapa de gura FMI, atunci actorii principali ar trebui judecati pentru inalta tradare). Esecul vinzarii actiunilor Petrom a functionat ca turnesolul turnat peste un guvern populat de incompetenti. De la semi-analfabetul economic Emil Boc pina la necunoscutul Florin Vladan, care a negociat in numele Romaniei - desi nici Google n-a auzit de el. Si sa nu uitam de catastrofa numita Ion Ariton, unul dintre cei mai slabi ministri ai ultimilor 20 de ani, Dumnezeu-stie prin ce coterii de partid ajuns stapin peste cel mai complicat minister. Dar sa luam pe rind cauzele esecului.Discutiile ministrului economiei cu FMI: In octombrie se decide soarta mamutilor Electra si Hidroenergetica/La Hidroelectrica si Nuclearelectrica va avea loc o majorare de capital cu 10%, iar vanzarea actiunilor Petrom va fi reluata in prima parte a anului viitorAgonia infiintarii celor doi mamuti energetici, Hidroenergetica si Electra, se prelungeste. Dovada sta faptul ca Ministerul Economiei a convenit in cadrul unei intalniri cu reprezentantii FMI, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-s-a-lansat-primul-telefon-cu-sistemul-de-operare-windows-mango-al-microsoft/ video-s-a-lansat-primul-telefon-cu-sistemul-de-operare-windows-mango-al-microsoft Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:02:08 +0300 In Japonia s-a lansat IS12T, primul telefon care utilizeaza versiunea Windows Phone 7.5 cunoscuta sub numele de cod Mango. Terminalul cu camera de 13,2 MP este produs de Toshiba Fujitsu si este primul dintr-o serie de terminale cu "Mango" ce va contine mai ales telefoane Nokia, noteaza PC World. In aceasta toamna telefoanele Nokia cu noul sistem vor ajunge in Europa, iar Microsoft asteapta ca lansarile sa-i creasca in mod semnificativ cota de piata extrem de mica in prezent.IS12T cantareste 113 g, are ecran de 3,7 inch, camera de 13,2 MP si o baterie care se consuma dupa sase ore de conversatie sau 11 zile de standby. Telefonul are 32 GB de memorie si rezista la apa. Smartphone-ul este construit in Japonia de Toshiba Fujitsu Mobile Comunication si va intra pe piata in septembrie.Telefonul este important fiindca deschide o serie cu care Microsoft spera in sfarsit sa conteze in piata sistemelor de operare pentru telefoane mobile. Din seria cu sistemul de operare Windows Phone 7.5 (cunoscut drept Mango) vor face parte multe telefoane cu Nokia, dupa ce companiile au semnat un parteneriat important la inceput de an.Microsoft spera ca noul Windows Phone 7 introdus anul trecut ii va majora cota de piata la sistemele de operare pentru telefoane inteligente, insa s-a intamplat tocmai invers: cota a scazut de 7%, la sub 5%. Companiile de cercetare IDC si Gartner prevad insa ca parteneriatul cu Nokia va duce cota Microsoft Windows la 20%, plasand sistemul pe locul doi, dupa Google Android. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/moody39s-a-retrogradat-ratingul-nokia-cu-doua-trepte-la-baa2-cu-perspectiva-negativa/ moody39s-a-retrogradat-ratingul-nokia-cu-doua-trepte-la-baa2-cu-perspectiva-negativa Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:01:49 +0300 Moody's a retrogradat miercuri ratingul Nokia cu două trepte, la nivelul "Baa2", iar perspectiva este negativă, din cauza incertitudinilor legate de perspectivele companiei, având în vedere tranziţia prin care trece portofoliul de produse al producătorului finlandez de telefoane. Un purtător de cuvânt al Nokia a declarat că măsura Moody's nu va avea un impact material asupra costurilor actuale de finanţare ale companiei, transmite Reuters. Fitch şi S&P au retrogradat ratingurile Nokia luna trecută. Nokia a raportat săptămâna trecută pierderi nete pentru trimestrul încheiat în iunie şi a pierdut poziţia de lider pe piaţa mondială a aparatelor smartphone în favoarea Apple. În ultimii ani, Nokia nu a reuşit să producă telefoane la fel de atractive ca cele ale Apple sau cele dotate cu software-ul Android furnizat de Google. "Perspectivele Nokia în privinţa unor indicatori precum vânzările de telefoane mobile sau preţurile medii de vânzare sunt foarte neclarare, din cauza tranziţiei prin care trece portofoliul de produse", se arată într-un comunicat al Moody's. Agenţia notează totuşi că lichidităţile Nokia s-au menţinut solide, ca şi structura capitalului, astfel încât compania va avea capacitatea să acopere costurile legate de procesul de tranziţie. Nokia, cel mai mare producător de telefoane mobile din lume după volumul vânzărilor, a înregistrat o pierdere netă de 492 milioane euro în trimestrul al doilea, însă profitul operaţional al activităţilor de bază a depăşit toate estimările. Nokia a vândut 16,7 milioane de smartphone-uri în perioada analizată, pierzând prima poziţie în topul producătorilor de telefoane "inteligente" în favoarea Apple, care a vândut în acelaşi interval 20,3 milioane de iPhone-uri. Nokia deţine o fabrică de telefoane mobile şi în România, la Jucu, judeţul Cluj. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/murdoch-pica-nici-mogulii-nostri-nu-se-simt-prea-bine/ murdoch-pica-nici-mogulii-nostri-nu-se-simt-prea-bine Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:32:24 +0300 În 2008 Rupert Murdoch, stăpânul unui imperiu mediatic extins din SUA până în Marea Britanie, spunea cu „jurnalismul de calitate este marfă scumpă” care trebuie plătită inclusiv pe Internet şi ameninţa Google cu blocarea conturilor pentru a sista accesul gratuit la presă. În 2011, acelaşi Murdoch îşi cerea scuze public de la britanici la închiderea forţată a unei publicaţii cu 7,5 milioane de cititori, fondată în 1843: „Activitatea News of the World era de a le cere socoteală altora. Dar a eşuat când a trebuit să dea el socoteală. Ne pare foarte rău pentru neregulile comise. Ne pare rău pentru durerea suferită de persoanele afectate… Sunt conştient că scuzele nu sunt suficiente”. Părintele tabloidizării, cu The Sun şi New York Post în portofoliu, deţinătorul celor mai importante titluri din presa mondială de la Times la Wall Street Journal, a unor canale de televiziune influente ca Fox News şi Sky News, octogenarul Murdoch şi oamenii lui au intrat în atenţia anchetatorilor britanici, apoi a FBI, a Parlamentului englez şi a Senatului american după ce a ieşit la iveală că jurnaliştii diviziei britanice a News Corp. au interceptat peste 4000 de persoane pentru a folosi informaţia în beneficiul patronului lor. Au fost ascultaţi ilegal membri ai familiei regale, vedete, sportivi, până la rudele militarilor ucişi în Afganistan sau ale unor adolescenţi dispăruţi. Afacerea interceptărilor a durat mai mulţi ani şi a afectat concurenţa de pe piaţa media umflând veniturile News Corp., dar mai ales a făcut praf deontologia jurnalismului substituindu-o cu banditismul informaţional, cu dispreţul faţă de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/localitatea-rusa-celiabinsk-da-10000-de-dolari-pentru-a-sterge-din-motoarele-de-cautare-caracterizarea-de-cel-mai-poluat-oras-din-lume/ localitatea-rusa-celiabinsk-da-10000-de-dolari-pentru-a-sterge-din-motoarele-de-cautare-caracterizarea-de-cel-mai-poluat-oras-din-lume Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:01:58 +0300 Autoritatile din regiunea rusa Celiabinsk vor da 10.000 de dolari softistilor care vor reusi sa "optimizeze" rezultatele afisate de motoarele de cautare, astfel incat numarul referintelor negative la adresa poluarii din regiune sa scada pe cat posibil. In multe cautari, Celiabinsk figureaza ca fiind cel mai poluat oras din lume, iar autoritatile spun ca aceasta caracterizare este nedreapta si sperie potentialii investitoti, noteaza The Telegraph.Regiunea din centrul Rusiei a cunoscut o industrializare excesiva si poluarea a afectat masiv raurile, orasele si sanatatea a milioane de oameni. Totusi, autoritatile spun ca in motoarele de cautare apar mult prea multe referinte negative si "pun la bataie" peste 10.000 de dolari pentru cei care vor utiliza tehnici de optimizare a rezultatelor motoarelor de cautare (SEO).Autoritaile vor ca numai 20% din mentiunile la adresa regiunii sa fie negative si vor sa dispara pe cat posibil caracterizari precum "radiatie in Celiabinsk" si "cel mai poluat oras din lume".Tehnicile de marketing SEO sunt intens utilizate mai ales de companii care vor sa "dea bine" in rezultatele motoarelor de cautare, dar si de cele care vor ca referintele negative sa fie cat mai greu de gasit. Aceste tehnici sunt foarte controversate si multi spun ca asa-zisa "optimizare" este o manipulare ordinara promovata doar de organizatiile cu bani.Cei din Celiabinsk spun ca o parte dintre mentiunile negative au fost puse de companii care concureaza cu cele locale si au precizat ca optimizarea pe care o doresc va fi aplicata pentru rezultatele din Google, dar si din Yandex, cel mai mare motor de cautare ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mozilla-pregateste-un-sistem-de-operare-pentru-telefoane-si-tablete/ mozilla-pregateste-un-sistem-de-operare-pentru-telefoane-si-tablete Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:31:57 +0300 ​Mozilla a anuntat ca lucreaza la crearea unui sistem de operare care, pornind de la o serie de elemente ale Google Android, sa functioneze apoi pe smartphone-uri si tablete, intr-un mod mai deschis decat sistemul celor de la Google. Cei de la Mozilla admit ca proiectul este intr-o faza incipienta si spun ca au facut publica ideea pentru ca un numar mare de dezvoltatori sa sprijine proiectul, informeaza BBC.Proiectul va folosi o parte din elementele fundamentale ale Google Android, insa cea mai mare parte a codului va fi realizata de Mozilla. Fundatia care a creat browserul Firefox spune ca acest sistem de operare va fi centrat pe web si foarte multe aplicatii vor rula fara a avea nevoie de browser.Desi se va porni cu elemente fundamentale ale sistemului Google Android, Mozilla va aduce o serie de elemente cu totul noi de cod si isi propune ca sistemul sa fie mult mai deschis decat cel al Google sau decat Windows Phone si iOS.Cei de la Mozilla spun ca asteapta cu interes ajutor de la diversi dezvoltatori si adauga ca noul sistem ar trebui sa reflecte modul in care Mozilla crede ca ar trebui cu adevarat sa arate tehnologiile open-source. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/presa-in-diagonala-google-ia-masuri-pentru-neutralizarea-manifestului-lui-anders-behring-breivik-nu-este-vorba-de-cenzura-sustin-oficialii-grup-de-sprijin-pe-facebook-pentru-mama-lui-breivik-ofiterii-de-politie-care-au-condus-interogatoriile-l-au-cara/ presa-in-diagonala-google-ia-masuri-pentru-neutralizarea-manifestului-lui-anders-behring-breivik-nu-este-vorba-de-cenzura-sustin-oficialii-grup-de-sprijin-pe-facebook-pentru-mama-lui-breivik-ofiterii-de-politie-care-au-condus-interogatoriile-l-au-cara Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:02:00 +0300 Google ia masuri pentru neutralizarea manifestului lui Anders Behring Breivik. "Nu este vorba de cenzura" sustin oficialii. Dupa atacurile din Norvegia, Google incearca sa reduca extremismul pe internet modificand rezultatele afisate de motorul sau de cautare. Potrivit oficialilor, internetul ar trebui sa aduca in fata pe cei care au fost afectati de actiuni extremiste, care s-au retras din asemenea retele si pe cei care lupta impotriva extremismului. Google este de parere ca acesta ajustrare nu are nimic de-a face cu cenzura. Potrivit unei declaratii mai vechi, politia norvegiena avertiza ca site-urile extremiste influenteaza tineretul si il atrag, invatandu-l sa foloseaca teroarea ca instrument de lupta. Un pas important urmarit atat de autoritati cat si de Google este neutralizarea Manifestului publicat pe internet de teroristul Anders Behring Breivik, care are ca scop inspirarea unei noi generatii de teroristi in lumina recentelor atentate. Anders Behring Breivik considera asasinatele comise drept o buna campanie de marketing pentru popularizarea manifestului sau, potrivit site-ului norvegian VG Nett.Presa norvegiana critica Fox News fiindca ar fi sugerat ca atacurile ar fi fost islamice. Mai multi utilizatori ai retelelor sociale Facebook si Twitter s-au aratat deranjati de atitudinea unor canale media americane in legatura cu atentatele din Norvegia. Fox News este unul dintre cele mai mari posturi americane si trateaza stirile cu o abordare conservator-republicana si patriotica. Acesta ar fi afisat lipsa de respect si ar fi denaturat adevarul in cazul tragediei norvegiene. Chiar si dupa arestarea lui Anders Behring Breivik, canalul continua sa vorbeasca despre terorismul islamic si despre faptul ca Norvegia ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-ia-masuri-pentru-neutralizarea-manifestului-lui-anders-behring-breivik-nu-este-vorba-de-cenzura-sustin-oficialii/ google-ia-masuri-pentru-neutralizarea-manifestului-lui-anders-behring-breivik-nu-este-vorba-de-cenzura-sustin-oficialii Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:32:10 +0300 Dupa atacurile din Norvegia, Google incearca sa reduca extremismul pe internet modificand rezultatele afisate de motorul sau de cautare. Potrivit oficialilor, internetul ar trebui sa aduca in fata pe cei care au fost afectati de actiuni extremiste, care s-au retras din asemenea retele si pe cei care lupta impotriva extremismului. Google este de parere ca acesta ajustrare nu are nimic de-a face cu cenzura. Potrivit unei declaratii mai vechi, politia norvegiena avertiza ca site-urile extremiste influenteaza tineretul si il atrag, invatandu-l sa foloseaca teroarea ca instrument de lupta. Un pas important urmarit atat de autoritati cat si de Google este neutralizarea Manifestului publicat pe internet de teroristul Anders Behring Breivik, care are ca scop inspirarea unei noi generatii de teroristi in lumina recentelor atentate. Anders Behring Breivik considera asasinatele comise drept o buna campanie de marketing pentru popularizarea Manifestului sau. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-ia-masuri-pentru-neutralizarea-manifestului-lui-anders-behring-breivik-nu-este-vorba-de-cenzura-anunta-oficialii/ google-ia-masuri-pentru-neutralizarea-manifestului-lui-anders-behring-breivik-nu-este-vorba-de-cenzura-anunta-oficialii Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:32:13 +0300 Dupa atacurile din Norvegia, Google incearca sa reduca extremismul pe internet modificand rezultatele afisate de motorul sau de cautare. Potrivit oficialilor, internetul ar trebui sa aduca in fata pe cei care au fost afectati de actiuni extremiste, care s-au retras din asemenea retele si pe cei care lupta impotriva extremismului. Google este de parere ca acesta ajustrare nu are nimic de-a face cu cenzura. Potrivit unei declaratii mai vechi, politia norvegiena avertiza ca site-urile extremiste influenteaza tineretul si il atrag, invatandu-l sa foloseaca teroarea ca instrument de lupta. Un pas important urmarit atat de autoritati cat si de Google este neutralizarea Manifestului publicat pe internet de teroristul Anders Behring Breivik, care are ca scop inspirarea unei noi generatii de teroristi in lumina recentelor atentate. Anders Behring Breivik considera asasinatele comise drept o buna campanie de marketing pentru popularizarea Manifestului sau. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/incapable-state-the-troubles-and-causes-of-failure-to-sell-stake-in-omv-petrom-oil-company/ incapable-state-the-troubles-and-causes-of-failure-to-sell-stake-in-omv-petrom-oil-company Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:03:01 +0300 A recent attempt of the state to sell 9.84% of shares in major Romanian oil company Petrom (majority owned by OMV) has failed as investors who responded to the offer managed to underwrite less than the 80% of the shares, which was the minimum required. Let's presume the Government led by Emil Boc really wanted to sell the Petrom stake (If they only claimed so to please the IMF then people responsible should be judged for high treason). The failure of the Petrom share sale filtered through a government crowded with impotent officials: from the politically semi-illiterate PM Emil Boc to Florin Vladan, an obscure official who negotiated on Romania's behalf despite not even Google has ever heard of him. One should not forget catastrophic Economy minister Ion Ariton, one of the weakest ministers of the past two decades. Let's consider the causes of the failure one by one.1. The selection of an intermediary for the sale of the OMV Petrom stake held by the Romanian Economy MinistrySix consortia joined the bidding. Each was lead by a big name: Goldman Sachs, Nomura, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley or UBS, with huge experience in such deals and with obvious connections in relevant markets, plus a consortium led by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank controlled by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, the head of a new party formed under the wing of Vladimir Putin.The specifications of the bidding provided generous points to the financial offer. It was Achille's heel as outsider Renaissance Capital (plus "lieutenants" EFG Eurobank Securities - ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/revolt-big-companies-rethink-apple-apps/ revolt-big-companies-rethink-apple-apps Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:30:40 +0300 (WIRED) -- We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad. Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks like for companies trying to avoid giving a 30% cut to Cupertino. Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble all removed the stores from their iOS applications on Monday, as well as any hyperlinks to or mentions of their online stores. Google Books -- recently announced distribution and retail partner for the new multiplatform Harry Potter e-books -- is simply gone from the App Store, without explanation from either Apple or Google, although possibly a revised app may be forthcoming. Users of these newly-storeless apps can still download and read all content purchased elsewhere. But the apps are no longer an easy direct or indirect portal for sales, to the chagrin of their developers and some of their customers. The absence of this portal will hurt some retailers more than others. For readers accustomed to buying content via the web, not much will change. But it reduces the overall functionality of the apps -- booksellers would love to have an easy way to sell new products to customers immediately, based on what they're reading or searching for right then -- and new or less-sophisticated users might find the need to make an end-around via the web browser confusing. It's an extra bit of friction in an otherwise mostly friction-free experience. And any additional friction for other booksellers clearly ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sidestepping-apple-companies-rethink-app-strategies/ sidestepping-apple-companies-rethink-app-strategies Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:31:00 +0300 (WIRED) -- We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad. Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks like for companies trying to avoid giving a 30% cut to Cupertino. Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble all removed the stores from their iOS applications on Monday, as well as any hyperlinks to or mentions of their online stores. Google Books -- recently announced distribution and retail partner for the new multiplatform Harry Potter e-books -- is simply gone from the App Store, without explanation from either Apple or Google, although possibly a revised app may be forthcoming. Users of these newly-storeless apps can still download and read all content purchased elsewhere. But the apps are no longer an easy direct or indirect portal for sales, to the chagrin of their developers and some of their customers. The absence of this portal will hurt some retailers more than others. For readers accustomed to buying content via the web, not much will change. But it reduces the overall functionality of the apps -- booksellers would love to have an easy way to sell new products to customers immediately, based on what they're reading or searching for right then -- and new or less-sophisticated users might find the need to make an end-around via the web browser confusing. It's an extra bit of friction in an otherwise mostly friction-free experience. And any additional friction for other booksellers clearly ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cu-cat-sunt-platiti-anual-miliardarii-lumii/ cu-cat-sunt-platiti-anual-miliardarii-lumii Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:32:18 +0300 Te-ai întrebat vreodată cât câştigă miliardarii? Pe lângă salariile anuale, se adaugă bonusurile şi diverse compensaţii, care depăşesc deseori un million de dolari. 18 dintre miliardarii lumii sunt preşedinţi executivi în cele mai mari companii americane. Cine conduce însă în topul celor mai bine plătiţi CEO? Polo Ralph Lauren este cel mai bine plătit preşedinte de companie. În 2010, acesta a reuşit să obţină compensaţii în valoare de 43 milioane de dolari, incluzând un bonus anual de 19,5 milioane de dolari. La polul opus se află antreprenori celebri precum Steve Jobs (Apple), Larry Page (Google), Richard Kinder (Kinder Morgan) sau Larry Ellison (Oracle), care sunt plătiţi cu un salariu simbolic de doar...1 dolar pentru activitatea din cadrul companiilor pe care le deţin. Iată lista celor mai bine cotaţi miliardari, în funcţie de veniturile obţinute în 2010, potrivit revistei americane Forbes. Ralph Lauren Companie: Polo Ralph Lauren Salariu şi bonusuri: 20,8 milioane de dolari Compensaţii anuale: 43 milioane de dolari Frederick Smith Companie: FedEX Salariu şi bonusuri: 1,6 milioane de dolari Compensaţii anuale: 19,1 milioane de dolari Citeşte mai multe despre miliardarii lumii pe www.incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/users-with-fake-names-get-boot-from-google-plus/ users-with-fake-names-get-boot-from-google-plus Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:01:09 +0300 (CNN) -- Google+ has been a hit in the tech community, with early adopters praising its clean design and features like Circles and group video chat. But some of those same folks are now miffed, saying the social-networking site is being too aggressive in booting users who don't sign up with their real names. Over the weekend and into Monday, multiple tech blogs were reporting what appeared to be an uptick in the number of people removed from Google+ for signing up under assumed names. The Google+ content policy says, "To help fight spam and prevent fake profiles," users must use the name their friends, family or co-workers usually call them. "For example, if your full legal name is Charles Jones Jr. but you normally use Chuck Jones or Junior Jones, either of those would be acceptable," the policy reads. Limor "Ladyada" Fried, a noted figure in the open-source hardware community, briefly had her account suspended over the weekend. Her name is an assumed one but one by which she's well-known (she recently was featured in a cover story in Wired magazine). Her account was reinstated. Former Google employee Kirrily Robert, who goes by the single name "Skud," said she also had her account suspended when she used the nickname to sign up. She wrote that she expected the nickname issue to come up and largely wanted to test how the site dealt with it. "I thought it would be interesting and educational for someone who understands the system quite well (my recent ex-Googler status helps with this) to poke at it from ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/doi-judecatori-si-un-ofiter-de-politie-intra-in-clasamentul-the-guardian-al-celor-mai-puternice-personalitati-din-marea-britanie/ doi-judecatori-si-un-ofiter-de-politie-intra-in-clasamentul-the-guardian-al-celor-mai-puternice-personalitati-din-marea-britanie Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:01:50 +0300 Un ofiter de politie si doi judecatori au fost inclusi in clasamentul anual al personalitatilor cu cea mai mare putere in industria media din Marea Britanie, realizat de MediaGuardian si dat publicitatii luni. Clasamentul MediaGuardian 100 este condus, anul acesta, de fondatorul Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, urmat de Jack Dorsey (Twitter) si Larry Page (Google).Faptul ca in topul pe 2011 au fost inclusi doi judecatori si un ofiter de politie este explicat de The Guardian prin deciziile judecatoresti legate de dreptul celebritatilor la viata privata, precum si prin scandalul interceptarilor telefonice ilegale de la News of the World, ce a zguduit scena politica si industria media din Marea Britanie.De altfel, acelasi scandal i-a determinat pe autorii clasamentului sa il plaseze pe magnatul Rupert Murdoch - presedintele News Corp, ce controla, prin divizia News International, tabloidul inchis recent News of the World - pe pozitia 6, cu doua locuri mai jos decat in 2010. Fiul lui Murdoch, James, pierde la randul sau cateva pozitii, coborand de pe locul 8 pe locul 11, iar fosta sefa News International, Rebekah Brooks, fortata sa-si dea demisia, iese din topul celor mai puternice 100 de personalitati.Top 10 cele mai influente personalitati din media britanice - MediaGuardian:1. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)2. Jack Dorsey (Twitter)3. Larry Page (Google)4. Mark Thompson (BBC)5. Steve Jobs (Apple)6. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp)7. Paul Dacre (Daily Mail)8. Sir Martin Sorrell (WPP)9. Simon Cowell (producator si prezentator TV)10. Lord Justice Leveson (judecatorul care conduce ancheta in cazul interceptarilor ilegale de la News of the World)Vezi clasamentul complet aici http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-ipad-app-hidden-inside-iphone-app/ facebook-ipad-app-hidden-inside-iphone-app Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:00:48 +0300 (Wired) -- Facebook's iPad app could be a lot closer to launch than we thought. A full-sized, fully-functional version of the iPad app is hidden inside the current iPhone app. That means that, if you are running the iPhone app you already have the iPad executable on your phone. Discovered by M.G Siegler, Apple writer for AOL's Tech Crunch, the iPad app is a lot more modern-looking than the tired old iPhone version, and looks a lot like Twitter's official iPad app. On the left is a source list to navigate between your Wall, info, photos and friends sections. Up top, below the status bar, you'll find more icons to take you to different sections (places and chat, amongst others), and if you flip to horizontal orientation you get a combination of both these navigation "aids," and the top-bar nav icons remain. In short, Facebook has managed to fully port the signature confusion of its website to a tablet app, a not insignificant achievement. Siegler, who found the app after reading about it on Twitter, calls the app "spectacular." The discovery was made by a an engineering student named Marvin Bernal, who also gives instructions on how to get it running on your own iPad. If you are smart enough to know what that means, and yet you still use Facebook, then go ahead and hack away. The rest of us can either wait for the official launch, or wait for Google to release Google Plus for the iPad. Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mark-zuckerberg-cel-mai-puternic-om-din-peisajul-media-in-marea-britanie/ mark-zuckerberg-cel-mai-puternic-om-din-peisajul-media-in-marea-britanie Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:01:48 +0300 Mark Zuckerberg, cofondatorul reţelei de socializare Facebook, este cel mai puternic om din peisajul media din Marea Britanie, în 2011, potrivit unui clasament întocmit de publicaţia The Guardian. În clasamentul "MediaGuardian 100 2011", care reuneşte cele mai importante personalităţi din sectorul media din Marea Britanie, pe locul al doilea se află Jack Dorsey, cofondator al reţelei de micro-blogging Twitter, urmat pe locul al treilea de Larry Page, noul CEO al Google. Topul primelor zece cele mai importante personalităţi din industria media este completat de Mark Thompson, director general al BBC, Steve Jobs, liderul Apple, Rupert Murdoch, şeful News Corporation, Paul Dacre, editor al Daily Mail, Martin Sorrell, CEO al WPP, Simon Cowell, producător TV, şi Justice Leveson, judecător la Curtea Superioară. În clasament mai figurează, printre alţii, James Murdoch - News Corporation (locul 11), Lord Paten - BBC Trust (locul 21), Elisabeth Murdoch - News Corporation (locul 23), Alexandr Lebedev - Independent Print (locul 30), Julian Assange - WikiLeaks (locul 32), Aidan Barclay - Telegraph Media Group (locul 33), Andy Rubin - Google (locul 44), Jamie Oliver - bucătar şi realizator de emisiuni pe teme culinare (locul 48), David Jones - Havas (locul 67), Arianna Huffington - Huffington Post (locul 80), John Makinson - Penguin Group (locul 88) şi Natalie Massenet - Net-a-porter (locul 96). În prezent, Rupert Murdoch şi fiul său James Murdoch, al treilea în ierarhia imperiului mediatic al tatălui său, se află în centrul unui scandal în Marea Britanie, după ce angajaţi ai publicaţiei News of the Word au fost acuzaţi că au interceptat ilegal convorbirile unor vedete, dar şi ale unor politicieni. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/statul-impotent-culisele-si-cauzele-esecului-de-la-vinzarea-pachetului-de-actiuni-la-omv-petrom/ statul-impotent-culisele-si-cauzele-esecului-de-la-vinzarea-pachetului-de-actiuni-la-omv-petrom Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:31:52 +0300 Plecam de la premisa ca Guvernul Boc chiar a vrut sa vinda pachetul Petrom. (Daca au mimat doar, pentru a scapa de gura FMI, atunci actorii principali ar trebui judecati pentru inalta tradare). Esecul vinzarii actiunilor Petrom a functionat ca turnesolul turnat peste un guvern populat de incompetenti. De la semi-analfabetul economic Emil Boc pina la necunoscutul Florin Vladan, care a negociat in numele Romaniei - desi nici Google n-a auzit de el. Si sa nu uitam de catastrofa numita Ion Ariton, unul dintre cei mai slabi ministri ai ultimilor 20 de ani, Dumnezeu-stie prin ce coterii de partid ajuns stapin peste cel mai complicat minister. Dar sa luam pe rind cauzele esecului.1. Selectarea intermediarului vinzarii pachetului de actiuni OMV Petrom detinut de Ministerul EconomieiLa licitatie au participat sase consortii. Fiecare era condus de un nume mare: Goldman Sachs, Nomura, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley sau UBS, cu experienta uriasa in astfel de operatiuni si cu conexiuni evidente in pietele relevante, plus un consortiu condus de Renaissance Capital, o banca rusa de investitii controlata de miliardarul Mihail Prohorov, seful unui nou partid nascut cu obladuirea lui Vladimir Putin.Caietul de sarcini al licitatiei puncta generos oferta financiara (comisionul cerut). A fost calciiul lui Ahile, pentru ca outsiderul Renaissance Capital (plus "locotenentii" EFG Eurobank Securities - BT Securities - Romcapital) a oferit un pret de dumping, surclasind celelalte oferte. Castigarea licitatiei a reprezentat un mare semn de intrebare pentru intreaga piata si a provocat frisoane in rindul cunoscatorilor din piata energetica: o banca rusa de investitii primea acces ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-de-ce-are-romania-nevoie-de-1000-de-kilometri-de-autostrada-slabiciunile-si-atuurile-romaniei-in-fata-crizei-euro-top-20-al-celor-mai-mari-companii-de-pe-continent-cum-face-google-bani-din-publicitate-lista-celor-mai-scumpi-termeni-d/ business-report-de-ce-are-romania-nevoie-de-1000-de-kilometri-de-autostrada-slabiciunile-si-atuurile-romaniei-in-fata-crizei-euro-top-20-al-celor-mai-mari-companii-de-pe-continent-cum-face-google-bani-din-publicitate-lista-celor-mai-scumpi-termeni-d Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:01:52 +0300 Slabiciunile si atuurile Romaniei in fata crizei euro. Prea mici pentru un razboi atat de mare. Desi avem cateva atuuri, ne va fi aproape imposibil sa profitam de problemele pe care le-a adus supraindatorarea celor mai importante economii ale lumii. Dupa runde lungi de discutii, liderii tarilor din zona euro au ajuns in urma cu doar cateva zile la ceea ce pare a fi o solutie de salvare a finantelor din Grecia, Portugalia si Irlanda. Datoriile acestor state vor fi acoperite partial din imprumuturi la dobanzi de 3,5%, pe minimum 15 ani, acordate de Fondul European de Stabilitate Financiara (EFSF). Asta nu inseamna, desigur, ca problemele Europei s-au incheiat. Dimpotriva, s-ar putea spune. Integral in Capital.Gigantii Europei. Top 20 al celor mai mari companii de pe continent. Topul celor mai mari 20 de companii europene este dominat in acest an de gigantul Royal Dutch Shell, din Marea Britanie, care are o valoare de piata ce depaseste 228 miliarde de dolari. Pe poyitia secunda vine compania elvetiana Nestle, cotata la 200 de miliarde de dolari si care anul trecut ocupa prima pozitie in acest clasament. Topul, intocmit de Financial Times si preluat de businessinsider.com, are pe pozitia a treia Gazprom, din Rusia, a carui valoare de piata este de 190 miliarde de dolari. Integral in Gandul.Cand se va relua oferta de vanzare pentru Petrom. Dupa consultarea cu FMI, Guvernul urmeaza sa prezinte un nou calendar pentru vanzarea unui pachet de 10% din actiunile Petrom. Cea mai mare oferta din istoria Bursei, prin care statul urma sa-si ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ny-marriage-equality-is-good-for-business/ ny-marriage-equality-is-good-for-business Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:00:40 +0300 Editor's note: Bob Witeck advises companies on business trends, demographics and issues of significance to LGBT stakeholders. He is co-founder and CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications, as well as author of "Business Inside Out: Capturing Millions of Brand Loyal Gay Consumers." (CNN) -- Many New Yorkers and thousands of visitors this weekend may make last month's Gay Pride celebrations seem tepid. Beginning Sunday, New York's same-sex couples will become eligible for marriage licenses. Tens of thousands of those couples are expected to marry over the next few years, and their vows will resonate across America. New York is the sixth state (plus Washington) to offer marriage equality for same-sex couples. To me, after two decades of consulting with business leaders, this moment truly feels personal. It not only arrives packed with emotion, it is a real game-changer for the American work force. New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and city leaders must be cheering the economic shot in the arm as hotels, restaurants, caterers, florists and legions of vendors welcome the wedding and honeymoon brigades. Some estimate nearly $400 million in revenues for the state over the next three years. These rewards are also the result of changing tides among American corporations and employers over recent decades. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's same-sex marriage legislation was endorsed not only by major corporations like Xerox and Google but by scores of smaller business owners across the state. President Obama moves closer to supporting same-sex marriage Why should business leaders care? What's in it for them? First, many employers already "get it." Beginning in 1982 with New ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-face-google-bani-din-publicitate-lista-celor-mai-scumpi-termeni-de-cautare/ cum-face-google-bani-din-publicitate-lista-celor-mai-scumpi-termeni-de-cautare Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:31:07 +0300 Google câştigă în fiecare an 3 miliarde de dolari pe lună din publicitate. Cea mai mare parte a acestei sume vine din anunţurile publicitare scurte care apar lângă rezultatele căutărilor, informează site-ul Wired. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-check-brainstorming-tech-goodbye-old-macbook-owling/ tech-check-brainstorming-tech-goodbye-old-macbook-owling Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:30:52 +0300 (CNN) -- In this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg tackle some of the headlines from this week's Fortune Brainstorming Tech conference in Colorado. At the top of the list was the surprising way Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard (and U.S. treasury secretary), described the Winklevoss twins. It was Summers who was president during the events fictionalized in the Facebook biopic "The Social Network." Also,Google CFO Patrick Pichette gets medieval while claiming that he no longer carries a wallet. Oh yeah ... and Google offers something called Google Wallet. Two pieces of Apple news get some chatter. On the same day, Apple unveiled its new Macbook Airs (simultaneously announcing that the classic white, plastic Macbook will soon be no more) and Lion, the new operating system for Macs. Or reader comments of the week come from John's story on the Gates Foundation's call for new toilet technology. And out Tech Fail of the Week causes deep rifts in the Tech Check crew. John declares the latest "ridiculous thing ending in -ing" craze -- "owling" -- to be an unmitigated failure. Doug supports the trend and Stephanie pretty much just takes the opportunity to make fun of both of them. To listen, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can find the Tech Check RSS feed here or subscribe oniTunes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-social-media-are-amplifying-customer-outrage/ how-social-media-are-amplifying-customer-outrage Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:30:49 +0300 Editor's note: Chris Taylor is San Francisco bureau chief of Mashable, a popular tech news blog and a CNN.com content partner. (CNN) -- Chances are, last week wasn't a great time to be working at Netflix. After the company raised the price of its DVD and streaming media plan by 60%, it had to draft hundreds of extra customer service reps to handle the floods of irate callers. Netflix rival Redbox briefly became one of the most popular searches on Google. The Netflix blog announcing the price increase filled with 4,000 comments, nearly all negative. But that number was dwarfed by the 79,000-plus responses on Netflix's Facebook page -- and that was just on the brief announcement linking to the blog entry. It was like angry graffiti, covering every inch of what is ostensibly a corporate wall. Netflix showed no sign of backing down, but the graffiti showed no sign of stopping, either. On the phone, in e-mail, in the largely anonymous comments section of a blog -- these are places where you generally vent your disapproval once and then slink away to be disgruntled alone. But is a social network different? The comfortingly clear identities of people who share your outrage, reinforcing your opinion with camaraderie and conversation -- do these things stoke anger that would have otherwise fizzled out? Does this environment inherently encourage people to take the next step, to turn from commenters to protesters, to organize, to boycott? I believe it may well do that. Here's why. The cottage cheese protest Exhibit A in this ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bosses-listening-to-millennial-workers/ bosses-listening-to-millennial-workers Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:30:58 +0300 (CNN) -- As millennials play an increasingly important role in the workforce, their likes and dislikes are reshaping the way Americans work and are forcing executives to change policies and management styles. The CEO of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR has already seen the benefits of being more flexible. "What time of day do you think we should open?" veteran public relations executive Marian Salzman asks her staff. Several 20-something employees -- a few with the giggles -- respond that 10 or 10:30 a.m. would be a good time. Gen-Y'ers: Delaying adulthood Salzman isn't about to keep the doors closed until 10:30 a.m. But even though executives many years their senior might consider some of their requests audacious, she's doing plenty of listening to her staff of about 80, the vast majority of whom are members of the millennial generation -- those born after 1980. Her millennial employees have asked for free food -- which Google gives its workers -- a juice bar, a yoga/Pilates room, even reimbursement for a personal trainer. While Salzman didn't grant any of those perks, she understands why they may not seem outrageous for someone with a millennial mindset. "They want the workplace to recognize that they're not 9-to-5 people. They're not people that are ever going to wear gray flannel suits," Salzman said. Report: Millennials say marriage ideal but parenthood the priority For many millennials, priorities are "life first, work second." "I have a girlfriend, I have family, I have friends, and these are all things that are very important because we work to live, and not the other way ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-sarbatoreste-113-ani-de-la-nasterea-sculptorului-alexander-calder-printr-un-logo-special/ google-sarbatoreste-113-ani-de-la-nasterea-sculptorului-alexander-calder-printr-un-logo-special Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:01:18 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, vineri, logoul de pe pagina sa principală, pentru a celebra 113 ani de la naşterea sculptorului american Alexander Calder, considerat părintele sculpturilor mobile. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-isi-avertizeaza-utilizatorii-peste-doua-milioane-de-calculatoare-au-fost-virusate/ google-isi-avertizeaza-utilizatorii-peste-doua-milioane-de-calculatoare-au-fost-virusate Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:01:46 +0300 Google a început să trimită mesaje de avertizare către peste două milioane de utilizatori, care sunt anunţaţi că le-au fost virusate computerele. Utilizatorii afectaţi de virus sunt întâmpinaţi de un mesaj galben de avertizare, situat deasupra căsuţei cu rezultatele căutării, scrie dailymail.co.uk. Reprezentanţii Google au declarat că eroarea s-a strecurat cu ajutorul unui software antivirus fals. Atunci când un utilizator introduce o căutare pe Google, aceasta este trimisă la servere şi controlată de hackeri, care modifică şi redirecţionează traficul. "Eroarea a ajuns în calculatoarele utilizatorilor cu ajutorul a peste o sută de variante ale unui antivirus fals care circulă de ceva vreme", a scris pe blogul Google inginerul de securitate Damiam Menscher. Utilizatorii afectaţi de virus primesc instrucţiuni pentru a-l îndepărta din calculatoare. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-sarbatoreste-113-ani-de-la-nasterea-sculptorului-alexander-calder/ google-sarbatoreste-113-ani-de-la-nasterea-sculptorului-alexander-calder Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:01:46 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, vineri, logoul de pe pagina sa principală, pentru a celebra 113 ani de la naşterea sculptorului american Alexander Calder, considerat părintele sculpturilor mobile. Încă de la încărcarea paginii de pornire, logoul, care reprezintă o sculptură mobilă, începe să se "însufleţească", iar la sfârşitul animaţiei utilizatorii văd apărând textul următor: "Aniversarea a 113 ani de la naşterea lui Alexander Calder. Prin amabilitatea fundaţiei Calder". Dacă plasează cursorul deasupra lui, utilizatorii îl pot face să se mişte. Un click stânga face să se mişte de la stânga spre dreapta diversele elemente mobile ale logoului, independente unele de altele. Un click dreapta are acelaşi efect, elementele mişcându-se de la dreapta spre stânga. Alexander Calder a fost un pictor şi un sculptor american, născut pe 22 iulie 1898, la Lawntown, în apropiere de Philadelphia. Alexander Calder este celebru pentru instalaţiile lui mobile - ansambluri de forme animate de mişcarea curenţilor de aer - dar şi stabile, artistul creând numeroase tablouri, litografii, jucării, bijuterii şi ornamente pentru locuinţe. Artistul a decedat pe 11 noiembrie 1976 la New York, în urma unei crize cardiace, în ziua vernisajului unei retrospective a operei sale la Whitney Museum of American Art. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/america-centrala-a-lansat-un-serviciu-google-meteo/ america-centrala-a-lansat-un-serviciu-google-meteo Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:31:56 +0300 America Centrala, una dintre zonele cele mai afectate de catastrofe naturale din lume, a lansat, joi, un serviciu "Google meteo", o baza de date meteorologice impartita intre cele sapte tari din subregiune, informeaza AFP."Aceasta este Google-ul informatiilor meteo din America Centrala", a declarat directorul tehnic al proiectului, Normal Avila, la prezentarea bazei de date. Informatiile provin de la 150 de statii meteorologice din tarile din America Centrala, ai caror lideri s-au reunit, vineri, in cadrul unui summit la San Salvador, pe tema dezastrelor naturale."Informatiile ar trebui sa ne ajute in luarea unor decizii mai bune, atunci cand avem de-a face cu uragane sau furtuni puternice, pentru ca evenimentele extreme hidrometeorologice sunt principala amenintare cu care se confrunta America Centrala", a declarat Patricia Ramirez, seful Comitetul Regional de Resurse Hidraulice.Sectorul agricol este principalul beneficiar al nou instrument.In ultimii patruzeci de ani, in urma catastrofele naturale, s-au inregistrat 57.000 morti, 123.000 de raniti si 10 milioane de persoane stramutate in America Centrala.Uraganul Mitch si alte fenomene naturale care au avut loc intre anii 1996 si 1999 au provocat pagube de 16 miliarde de dolari si o reducere de 1,3% din Produsul Intern Brut (PIB). http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-one-ceo-bends-the-rules-to-get-the-most-out-of-millennials/ how-one-ceo-bends-the-rules-to-get-the-most-out-of-millennials Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:00:42 +0300 (CNN) -- "What time of day do you think we should be open?" veteran public relations executive Marian Salzman asks her staff. "10, 10:30," comes the response from several 20-something employees, along with a few giggles. Salzman isn't about to keep the doors closed until 10:30 a.m., but she's listening. The chief executive officer of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR has been doing plenty of listening to her staff of about 80. The vast majority of them are members of the millennial generation -- born after 1980 -- and some of their requests might be considered audacious by executives many years their senior. Millennials at Euro RSCG have asked for free food, which Google offers; a juice bar; a yoga/Pilates room; even reimbursement for a personal trainer. Saltzman didn't grant any of those perks, but she understands that they may not seem outrageous for someone with a millennial mindset. "They want the workplace to recognize that they're not 9-to-5 people. They're not people that are ever going to wear gray flannel suits," Salzman said. For many millennials, the priority is, "life first, work second." "I have a girlfriend. I have family. I have friends. And these are all things that are very important, because we work to live and not the other way around," Euro RSCG staffer Greg Housset said. As millennials play an increasingly important role in the work force, their likes and dislikes are changing the way America works and forcing a growing number of executives in a wide range of industries to change policies and management style. Millennials have seen their parents ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-lab-closing-gmail-features-will-survive/ google-lab-closing-gmail-features-will-survive Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:00:36 +0300 (WIRED) -- Google announced Wednesday it will be slowly shuttering Google Labs, its experimental site for projects that aren't quite products. That news prompted fear and news reports that popular "experimental" features in Gmail and other products would also be killed. Heavy users of Gmail -- including me -- have come to rely on Labs features such as "Undo," which gives you a few seconds after hitting send to revoke the command, to the extent they now feel like permanent features. But Google spokesman Jason Freidenfelds tells Wired.com that the Labs in products such as Gmail and Maps aren't scheduled to be eliminated in the new push to narrow the search and advertising giant's focus. (The blog post announcing the Labs closure was entitled "More Wood Behind Fewer Arrows.") "We don't have any plans to change in-product experimentation channels like Gmail Labs or Maps Labs," Freidenfelds said. "We'll continue to experiment with new features in each of our products." However, a number of software projects in Google Labs proper will be retired, and some will graduate to full feature/product status, according to the Google blog post. WIRED: Sharing memories with Google creative labs Google also says most of the labs products that have become Android apps -- Google Googles, for one -- will continue to be available on Android Market. As for the timing of those changes? "We don't have specifics to share yet, but we'll be updating our users as we go on the Google Labs site," Freidenfelds said. So if there are Labs ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/iraq-harnesses-technology-to-protect-ancient-treasures/ iraq-harnesses-technology-to-protect-ancient-treasures Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:00:35 +0300 (CNN) -- Known to many as the "cradle of civilization," Iraq is a treasure trove of important archaeological sites including Babylon, Ur and Nimrud. Yet hostile circumstances on the ground have left the country's antique heritage vulnerable to looting and damage. International calls for the safeguarding of Iraq's ancient sites have resulted in the development of a sophisticated geodatabase record of ancient sites and monuments, which it is hoped will allow them to be better monitored and protected. MEGA-Iraq (Middle Eastern geodatabase for heritage) is being developed by the Getty Conservation Institute and the World Monuments Fund alongside Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Susan Macdonald is Head of Field Projects at the Getty Conservation Institute. She said: "While many in the international archaeological community focused on the looting of museums, no-one was really paying much attention to this issue of archaeological sites, and that really there was no good inventory or database of records of these." How it works Using Google's freely available satellite imagery as a base map, she said, MEGA allows users to focus on particular archaeological sites, see a terrain map or an aerial view of the site and surrounding buffer zones, and scan in to access details of the site's features. Because of the visual nature of the geodatabase, users will have an accurate picture of the condition of a site at a given time and therefore be able to pinpoint any changes in its condition, according to Macdonald. Also, newly discovered sites, usually most vulnerable to looting, can be quickly input into the database. An earlier ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-apple-doboara-cinci-recorduri-dintr-o-lovitura-solutia-extrema-germania-sa-fie-lovita-de-agentiile-de-rating-povestea-romanului-vanat-de-microsoft-si-facebook-schimbari-in-lant-la-varful-marilor-companii-vezi-cele-mai-importante-misc/ business-report-apple-doboara-cinci-recorduri-dintr-o-lovitura-solutia-extrema-germania-sa-fie-lovita-de-agentiile-de-rating-povestea-romanului-vanat-de-microsoft-si-facebook-schimbari-in-lant-la-varful-marilor-companii-vezi-cele-mai-importante-misc Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:33:11 +0300 Solutia extrema: Germania sa fie lovita de agentiile de rating. Pana acum, agentiile de rating nu s-au atins de cea mai mare economie europeana, insa pentru salvarea monedei euro aceasta ar fi singura solutie, spune Charles Diebel, head of market strategy la Lloyds, se arata intr-un material publicat de CNBC. Care ar fi explicatia? O downgradare de la ratingul AAA ar inseamna o crestere a costurilor privind obligatiunile germane (o crestere a CDS-uri implica un cost mai mare pentru docanzile la care Bundesbank-ul se imprumuta de pe pietele externe), insa, in acelasi timp, ar insemna o normalizare in piata prin reducerea diferentei dintre celelalte state europene si Germania. Integral in Capital. Schimbari in lant la varful marilor companii. Vezi cele mai importante "miscari". Prima jumatate a anului a generat o reactie in lant in ceea ce priveste schimbarile de top-management in marile industrii, curent in care s-au inscris companii precum Romtelecom, Orange, IBM, Enel, Sony, OMV sau MOL. DailyBusiness.ro a trecut in revista cele mai importante miscari din piata, in primele sase luni ale anului. Functia de CEO al Romtelecom a fost preluata la 1 iulie de Stefanos Theocharopoulos, directorul general al Cosmote Romania, dupa ce Georgios Ioannidis a parasit postul la capatul unui mandat de 4 ani. Theocharopoulos se afla la carma Cosmote Romania din 2008. Atat Romtelecom, cat si Cosmote sunt controlate de grupul grec OTE. Integral pe DailyBusiness.ro. Rolul intraprenorilor dintr-o companie. Intraprenoriatul este comportamentul de tip antreprenorial al angajatilor din organizatiile mari. Insa, desi ar avea nevoie, cele mai multe firme ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lenovo-thinkpad-tablet-o-tableta-android-pentru-afaceri/ lenovo-thinkpad-tablet-o-tableta-android-pentru-afaceri Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:32:58 +0300 Lenovo a lansat prima tableta din seria ThinkPad bazata pe sistemul de operare Google Android 3.1, destinata in principal companiilor si oamenilor de afaceri. Noul gadget are o diagonala de 10,1 inci, este bazat pe platforma nVidia Tegra 2 si include un port USB 2.0 de dimensiuni normale, plus un cititor de carduri SD. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-closing-experimental-lab-but-gmail-features-will-survive/ google-closing-experimental-lab-but-gmail-features-will-survive Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:30:54 +0300 (WIRED) -- Google announced Wednesday it will be slowly shuttering Google Labs, its experimental site for projects that aren't quite products. That news prompted fear and news reports that popular "experimental" features in Gmail and other products would also be killed. Heavy users of Gmail -- including me -- have come to rely on Labs features such as "Undo," which gives you a few seconds after hitting send to revoke the command, to the extent they now feel like permanent features. But Google spokesman Jason Freidenfelds tells Wired.com that the Labs in products such as Gmail and Maps aren't scheduled to be eliminated in the new push to narrow the search and advertising giant's focus. (The blog post announcing the Labs closure was entitled "More Wood Behind Fewer Arrows.") "We don't have any plans to change in-product experimentation channels like Gmail Labs or Maps Labs," Freidenfelds said. "We'll continue to experiment with new features in each of our products." However, a number of software projects in Google Labs proper will be retired, and some will graduate to full feature/product status, according to the Google blog post. WIRED: Sharing memories with Google creative labs Google also says most of the labs products that have become Android apps -- Google Googles, for one -- will continue to be available on Android Market. As for the timing of those changes? "We don't have specifics to share yet, but we'll be updating our users as we go on the Google Labs site," Freidenfelds said. So if there are Labs ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-iphone-app-now-available/ google-iphone-app-now-available Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:00:54 +0300 (Mashable) -- Update: Google has already released an update to the Google+ app. For those that are having problems, check the App Store and download the latest version. The official Google+ iPhone app is now available. The app is available as a free download [iTunes link] from the App Store. Here's a list of the app's features, along with their descriptions. -- Circles let you share the right things with just the right people. -- Stream is where you can get updates from your circles or see what people are saying about things nearby. -- Huddle is super-fast group messaging for everyone in your circles. Buggy, but fun First impressions of the app are that while useful, it's buggy. The app doesn't work on iOS 5 beta 3 -- so cutting-edge adopters, you're out of luck (for now) -- and is crashing in iOS 4 at regular occurrences for some users. Punit Soni, lead product manager for Google+ Mobile responded to some of the complaints on Google+ and he is promising updates. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. © 2010 MASHABLE.com. All rights reserved. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/50-new-tech-tools-you-may-have-missed/ 50-new-tech-tools-you-may-have-missed Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:00:44 +0300 (CNN) -- Technology can make your life easier, but figuring out which tech tools to trust can be tiresome at the least and eye-poppingly stressful at worst. To help, here's a list of 50 recently released or updated websites and apps that will make your mobile photos look better, improve your online social life and boost your productivity. This list is by no means all-inclusive, so feel free to tell us about your favorite tech tools in the comments section or on Twitter. We're @cnntech. Google Plus (free): It's too soon to tell whether Google's latest social network is social media's new king of the hill. However, one thing's for sure: The initial user reviews are very positive, and the strong bundling of social innovations make Google Plus -- often described as "Google's Facebook" -- worth the test drive. Google Plus Nickname (free): Now that you've jumped in the Plus-pool, time to head over to Gplus.to for your own personalized URL. Facebook-Skype (free): Made official last week at Mark Zuckerberg's recent announcement at Facebook headquarters, the service isn't yet available for all users. Users take advantage of the video-calling feature via Facebook without having to install any software. Some are criticizing the service for falling short of the Google+ hangout feature, where users can join group video calls up to 10 people. Facebook's video chat is only one-on-one. Tout (free): Virtually no one had heard of this micro-video service until Shaquille O'Neal used it to recently announce his retirement from pro basketball. After garnering more half a million ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/schmidt-google-late-going-social/ schmidt-google-late-going-social Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:00:26 +0300 Tokyo (CNN) -- Looking back on his decade as Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt said the company should have focused more on connecting people -- a hole that allowed the emergence of rival internet giant Facebook. "Fundamentally, what Facebook has done is built a way to figure out who people are. That system is missing in the internet as a whole. Google should have worked on this earlier," Schmidt, now the executive chairman of Google, said in an interview with CNN. "I think that's the area where I would have put more resources, developing these identity services and ranking systems that go along with that. That would have made a big difference for the internet as a whole." Three weeks ago, the company rolled out Google+, the search giant's online social network, which Schmidt called "a partial answer" to Facebook. Schmidt would not predict whether Google+ would be a full success or not. Google+ has a 'celebrity acquisition plan' But Google+ is off to a promising start, especially with tech-savvy early adopters. It has added 10 million members, Google reported on its quarterly earnings call last week. "The lesson to be learned in high tech, you need to move through these new phenomena very quickly and you need to get the details right. Otherwise you're left behind," Schmidt said. Larry Page, co-founder of Google, took over Schmidt's role as CEO earlier this year. Schmidt said the shift in leadership was to speed up decision making, not out of concerns the company was falling behind in innovation. Tech elite struggling to define ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/chairman-google-should-have-gone-social-earlier/ chairman-google-should-have-gone-social-earlier Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:30:43 +0300 Tokyo (CNN) -- Looking back on his decade as Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt said the company should have focused more on connecting people -- a hole that allowed the emergence of rival internet giant Facebook. "Fundamentally, what Facebook has done is built a way to figure out who people are. That system is missing in the internet as a whole. Google should have worked on this earlier," Schmidt, now the executive chairman of Google, said in an interview with CNN. "I think that's the area where I would have put more resources, developing these identity services and ranking systems that go along with that. That would have made a big difference for the internet as a whole." Three weeks ago, the company rolled out Google+, the search giant's online social network, which Schmidt called "a partial answer" to Facebook. Schmidt would not predict whether Google+ would be a full success or not. Google+ has a 'celebrity acquisition plan' But Google+ is off to a promising start, especially with tech-savvy early adopters. It has added 10 million members, Google reported on its quarterly earnings call last week. "The lesson to be learned in high tech, you need to move through these new phenomena very quickly and you need to get the details right. Otherwise you're left behind," Schmidt said. Larry Page, co-founder of Google, took over Schmidt's role as CEO earlier this year. Schmidt said the shift in leadership was to speed up decision making, not out of concerns the company was falling behind in innovation. Tech elite struggling to define ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-il-sarbatoreste-pe-gregor-mendel-parintele-geneticii-moderne/ google-il-sarbatoreste-pe-gregor-mendel-parintele-geneticii-moderne Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:31:37 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, miercuri, logoul de pe pagina sa principală, pentru a celebra 189 de ani de la naşterea savantului Gregor Mendel, considerat "părintele" geneticii moderne. Literele din noul logo al Google sunt formate din păstăi de mazăre pentru că acestea sunt plantele pe care savantul le-a studiat foarte multă vreme şi pe care a făcut o serie de experimente, între anii 1856 - 1863, ajungând în cele din urmă la stabilirea a ceea ce astăzi sunt cunoscute drept Legile eredităţii ale lui Mendel. Johann Gregor Mendel, născut pe 20 iulie 1822, în Heizendorf bei Odrau, Cehia, într-o familie de fermieri vorbitori de limbă germană, a fost pasionat de cercetare încă din copilărie. În 1840, Mendel a devenit student al Institutului de Filosofie din Olmütz, iar în 1843, la recomandarea profesorului de fizică Friedrich Franz, Mendel a devenit călugăr al mănăstirii augustine St. Thomas din Brünn (Brno), Cehia, moment în care îşi schimbă şi prenumele, din Johann în Gregor. În 1851 îşi începe studiile la Universitatea din Viena - fizică, botanică, entomologie, paleontologie - şi se întoarce la mănăstire ca profesor de fizică. Aici îşi continuă cercetările începute la Viena privind variaţia şi hibridizarea plantelor, iar pe baza celor de mazăre ajunge la Legile eredităţii care îi poartă numele. Lucrarea sa "Experienţe asupra hibridizării plantelor" a fost publicată în 1865, în jurnalul Societăţii de Istorie Naturală din Moravia, însă la acel moment nu a avut un impact deosebit în comunitatea ştiinţifică. Mendel şi-a continuat însă cercetările genetice pe mazăre, pe albine - creând chiar un hibrid de astfel de insecte -, dar şi pe alte noi specii de plante. Gregor Mendel a mai studiat astronomia şi meteorologia, fondând, în 1865, Societatea Meteorologică Austriacă. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-has-a-39celeb-acquisition-plan39/ google-has-a-39celeb-acquisition-plan39 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:30:32 +0300 (CNN) -- Google would like its new social network to be well-known in Hollywood circles. To that end, the Internet giant is drawing up a "celebrity acquisition plan" to help publicize Google+, its 3-week-old social network, according to Google e-mails reviewed by CNN. As part of this initiative, Google is beginning to devise a system that would verify the identities of public figures who sign up for the service, said Brett Schulte, a Hollywood consultant and organizer of social-media gatherings called Tweet House. The validation process would prevent people from impersonating celebrities and perhaps feature a button on legitimate profiles similar to Twitter's "verified" stamp, said Schulte, who said he discussed the project with Google employees. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment. "We aren't yet sharing any details on future plans around Google+," she wrote in an e-mail. "We plan to add a lot of features and functionality to Google+ over time." Google put out a call recently for applicants to join its "business profiles" test program, which will allow companies to create special Google+ accounts. For profile verification, Google is still weighing how the method would work. One option the team considered would involve asking a celebrity to fax a copy of his or her driver's licenses to the company, Schulte said. More likely, Google will arrange a list of the top talent agents and consultants who would be able to file requests directly, Schulte said. "They seemed to be very interested in having celebrities," he said. In 2008, Google launched a trial program in the United States that allowed people ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-has-a-39celebrity-acquisition-plan39/ google-has-a-39celebrity-acquisition-plan39 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:30:56 +0300 (CNN) -- Google would like its new social network to be well-known in Hollywood circles. To that end, the Internet giant is drawing up a "celebrity acquisition plan" to help publicize Google+, its 3-week-old social network, according to Google e-mails reviewed by CNN. As part of this initiative, Google is beginning to devise a system that would verify the identities of public figures who sign up for the service, said Brett Schulte, a Hollywood consultant and organizer of social-media gatherings called Tweet House. The validation process would prevent people from impersonating celebrities and perhaps feature a button on legitimate profiles similar to Twitter's "verified" stamp, said Schulte, who said he discussed the project with Google employees. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment. "We aren't yet sharing any details on future plans around Google+," she wrote in an e-mail. "We plan to add a lot of features and functionality to Google+ over time." Google put out a call recently for applicants to join its "business profiles" test program, which will allow companies to create special Google+ accounts. For profile verification, Google is still weighing how the method would work. One option the team considered would involve asking a celebrity to fax a copy of his or her driver's licenses to the company, Schulte said. More likely, Google will arrange a list of the top talent agents and consultants who would be able to file requests directly, Schulte said. "They seemed to be very interested in having celebrities," he said. In 2008, Google launched a trial program in the United States that allowed people ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lista-angajatilor-facebook-care-folosesc-google/ lista-angajatilor-facebook-care-folosesc-google Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:01:30 +0300 Mai mult de jumătate dintre executivii Facebook, printre care şi fondatorul Mark Zuckerberg, şi-au făcut conturi pe reţeaua de socializare lansată de concurentul Google. Curiozitatea faţă de platforma concurentă a atrans angajaţi din toate departamentele. În total, 62 de persoane din echipa Facebook şi-au făcut un cont pe Google+, printre care şi şeful departamentului de recrutări. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-ad-prices-soar-more-than-74/ facebook-ad-prices-soar-more-than-74 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:00:42 +0300 (FT) -- The cost of placing ads on Facebook is rising rapidly as more big brands begin to move their television and print spending on advertising onto the world's largest social network, two recent reports have revealed. The "cost per click" of an ad placed on Facebook has increased by 74 per cent over the last year in four of the world's largest media markets, according to TBG Digital, an independent marketing firm specialising in social media. The price of display advertising, charged per thousand "impressions" or ads seen, rose 45 per cent year-on-year, across the US, UK, France and Germany in the second quarter, TBG found. Facebook's dominance of the social networking market and rapid growth in advertising revenues have prompted comparisons with Google. "In my experience of digital advertising this is the biggest growth that we have seen since Google," said Simon Mansell, chief executive of TBG. "The main difference is that this is being fuelled by brand spend rather than [direct] response spend. That is an inflection point for the whole digital marketplace." TBG's report, based on analysis of 200bn ad impressions from 167 clients in the three months to June, follows a similar global study by Efficient Frontier, another digital marketing firm. Efficient Frontier found that cost-per-click ads increased by 22 per cent in the second quarter of 2011 compared with the first. "Over the year, we expect [Facebook advertising spending] to have grown by 80 per cent from last year," said Jonathan Beeston, global marketing director at Efficient Frontier. Advertisers that have long held off spending more ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cum-arata-turismul-in-gradina-carpatilor-statul-roman-a-castigat-114-mld-de-euro-de-pe-urma-austriecilor-care-controleaza-petrom-nimeni-nu-vrea-terenul-lui-becali-fiscul-reduce-pretul-cu-25-unde-ascunde-guvernul-mamutii-energetici/ business-report-cum-arata-turismul-in-gradina-carpatilor-statul-roman-a-castigat-114-mld-de-euro-de-pe-urma-austriecilor-care-controleaza-petrom-nimeni-nu-vrea-terenul-lui-becali-fiscul-reduce-pretul-cu-25-unde-ascunde-guvernul-mamutii-energetici Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:32:01 +0300 Statul roman a castigat 11,4 mld. euro de pe urma austriecilor care controleaza Petrom. Principalele incasari la buget au venit din accize, TVA si redevente. Din privatizare s-au scos doar 669 de milioane de euro in 2004. Autoritatile spera sa mai obtina 610 milioane de euro din vanzarea unei participatii de 9,84% din capital. Cea mai mare companie din tara a generat bugetului de stat venituri toￂtale de 11,4 miliarde de euro din 2005 pana azi. Principalele incasari au veￂnit din accize, TVA si redevente. Cu un an inainte de preluarea efectiva a controￂlului de catre OMV, Petrom raporta o pierdere de 240 de milioane de euro si statul anula datorii la buget de 230 de milioane de euro, scrie Financiarul. Biserica Ortodoxa, unul din vinovatii pentru catastrofa din Grecia? Biserica Ortodoxa din Grecia detine mai mult de teren decat oricine in Elada in afara de stat, are mii de angajati platiti de stat si detine si o participatie importanta in cea mai mare banca greceasca, iar gura "pacatosului" spune ca taxele pe care Biserica le plateste la stat sunt extrem de mici. Oficialii Bisericii neaga acest lucru, spunand ca institutia joaca un rol vital in societatea, economia si spiritualitatea statului elen. De cand a inceput sa se complice puternic situatia din statul cu 11 milioane de locuitori, au aparut o serie de activitisti care pun Biserica Ortodoxa Greaca la zid, institutie privilegiata de altfel de catre stat, despre care se spune ca este foarte opaca si are un sistem financiar foarte alambicat, scrie Capital. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/iphone-falls-from-skydiver39s-pocket/ iphone-falls-from-skydiver39s-pocket Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:00:29 +0300 (CNN) -- Jarrod McKinney's iPhone 4 -- a notoriously fragile device -- cracked when his 2-year-old knocked it off a bathroom shelf. "I was like, 'Man! That's all it takes to crack the glass?' " he said. So it's easy to see why McKinney, a 37-year-old in Minnesota, would be "just absolutely shocked" when that same phone survived a fall from his pocket -- while he was skydiving from 13,500 feet. He found the gadget, its glass surfaces shattered, on top of a building about a half-mile away from where he landed with his parachute. Joe Johnson, a skydiving instructor, said he and a few friends watched from the ground below the two-story building as McKinney raised the phone above his head in triumph after he located it using a GPS tracking app. Just to be funny, Johnson decided to call the busted phone. He didn't expect the call to go through. But it did. McKinney felt the phone vibrate and started laughing. "They were all like, 'It works! It works!'" he said of his friends watching his rooftop search from the bottom of the building. That's especially amazing since the iPhone 4 can suffer from cell reception issues. When the Apple smartphone debuted in 2010, a saga the tech media called Antennagate followed. Consumer watchdogs claimed a design flaw on the phone's antenna caused it to drop calls unexpectedly. Apple gave out free phone cases to address the issue. Mike Gikas, a tech editor at Consumer Reports, the nonprofit group that tests phones and other gadgets for their reliability, jokingly said that McKinney finally ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/are-social-media-creating-the-39laziest-generation39/ are-social-media-creating-the-39laziest-generation39 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:30:28 +0300 Editor's note: Dean Obeidallah is an award-winning comedian who has appeared on TV shows such as Comedy Central's "Axis of Evil" special, ABC's "The View," CNN's "What the Week" and HLN's "The Joy Behar Show." He is executive producer of the annual New York Arab-American Comedy Festival and the Amman Stand Up Comedy Festival. (CNN) -- We are the reality-show generation. Instead of doing, we watch: We watch people sing, dance with B-level stars, fist pump, pawn stuff, pick a husband/wife, get extreme makeovers to their homes and faces, be "real" housewives, keep up, lose weight, go to rehab, get fired, survive. And the voyeuristic nature has spilled into everyday life. Thanks to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and a host of other social media platforms, all the world's now truly a stage, and we are all players in the reality show of life -- either as the "stars" or as the self-appointed pundits. Observing events and then commenting about them on social media has become our national religion. We anxiously wait for the next celebrity to screw up, another politician to be caught in a sex scandal, the verdict in an even higher profile murder trial or simply a friend to do something stupid so that we can quickly begin worshipping at the altar of the social media platform of our choice to offer our (or read others') opinions, jokes, jibes and the occasional insightful thought. In the past, people would recount where they were when an historic event occurred such as the Kennedy assassination, the space shuttle ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/are-social-media-creating-the-laziest-generation/ are-social-media-creating-the-laziest-generation Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:30:59 +0300 Editor's note: Dean Obeidallah is an award-winning comedian who has appeared on TV shows such as Comedy Central's "Axis of Evil" special, ABC's "The View," CNN's "What the Week" and HLN's "The Joy Behar Show." He is executive producer of the annual New York Arab-American Comedy Festival and the Amman Stand Up Comedy Festival. (CNN) -- We are the reality-show generation. Instead of doing, we watch -- we watch people sing, dance with B-level stars, fist pump, pawn stuff, pick a husband/wife, get extreme makeovers to their homes and faces, be "real" housewives, keep up, lose weight, go to rehab, get fired, survive. And the voyeuristic nature has spilled into everyday life. Thanks to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and a host of other social media platforms, all the world's now truly a stage, and we are all players in the reality show of life -- either as the "stars" or as the self-appointed pundits. Observing events and then commenting about them on social media has become our national religion. We anxiously wait for the next celebrity to screw up, another politician to be caught in a sex scandal, the verdict in an even higher profile murder trial or simply a friend to do something stupid so that we can quickly begin worshipping at the altar of the social media platform of our choice to offer our (or read others') opinions, jokes, jibes and the occasional insightful thought. In the past, people would recount where they were when an historic event occurred such as the Kennedy assassination, the space ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/iphone-4-survives-fall-from-skydiver39s-pocket/ iphone-4-survives-fall-from-skydiver39s-pocket Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:04:30 +0300 (CNN) -- Jarrod McKinney's iPhone 4 -- a notoriously fragile device -- cracked when his 2-year-old knocked it off a bathroom shelf. "I was like, 'Man! That's all it takes to crack the glass?' " he said. So it's easy to see why McKinney, a 37-year-old in Minnesota, would be "just absolutely shocked" when that same phone survived a fall from his pocket -- while he was skydiving from 13,500 feet. He found the gadget, its glass surfaces shattered, on top of a building about a half-mile away from where he landed with his parachute. Joe Johnson, a skydiving instructor, said he and a few friends watched from the ground below the two-story building as McKinney raised the phone above his head in triumph after he located it using a GPS tracking app. Just to be funny, Johnson decided to call the busted phone. He didn't expect the call to go through. But it did. McKinney felt the phone vibrate and started laughing. "They were all like, 'It works! It works!'" he said of his friends watching his rooftop search from the bottom of the building. That's especially amazing since the iPhone 4 can suffer from cell reception issues. When the Apple smartphone debuted in 2010, a saga the tech media called Antennagate followed. Consumer watchdogs claimed a design flaw on the phone's antenna caused it to drop calls unexpectedly. Apple gave out free phone cases to address the issue. Mike Gikas, a tech editor at Consumer Reports, the nonprofit group that tests phones and other gadgets for their reliability, jokingly said that McKinney finally ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/team-android-tablet-adds-players/ team-android-tablet-adds-players Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:01:28 +0300 (CNN) -- The Android cabal is reuniting in a new territory. In the burgeoning tablet computer market, Google and its legion of hardware partners appear to be recreating the conditions that helped crown the Android operating system king of the hill in smartphones. Two newer members demonstrated firm commitments to Team Android Tablet last week. Sony Electronics plans to launch the S1 and S2 tablets, both running Google's Android, in the fall. Those devices will be Sony's first major tablet products. And together with Adobe Systems, Sony is hoping to breathe life into Android's tablet marketplace with a $200,000 competition for application developers. "We understand that the Android market today hasn't been exactly what it was forecasted to be," Phil Molyneux, the president and operating chief for Sony Electronics, said during an interview with reporters on Wednesday. While the total number of Android apps designed for phones continues to skyrocket, into the hundreds of thousands, apps designed for tablets remain a relative rarity. The total, by some estimates, is less than 300. Compare that to some 90,000 apps made for the Apple iPad or even the 300 available for Hewlett-Packard's just-released TouchPad, which uses the proprietary webOS software. An abundance of apps is crucial to a platform's success, most operating-system providers agree. A Google spokeswoman declined to make a representative available for an interview. At the company's developers conference in May, Google unveiled a new version of Android that would help app makers design their software to work on most Android phones and tablets. "We know that high-quality apps are the lifeblood ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/veniturile-facebook-in-crestere-continua-reteaua-sociala-a-depasit-hp-si-amazon/ veniturile-facebook-in-crestere-continua-reteaua-sociala-a-depasit-hp-si-amazon Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:01:32 +0300 Reţeaua socială Facebook, care a ajuns la câteva sute de milioane de utilizatori în întrea­ga lume, a ajuns un etalon pentru companiile online a căror valoare a explodat, depăşind astfel giganţi IT precum HP, care are zeci de mii de angajaţi şi venituri mult mai mari, scrie Wall Street Journal. Facebook valora 15 miliarde de dolari în octombrie 2007 - când Microsoft a făcut o in­ves­tiţie în companie şi aproximativ 84 de miliarde de dolari în prezent, luând în calcul tran­zacţiile cu acţiuni de pe pieţele private de titluri. De asemenea, unii analişti estimează însă că Facebook ar putea valora în cazul unei listări pe bursă în 2012 peste 100 de miliarde de dolari. În acest context, WSJ a întrebat mai mulţi analişti şi manageri de ce ar valora însă Facebook 100 de miliarde de dolari acum şi în ce măsură ar mai avea loc de creştere reţeaua socială în viitor. Facebook ar putea avea în 2015 o valoare de piaţă de 140 de miliarde de dolari, estimează Geoff Young, 52 de ani, şeful Redpoint Ven­tures, un fond de investiţii specializat în start-up-uri din online. "Facebook are potenţialul de a valora atât de mult şi poate chiar mai mult decât Google din cauza numărului mare de uti­lizatori la nivel global şi a potenţialului de creştere virală pe care îl are", spune Young. Pu­nând în balanţă creşterea estimată a pieţei de publicitate online şi cota de piaţă a Face­book, Young estimează, spre exemplu, că re­ţeaua so­cială ar putea avea în 2015 venituri de 7 mld. dolari doar din afişarea de bannere publi­citare pentru clienţii din Statele Unite. Re­pre­zen­tantul fondului crede că în 2015 Facebook ar putea avea venituri ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/are-electric-cars-actually-bad-for-the-environment-the-week/ are-electric-cars-actually-bad-for-the-environment-the-week Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:32:42 +0300 New York – New research suggests that you have to drive an electric car a long, long way for it to be greener than a gas-guzzling vehicle Production of electric cars is speeding up, as Ford prepares to introduce its C-Max Energi next year to compete with General Motors' much-hyped Chevrolet Volt. But a new British study suggests that electric vehicles might not be as green as environmentalists think. Because of pollution from the factories that make batteries, an electric car has a bigger carbon footprint than a gas-burning vehicles until it's traveled 80,000 miles, according to the research, which was financed by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership. Does this mean electric cars aren't good for the planet after all? Yes, these vehicles are bad for the environment: Electric cars just aren't "a green option," says Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. "Not only do electric vehicles produce just as much carbon in their overall cycle as internal-combustion engines, the need to replace the batteries actually makes them less green than current technology." If we want a cleaner way to get around, "the answer is natural gas, not electric vehicles.""Electric cars are not so green after all?"Electric cars aren't perfect, but they're our best bet: It's true that electric cars create more carbon emissions than standard cars during production, says Aftermarket Leads. Making batteries takes a lot of energy, and EVs require several batteries, while gas-powered vehicles have just one. But, as the study shows, electric and hybrid vehicles "still have lower carbon footprints than normal cars" over the long ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-solarcity-launch-fund-for-solar-projects-reuters/ google-solarcity-launch-fund-for-solar-projects-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:32:22 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google and solar power company SolarCity formed a partnership to create a new $280 million fund designated for residential solar projects -- the largest of its kind in the United States. It also represents the most money that Google has invested in the clean energy sector, the world's largest Internet search engine said on Tuesday. Google has put $680 million toward clean-energy technologies. Customers who want solar panels installed on their homes but do not want to make a big upfront investment, are able to tap the fund. SolarCity has more than 15,000 solar projects and finances about 80 percent of the its customers' solar systems. SolarCity has 15 funds with seven different partners to finance $1.28 billion in projects. "We're excited to be making our first investment in distributed residential solar," said Rick Needham, director of green business operations at Google. (Reporting by Jennifer Saba, editing by Maureen Bavdek) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-invests-280-million-to-spur-home-solar-ap/ google-invests-280-million-to-spur-home-solar-ap Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:32:22 +0300 NEW YORK – Google is investing $280 million in solar power for private homes, its latest — and largest — investment in clean energy. The money will allow installer SolarCity to offer solar systems to homeowners for no money up front. In exchange, customers agree to pay a set price for the power produced by the systems. Google earns a return on its investment by charging SolarCity interest to use its money and reaping the benefits of federal and local renewable energy tax credits. Google Inc. co-founder and chief executive Larry Page wants Google's operations to eventually produce no net greenhouse gas emissions. The company has aggressively invested in green energy projects. This will be Google's seventh such investment, raising its green energy investment total to more than $680 million. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-39applying-for-china-mapping-licence39-afp/ google-39applying-for-china-mapping-licence39-afp Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:01:24 +0300 BEIJING (AFP) – Google and its joint venture partner in China have applied for a licence to operate an online mapping service in the world's biggest web market, a news report said on Tuesday. The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping was reviewing the application from Beijing Guxiang Information Technology Co., which operates Google's mapping service in China, Dow Jones Newswires said, citing an official. Google declined to confirm the report when contacted by AFP and calls to the government agency were not answered. "We?re in discussions with the government about how we could offer a maps product in China," Google's Beijing-based spokeswoman Marsha Wang told AFP, repeating an earlier statement. China has the world's biggest online population of 477 million, according to official data. Beijing has so far granted licences to dozens of companies to provide web mapping after new rules were introduced last year requiring all firms providing Internet map and location services in China to apply for approval. Foreign firms wanting to provide those services in China are required to set up joint ventures or partnerships with local firms. Google has seen its share of the lucrative Chinese search market slide to the profit of local rival Baidu as tensions with Beijing increased over a number of cyberattacks the US web giant claims originated in China. This month, Google said it had been hit by a cyberspying campaign targeting Gmail accounts of senior US officials, journalists and activists, which appeared to have come from Jinan, in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong. Beijing angrily denied the charge. There was no indication whether ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-has-applied-for-google-maps-license-in-china-report-reuters/ google-has-applied-for-google-maps-license-in-china-report-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:30:23 +0300 SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Google Inc has applied for a license to operate its Google Maps product in China, China Business News reported on Tuesday, quoting an unnamed official. Google needs a license from China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping to continue operating Google Maps in China. Recently, requirements for a mapping license were relaxed to allow for foreign online mapping providers, such as Google, to engage in joint ventures to provide the service. Google has applied for the license with Beijing Guxiang information Technology, the newspaper reported. "Right now we are examining their application. We can't comment on the final outcome," the official was quoted as saying. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment and officials at the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping could not be immediately reached for comment. Google has had a testy relationship with Beijing after Google partially withdrew from China last year saying it was no longer willing to censor search results in the country and after a serious hacking incident. Access to Gmail is spotty in China while YouTube is banned. The firm said earlier this month Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including those of senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists. (Reporting by Melanie Lee; Editing by Jacqueline Wong) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/seoul-launches-cyber-security-plan-reuters/ seoul-launches-cyber-security-plan-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:01:15 +0300 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – South Korea said on Tuesday it was drawing up a cyber security master plan after a wave of hacking attacks against global agencies and companies but some other Asian governments appeared to have no blueprint for tackling the threat. Indonesia, a rapidly growing G20 country, warned that hackers could cause serious damage to its institutions. Internet industry bodies and security experts in Asia said the borderless nature of the internet called for a coordinated international policy response. Recent cyber attacks on multinational firms and institutions, from Google and Citigroup to the International Monetary Fund, have raised fears that governments and the private sector are ill-prepared to beat off hackers. The latest high-profile target was the U.S. Senate's website, which was hacked over the weekend. "Every day, not every month, but every day, we get 1.2 million hacker attacks in Indonesia, both from within the country and outside," said Gatot Dewa Broto, Indonesia's communication and information ministry spokesman. "If we don't improve (our capabilities) we could face a possible public and commercial institutional collapse." In Seoul, capital of the world's most wired country, a large government task force is working on tactics to address threats, and officials said on Tuesday they would allocate extra cash and manpower to toughen protection of national economic and industrial installations. South Korea, still technically at war with North Korea, is vulnerable due to its high Internet penetration and as the likely target of its reclusive rival, officials said. "Ensuring cyber security is no longer a matter of choice but is an issue of top priority that ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-to-pay-nokia-royalties-ending-patent-row-afp/ apple-to-pay-nokia-royalties-ending-patent-row-afp Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:00:42 +0300 HELSINKI (AFP) – The world's leading mobile phone maker Nokia said on Tuesday its competitor Apple had agreed to pay royalties for using Nokia technology in its devices, ending all of their ongoing patent disputes. "The financial structure of the agreement consists of a one-time payment payable by Apple and on-going royalties to be paid by Apple to Nokia for the term of the agreement," Nokia said in a statement, adding that the details of the contract were confidential. The deal constitutes a massive victory for Nokia and brings to an end years of tit-for-tat suits that have seen Nokia file 46 complaints against Apple, which has hit back with numerous countersuits against the Finnish company. Nokia said both companies had now agreed to withdraw all complaints they had filed with the US International Trade Commission. "We are very pleased to have Apple join the growing number of Nokia licensees... This settlement demonstrates Nokia's industry leading patent portfolio," Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop said in the statement. The Finnish company, which has been struggling to maintain its position as global market leader, also said the deal should have "a positive financial impact" on its second-quarter performance. Just two weeks ago, Nokia warned that its sales for the quarter would be far worse than previously expected and that it could no longer give a full-year forecast, news which sent its share price to its lowest level since early 1998. Nordea Bank analyst Sami Sarkamies said the one-time payment by Apple will have a powerful impact on Nokia's second quarter, and that the California ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/world-leaders-should-put-cyber-security-on-agenda-internet-body-reuters/ world-leaders-should-put-cyber-security-on-agenda-internet-body-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:31:39 +0300 SYDNEY (Reuters) – World leaders should put cyber security on the international agenda at forums such as the G20 and bring pressure to bear on "slower-moving" nations to take a stand against hacking, the co-founder of a global industry body said on Tuesday. Peter Coroneos, co-founder of the International Internet Industry Association and head of Australia's industry body, said such leadership by major powers could support and hasten early industry efforts to adopt global anti-hacking safeguards. "Getting the issue elevated to a level like the G20 would be a good way to promote engagement with economies that might otherwise move a little slower," Coroneos told Reuters. "We saw that with the nuclear arms limitation treaty, where you did have a couple of early movers," he added. Recent cyber attacks on multinational firms and institutions, from Google and Citigroup to the International Monetary Fund, have raised fears that governments and the private sector are losing the battle against hackers. Google pointed the finger at China for an attempt to gain access to the Gmail accounts of assorted activists, and global miner BHP Billiton has also harbored concerns about high-tech espionage from China and its rivals. Coroneos did not want to discuss any Chinese role in such hacking, but said hackers typically used networks of "zombie" personal computers, unprotected machines in homes anywhere in the world, to launch their attacks on secure databases. "It's really the weapon of choice," he said. Australia has taken a lead in forming a government and private-sector partnership to combat cyber hacking, announcing plans to draw up a cyber defense ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/has-the-gop-lost-its-mind-the-daily-beast/ has-the-gop-lost-its-mind-the-daily-beast Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:01:14 +0300 NEW YORK – Romney said he’d blow up the world economy over the debt ceiling. Bachmann doesn’t believe in evolution or global warming. And those were the debate’s stars. Michelle Goldberg on the lunacy of the Republican field. Here are things that Republicans suggested eliminating or privatizing in last night’s debate: FEMA, NASA, the EPA, the Federal Labor Relations Board, Medicaid and food stamps. Herman Cain promised not to appoint any Muslims who want to kill Americans to his cabinet. Michele Bachmann supports states rights on gay marriage, but also supports a constitutional amendment outlawing it. Newt Gingrich faults big government for the lamentable absence of manned stations on the moon. Rick Santorum wants to “a system of discipline” to “punish” gay soldiers, which suggests that his problem with pornographic Google results is not likely to abate. Tim Pawlenty views Iraq as “one of the shiniest examples of success in the Middle East.” In this crowd, Mitt Romney seemed almost statesmanlike, even though he says he’s willing to blow up the world economy by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. At least he admitted that Sharia law will not soon be coming to America, about as brave a concession to reality as we’re likely to see from this field. At least Romney admitted that Sharia law will not soon be coming to America, about as brave a concession to reality as we’re likely to see from this field. He and Bachmann were the winners last night. Romney came off as relatively serious and reasonable, and benefited from the fact ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/and-the-gop-presidential-debate-winner-is-the-daily-beast/ and-the-gop-presidential-debate-winner-is-the-daily-beast Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:01:11 +0300 NEW YORK – Who won Monday night’s GOP debate? Michele Bachmann was the breakout star, Mitt Romney the most polished—and Herman Cain got lapped. Daily Beast contributors Howard Kurtz, Mark McKinnon, Michelle Goldberg, Michael Tomasky, and more weigh in. Michele Bachmann Grabs GOP Presidential Debate SpotlightBy Howard Kurtz The congresswoman used her bluntness and charm to overshadow the men at the GOP debate—announcing her presidential bid and passionately defending the Tea Party. Howard Kurtz on why she shouldn’t be underestimated. Michele Bachmann all but stole the show at the Republican presidential debate. The only woman on the New Hampshire stage deftly utilized the CNN spotlight Monday night to announce that she filed her papers to officially run for president, setting off a flood of breaking-news alerts in the event’s opening moments. But she accomplished far more than that. MORE >>   The Mitt and Michele ShowBy Mark McKinnon Romney showed front-runner status, while Bachmann proved she belonged on stage. Mark McKinnon on why they shone—and the rest of the debaters flopped Monday night. The two clear winners in the GOP debate hosted Monday night in New Hampshire were former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. Political debates are all about expectations. Mitt Romney had more than anyone to lose. Michele Bachmann had more than anyone to gain. Romney deftly fended off attacks particularly on health care, and Bachmann proved she's smart and credible, and has every right to be on the stage. The rest were window dressing. MORE >>   Has the GOP Lost Its Mind?By Michelle Goldberg Romney said he’d blow up the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-confirms-admeld-deal-investor39s-business-daily/ google-confirms-admeld-deal-investor39s-business-daily Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:31:26 +0300 The search leader plans to buy the online ad company in hopes of growing its share of the graphical display ad market. Terms weren't disclosed, but AdMeld reportedly fetched about $400 mil. It marks Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) latest acquisition as it tries to diversify beyond its core search-ad business. AdMeld allows publishers to instantly sell display ads, as Web users move from site to site. Shares fell 1% to 504.73. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hackers-break-into-us-senate-computers-reuters/ hackers-break-into-us-senate-computers-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:30:33 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate's website was hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all of its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major U.S.-based institution. The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website but did not reach behind a firewall into a more sensitive portion of the network, Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms, said on Monday. Despite the breach, the Sergeant at Arms Office, which provides security for the Senate, said that the breach had not compromised any individual senator's information. Lulz announced the hack on Monday. "We were responding to their allegations. Basically what we're saying that the server they got into is for public access and is in the public side," said Bradford. Lulz Security, who have hacked into Sony's website and the U.S. Public Broadcasting System, posted online a list of files that appear not to be sensitive but indicate the hackers had been into the Senate's computer network. "We don't like the US government very much," Lulz Security said at the top of their release. "This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov - is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?" The comment refers to reports that the U.S. military had decided that it could respond to cyber attacks from foreign countries with traditional military ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hackers-break-into-senate-computers-reuters/ hackers-break-into-senate-computers-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:01:04 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate's website was hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all of its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major U.S.-based institution. The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website but did not reach behind a firewall into a more sensitive portion of the network, Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms, said on Monday. Despite the breach, the Sergeant at Arms Office, which provides security for the Senate, said that the breach had not compromised any individual senator's information. Lulz announced the hack on Monday. "We were responding to their allegations. Basically what we're saying that the server they got into is for public access and is in the public side," said Bradford. Lulz Security, who have hacked into Sony's website and the Public Broadcasting System, posted online a list of files that appear not to be sensitive but indicate the hackers had been into the Senate's computer network. "We don't like the U.S. government very much," Lulz Security said at the top of their release. "This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov - is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?" The comment refers to reports that the military had decided that it could respond to cyber attacks from foreign countries with traditional military force. Senate staffers were alerted about the breach late Monday. "Although this intrusion is inconvenient, it does not compromise the security of the Senate's network, its members or staff," Bradford said in a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/face-of-gandhi-found-on-google-mars-spacecom/ face-of-gandhi-found-on-google-mars-spacecom Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:01:55 +0300 Now that Google Mars, a new online map pieced together from satellite images of the Red Planet, is up and running, space enthusiasts the world over are finding interesting objects on the Martian surface. The latest is a face found by an Italian named Matteo Ianneo, who has also claimed to have found vegetation, entrances to underground tunnels and city ruins on Mars in the past few weeks. Ianneo says his latest surface find, which is located at 33°12'29.82"N and 12°55'51.21"W, looks like a picture of Mahatma Gandhi in profile. It is reminiscent of the Face on Mars, a hill photographed by NASA's Viking 1 probe in 1976 that, in one low-resolution image, resembled a face.  Within days of its discovery, space hobbyists were speculating that the structure was man-made and had been built by ancient Martians. A higher-resolution image taken of the "face" last year by NASA's HiRISE camera revealed a rugged hill. [Read: Seeing Things On Mars: A History of Martian Illusions] A similar low-res deception is at work this time around. To help sort out just what Ianneo is looking at, Jonathan Hill, a researcher at the Arizona State University Mars Space Flight Facility, which owns and operates a database of Mars images somewhat similar to Google's, tracked down the photo Google used of the Gandhi face, as seen below. It is a low-resolution image taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express Orbiter. A higher-resolution image of the same geologic feature taken by a better camera, the CTX camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter, erases the illusion. "As you ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/do-you-need-a-new-nook-yahoo-news/ do-you-need-a-new-nook-yahoo-news Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:31:11 +0300 Amazon recently reported shipping more ebooks than print books for the first time, which should come as no surprise to those already sold on ebook readers. Whether you're a current e-reader owner or in the market for one, Barnes & Noble's new Nook, the Simple Touch Reader, might be the right reader for you. This new version is faster, lighter, easier to read, and boasts a super-fast 6" touchscreen — but do you need a new Nook? Or will one of the earlier versions (such as the Nook Color) suffice? Still not sure? Read on. Touchscreen: Getting touchyThe addition of the touchscreen to the Nook will likely inspire many to invest the $139 for the newest model so they can enjoy Shakespeare or Philip K. Dick without having to push the page turn button. Luckily, the touchscreen doesn't slow down page turns, a frequent criticism of other touchscreen readers. This deftness, combined with the thrilled squeals evoked by touchscreen-everything technology, will likely blow the dusty deliberation off even the most reluctant tech consumer. Nook Simple Touch Reader: TouchscreenNook Color: No touchscreenNook WiFi: No touchscreen Readability: Easy on the eyesThe Simple Touch Reader uses E Ink Pearl technology (also on the Kindle), which offers a greater contrast range — altogether easy on the eyes. It makes text pop off the page and boasts a faster page turn time (fractions of a second) than earlier versions of E Ink. Nook Simple Touch Reader: Uses Pearl E Ink technology with greater contrast and readability.Nook Color: Uses VividView technology, which has many of the same characteristics as Pearl E Ink.Nook WiFi: Contains an earlier version of E ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-wins-rare-victory-as-apple-settles-legal-row-reuters/ nokia-wins-rare-victory-as-apple-settles-legal-row-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:31:22 +0300 HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia notched up a rare victory against arch-rival Apple as the iPhone maker agreed to settle a long-running row over patents. Nokia said on Tuesday the deal would boost second-quarter earnings, having warned at the end of May that it would miss targets. Shares in the struggling cellphone maker rose 3 percent in early trading. Analysts welcomed the news and said it would help Nokia concentrate on core business at a time when it faces huge challenges. "This is the first positive news from Nokia for a long time. They can both focus on their businesses now, and the dispute was settled for Nokia's advantage," said Inderes analyst Mikael Rautanen. Nokia has lost initiative in the smartphone market to Apple's iPhone and Google Inc's Android devices. Earlier this week Nomura forecast Nokia would lose its position as the world's largest smartphone maker this quarter to Samsung Electronics and that also Apple would surpass it next quarter. Apple and Nokia have been locked in a legal tussle since October 2009, when Nokia sued Apple in the United States, arguing the iPhone-maker was getting a "free ride" on technologies patented by Nokia. "The deal structure -- a one-time payment as well as running royalties -- suggests a fairly good outcome for Nokia," said Florian Mueller, independent specialist and blogger on patent battles. "Maybe Nokia could have continued to play hardball and got an even better deal if it didn't face the challenges it undoubtedly has. But this looks like a fairly important victory," Mueller said. Nokia said the deal -- which settles all ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-game-companies-brought-e3-news-to-gamers39-homes/ how-game-companies-brought-e3-news-to-gamers39-homes Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:33:03 +0300 (CNN) -- While 46,800 attendees spent the weekend recuperating from the video game industry's largest annual convention, diehard gamers were catching up on all the news from their couches. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) show floor in Los Angeles is reserved for industry professionals and reporters, a much-lamented rule that prevents many die-hard gamers from seeing new products firsthand. So the game companies have started taking their announcements directly to the fans. Despite exhaustive coverage from blogs and news outlets -- including CNN -- game giants created their own online destinations for E3 news. Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony each built E3 landing pages to show videos and information about upcoming games on display at the conference. They also dumped dozens of free clips and extras onto their systems' stores for download. By offering a look at upcoming games on the consoles themselves, manufacturers are able to easily get these previews in front of their target audiences and control the message. Some of the people they're able to reach don't even have to search Google for info on new games -- they just click after getting a message on their consoles' dashboards. "Just got done watching E3 on Xbox Live," wrote fan David Winkler on his Facebook page. "'Halo 4.' Gonna go nuts till 2012." Sony produced daily episodes of its promotional programs from the show floor and provided live streaming video from the press conference to consoles. Viewers increased dramatically over last year, with more than a million watching the company's press conference, Sony said in an e-mailed statement. Timothy DuBose, a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-most-common-iphone-passcodes-are-easy-to-guess-the-atlantic-wire/ the-most-common-iphone-passcodes-are-easy-to-guess-the-atlantic-wire Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:01:37 +0300 iPhone passcodes are apparently only good for making your significant other suspicious about the contents of your phone. Because according to a study by an iPhone app developer, the most common passcodes are ridiculously easy to guess. iOS wizard Danial Amitay analyzed 204,508 passcodes and found that "1234" is far and away the most popular passcode, followed by "0000" and "0258" in a tight race for second. The figures closely correspond with the most popular passwords on the internet--"123456" wins that contest. The results also aren't entirely surprising given iPhone users' understandable need for speed when unlocking the phone. (Just imagine counting up all of the seconds people spend unlocking their phones. Years of life lost!) Related: iPhone Location Tracking Gets Worse: Apple Saves the Data Related: The iPhone 5 Will Make Affluent Living Even More Complicated Amitay explains the obvious downside for less creative password creators--and the upside for less creative thieves: Formulaic passwords are never a good idea, yet 15% of all passcode sets were represented by only 10 different passcodes (out of a possible 10,000). The implication? A thief (or just a prankster) could safely try 10 different passcodes on your iPhone without initiating the data wipe. With a 15% success rate, about 1 in 7 iPhones would easily unlock--even more if the intruder knows the users’ years of birth, relationship status, etc. In a New York Times report last year, hacking experts point out that the way-too-easy-to-guess password has always been a problem on the internet. Even when the web was just gaining mainstream pickup in the 1990s, the most popular password was ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/garmin-buys-navigation-co-for-europe-boost-reuters/ garmin-buys-navigation-co-for-europe-boost-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:30:29 +0300 (Reuters) – Garmin Ltd (GRMN.O) said it signed a deal to buy Germany-based navigation provider Navigon AG for an undisclosed sum as it looks to expand in Europe. Navigon will operate as a unit of Garmin, and should help the No. 1 U.S. navigation device maker compete against Dutch rival TomTom (TOM2.AS). "We can rapidly expand our automotive OEM footprint and capabilities through this transaction," Garmin's Chief Operation Officer Cliff Pemble said in a statement. Garmin and TomTom have struggled for more than a year as Google Inc (GOOG.O) and Nokia (NOK1V.HE) started to offer free navigation on mobile devices. Navigon, which has popular navigation applications for Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone and Google's Android platforms, will help drive revenue for the combined company, Garmin said in a statement. Garmin shares were up 1 percent at $32.83 in afternoon trade on Tuesday on Nasdaq. (Reporting by Saqib Iqbal Ahmed in Bangalore and Tarmo Virki in Helsinki; Editing by Don Sebastian) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-investing-280-million-in-home-solar-projects-afp/ google-investing-280-million-in-home-solar-projects-afp Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:31:13 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google said Tuesday it is investing $280 million to help finance home solar projects in the Internet giant's largest effort yet to promote clean energy. Google said the money will go to create a fund that will help SolarCity, a company which provides solar energy options for homeowners and businesses, to finance more solar installations across the United States. "This is our largest clean energy project investment to date and brings our total invested in the clean energy sector to more than $680 million," said Rick Needham, Google's director of green business operations. "We continue to look for other renewable energy investments that make business sense and help develop and deploy cleaner sources of energy," he wrote in a blog post. He said Google had also entered into a partnership with SolarCity to provide solar power to the homes of Google employees at a discount. Google last month announced a $55 million investment in a California wind energy farm, and in April, the Mountain View, California-based company announced a $100 million investment in a wind farm being built in Oregon. Google in April also said it has invested $168 million to help complete the construction of one of the world's biggest solar power plants in California's Mojave Desert. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-many-us-users-does-facebook-have-will-it-affect-an-ipo-pc-magazine/ how-many-us-users-does-facebook-have-will-it-affect-an-ipo-pc-magazine Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:01:42 +0300 Did Facebook lose U.S. users in May or not? The blogosphere was abuzz yesterday with news that the social-networking giant was picking up steam around the world, but losing its footing here in the states. But whose data should you believe? The dispute, meanwhile, comes amidst news that Facebook will go public in the first quarter of 2012. A world map produced by Vincenzo Cosenza found that Facebook is now the most popular social network in 119 out of 134 countries, based his results on traffic data from Alexa and Google Trends. Cosenza did not break out exact traffic data, except to say that Facebook was the most popular social network in the U.S., followed by Twitter and LinkedIn. A report from Inside Facebook, however, said that the number of Facebook users in the United States fell from 155.2 million at the start of May to 149.4 million by the end of the month. Data from comScore, however, says that total unique visitors to Facebook grew from about 154 million at the end of April to 157 million at the end of May. Twitter also grew from 24.4 million users in the U.S. in April to 26.9 million in May, comScore said. Facebook said that Inside Facebook was relying on information that was too broad to make any real determinations. "From time to time, we see stories about Facebook losing users in some regions. Some of these reports use data extracted from our advertising tool, which provides broad estimates on the reach of Facebook ads and isn't designed to be a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-expands-spoken-search-to-desktop-computers-ap/ google-expands-spoken-search-to-desktop-computers-ap Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:31:43 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Making Google search requests on many office and home computers soon won't require a keyboard. A feature announced Tuesday will allow people to speak their search requests while sitting in front of their desktop computers just as they already can on smartphones running on Google Inc.'s Android software. The spoken-request option will be available only on Google's Chrome browser. It will be activated by clicking on a microphone icon inside Google's search box. Chrome users will get the new feature within the next few days. Google also unveiled a way to get results by dragging digital images into its search box. The technological tricks are the latest Google innovations aimed at making it quicker and easier to search. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-shows-features-to-speed-up-web-searches-reuters/ google-shows-features-to-speed-up-web-searches-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:01:51 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc unveiled new features and technology to speed up Web searches and to make it easier for people to use its flagship search engine as they increasingly access the Internet from handheld mobile devices. At a briefing in San Francisco on Tuesday, Google demonstrated a new feature called Instant Pages which allows certain Web pages to pop-up in a user's Web browser nearly instantaneously, as well as a variety of improvements to the company's search engine that take advantage of voice recognition and image recognition. The company also introduced a revamped version of its Web site for mobile devices, which the company hopes will make it easier for people to find local restaurants and attractions. Google, the world's No.1 Internet search engine, said that traffic coming from mobile devices such as smartphones have increased by a factor of five during the past two years. Maintaining its role as the main gateway to information on the Internet is key for Google, which generated roughly $29 billion in revenue last year -- primarily from search ads. (Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Tim Dobbyn) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-cranks-up-search-speeds-with-images-voice-afp/ google-cranks-up-search-speeds-with-images-voice-afp Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:31:43 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google on Tuesday ramped up Internet search speeds by letting people use speech or images to express what they want faster. Google engineers also shaved precious seconds off the time it takes for Web pages to display after links are clicked on in search results. "We at Google will not be happy until we make the Web as easy to flip through as a magazine," Google fellow Amit Singhal said at an "Inside Search" event in San Francisco. "We measure every millisecond," he continued. "The time it takes Google to return a result is negligible compared to how long it takes the user to enter the query." One the other end of the search, it takes an average of five seconds for a Web page to load once a person has clicked on a link listed in query results, according to Singhal. Members of Google's search team rolled out the California-based firm's latest innovations crafted to deliver the knowledge being sought "in the blink of an eye." Google's latest spanned all gadgets from desktops using Chrome software to browse the Internet to the latest Android-powered smartphones or tablet computers. "In mobile, we are always thinking about how we can make the process of getting those results easier," said Google mobile engineering director Scott Huffman. Google added icons to the bottom of mobile search pages that let people do common searches such as for restaurants, cafes, or bars with a single click instead of having to type in queries. Google also began letting people build queries with simple "plus" buttons and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/after-rim-warning-all-eyes-on-new-product-outlook-reuters/ after-rim-warning-all-eyes-on-new-product-outlook-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:01:33 +0300 TORONTO (Reuters) – Ever since Research In Motion warned about its quarterly results a month ago, investors have wanted to find out what the BlackBerry maker is doing to save its current quarter as it struggles to roll out competitive new products. RIM promises impressive devices to challenge Apple's slick iPhone and gadgets based on Google's Android software. Cellular versions of its PlayBook tablet are imminent, RIM says, and the iPad contender will soon be sold worldwide after a lumpy April launch in North America. But without a launch date for a more powerful touchscreen version of its business workhorse, the Bold smartphone, and with Torch and Storm upgrades still just rumors, investors are growing more and more nervous. "We believe RIM has now squandered nearly every opportunity and competitive advantage it enjoyed through ineffective R&D resource management, delayed product launches and misreads of the competitive environment," Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum wrote in a note to clients. Although unlikely to make or break RIM's reputation, initial sales of the 7-inch PlayBook will hint at how it stacks up against both the iPad -- which sold 2 million in its first two months -- and Android-based tablets such as Motorola Mobility's Xoom. Most analysts expect RIM to have sold less than half a million PlayBooks in the United States and Canada in the six-week window. Motorola sold 250,000 Xoom tablets in its first month. The Canadian company has already said it expects to sell 1 million fewer smartphones than in the previous quarter, the first such decline in at least three ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-china-need-to-set-cyber-intel-limits-kissinger-reuters/ us-china-need-to-set-cyber-intel-limits-kissinger-reuters Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:28 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States and China will need to work out a high-level understanding to limit cyber attacks and spying, U.S. elder statesman Henry Kissinger said on Tuesday. "There's really no way to solve this except by some kind of understanding of limitations," said Kissinger, a former U.S. secretary of state and an architect of U.S. opening of relations with China in the 1970s. "If you take it case by case it will lead to accusations and counter-accusations," he said at an event hosted by Thomson Reuters. Chinese entities have been suspected in a spate of attacks on Google Inc email accounts of U.S. officials, think tanks and media, as well as Chinese democracy activists and Tibetan exiles. Kissinger said he assumed both the United States and China had significant espionage capabilities and the key was finding the way to discuss them with the Chinese. "To define what the limitations might be -- that is the sort of challenge with five-year perspective that absolutely needs to guide our relations," he said. Jon Huntsman, until recently U.S. ambassador to China, likened raising cyber attacks with Beijing to the challenge of discussing missile defense and the military use of space -- issues that are also highly sensitive to the Chinese. "I don't think we have any idea how deep and how wide and the extent of the penetrations of the public and private sectors go," he said of recent cyber attacks blamed on entities in China. China denies being behind the attacks. "At some point, we are going to have to develop ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-to-make-windows-faster-yahoo-news/ how-to-make-windows-faster-yahoo-news Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:01:17 +0300 One of the greatest things about buying a new Windows computer is turning it on for the first time and being amazed at just how fast it is. It starts up quickly, and when you click to open a program, it pops up nearly instantaneously. You can run multiple programs and keep a dozen web browser tabs open, and it still runs quickly — and it even shuts down in a matter of seconds! But then... your new computer starts to slow down. First, it takes a little longer to boot up, but gradually the entire system grows sluggish, and eventually it gets to the stage where you have time to make a cup of coffee while your web browser loads. Your once-snappy computer has become old. Fortunately, by performing a few simple tasks, you can speed it back up again. You may not get it back to its good-as-new speed — and even if you do, as the state of the art marches forward, it will still seem a little slow compared to newer and more powerful equipment — but you can definitely squeeze a few more months (or even years) out of it. Before we startFor the most part, making the current versions of Windows (especially Vista and Win7) faster will require you to disable some features. In most cases, you won't even notice these features are gone, but you should still proceed with caution. If your computer is really, really slow, it's probably better to get a handyman in to fix it — or maybe ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/don-lemon-to-rick-santorum-39do-you-have-any-gay-friends39-contributornetwork/ don-lemon-to-rick-santorum-39do-you-have-any-gay-friends39-contributornetwork Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:31:02 +0300 COMMENTARY | According to the Huffington Post, CNN's Don Lemon sat down with GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania recently before the New Hampshire presidential debate. Among the questions by asked Lemon (who recently revealed he is gay) had for Santorum, whose vehement words against gays and gay marriage in 2004 resulted in a less than flattering Google anomaly, was "Do you have any gay friends?" Santorum replied he doesn't hate anybody, does have gay friends and that he has "a disagreement on public policy" but that doesn't make him hateful. I have a problem with the question and the answer. I'm not sure when friendships in our nation became a litmus test for the truth of a person or their character. A journalist's job, more than anything else, (unlike a commentator's job such as mine) is to get to the truth, not to shape the appearance of truth with what I begrudgingly admit are what Sarah Palin calls "gotcha questions." By answering in the affirmative, the public is left shouting "prove it," but by answering no, he would have seemed utterly naive to the issues faced by homosexuals. The question should have never been asked by a serious journalist such as Don Lemon, and if asked, should not have been asked by a journalist made more famous in recent weeks by the disclosure that he's gay. I said that I also have a problem with the answer. Of course, Rick Santorum can't be friends with GLBT people and simultaneously maintain his repugnant position that heterosexuals ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lte-coverage-coming-to-19-cities-served-by-verizon-newsfactor/ lte-coverage-coming-to-19-cities-served-by-verizon-newsfactor Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:31:25 +0300 Verizon Wireless said Tuesday that it will activate its Long Term Evolution wireless network in 19 more metropolitan areas on Thursday, including Dayton, Fresno, Hartford, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and Spokane. The network operator also said it will expand its existing 4G LTE network in San Francisco and Detroit this week. So Verizon will soon be offering data-download speeds of five to 12 megabits per second in 74 metropolitan areas across the United States, and speeds of two to five Mbps for uplinks, noted Verizon Wireless Chief Technology Officer David Small. "We are aggressively expanding our 4G LTE network," Small said. "By the end of 2013 we plan to bring 4G LTE mobile broadband to our entire 3G coverage area." LTE Upgrade Choices Verizon subscribers who wish to upgrade to LTE's faster speeds have a selection of hardware options from which to choose. On the smartphone side, Verizon currently offers the HTC Thunderbolt, the LG Revolution, and the Samsung Droid Charge. New LTE modem cards from Novatel, Pantech and LG are available for purchase by laptop users, and also on tap are 4G-compatible mobile hot-spot products. On the downside, fans of Apple's iPhone and iPad will need to stick with 3G for a while yet. Some analysts are predicting that Apple will roll out a new iPhone 5 in September. "Given iOS 5 will be available this fall, we believe implies new iPhone hardware in September," observed Piper Jaffray analysts Gene Munster and Andrew Murphy earlier this month. Still, this doesn't necessarily mean Apple ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/toshiba-launches-39thrive39-tablet-for-notebook-users-contributornetwork/ toshiba-launches-39thrive39-tablet-for-notebook-users-contributornetwork Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:01:38 +0300 The iPad 2 is still the king of the tablet heap, to the point that it almost seems superfluous to speak of a "tablet market" outside of the iPad 2's buyers. So in order to differentiate their wares from the iPad, other tablet makers have had to make sure their gadgets are either better at something, or better for a certain group of users. Toshiba is going the second route with its upcoming Thrive tablet. Powered by Google's Android operating system, the Thrive is designed as a "transition product" for people who are used to a laptop or netbook. Here's why laptop and netbook owners may find the Thrive attractive: Colored, replaceable backplates The iPad 2's Smart Covers both protect the iPad 2's screen, and prop it up for use as a keyboard or for watching movies. They're an optional accessory, though, and a leather Smart Cover can sell for as much as $69 (the plastic ones are $39). And while Smart Covers have vibrant colors, the iPad 2 itself comes in only two shades: Black and white. It's not clear how much the Thrive's additional backplates will cost, but "5 additional colors" will be available, letting you customize your tablet in the bright colors familiar to laptop and netbook owners. Laptop-style ports and features The iPad 2 requires an optional adapter ($29) to read pictures from a camera or memory card. The Thrive, in contrast, comes with its own laptop-style memory card reader, plus a USB port. So you can transfer pictures to it just by ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cable-worried-about-poverty-not-netflix-reuters/ cable-worried-about-poverty-not-netflix-reuters Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:02:10 +0300 CHICAGO (Reuters) – For all the talk about competitive threats from the likes of Netflix Inc or Apple Inc, it is rising poverty among households that TV executives say is their biggest source of concern. Executives from News Corp, Comcast Corp and Time Warner Inc, speaking at the annual Cable Show industry event, made clear the industry needed a stronger housing market and better jobs picture to win new customers and keep existing ones. "We have to be sensitive in making sure we have a product that consumers can afford," said Pat Esser, president of privately held Cox Communications, speaking at the industry's biggest yearly event. Investors and analysts, with a few exceptions, can often be heard worrying more about how the cable industry will cope with cheaper entertainment packages from rivals such as Netflix, Amazon.com Inc or Google Inc. Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Glenn Britt, however, was one of the executives focusing on the hazards of a bad economy. "There clearly is a growing underclass of people who clearly can't afford it," he said. "It would serve us well to worry about that group." Even with the economy on shaky footing, Viacom CEO Phillipe Dauman and Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes remained particularly bullish about cable's prospects. Dauman said it was "remarkable" that cable was one of the last things that customers cut off during the recession and was a testament to the value that cable offered. Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett, one of the analysts who has written extensively about the poverty issue, said the cable business was a "rigged ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/debate-season-swings-into-gear-for-tv-candidates-ap/ debate-season-swings-into-gear-for-tv-candidates-ap Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:31:38 +0300 NEW YORK – Two down, 15 to go. At least. The presidential debate circuit began in earnest with CNN's forum from New Hampshire on Monday. It may be a slog, with more than a dozen such events already scheduled for Republicans who want President Barack Obama's job, but it's an obstacle course filled with opportunities and pitfalls for both candidates and television networks. The CNN debate was a prime example: People were talking the day after about whether Rep. Michele Bachmann was savvy in attracting attention to herself by announcing her candidacy Monday, or whether Tim Pawlenty proved too cautious in going after opponent Mitt Romney. From a television standpoint, CNN's John King's attempts to lighten the mood by asking candidates their preferences between Coke and Pepsi, or Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley, were either seen as a silly distraction or a chance to see the candidates as humans instead of wonks. Monday's debate was seen by an average of 3.16 million viewers, the Nielsen Co. said Tuesday. That may seem small in comparison to the 7.8 million people who watched "The Bachelorette" on ABC or the 5.3 million who saw the Stanley Cup Finals hockey game on NBC, but it's big in the world of cable news. On a typical Monday night this year, CNN's average audience is 652,000 people. Though CNN's presentation was widely seen as the debate season kickoff because it had more candidates, Fox News Channel actually went first. Its May 5 debate in South Carolina had only five candidates, not including the widely perceived frontrunner, Romney, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-cable-tv-giant-adding-skype-calls-afp/ us-cable-tv-giant-adding-skype-calls-afp Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:31:32 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – US cable TV giant Comcast announced plans to add video chat to television viewing through a partnership with Skype. Comcast said customers would soon be able to make and receive video calls through high-definition televisions using Skype. "TV has evolved into a social experience, and Comcast and Skype will be delivering a product that personalizes the TV experience even more," said cable company president Neil Smit. "Our unique relationship with Skype not only will change how our customers interact with their TV, but also will create new and meaningful ways to bring our customers closer to the people they care about," he added. Comcast envisioned enabling people to make low-cost Internet video calls on "the biggest screen in the house" while watching big televised events or celebrating special occasions. "We can bring video calling to the heart of the home, allowing people to share life's experiences both big and small," said Skype chief executive Tony Bates. The service will work on high-definition television screens using an adaptor box, a video camera, and a TV remote control adapted for text messaging. Comcast planned to begin testing the Skype service with customers in the coming months. The partnership came in the wake of Microsoft cutting a deal to buy Internet voice and video leader Skype for $8.5 billion dollars. The purchase of Skype, which reportedly also attracted interest from Cisco, Facebook and Google, is the largest ever by Microsoft and gives it control of one of the few companies whose name has become a verb, as in to "Skype." Skype, one of the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/garmin-to-expand-in-europe-investor39s-business-daily/ garmin-to-expand-in-europe-investor39s-business-daily Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:31:40 +0300 The maker of GPS systems bought German navigation provider Navigon to expand in Europe as well as compete with rival TomTom and smartphone companies offering free navigation. Terms weren't disclosed. Garmin (NASDAQ:GRMN - News) said it can expand its automotive presence with Navigon, which also has applications for Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) iPhone and Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) Android devices. Garmin's core automotive segment has been shrinking for two years. Shares gained 0.9% to 32.84. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-seeks-china-license-investor39s-business-daily/ google-seeks-china-license-investor39s-business-daily Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:31:51 +0300 The search leader, which has had troubled relations with the Chinese gov't, applied for a license to operate its Google Maps feature in China. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News), which was forced to pull its Chinese service from mainland China to Hong Kong in 2010, is applying for the license through a joint venture with partner Beijing Guxiang, China Business News said. Shares edged up 0.7% to 508.37. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/demand-media-up-on-positivity-investor39s-business-daily/ demand-media-up-on-positivity-investor39s-business-daily Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:31:52 +0300 The website operator rebounded nearly 13% to 14.83 after Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS - News) said investors overreacted to a potential threat from how Google culls search results. Goldman gave the parent of eHow.com and Livestrong.com its top rating. Demand Media (NYSE:DMD - News), which IPO'd in Jan., fell 40% after Google rewrote its formula to demote "low quality" content in rankings, which analysts said could hurt traffic to Demand Media's sites. Goldman said the changes would lower Demand's earnings by less than 10%. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-adding-search-by-voice-pictures/ google-adding-search-by-voice-pictures Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:32:28 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- The plain Google search box will soon be able to handle more than taps on a keyboard. Google is bringing features pioneered on smartphones, like voice and image search, to its flagship product, the company said at a news conference here on Tuesday. The speech-recognition tool began showing up as a microphone button on the right-hand side of the Google.com search box for some visitors on Tuesday. It will only be available on Google's Chrome Web browser for now, but Google executives say they hope other software makers implement the technology to support the feature. Like on Android or the Google application for the iPhone, people can click the mic icon on Google.com, and say a phrase or question into their computer microphone. The speech technology attempts to account for accents and context in order to transcribe the recording into text. This produced mixed results in my testing, speaking in plain English or with a faux Cockney accent. Take a peek at Google voice search The image-search feature will start rolling out in the next few days, said Johanna Wright, a Google search director. "Every picture has a story, and we want to help you discover that story," she said. Image Search can, say, look at a family vacation photo and figure out where it was shot, or help explain images that become Internet memes, such as Lolcats. The recognition technology applies a bunch of Google's proprietary algorithms to photos, but facial recognition isn't one of them, executives said in an interview with reporters. People using newer Web browsers ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-hones-search-for-mobile-and-speed-reuters/ google-hones-search-for-mobile-and-speed-reuters Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:30:35 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc unveiled new features and technology to speed up Web searches and to make it easier for people to use its flagship search engine as they increasingly access the Internet from handheld mobile devices. At a briefing in San Francisco on Tuesday, Google demonstrated a new feature called Instant Pages which allows certain Web pages to pop-up in a user's Web browser nearly instantaneously, as well as a revamped version of its website for mobile devices. Google, the world's No.1 Internet search engine, said that traffic coming from mobile devices such as smartphones has increased by a factor of five during the past two years. "We see all this mobile traffic growing on top of our desktop (PC) traffic," Google Fellow Amit Singhal said. Singhal said that consumers' increased use of mobile devices benefits Google by allowing people to continue searching the Internet during times when searches on desktop PCs typically wane, such as after 9 p.m., during the weekends and during the summer months. "There is no summer slump" with Internet searches on mobile devices, he said. But Google's search event - which the company billed as a chance to see new technology and learn about Google's "vision" for search - was light on new features that weave social networking elements into its search results. "It's their huge, gaping Achilles heel," BGC Partner Colin Gillis said of Google's ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/kissinger-huntsman-us-china-need-cyber-detente-reuters/ kissinger-huntsman-us-china-need-cyber-detente-reuters Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:00:39 +0300 NEW YORK/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United States and China need to reach an agreement to restrict cyber attacks and designate some areas as off limits to hacking, two former senior U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Henry Kissinger, an architect of the opening of U.S. relations with China in the 1970s, told a Thomson Reuters event that Washington and Beijing both had significant espionage capabilities and the key was finding a way to discuss them. Jon Huntsman, the former U.S. ambassador to China, likened raising cyber attacks with Beijing to the challenge of discussing missile defense and the military use of space -- issues that are also highly sensitive to the Chinese. "At some point, we are going to have to develop a context in which we can actually discuss this and, I would think, draw some red lines around areas that we don't want them into and they might not want us into," said Huntsman, who left China in April to plan his presidential election campaign, and was speaking at the same event. Their calls for a cyber detente follow a blitz of hacking attacks on major U.S.-based institutions in recent weeks, including the International Monetary Fund, the Senate, and companies such as Citigroup and Lockheed Martin. Chinese entities have been suspected in attacks on Google e-mail accounts of U.S. officials and Chinese activists, though Beijing has denied involvement and said it too is a victim of international hacking. "China has also many times reiterated that we are willing to open up exchanges and cooperation with the international community about Internet ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pandora-prices-at-16-per-share-above-range-reuters/ pandora-prices-at-16-per-share-above-range-reuters Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:01:23 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Online radio company Pandora Media priced shares in its initial public offering above an already raised range on Tuesday, the latest company to take advantage of red-hot valuations for Internet companies. The company priced its shares at $16 each, according to a source familiar with the deal. The company raised $235 million based on 14.7 million shares it planned to sell, according to a government filing. Late last week, Pandora increased its price target range to $10 to $12 per share. The company's shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday under the symbol "P." Internet companies such as Pandora, professional networking company LinkedIn and online daily deal site Groupon, which filed to go public earlier this month, remain a healthy part of the U.S. new issue market, despite a broader downturn and postponements of other large IPOs like Ally Financial. While the Oakland, California-based Pandora has yet to turn a profit, it is valued at about $2.5 billion. LinkedIn and other Internet companies such as China's Renren and Russia's Yandex have had strong IPOs building on anticipation for potential offerings by Facebook and Twitter. "All these guys are trading on potential, not on existing earnings," said Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter. "I think Pandora's model is going to evolve." Pandora runs a service that personalizes the listening experience by recommending songs based on member feedback, allowing members to create their own playlists based on a song, artist or genre. Users can listen to the service through computers, smartphones and devices that hook into home ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lookout-beefs-up-smartphone-defenses-afp/ lookout-beefs-up-smartphone-defenses-afp Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:01:54 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Lookout Mobile Security on Wednesday began protecting smartphones from tricksters and booby-trapped websites as people increasingly access the Internet on the go. More than nine million people around the world already rely on the San Francisco-based startup to protect smartphones from hackers and scammers, and Lookout has ramped up defenses to win more users. "Our goal is to build a product that makes people feel more confident in their phone instead of being afraid of it," said Lookout co-founder and chief technical officer Kevin Mahaffey. A Safe Browsing feature launched on Wednesday was part of a premium offering at Lookout, which has free mobile security applications for smartphones powered by Android, Windows, or BlackBerry software. The free application exposes malicious software, backs up data, and lets people trigger remote alarms in smartphones to locate misplaced handsets. Lookout is the top mobile security application for smartphones built on Google-backed Android software. "To create a security tool that people don't just tolerate, that they actually like, is not easy," Mahaffey said. "Believe me." A premium version of Lookout, available for $30 a year or three dollars monthly, includes features such as backing up pictures and remotely locking and wiping data from smartphones that are lost or stolen. Safe Browsing was built to safeguard smartphones while users click on mobile websites or links. Lookout engineers believe that hacker tactics such as luring computer users to websites booby-trapped with viruses will inevitably be aimed at smartphones. They cited recent findings that people using mobile devices are three times more likely to fall for "phishing" ploys ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pandora-shares-soar-in-first-day-of-trading-ap/ pandora-shares-soar-in-first-day-of-trading-ap Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:01:56 +0300 NEW YORK – The shares of popular but unprofitable Internet radio service Pandora Media Inc. soared more than 50 percent in its market debut Wednesday, adding to the IPO frenzy that has some watchers talking tech bubble. Its shares opened at $20 each and rose as high as $26 in early trading on Wednesday. That's up from offering price of $16, the high end of their proposed range. By midday, its shares traded at $20.06, up $4.06, or 25.4 percent, from the offering price. At that level, Pandora's 159.7 million shares were worth $3.2 billion. "In my opinion that's extremely rich for a company that's hoping to make a profit in fiscal 2012," said Scott Sweet, managing partner of IPOboutique.com. In fact it is well above the current value of AOL Inc. ($2.1 billion), a relic of the previous Internet era that is working to transform its business from dial-up service to online and advertising. But it's a small fraction of such Internet behemoths as Google Inc. ($162 billion) or even Yahoo Inc. ($19 billion). Pandora's offering comes amid a recent fervor for high-profile Internet IPOs. Though sky-high valuations have evoked the tech bubble of the late 1990s, investors hope this time it's different. Today's biggest Web startups are more mature than their '90s counterparts were, and some are already profitable. The professional networking service LinkedIn Corp. was one of the first to make its public debut among in the latest generation of Web startups. Already profitable, LinkedIn has a market capitalization of about $7 billion. Daily deals site Groupon Inc. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-officials-question-china-about-changeorg-cyber-attacks-pc-magazine/ us-officials-question-china-about-changeorg-cyber-attacks-pc-magazine Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:02:07 +0300 U.S. diplomats have raised concerns with Chinese officials about a cyber attack on activist Web site Change.org, and pushed those officials for the release of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, according to a letter released Tuesday. "Deputy Assistant Secretary Dan Baer raised the case of Change.org directly with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs while in Beijing" in late April, Joseph E. Macmanus, acting assistant secretary for legislative affairs at the State Department, wrote in a May 18 letter to Rep. Rosa DeLauro. Change.org was hit by a cyber attack on April 18 after it successfully launched an online petition calling for the release of Weiwei, an artist and activist who has been in police custody since early April. Rep. DeLauro then penned an open letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that she condemn the Change.org attacks. "We believe this attack on Change.org from outside of the United States is an attack on Americans' fundamental right to free speech," the letter read. "As millions of Americans regularly use the Internet to engage in the political process, it is vital that we strive to protect online services that facilitate open debate." State Department officials wrote back a week later, and the letter was released publicly this week. The agency informed the congresswoman of the Change.org discussions, which took place during the U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue in Beijing on April 27-28. Macmanus said that Michael Posner, assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor at the agency, also "pressed for the release of Ai Weiwei." In the wake of Google's 2010 censorship ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analysis-venture-capitalists-bulk-up-in-computer-security-reuters/ analysis-venture-capitalists-bulk-up-in-computer-security-reuters Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:31:51 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Silicon Valley venture capitalists are betting big on new technologies to protect computer networks, hoping they will profit from a spate of high-profile cyber attacks on corporate and government bodies. Many security start-ups are focusing on protection at the network level, rather than individual computers or hardware, spurred by the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud computing trend, where data is stored on the Web. "It's an area of huge interest to us," said Bill Maris, managing partner for Google Ventures, which earlier this year invested an undisclosed amount in Dasient, a Sunnyvale, California-based company that protects websites from malware attacks. "It's a really difficult-to-solve problem ... and there's a lot of opportunity there," he said. Venture investment in the information-technology security sector this year looks set to exceed last year's $432.3 million, after already hitting $147.4 million in the first quarter, according to Thomson Reuters data from the National Venture Capital Association. While much lower than the billion-dollar levels before the 2008 financial crisis, the numbers show a resurgence of Silicon Valley interest in the sector, fueled by three main factors. The first is the string of cyber attacks on companies ranging from Citigroup to Sony, and institutions from the International Monetary Fund to the U.S. Senate. "People are just seeing what's going on with threats every day," said Greylock Partners' Asheem Chandna, who formerly ran business development and product management at security company Check Point Software and now oversees Greylock's security investments. The second reason is the shift in computing away from desktop computers toward mobile and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/can-google-search-really-save-me-time-pc-magazine/ can-google-search-really-save-me-time-pc-magazine Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:32:02 +0300 If this is what search has come to, measuring result returns in milliseconds, I think we have officially left the golden age of Web search behind. Yesterday, Google added a nice bundle of new features to mobile and desktop-based search. Search by Image is fairly innovative—who wouldn't want to drop an image onto a Google search page and instantly get some information back about what it is? Instant Page, on the other hand, is a bit underwhelming. Here's how it works, Google uses its anonymized relevance engine—you do not have to be logged into a Google account to use it—to guess which search results you'll click on and pre-render (more complete than pre-fetch) the page. As demonstrated by Google, this act shaved less than half a second off your page-load times. The difference was so small, I could barely see it: The page without Instant Page filled in a couple of the larger images a bit slower. On Instant page, the whole page simply popped into existence. I do not see this as changing my life, but Google execs insist that this stuff all adds up. Instant results, which are now fairly ubiquitous across Google's services, start showing you results as you type. This means that you don't have to type, hit enter, and then wait a millisecond for the proper results to appear. On the other hand, Instant Search also shows you results for typos with blinding speed. In image search, I imagine I might, if my image filter settings aren't high enough—and even if they ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/garmin-sees-navigon-buy-boosting-european-auto-ops-reuters/ garmin-sees-navigon-buy-boosting-european-auto-ops-reuters Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:00:37 +0300 BERLIN (Reuters) – Garmin agreed to buy Germany-based navigation firm Navigon earlier this week mostly to expand its business with carmakers in Europe, a senior company official told Reuters in an interview. Roger Jollis, chief of automotive business development at Garmin, said the firm -- which sees the car industry as a key growth driver for years ahead -- lacked presence in the European market and had no time to build it organically. "We wanted to make it quickly," he told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of an industry conference in Berlin. Earlier this week Garmin said it bought Germany-based Navigon for an undisclosed sum. Jollis said Navigon's annual sales are around 130 million euros ($187 million), but did not unveil any other financial details. A German daily reported in early June on Garmin's negotiations to buy Navigon for around 50 million euros, citing people familiar with the talks. Garmin and other navigation device vendors have been struggling to fend off competition from Google Inc and Nokia, which offer free navigation on mobile devices. (Reporting by Tarmo Virki; Editing by Will Waterman) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/coming-nexus-phone39s-details-surface-digital-trends/ coming-nexus-phone39s-details-surface-digital-trends Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:01:29 +0300 The Nexus One, while something of a commercial disappointment, was Google’s first foray into mobile hardware. Now the emerging smartphone giant will be taking another big step into the arena with the Nexus 4G, its forthcoming handset. And BGR reports that the new Nexus device will more than make up for any of the original model’s failures. While the Nexus 4G is only its speculated name, there are a few hardware details that insiders seem fairly certain about. According to sources, the Nexus 4G will pack either a dual-core 1.2 GHz or 1.5 GHz CPU as well as an OMAP 4460 or 28nm Krait-based Snapdragon. And its outsides are nothing to sneeze at: In the vein of many Android devices, the Nexus 4G will feature a 720p HD “monster-sized” display. We’ve had a few Android phones of the “monster-size” variety out there, the Droid X and its 4.3-inch screen comes to mind. But something makes us think the Nexus 4G might outdo them all – 4.5-inch? 4.7-inch? How big can Google push this thing until it’s just a small tablet? Of course, it wouldn’t be a Nexus phone without at least somewhat differing from its Android brethren, and it’s rumored to forego physical buttons below the screen in favored of touch-capable controls only. Here’s a quick breakdown of what else you can expect to see inside the Nexus 4G: 1GB of RAM 1080p HD video capture and playback 1-megapixel front-facing camera; 5-megapixel rear-facing camera (the rear-facing camera will feature “class-leading” image quality and work remarkably well in low-lighting) Android 4.0 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lookout-adds-39safe-browsing39-feature-for-android-devices-pc-magazine/ lookout-adds-39safe-browsing39-feature-for-android-devices-pc-magazine Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:01:35 +0300 Lookout Mobile, one of a handful of mobile security software makers, has added a safe Web browsing function for Android users to its premium package. "Safe Browsing" is a new feature in Lookout Premium ($2.99/month or $29.99/year) that actively scans for malware as you surf the net. Android users can upgrade to Premium from Lookout's free security app offered in the Android Market or its Web site. Existing Premium customers will need to update to version 6.0.1 and find it on their Lookout Dashboard. It's an opt-in feature, so you'll have to enable it by clicking the Safe Browsing button. "Safe Browsing leverages our global threat detection network that already protects millions of users from malicious applications. By extending protection with Safe Browsing, mobile consumers can feel safe surfing the web, accessing email and entering other personal information on their mobile device," said CEO John Hering in a statement. Lookout is offering a free trial of Lookout Premium for the next 14 days. Existing users of Lookout Free can also upgrade to Premium at a $5 discount by using the promotion code "STAYSAFE." As the Android Market expands exponentially, so is the frequency of Android malware. On Monday, Google pulled 10 apps from the Android Market that appeared to contain malware, like the spyware program Plankton. Earlier this month, Lookout reported more than two dozen infected apps, which Google removed. In early March, Google remotely deleted a series of applications from users' phones due to malware known as DroidDream and released a security update to rectify ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-to-finance-residential-solar-projects-reuters/ google-to-finance-residential-solar-projects-reuters Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:02:47 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc will finance $280 million of residential solar power systems through a deal with startup SolarCity that is the Internet search giant's largest single clean energy investment to date. The fund will enable thousands of homeowners who do not want to make a large upfront investment in a solar system to have solar panels installed on their roofs as part of SolarCity's leasing program, the companies said on Tuesday. SolarCity's solar lease program enables its customers to pay a monthly fee for solar panels rather than a large up-front installation price. That monthly fee is often offset by the customer's savings on electric utility bills. Google will own the systems, and will earn a higher return than what it would earn if the cash had been sitting in the bank, SolarCity Chief Executive Lyndon Rive said, though he declined to be specific. Through the deal with Google, Rive said he hopes other corporations will come to see financing solar systems as a good use of their cash. "It's been mainly banks that have focused on this, and what that has done is it hasn't broadened the market," Rive said in an interview. "With Google getting into this ... hopefully it will show other corporate companies that this is a smart investment." San Mateo, California-based SolarCity recently bought groSolar, a solar power project developer and distributor, expanding its reach into 10 states. The company is privately held. Google said in late 2007 that it would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in solar, wind and geothermal technologies to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vezi-aici-live-eclipsa-totala-de-luna-din-aceasta-seara/ vezi-aici-live-eclipsa-totala-de-luna-din-aceasta-seara Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:04:00 +0300 Google va transmite live eclipsa de lună din această seară, între 21 şi 1 (ora României), scrie Washington Post. Transmisia va fi posibilă datorită unui parteneriat al motorului de căutare cu Slooh, un telescop robotic. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-search-innovations-focus-on-speed-mobility-newsfactor/ google-search-innovations-focus-on-speed-mobility-newsfactor Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:31:51 +0300 Google is moving to help searchers save time. At a Google media event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Google discussed innovations to tackle slow searches, and announced it's bringing its speech-recognition and vision tech to the desktop. Google also announced the next step for Google Instant, called Instant Pages. "The thirst for knowledge doesn't stop when you step away from your computer, it continues on your mobile device," Amit Singhal, a Google fellow, wrote in a blog post. "In the past two years, mobile search traffic has grown fivefold. Mobile search today is growing at a comparable pace to Google in the early years." Amplified Search As Singhal sees it, one of the technologies driving this growth is speech recognition. Google reports sixfold growth in voice search traffic in the past year alone. Now Google is adding speech recognition to search on the desktop for Chrome users. Users of the Chrome browser will see a little microphone in Google search boxes. If the searcher clicks the microphone, he or she can speak a search. Many users are familiar with Google Instant, which gives search results while you type. The next step is Instant Pages, which, as Singhal explained, can get the top search result ready in the background while searchers are choosing which link to click. That innovation is supposed to save another two to five seconds over typical searches. "Let's say you're searching for information about the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, so you search for [dc folklife festival]," Singhal explains. "As you scan the results, deciding which one to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-senators-unveil-mobile-privacy-data-theft-bills-afp/ us-senators-unveil-mobile-privacy-data-theft-bills-afp Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:01:30 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – US senators introduced bills on Wednesday aimed at protecting the privacy of mobile phone users and safeguarding personal information of consumers stored online. The Location Privacy Protection Act would require companies like Apple and Google and applications developers to obtain express consent from mobile users before sharing information about their location with third parties. The Data Security and Breach Notification Act would require businesses and nonprofits to put in place strong security features for safeguarding sensitive data and to notify consumers in the event of a breach of their systems. Senator Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota who co-sponsored the mobile privacy bill, said it would ensure consumers know what location information is being collected and would let them decide if they want to share it. "Our laws do too little to protect information on our mobile devices," Franken said in a statement. "Geolocation technology gives us incredible benefits, but the same information that allows emergency responders to locate us when we're in trouble is not necessarily information all of us want to share with the rest of the world. "This legislation would give people the right to know what geolocation data is being collected about them and ensure they give their consent before it's shared with others," Franken said. Franken chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, which held a hearing on mobile privacy in May featuring representatives from Apple, Google, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission. Representatives of Apple and Google both stressed their commitment to privacy at the hearing and said ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-5-e-book-readers-for-less-than-175-ap/ review-5-e-book-readers-for-less-than-175-ap Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:01:34 +0300 NEW YORK – When Amazon.com's ground-breaking Kindle e-book reader came out in 2007, it cost $399. Now, some e-readers, including the most recent Kindle entry, can be had for just north of $100. At the price of five or so hardcover books, it's close to impulse-buy territory for many people. And if you give in to your desires, what do you get? Our test of five e-readers priced from $114 to $164 finds that cheap, in most cases, means good value. All five have black-and-white screens that are about half the size of a paperback book. They can connect wirelessly to the Internet for e-book downloads. I didn't look closely at battery life, because with one exception, they all claim more than a month of use. The company time machine was occupied. Here's the rundown: • Kindle with Special Offers ($114) is the cheapest Kindle model yet. It's indistinguishable from a device that costs $25 more, except that it shows advertising as its screen saver and at the foot of the menu. You don't, mercifully, see any advertising when you're reading, and overall the ads didn't feel intrusive. The selection was limited, for the most part, to Oil of Olay, Visa and a car company or two, making us wonder if advertising companies are really sold on Kindle ads. And it left us wondering if there is any attempt (or might be in the future) to profile users based on their Amazon account. That could get a bit embarrassing because the ads are visible if you leave the Kindle lying around. ("Oh, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hackers-again-break-into-senate-website-reuters/ hackers-again-break-into-senate-website-reuters Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:31:01 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers broke into the Senate's public website for the second time in a week but were prevented from getting any sensitive data, a security spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The Senate's website had also been hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major U.S.-based institution. This attack was similar in that hackers broke into the public site and downloaded information, said Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms. The Sergeant at Arms Office provides security for the Senate. "They're getting nothing but the attacks continue," said Bradford. "We've been able to stay ahead of the hackers and keep them out of the main Senate network." The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website over the weekend and announced the hack in a tweet on Monday. Lulz, whose name derives from Internet slang for "laugh out loud," tweeted on Wednesday but has not mentioned hacking the Senate website. Recent weeks have seen a long string of embarrassing hacks. The International Monetary Fund has been hit, as have Lockheed Martin Corp, Citigroup Inc, Google and Michaels Stores. Lulz has claimed hacks into websites owned by Sony Corp as well as U.S. Public Broadcasting Service and Fox.com. Fox is a unit of News Corp. (Editing by Cynthia Osterman) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/adobe-to-patch-flash-player-on-pcs-and-android-devices-newsfactor/ adobe-to-patch-flash-player-on-pcs-and-android-devices-newsfactor Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:31:34 +0300 Adobe Systems issued a security bulletin Tuesday concerning the discovery of a critical vulnerability in Flash Player 10.3 and earlier versions. This memory-corruption flaw may cause computing devices to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the operating system. "There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via malicious web pages," the software maker said. Adobe expects to release a Flash Player update later this week for computers running the Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris operating systems. It noted that Chrome browser users will automatically receive the new update since Google's browser includes Flash Player as a built-in feature. Adobe's advisory was unusual in that it also covers smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices running Google's Android OS. Still, vulnerability patching is "a fact of life for any software that runs on connected machines today," noted Al Hilwa, director of applications software development at IDC. A Mobile Exploit Heavily used online software like Flash and web browsers get more than their fair share of issues in this space, Hilwa observed. Moreover, exploits are "often platform-specific and with most attacks targeted at desktop platforms, which have the greatest deployments and surface area," he said. By contrast, mobile devices are more locked down and susceptible to different forms of malware, data corruption, and theft, Hilwa noted. "Having said that, Android -- which is the only mobile platform cited in this vulnerability -- has a variety of issues today." As Sprint's new deal with Lookout Mobile Security demonstrates, U.S. wireless ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hackers-again-break-into-us-senate-website-reuters/ hackers-again-break-into-us-senate-website-reuters Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:30:32 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers broke into the U.S. Senate's public website for the second time in a week but were prevented from getting any sensitive data, a security spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The U.S. Senate's website had also been hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major U.S.-based institution. This attack was similar in that hackers broke into the public site and downloaded information, said Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms. The Sergeant at Arms Office provides security for the Senate. "They're getting nothing but the attacks continue," said Bradford. "We've been able to stay ahead of the hackers and keep them out of the main Senate network." The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website over the weekend and announced the hack in a tweet on Monday. Lulz, whose name derives from Internet slang for "laugh out loud," tweeted on Wednesday but has not mentioned hacking the Senate website. Recent weeks have seen a long string of embarrassing hacks. The International Monetary Fund has been hit, as have Lockheed Martin Corp, Citigroup Inc, Google and Michaels Stores. Lulz has claimed hacks into websites owned by Sony Corp as well as U.S. Public Broadcasting Service and Fox.com. Fox is a unit of News Corp. (Editing by Cynthia Osterman) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/manage-your-online-identity-with-google39s-39me-on-the-web39-pc-magazine/ manage-your-online-identity-with-google39s-39me-on-the-web39-pc-magazine Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:01:18 +0300 Admit it, you Google yourself. It's OK, we all do. But it can be difficult to keep tabs on or control what is said about you on the Web, whether you're a small-time blogger or major celebrity. Google, therefore, has unveiled a new tool known as "Me on the Web," which is intended to help you manage your online identity. Much like you create Google News alerts for mentions of favorite sports teams, TV shows, or your name, Me on the Web will let you create alerts that will let you know if your name shows up on the Internet. "If you haven't set up alerts yet, Me on the Web makes it even easier to do so and even automatically suggests some search terms you may want to monitor," Google said in a blog post. The tool is part of Google Dashboard, which is an overview of all the Google services that you use. There is now a "Me on the Web" section, which provides the opportunity to set up search alerts, as well as monitor your Internet footprint—provided you have a Google profile. There are also links with tips on managing your online identity and removing unwanted content. Earlier this week, Google lifted the curtain on several new features it's adding to its search technology, including new search tech that loads Web pages virtually instantly. The news comes as Facebook is embroiled in a controversy over its new facial-recognition technology, which provides tagging suggestions for photos. The social-networking site turned on the feature by default without alerting users, prompting ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/samsung-series-5-chromebook-hands-on-pictures-digital-trends/ samsung-series-5-chromebook-hands-on-pictures-digital-trends Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:01:19 +0300 It’s finally here: The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. With its stark white chassis and sleek, petite build, Google’s Chrome OS notebook emobodies its minimalist intentions. Stripped free of software and your typical laptop storage system, the Series 5 is a mere 3.3-pounds of Web-optimized goodness that relies entirely on 3G and Wi-Fi connections. Its full-size QWERTY keyboard and 12.1-inch LED display bring some familiarity to the thus-far foreign device. One thing’s for sure: Opening up the Series 5 and seeing what should be a desktop peppered with file folders and program icons replaced by the Chrome browser is an unsettling experience – but one you might just be able to get used to. Given its extreme portability, speedy processing, and undeniable good looks, we’re at least willing to give the foremost in cloud-computing a try. We won’t judge a book by its cover, but we’re sure happy to take it for a spin. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/for-a-pioneer-of-technology-100-years-of-think-ap/ for-a-pioneer-of-technology-100-years-of-think-ap Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:31:23 +0300 ENDICOTT, N.Y. – Google, Apple and Facebook get all the attention. But the forgettable everyday tasks of technology — saving a file on your laptop, swiping your ATM card to get 40 bucks, scanning a gallon of milk at the checkout line — that's all IBM. International Business Machines turns 100 on Thursday without much fanfare. But its much younger competitors owe a lot to Big Blue. After all, where would Groupon be without the supermarket bar code? Or Google without the mainframe computer? "They were kind of like a cornerstone of that whole enterprise that has become the heart of the computer industry in the U.S.," says Bob Djurdjevic, a former IBM employee and president of Annex Research. IBM dates to June 16, 1911, when three companies that made scales, punch-clocks for work and other machines merged to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Co. The modern-day name followed in 1924. With a plant in Endicott, N.Y., the new business also made cheese slicers and — significantly for its future — machines that read data stored on punch cards. By the 1930s, IBM's cards were keeping track of 26 million Americans for the newly launched Social Security program. These old, sprawling machines might seem quaint in the iPod era, but they had design elements similar to modern computers. They had places for data storage, math processing areas and output, says David A. Mindell, professor of the history of technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Punch cards carted from station to station represented what business today might call "data flow." "It was very ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lunar-eclipse-turns-moon-blood-red-afp/ lunar-eclipse-turns-moon-blood-red-afp Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:32:00 +0300 SYDNEY (AFP) – The longest lunar eclipse in more than a decade turned the moon blood red on Thursday, giving stargazers around the world a rare visual treat. The first eclipse of the year -- when the Earth casts its shadow over the Moon -- was seen in parts of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Often the moon turns brown but this time it became a reddish, coppery-colour, tinged by light from the Sun. The terrestrial shadow started to fall at 1724 GMT and lifted around 2300 GMT, although "totality" -- when the lunar face is completely covered -- lasted 100 minutes -- the longest since July 2000. While keen astronomers in parts of Australia had to contend with dense cloud cover and rain, others had a clearer view of the spectacle. Around 130 people watched at the Sydney Observatory, with one woman dressed as a vampire. "There was (also) a child dressed very elegantly as if she was from another century, and a little boy dressed up as a red superhuman," Sydney Observatory manager Toner Stevenson told reporters. Professor Fred Watson, astronomer-in-charge at the Australian Astronomical Observatory, said the best view would have been from the moon itself. "If you could watch the phenomena, you would see the earth moving across the sun and it creating a brilliant red rim around the earth," he said. In Singapore, over 700 people gathered outside a local science centre to watch, local daily the Straits Times reported. Some avid enthusiasts staked out spots more than four hours before the phenomenon occured with the centre organising astronomy talks ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/yahoo-helps-find-smartphone-39apps39-afp/ yahoo-helps-find-smartphone-39apps39-afp Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:31:29 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Yahoo! has begun helping people navigate the sea of applications available for Apple iPhones or mobile gadgets powered by Google-backed Android software. App Search for personal computers and a free AppSpot program for smartphones were crafted to help people find what they seek at Apple's online App Store or the Android Market. "Together, they take the guesswork out of finding apps that fit your life," Yahoo! said in a blog post. "App Search and AppSpot allow you to zero in on any app by showing matching app titles with a full comprehensive description, price, overall star rating from users and screenshots in one spot." The App Store boasts more than 425,000 of the mini-programs for Apple gadgets, while the Android Market was reported to have about 200,000 and growing. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sony39s-music-unlimited-comes-to-android-afp/ sony39s-music-unlimited-comes-to-android-afp Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:31:19 +0300 TOKYO (AFP) – Sony has released an app making its Music Unlimited online streaming available on smartphones running Google's Android system, amid growing competition from Amazon and Apple in cloud-based services. Sony's digital cloud-based music service, which launched in December and is available in Europe, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, allows users to stream millions of songs to Sony devices but previously lacked mobile access. Sony last week said it would restore all Qriocity online music and video distribution services everywhere except Japan after shutting it and the PlayStation Network down in April after hackers compromised personal data from 100 million accounts. The launch of the new app will make the service available on smartphones running Android as well as devices such as the PlayStation3, Internet-connected Sony televisions and Blu-ray players. The app will be available to users in the United States, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. The service allows users to stream music content from a catalogue of more than seven milllion songs licensed from labels such as Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, EMI Music and independent labels. Monthly subscription fees start at $3.99. Earlier this month Apple unveiled its iCloud service that stores music, photos and other content on the Web and shares it across multiple devices. Online retailer Amazon unveiled its own Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services in March, which allows users to store their digital music online and play it on a computer or an Android device. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-faces-tough-sell-on-q1-earnings-and-outlook-reuters/ rim-faces-tough-sell-on-q1-earnings-and-outlook-reuters Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:01:29 +0300 TORONTO (Reuters) – Research In Motion will have to struggle to give investors good news when it reports results after markets close on Thursday, but details on when new BlackBerry devices will hit shelves might help. Strong sales of its PlayBook tablet -- which had six weeks on North American shelves in the company's first quarter to late May -- may also give RIM some respite from a barrage of criticism about falling behind tech giants Apple and Google in a fast-moving race. The Canadian company warned in April that lackluster smartphone sales in the United States and Latin America would likely mean lower earnings than in the previous four quarters. RIM has made big promises in an aggressive full-year earnings outlook, but without a launch date for a more powerful touchscreen version of its business workhorse, the Bold smartphone, and with Torch and Storm smartphone upgrades still just rumors, investors are growing more nervous. "We believe RIM has now squandered nearly every opportunity and competitive advantage it enjoyed through ineffective R&D resource management, delayed product launches and misreads of the competitive environment," Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum wrote in a note to clients. Cellular versions of its PlayBook tablet are imminent, RIM says, and the PlayBook will soon be sold worldwide after a lumpy April launch in North America. With most analysts assuming first-quarter results will fail to inspire, attention turns to RIM's forecasts for the current quarter, which ends in late August, and details about imminent product launches. RIM will likely ship just over 14 million BlackBerry smartphones and less ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-military-paper-urges-steps-against-us-cyber-war-threat-reuters/ china-military-paper-urges-steps-against-us-cyber-war-threat-reuters Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:31:20 +0300 BEIJING (Reuters) – China must boost its cyber-warfare strength to counter a Pentagon push, the country's top military newspaper said on Thursday after weeks of friction over accusations that Beijing may have launched a string of Internet hacking attacks. The accusations against China have centered on an intrusion into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Corp and other U.S. military contractors, and deceptions intended to gain access to the Google e-mail accounts of U.S. officials and Chinese human rights advocates. But the official newspaper of the People's Liberation Army said it was Beijing that was vulnerable to attack, in a news report that surveyed the Pentagon's efforts in cyber security. "The U.S. military is hastening to seize the commanding military heights on the Internet, and another Internet war is being pushed to a stormy peak," concluded the report in the Chinese-language Liberation Army Daily. "Their actions remind us that to protect the nation's Internet security, we must accelerate Internet defense development and accelerate steps to make a strong Internet army," said the Liberation Army Daily article. The article was also published on the website of China's Ministry of Defense (http://www.mod.gov.cn). Although it does not amount to an official government statement, the report in the military newspaper -- which is closely vetted to reflect official thinking -- shows how China is also focused on the issues of Internet attacks and defense. "Although our country has developed into an Internet great power, our Internet security defenses are still very weak. So we must accelerate development of Internet battle technology and armament," said the report. "Comprehensively ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/today39s-video-gamer-it-might-not-be-who-you-think/ today39s-video-gamer-it-might-not-be-who-you-think Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:32:54 +0300 (CNN) -- At 37, Lisa Sharp is comfortable calling herself a video-game junkie. But that wasn't always the case. "I was the typical high-school girl who always watched the guys play and never picked up a console until well after college," she said. Then, one day, the cable was out, so she grabbed a controller for her roommate's Nintendo 64. The rest is pixelated history. Now, she and her husband have an old Nintendo 64 of their own. And a GameCube. And a PlayStation 2. And a Wii. And, as of last Christmas, a PlayStation 3. "It relaxes me," said the Atlanta resident, whose favorites include the "Legend of Zelda" and "Final Fantasy" series. "My job gets a little bit crazy at times, so it's nice to go slash and bang stuff around." As a mom who works in the finance department at Georgia Tech, Sharp hardly fits the stereotype of the avid video gamer -- that teenage or 20-something guy in the basement grinding out hours on his console or PC. And that's part of a story that those in the video-gaming world already know: thanks partly to games on new platforms such as Facebook, smartphones and tablets, gaming is more popular than ever. Some observers even see parallels to the early-'80s arcade heyday, when games such as "Pac-Man" became mainstream phenomenons. Last year, video-game software and hardware raked in more than $25 billion, according to the Entertainment Software Association, a gaming industry trade group. Compare that with the $7.3 billion the association reported in 2004, and it's not hard to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/longest-total-lunar-eclipse-in-11-years-thrills-skywatchers-spacecom/ longest-total-lunar-eclipse-in-11-years-thrills-skywatchers-spacecom Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:02:14 +0300 The moon took on an eerie red hue Wednesday (June 15) during the longest total eclipse in 11 years, amazing skywatchers around the world, even in places where the cosmic event wasn't visible. The total lunar eclipse, one of two that will occur this year, offered 100 minutes of totality as the moon passed into Earth's shadow, but the eclipse's actual progression took hours. The moon first dipped into the fringe of Earth's shadow at about 1:24 p.m. EDT (1724 GMT) and left it behind at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT). Not since the 107-minute lunar eclipse of July 16, 2000 has the moon been in Earth's shadow so long. Only four total lunar eclipses, counting this one, have ever lasted 100 minutes or longer.  [Photos: The Long Total Lunar Eclipse of June 2011] Under a blood moon "Awesome! We have a perfect view from our neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel," skywatchers Cecile and Roberta Cohen told SPACE.com in an email. "We started seeing it at 9 p.m. At 10:20 (give or take a minute) the moon was totally eclipsed. We came indoors shortly thereafter because it's cool out, but we can see the moon from our window. Awesome; just awesome!" According to NASA, the entire lunar eclipse was expected to be visible (weather permitting) from eastern Africa, the Middle East, central Asia and western Australia. European skywatchers missed the very beginning of the eclipse, because the moon was still below the local horizon when the event began. [Video: Inside the June 15 Total Lunar Eclipse] In Italy, university student David Paleino snapped stunning views of the eclipse ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/3-reasons-to-stick-with-rim-the-motley-fool/ 3-reasons-to-stick-with-rim-the-motley-fool Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:31:14 +0300 It's been a tough slog for Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM - News). The stock is down about 50% from its 52-week high, and today's earnings report -- if worse than Wall Street expects -- could push the stock to levels not seen since 2006 (the last time it traded below $36 or so). But never fear, here are three reasons why a RIM sell-off might make a great long-term buying opportunity. 1. The stock is now ridiculously cheapRIM is part of a group I like to call Rodney Dangerfield tech stocks -- tech stocks that (you guessed it) "get no respect." This group includes Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT - News), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO - News), Dell (NASDAQ: DELL - News), and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC - News). All are characterized by strong competitive positions, cash-rich balance sheets, and high returns on equity, yet Wall Street is practically giving them away at free cash flow yields above 10%. RIM is no exception, the company generated record revenues (up 33.1%), record free cash flow (up 46.7%), and record earnings per share (up 38.8%) in 2011. Yet the stock is trading at a forward P/E of 5.3 and a free cash flow yield of 15.63%. The only justifiable reason for this is that the market thinks the company's prior growth is unsustainable. This, I admit, is a near-certainty, as fierce competition from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG - News) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL - News) will make repeating RIM's previous growth virtually impossible. However, the question to ask isn't how fast can RIM grow, but ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-splits-ad-team-down-party-lines-denies-favoring-obama-the-atlantic-wire/ google-splits-ad-team-down-party-lines-denies-favoring-obama-the-atlantic-wire Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:01:08 +0300 Google defended itself against accusations that they had given President Obama special access to an experimental ad product on Tuesday. Having spotted an Obama ad on RealClearPolitics apparently built on technology that targeted specific email addresses, a staffer at the National Republican Senatorial Committee contacted a Google sales representative about the program, reports Politico. "This is a pre-alpha product that is being released to a select few clients," replied saleswoman Sirene Abou-Chakra. "I'd be happy to get you into the beta if you're interested." Related: On College Campuses, Obama's Not Cool Anymore The implication of those two sentences, of couse, is that the Obama campaign got special access to innovative hyper-targeted ad technology from one of the nation's largest advertising networks. Google's ad network somehow falls under the jurisdiction by chairman Eric Schmidt, who campaigned with Obama in 2008 and serves on the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. When accused of playing favorites--either by the NRSC or Politico, the report is unclear--Google wrote off the exclusivity language in Abou-Chakra's original email as inaccurate. From Politico: But Google spokesman Jake Parrilo denied strenuously that the Obama campaign had been granted special access to the pilot program, and chalked the email up to inaccurate “puffery” by the sales representative. The ad that appeared on RealClearPolitics, he said, was not a Google ad at all. “This is an experiment and while we generally do not comment on those experiments we can tell you that we have not sold a single CPL [cost-per-lead] ad unit to any political candidates or ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ibm-turns-100-a-look-back-pc-magazine/ ibm-turns-100-a-look-back-pc-magazine Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:01:40 +0300 Apple and Microsoft have been in business for more than three decades, Google has been around for 12 years, and Twitter's just getting started with five years under its belt. But all of these tech giants have a long way to go to reach the 100-year milestone that Big Blue is celebrating today. On this day in 1911, IBM started as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R), a name it changed in 1924. While some of you might known IBM for its recent "Jeopardy"-playing Watson computer, IBM has a long history of innovation, from cheese slicers (yes, really) and the tech behind Social Security to the UPC bar code and the floppy disk. These days, a 100-year run is quite the feat, especially in technology. Bernie Meyerson, IBM's vice president of innovation, attributed this longevity partly to the development of technology that contributes something to society, as well as being open to diverse and sometimes risky projects. In 2008, IBM kicked off its Smarter Planet initiative, which focused on improving how the world works. That includes everything from using data to improve traffic patterns, deploying pollution-detecting tech to places like Ireland's Galway Bay, and using analytics to predict rainfall and build up a region's water supply. "We just had an incredible 100-year run because we never lost site of how important it is to innovate," Meyerson said in a Wednesday interview. "The fact is, innovation comes in all shapes and sizes. We practiced diversity long before it was a legal requirement because we value it [and] it does enable us to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-to-go-head-to-head-with-apple-via-new-mobile-platform-yahoo-news/ facebook-to-go-head-to-head-with-apple-via-new-mobile-platform-yahoo-news Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:31:23 +0300 Facebook leaks seem to be coming out of the woodwork lately, including the company's attempt to smear competitor Google, but this latest bit of undercover info is a doozy. According to TechCrunch and their trusted sources, Facebook is poised to launch a new mobile platform that will not only be aimed directly at iPhone and iPad devices, but will actually allow users to circumvent Apple's strict App Store policies. The platform, tentatively named "Project Spartan," will use Apple's mobile Safari web browser and allow access to a wealth of content without having to download an app from the store. It will provide users with a new option when it comes to how they use their devices, and allow access to a wealth of Facebook apps. Yes, apps. Using HTML5 technology to skirt around Apple's lack of Flash support, the new Facebook platform will apparently let users purchase and use apps from within the browser itself. Facebook Credits will play a large role as well, acting as the virtual currency for Project Spartan's app marketplace. There are reportedly over 80 third-party developers working on apps for the new platform. Apps ranging from games to digital news magazines are already in the works, all of which will be useable from within the browser window, with nothing to download. Despite being two of the biggest news makers in the technology space, Apple and Facebook have a somewhat complicated relationship. The official Facebook iPhone app is an order of magnitude behind what is available on other handsets, and the company flat out refuses ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/today39s-gamer-it-might-not-be-who-you-think/ today39s-gamer-it-might-not-be-who-you-think Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:02:58 +0300 (CNN) -- At 37, Lisa Sharp is comfortable calling herself a video-game junkie. But that wasn't always the case. "I was the typical high-school girl who always watched the guys play and never picked up a console until well after college," she said. Then, one day, the cable was out, so she grabbed a controller for her roommate's Nintendo 64. The rest is pixelated history. Now, she and her husband have an old Nintendo 64 of their own. And a GameCube. And a PlayStation 2. And a Wii. And, as of last Christmas, a PlayStation 3. "It relaxes me," said the Atlanta resident, whose favorites include the "Legend of Zelda" and "Final Fantasy" series. "My job gets a little bit crazy at times, so it's nice to go slash and bang stuff around." As a mom who works in the finance department at Georgia Tech, Sharp hardly fits the stereotype of the avid video gamer -- that teenage or 20-something guy in the basement grinding out hours on his console or PC. And that's part of a story that those in the video-gaming world already know: thanks partly to games on new platforms such as Facebook, smartphones and tablets, gaming is more popular than ever. Some observers even see parallels to the early-'80s arcade heyday, when games such as "Pac-Man" became mainstream phenomenons. Last year, video-game software and hardware raked in more than $25 billion, according to the Entertainment Software Association, a gaming industry trade group. Compare that with the $7.3 billion the association reported in 2004, and it's not hard to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/yahoo-adds-app-search-function-to-site-and-for-mobile-newsfactor/ yahoo-adds-app-search-function-to-site-and-for-mobile-newsfactor Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:31:33 +0300 Want to search for a new app? There's now an app for that -- from Yahoo. On Wednesday, Yahoo unveiled Apps Search, an addition to its web site and a first for a major search engine. It also is launching a similar app for smartphones, called AppSpot, to search and install apps. Both Apps Search and AppSpot target apps that reside on Apple's App Store or Google's Android Market. Yahoo Is Switzerland At some point, Yahoo is planning to expand the capabilities of its search function and smartphone app to include apps for BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, and other platforms, and possibly for tablets as well. Since the Mac computer now has a Mac App Store, essentially all applications are being described as apps, so potentially the universe could involve all applications for laptops, netbooks and desktops. Yahoo is stepping into an opening it can fill, since it doesn't offer a platform like the owners of the other two big search engines, Microsoft and Google. Of course, there's nothing stopping Apple or Yahoo from upgrading their search tools, but at this moment in the smartphone wars Yahoo is a neutral Switzerland. Yahoo Senior Vice President Shashi Seth told news media that his company's search logs indicated users are increasingly using and searching for apps, so "it was time to integrate apps into our search products." Yahoo's role is to be the middleman. The actual purchase and downloading will take place in the app stores of Apple, Google or other platforms. Apple reportedly will pay Yahoo a five percent fee ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-coo-takes-medical-leave-ap/ rim-coo-takes-medical-leave-ap Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:01:14 +0300 TORONTO – BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion says one of its top executives is on medical leave. RIM spokeswoman Marisa Conway said Thursday that Chief Operating Officer Don Morrison will be on medical leave until later this year. Larry Conlee, who retired as COO in 2009, will return to the company as a special adviser. The Canadian company is due to release its quarterly earnings after markets close Thursday. RIM's stock is off 50 percent from its 52-week high. In April, the company slashed earnings and sales forecasts as it faces increased competition from Apple's iPhone and devices that run on Google's Android operating system. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-calls-for-allies-in-ebook-battle-pc-magazine/ google-calls-for-allies-in-ebook-battle-pc-magazine Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:31:29 +0300 On Thursday, Google announced an affiliate program for its Google eBooks program, offering webmasters money in exchange for targeted links to specific ebooks. Google will pay an undisclosed amount of money for webmasters to refer readers to Google's ebookstore, a subset of Google Books, where users can buy e-books for their Android phone or tablet, iPad, or other digital device. Users will need to sign up for both a Google AdSense account as well as create a Google Affiliate Network account. Publishers will be paid on a sales performance/cost-per-action (CPA) basis, typically as a revenue share or fixed bounty for a lead, subscription, purchase, or other action performed through an advertiser's link on the site, according to Google. "We haven't publicly disclosed the affiliate referral fees for Google eBooks affiliates," a Google representative said in an email. "After signing up for GAN, affiliates can see the standard referral fee structure before applying for the Google eBooks program. The referral fee depends on the affiliate agreement and the value of the ebook." Google began selling ebooks in February, after launching its Android Market Web store earlier that month. According to Google, Google's ebookstore has over 3 million ebooks for sale. Google launched the affiliate program with a single merchant in December, Goodreads, which now can refer its membership to the Google ebookstore. "Starting today, we invite all interested site owners to apply to join the expanded Google eBooks affiliate program. Participating sites gain new revenue streams by giving their book-reading audiences an easy way to buy ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/beyond-jeopardy-watson-up-close-pc-magazine/ beyond-jeopardy-watson-up-close-pc-magazine Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:31:36 +0300 We watched transfixed as a computer bested the two all-time champions on the game-show Jeopardy! The computer Watson provided three nights of geeky entertainment but honestly, what was Watson's purpose? Why was the machine built? Some of us even thought "big deal." After all, many of the word puzzles Watson solved we could have answered almost as quickly by typing the questions into a search engine. Actually, Watson's triumph over human competitors is a very big deal. There's very complex technology going on in Watson's processing that surpasses traditional search algorithm technology. Watson provides IBM researchers with a way to delve into and in fact revamp data analysis as we know it. Watson's existence and the fascinating research in which it is currently involved will affect each and every one of us: how physicians diagnose us, how cities respond to natural disasters, how we decrease our carbon footprint, how we invest money, and much more. Several IBM scientists at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York shared details of their current work, and each pointed out that Watson's capabilities drive much of their research. Watson: the Evolution of Analytics Dr. Chid Apte, IBM's director of Analytics Research, said Watson is an evolution from traditional data analysis. We are moving beyond the "first generation of analytics," which is the relational database, and working on predictive and descriptive analytics. Such data intelligence allows businesses to estimate what will happen in the future or next quarter. "We are in an age of 'high frequency' data," Apte said. "Information is coming ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hands-on-y-appspot-and-yahoo-app-search-pc-magazine/ hands-on-y-appspot-and-yahoo-app-search-pc-magazine Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:31:49 +0300 If you've used the iOS App Store or the Android Market on your smartphone, you probably haven't even thought that there might be another option for finding mobile programs, as those stores seem to do everything that's needed: They let you search for apps by name, and show you the most popular and highest rated ones in categories. Yahoo has other ideas, and thinks it can provide a better way to get you to the hottest apps. The former search leader has unveiled two new options for finding apps: App Search for the PC and AppSpot for iOS and Android. I took each out for a spin. These free meta-apps, if you will, not only let you search for apps on your phone, but present recommended apps for you to download based on your previous choices. When I searched in my iPhone App Store for "Yahoo," AppSpot didn't show up, since it's technically called Y! AppSpot—making a case for its own existence. Searching on the app's actual name revealed its cute owl icon. Notably, there's no iPad or Android tablet version, just phones for now. Nor is there a Windows Phone 7 app. At first run, I had to okay the typical request to use my location info. Another less common request was that I let AppSpot see my app information, so it could recommend picks. The home view showed three apps thumbnails with ratings in vertical categories; I could scroll sideways to see more categories, or up and down to see more apps in each category. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/research-in-motion-posts-lower-1q-earnings-ap/ research-in-motion-posts-lower-1q-earnings-ap Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:01:12 +0300 TORONTO – BlackBerry smartphone maker Research In Motion said Thursday that its net income and revenue declined in the latest quarter, hurt by lower demand amid the economic slowdown and product delays. RIM is also cutting an unspecified number of jobs to reduce costs. It gave an outlook well below Wall Street's expectations for the current quarter and the full year. For the three months that ended May 28, Research In Motion Ltd. earned $695 million, or $1.33 per share. That's down from $769 million, or $1.38 per share, a year ago. Revenue for the fiscal first quarter rose 16 percent to $4.9 billion from $4.2 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of $1.32 per share on revenue of $5.1 billion. RIM is facing fierce competition from Apple Inc.'s iPhone and smartphones that run Google Inc.'s Android operating system. For the current quarter, RIM forecast earnings of 75 cents to $1.05 per share, excluding items. Analysts are looking for far higher earnings of $1.36 per share. The company expects revenue of $4.2 billion to $4.8 billion, below analysts' average expectation of nearly $5.3 billion RIM lowered its full-year earnings outlook sharply. It now expects earnings of $5.25 to $6 per share for fiscal 2012. In April, it had forecast $7.50 per share. RIM said earlier Thursday that Don Morrison, its chief operating officer, is going on medical leave. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-launches-online-reputation-management-tool-newsfactor/ google-launches-online-reputation-management-tool-newsfactor Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:31:24 +0300 Google on Wednesday launched an online reputation-management tool for the masses. Dubbed Me on the Web, the tool is part of the Google dashboard amid analytics and account information. "In recent years, it's become easier and easier to publish information about yourself online through powerful new platforms like social-networking sites and photo-sharing services," explained Andreas Tuerk, a product manager at Google. He acknowledged that way to manage your privacy on these sites is to decide who can see this information, determining whether it's visible to just a few friends, family members, or everyone on the web. But Google is taking a different approach. Me on the Web is not a privacy tool. Using a Pseudonym As Tuerk sees it, another important decision when publishing information on the web is choosing how you are identified when you post that information. That's where Google is focusing its efforts. "We have worked hard to build various identity options into Google products. For example, while you may want to identify yourself by name when you post an answer to a question in a forum so that readers know the response is reputable, if you upload videos about a controversial cause, you may prefer to post under a pseudonym," Tuerk said. He explained that your online identity is determined not only by what you post, but also by what others post about you -- whether a mention in a blog post, a photo tag, or a reply to a public status update. When someone searches for your name on a search engine like Google, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pandora-shares-sink-below-offer-price-afp/ pandora-shares-sink-below-offer-price-afp Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:31:25 +0300 NEW YORK (AFP) – Shares in Internet radio Pandora sunk below their offer price on Thursday, raising potential alarm bells for upcoming initial public offerings by other technology companies. Pandora, which made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday at $16 a share, lost 23.88 percent on Thursday to close at $13.26. Pandora shares soared in early trading on Wednesday to as high as $26 before closing at $17.42, a gain of 8.9 percent on the day. Pandora's IPO was being closely watched for signs of a bubble following IPOs in May by professional social network LinkedIn, which saw its stock price more than double on the first day, and Yandex, Russia's top Internet portal, which also had a strong debut. Pandora, which is based in Oakland, California, has attracted more than 90 million users in the United States since it was founded in 2000. But Pandora has yet to turn a profit and some financial analysts are skeptical about the outlook for the company because of its need to pay huge sums for music licenses. Morningstar analyst Bill Buhr said Pandora's quick rise and fall may make analysts and investors wary. "The fact that it took them just one day to fall below their offer price puts us on alert for some of the other tech IPOs that are coming down the path," Buhr said. "And it might create more headwind for them in terms of thinking that you can price the IPO at a very rich valuation," he said. Among the most highly anticipated upcoming IPOs is that of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/phone-rivalry-drives-down-rim-1q-earnings-ap/ phone-rivalry-drives-down-rim-1q-earnings-ap Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:31:22 +0300 TORONTO – The BlackBerry's inability to compete with the iPhone and smartphones running Google's Android system shone through Thursday as the maker of the BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., said its earnings and revenue fell. The Canadian company said it's been hurt by product delays. Its stock fell 13 percent in extended trading after the release of results for the latest quarter. RIM said it is cutting an unspecified number of jobs to reduce costs. It gave an outlook well below Wall Street's expectations for the current quarter and the full year. "The existing portfolio of BlackBerry products has been in market for close to a year, and delivering new products has proven more challenging than anticipated," RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie said on a conference call with analysts. RIM started in and dominated the corporate smartphone market and has sought to expand its appeal to consumers, but has recently had trouble with consumers because the phones aren't perceived to be as sexy as Apple's or Google's. BlackBerrys are known for their security and reliability as email devices, but they haven't kept pace with Apple's iPhones or phones based on Google Inc.'s Android software when it comes to running third-party applications. Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis made a rare appearance on the conference call as the two defended the business and their role as co-CEOs. RIM has an unusual leadership structure, where two executives, Balsillie and Lazaridis, serve as both co-CEOs and co-chairmen. Dissident shareholders are calling for RIM to separate the roles of CEO and chairman. Lazaridis said RIM was already far along in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-shares-fall-on-lower-outlook-job-cuts-afp/ rim-shares-fall-on-lower-outlook-job-cuts-afp Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:01:25 +0300 MONTREAL (AFP) – Shares in Research In Motion (RIM) plunged in after-hours trading Thursday after the BlackBerry maker lowered its outlook and announced plans to cut jobs. Shares in the Waterloo, Ontario-based company tumbled 14.04 percent to $30.35 in electronic trading after the close of Wall Street. The Canadian handset maker posted a net profit of $695 million, or $1.33 per share, in the first quarter of its 2012 fiscal year, compared with $769 million, or $1.38 per share, a year ago. RIM, which is facing increased competition from Apple's iPhone and mobile phones running Google's Android software, said revenue grew 16 percent to $4.9 billion, short of the $5.1 billion expected by Wall Street analysts. RIM said it shipped 13.2 million BlackBerry smartphones during the quarter, down from 14.9 million last quarter, and 500,000 of its new BlackBerry Playbook tablet computers, RIM's answer to Apple's iPad. RIM said it would begin cutting jobs in the second quarter as part of a plan to "streamline operations across the organization." It did not say how many jobs would be eliminated. "Fiscal 2012 has gotten off to a challenging start," RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie said in a statement. "The slowdown we saw in the first quarter is continuing into the second quarter, and delays in new product introductions into the very late part of August is leading to a lower than expected outlook in the second quarter." RIM said it expected second quarter revenue of between $4.2 billion and $4.8 billion and earnings per share for fiscal 2012 were expected to be between $5.25 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-game-growth-is-fast-fractured/ video-game-growth-is-fast-fractured Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:32:40 +0300 (CNN) -- At 37, Lisa Sharp is comfortable calling herself a video-game junkie. But that wasn't always the case. "I was the typical high-school girl who always watched the guys play and never picked up a console until well after college," she said. Then, one day, the cable was out, so she grabbed a controller for her roommate's Nintendo 64. The rest is pixelated history. Now, she and her husband have an old Nintendo 64 of their own. And a GameCube. And a PlayStation 2. And a Wii. And, as of last Christmas, a PlayStation 3. "It relaxes me," said the Atlanta resident, whose favorites include the "Legend of Zelda" and "Final Fantasy" series. "My job gets a little bit crazy at times, so it's nice to go slash and bang stuff around." As a mom who works in the finance department at Georgia Tech, Sharp hardly fits the stereotype of the avid video gamer -- that teenage or 20-something guy in the basement grinding out hours on his console or PC. And that's part of a story that those in the video-gaming world already know: thanks partly to games on new platforms such as Facebook, smartphones and tablets, gaming is more popular than ever. Some observers even see parallels to the early-'80s arcade heyday, when games such as "Pac-Man" became mainstream phenomenons. Last year, video-game software and hardware raked in more than $25 billion, according to the Entertainment Software Association, a gaming industry trade group. Compare that with the $7.3 billion the association reported in 2004, and it's not hard to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/iphone-owners-more-excited-about-mobile-wallets-than-android-users-pc-magazine/ iphone-owners-more-excited-about-mobile-wallets-than-android-users-pc-magazine Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:01:25 +0300 Oh the irony. Google may have beat Apple in launching a mobile wallet ecosystem, but Apple iPhone users are more enthusiastic about making payments through their mobile phones than their Android counterparts, according to a new report. In the latest Pulse study from Retrevo, an electronics e-commerce site, 40 percent of iPhone users and only 24 percent of Android users said they wanted to be able to pay in a store with their cell phones. Concurrently, 44 percent of Android users said they were "not interested" in a mobile wallet, while 35 percent of iPhone users agreed with the statement. "IPhone owners as a populous tend to be more, shall we say, in-tune with their mobile devices," said Jennifer Jacobsen, PR director of Retrevo. "If there's a new trend in mobile tech and what you can do with a smartphone, iPhone owners seem more ready to try it than other cell phone users." When it comes to choosing from the vast offering of indiscernible "mobile wallet" services being advertised these days, the study found that users trust their phone companies more than their credit card companies. Thirty-six percent of all smartphone users said they'd trust a Google mobile wallet, versus 33 percent for Apple, 32 percent from a major credit card, and only 26 percent from their cell phone carrier. At the same time, 79 percent of the 1,000 people surveyed were completely uninterested in mobile wallets or didn't know what a mobile wallet was. The findings of these reports casts some doubt over the innumerable efforts to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/oracle-seeks-billions-in-suit-investor39s-business-daily/ oracle-seeks-billions-in-suit-investor39s-business-daily Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:31:33 +0300 The business software and server company disclosed that it's seeking "billions of dollars" in damages from a patent infringement lawsuit it filed last year vs. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News). Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL - News) has claimed the Android operating system infringes on Java patents acquired with its buy of Sun Microsystems. Oracle on Thu. accused Google of trying to hide the amount of money being sought in damages. Oracle fell 1%. Google slipped 0.5%. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hacktivists-make-noise-on-government-websites-reuters/ hacktivists-make-noise-on-government-websites-reuters Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:01:18 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A breed of cyber pranksters known as "hacktivists" appears to be on a campaign to embarrass the government, but such types of attack are unlikely to breach the computer firewalls that protect important official secrets, independent analysts say. A loosely organized group of hackers called Lulz Security, little known outside of cybersecurity circles, has claimed attacks against the public websites of the CIA and Senate over the past week. Hackers mounted a second, similar assault against the Senate website on Wednesday, possibly the work of copycats. Officials say government computer systems and websites, including those operated by the Pentagon, are subjected to thousands of attempted hackings each month but that safeguards usually keep would-be intruders away from sensitive data. The Lulz style of attack, known as a denial of service meant to disable the target's website, is often undertaken by activists as young as teenagers and pose little danger aside from embarrassment and website clean-up costs that can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. "It's hacktivism -- activism through hacking. Campaigns of this kind have been done in the past for two reasons: outrage and self-promotion. This one is some combination of those," said Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, a think tank devoted to cyber issues. "There's a lot of noise but no real downside, except that if people don't think the CIA can protect its own website, it colors their thinking about what it can do in other arenas -- maybe unfairly, but it doesn't really matter." Denial of service attacks ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/phone-rivalry-drives-down-rim-earnings-ap/ phone-rivalry-drives-down-rim-earnings-ap Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:31:45 +0300 TORONTO – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd.'s quarterly results on Thursday provided fresh evidence of the company's struggles to come up with a device to compete with the iPhone and smartphones running Google's Android operating system. The Waterloo, Ontario, company reported a nearly 10 percent drop in its fiscal first-quarter net income. RIM also said it has been hurt by product delays, announced layoffs and warned that its profit for the current quarter and full fiscal year would come in well below Wall Street's expectations. It was the second time this year the company has pared back its profit outlook. Its stock fell more than 14 percent in extended trading. "The existing portfolio of BlackBerry products has been in market for close to a year, and delivering new products has proven more challenging than anticipated," RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie said on a conference call with analysts. The announcements are the latest signs of trouble for RIM. The company dominated the corporate smartphone market and has sought to expand its appeal to consumers, but has recently had trouble with consumers because the phones aren't perceived to be as sexy as its chief competitors. BlackBerrys are known for their security and reliability as email devices, but they haven't kept pace with Apple Inc.'s iPhones or phones based on Google Inc.'s Android software when it comes to running third-party applications. Balsillie also acknowledged that the April launch of the company's tablet computer could have gone better. RIM got poor reviews on the Playbook and about 1,000 of the devices had to be recalled because ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-backed-xunlei-postpones-nasdaq-ipo-ifr-reuters/ google-backed-xunlei-postpones-nasdaq-ipo-ifr-reuters Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:31:23 +0300 HONG KONG (Reuters) – Xunlei Ltd, a Chinese Internet platform company in which Google has a small stake, decided to postpone its initial public offering of up to $200 million in the United States because of unfavorable market conditions, IFR reported on Friday, quoting a source with knowledge of the decision. Shenzen, China-based Xunlei had planned to start meetings with investors to gauge demand for its IPO on June 17, said IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication. Sean Shenglong Zou, Xunlei's co founder, is the company's biggest shareholder with a 27.5 percent stake, while Google owns 2.8 percent of the shares. The company had filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq under the symbol "XNET." Xunlei planned to use proceeds from the offering to invest in technology, infrastructure and product development and to acquire digital media content, according to its IPO prospectus. JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank had been hired as lead underwriters for the offering. (Reporting by Fiona Lau, Writing by Elzio Barreto; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Jonathan Hopfner) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pottermore-new-jk-rowling-site-sends-harry-potter-fans-into-a-frenzy-mashable/ pottermore-new-jk-rowling-site-sends-harry-potter-fans-into-a-frenzy-mashable Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:31:26 +0300 Pottermore.com, a new and mysterious website, could be many things -- an online game, a new fansite, a digital encyclopedia. But whatever it is, we'll have to wait until next week to find out. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-popular Harry Potter book series, will be making an announcement about Pottermore on June 23. [More from Mashable: Warner Bros Adds More Titles to Facebook Movie Rental Service] The one thing we do know about Pottermore is that it's not another book. A representative of Rowling told the Guardian Thursday, "All we can say is that Pottermore is the name of J.K. Rowling's new project. It will be announced soon, and it is not a new book." If you'd like to count the seconds until the big reveal, you can do so at a special Pottermore-themed YouTube page, which proclaims only, "The owls are gathering. Find out why soon." [More from Mashable: Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]] There's also a Secret Street View, a Google Maps-powered puzzle game that revealed the letters "POTTERMORE" to Harry Potter superfans who played. So, keeping in mind this is all idle speculation, what do you think Pottermore could likely be? This story originally published on Mashable here. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-app-coming-soon-to-ipad-digital-trends/ facebook-app-coming-soon-to-ipad-digital-trends Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:31:38 +0300 There’s more news about Facebook’s push into the mobile territory. On top of this Project Spartan business and the Facebook photo-sharing app, there is more conclusive buzz about the iPad getting a Facebook app. The free app is planned to be unveiled in the coming weeks. The design will be tailored for the iPad’s touchscreen surface and it’s been said that the Facebook Chat and Facebook Group features will be overhauled. Developers are also pushing a feature using the iPad’s camera that will allow users to upload photos or video directly. It’s been over a year since the iPad came out and Facebook has been lagging on a native app; though, they were right there with a free official Facebook app for the iPhone when the App Store was opened in 2008. The iOS version, being formatted for small screen, has been taunting hardcore Facebook yearning iPad users. There have been outside developers who’ve done their best to create iPad friendly apps, they’re not the same. There are many reasons why this marriage should happen. Facebook has 700 million worldwide users as well as 250 million logging on through mobile. Apple has sold 25 million iPad units in the year it’s been out for. Besides the numbers and the possible boost in Facebook’s much needed mobile growth, the iPad app would also help Apple in their competition with Google’s tablet. So why have we been waiting around this whole time? According to the New York Times’ Nick Bilton, the app has actually been in production for almost a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-non-profit-organizations-are-bolstering-citizen-media-around-the-world-mashable/ how-non-profit-organizations-are-bolstering-citizen-media-around-the-world-mashable Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:31:43 +0300 Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and recently released the book "Welcome to the Fifth Estate" on social media strategy. The most recent uprisings in the Middle East have brought citizen journalism back into the limelight, but bloggers and independent reporters have been breaking stories that major media outlets never could for some time. Janis Krums' iPhone snapshot of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 emergency landing on the Hudson River, George Allen's infamous "macaca" incident, or the continuing reports of protests from Syria in the face of violent oppression are just a few examples. [More from Mashable: Amid Losses, Guardian Announces Digital First Strategy] This new source of information fills a void left by a diminished traditional media corps. In some cases, the media have openly embraced citizen contributions, most notably CNN with its iReport features. To help foster this new trend, several non-profits and social enterprises are actively working to improve the strength of that citizen media across the world. [More from Mashable: How Social Media’s Short News Cycle Can Precipitate Bad Journalism] Non-Profits Back Citizen Media Citizen media is seen as a benefit to society and democratic principles. Many organizations are actively dedicating resources to improving citizen journalism, including the venture capital-backed AllVoices, three organizations (Global Voices, Internews and startup Small World News), and the U.S. State Department. Internews, Small World News and the U.S. State Department provide various training programs, grants and technical resources to citizen journalists. For example, Small World News, which focuses on conflict and post-conflict situations, is in Benghazi training Libyans to report stories using ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/blackberry-maker-slashes-forecast-shares-tumble-reuters/ blackberry-maker-slashes-forecast-shares-tumble-reuters Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:01:28 +0300 TORONTO (Reuters) – Research In Motion's quarterly profit dropped and revenue missed its own limp forecast, forcing the BlackBerry maker to slash its outlook and sending its shares down 15 percent on Thursday. Facing intense pressure from Apple and Google in the smartphone market, RIM also warned that its latest models would not hit U.S. stores until well into the valuable back-to-school shopping season. The delay will likely add to the disappointment felt by investors after RIM's botched launch of its PlayBook tablet computer this spring. "The company is going into the abyss of a transition, and even if they get a new model, it's a new model on the old platform," said BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis, one of many who has criticized RIM's product development pipeline. RIM has promised smartphones next year running on its new QNX platform, now featured in the PlayBook, but only after it releases a series of devices with an upgraded version of the current operating system. But even those upgrades to its Bold business workhorse, new Torch and Storm models won't go on sale until late August, RIM said on Thursday. That delay pushed RIM to forecast shipments of between 11 million and 12.5 million smartphones in the current quarter, sharply lower than the more than 14 million eyed by analysts. RIM shipped 13.2 million BlackBerrys in the three months to May 28, missing its own estimate. It shipped 500,000 PlayBook tablets in the six weeks after its April launch, exceeding the average analyst forecast of 366,000. Even so, the number represents a small ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mobile-phone-security-what-are-the-risks/ mobile-phone-security-what-are-the-risks Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:02:54 +0300 Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- The more people rely on cell phones and tablets, the more attractive these devices become as targets to thieves and other nefarious types. Fortunately, protecting yourself against mobile security risks doesn't require getting paranoid about your phone. Rather, it's about maintaining good habits, watching for red flags and deciding whether you need mobile security tools or services. At a recent mobile security conference in San Francisco, staffers from digital security provider Norton outlined some common current mobile threats: Malware This is an app contaminated with malicious code that makes your phone do things it shouldn't -- such as steal your personal data. While no smartphone platform is immune from malware, so far Android apps appear to present the greatest malware risk. This is because of the openness of this platform and Google's Android market. This week, The Register reported on the latest rash of Android malware and noted that Google has admitted that "more than 90 percent of Android users are running older versions of the mobile operating system that contain serious kernel vulnerabilities. That gives attackers an easy way to bypass Android's security sandbox, which is supposed to limit the data and resources each app is allowed to access." At the Norton conference, a presenter demonstrated how quick and easy it is to "trojanize" an Android app. He downloaded an existing legitimate app from the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/starting-a-revolution-with-technology/ starting-a-revolution-with-technology Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:32:50 +0300 CNN correspondent Amber Lyon traveled to Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain to interview some of the young Internet activists who have fueled the recent revolutions and protests there. The result, the hourlong documentary "iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring," premieres Sunday, June 19, 8 p.m. ET & PT. It will re-air Saturday, June 25, at 8 p.m. and 11p.m. (CNN) -- Political revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia not only inspired other regional uprisings -- they sparked a flurry of ideas about how to help revolutionaries better communicate when their governments pull the plug on the World Wide Web. Shervin Pishevar, founder of Social Gaming Network (SGN), has a plan to give freedom-seeking individuals the ability to link up and form their own life raft to "make what no government can ever block." "I want to use technology to bring freedom to the Mideast," says Pishevar, one of 10 members of Ted Turner's U.N. Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council. And Pishevar's latest startup, OpenMesh, would do just that. OpenMesh involves the use of ad hoc wireless mesh network technology that mimics the survival instincts of fire ants: A single fire ant will drown in a pool of water. But if they link together, the ants can form a living raft and survive. Routers and mesh network-enabled laptops can link together to form a network enabling individuals to send messages along these linked "nodes" to create a local system that allows individuals within a group to communicate. If one individual within the mesh network is able to connect ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/poor-rim-earnings-fall-short-4g-blackberry-playbook-delayed-digital-trends/ poor-rim-earnings-fall-short-4g-blackberry-playbook-delayed-digital-trends Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:31:37 +0300 Everything seems to be going badly for Research In Motion. To kick off the season of suckitude, the company on Thursday reported its first quarter earnings  – $4.9 billion in revenue and $695 million in profit. That may not sound bad. But it’s actually worse than even the already-lowered analyst forecasts for the company. RIM says that it expects the downward spiral to continue into the second quarter, which will result in even worse earning projections for the rest of the year and, in turn, an unspecified number of layoffs to save costs. The loss in business is generally believed to be the result of marginalization by Apple’s iPhone and handsets running Google’s Android mobile operating system. RIM also reported that it has sold about 500,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, which launched on April 19, in the first quarter of this year. Unfortunately, the company also pushed back the release of its 4G-enabled PlayBook models for LTE, WiMAX and HSPA+ networks from summer until fall of this year. RIM said that it also sold 13.2 million phones in the first quarter, but reported that release of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 would be delayed until the end of August. On top of all this, RIM chief operations officer Don Morrison is reportedly leaving the company until the fall due to medical reasons. While this really isn’t that big of a deal, it doesn’t exactly look good for the company, especially when everything else has gone pear shaped. It also intensifies the pressure on RIM’s co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, who ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-check-google-with-a-picture-lulzsec-hackers/ tech-check-google-with-a-picture-lulzsec-hackers Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:33:08 +0300 (CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, writers Doug Gross, Stephanie Goldberg and Mark Milian break down Mark's visit toGoogle's Inside Search event, where they rolled out new apps that let users search by voice on their desktops and even search using a photo. Also, we take a look at the mysterious and merry band of hackers, LulzSec, who added the CIA website to its list of high-profile hacks and attacks (and promised more were to come). The Reader Comments of the Week come from our Netiquette column on mobile apps designed to help socially awkward people. (Or maybe those who have just had one frozen margarita too many to think of a clever pickup line). And the Tech Fail of the Week is a double shot this week. Make that a triple shot. We damn "Duke Nuke'em Forever," the video game that took 14 years to be released, only to flop with critics, and the PR firm that threatened to refuse future review copies of games to writers who reviewed it harshly. And we couldn't sign off without a parting shot for Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was still maintaining that his Twitter account had been hacked the last time we talked about him. To listen, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can find the Tech Check RSS feed here or subscribe on iTunes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lulzsec-explains-itself-sort-of-the-atlantic-wire/ lulzsec-explains-itself-sort-of-the-atlantic-wire Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:31:37 +0300 To mark their thousandth tweet, the prank-happy hackers at Lulz Security have posted a manifsto of sorts on Pastebin. Normally, we would give you a brief background on the group, but theirs is funnier:  For the past month and a bit, we've been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the Internet, attacking several targets including PBS, Sony, Fox, porn websites, FBI, CIA, the U.S. government, Sony some more, online gaming servers (by request of callers, not by our own choice), Sony again, and of course our good friend Sony. Do you think every hacker announces everything they've hacked? We certainly haven't, and we're damn sure others are playing the silent game. Do you feel safe with your Facebook accounts, your Google Mail accounts, your Skype accounts? What makes you think a hacker isn't silently sitting inside all of these right now, sniping out individual people, or perhaps selling them off? You are a peon to these people. A toy. A string of characters with a value.   This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn't released something publicly. We're sitting on 200,000 Brink users right now that we never gave out. It might make you feel safe knowing we told you, so that Brink users may change their passwords. What if we hadn't told you? No one would be aware of this theft, and we'd have a fresh 200,000 peons to abuse, completely unaware of a breach. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/jk-rowling-previews-mysterious-39pottermore39-site/ jk-rowling-previews-mysterious-39pottermore39-site Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:33:20 +0300 (CNN) -- Harry Potter fans, already an excitable bunch, are in a tizzy over a mysterious new website from series creator J.K. Rowling that hints at future Harry Potter-related content. The site, Pottermore.com, launched Thursday with a single teaser page depicting two owls against a dark pink background and the words "Coming soon ..." above Rowling's signature. Clicking either owl takes visitors to Rowling's YouTube channel, where a video screen counts down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until a Rowling "announcement" -- set for 7 a.m. ET Wednesday. There's also a new Pottermore Twitter account, which as of Friday had posted only two tweets: one linking to the YouTube page and another mentioning a Google Maps-powered puzzle game that revealed the letters "POTTERMORE." Blogs and Twitter are full of fans hyperventilating about what it all means. "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This Is like the most exciting thing that's happened in a realy long time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been freaking out and running around the house screaming :)" posted one user on MuggleNet, a Harry Potter fan site. Guesses range from an online game to a digital comic book to a virtual Harry Potter encyclopedia to a new promotional effort for the final movie in the franchise, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," which hits theaters July 15. What it probably doesn't mean, however, is a new Harry Potter book. A representative for Rowling told UK newspaper The Guardian on Thursday, "All we can say is that Pottermore is the name of J.K. Rowling's new project. It will be announced soon, and it is ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/brands-approach-with-internet-name-shake-up-reuters/ brands-approach-with-internet-name-shake-up-reuters Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:01:22 +0300 LONDON (Reuters) – Brand owners will soon be able to operate their own parts of the Web -- such as .apple, .coke or .marlboro -- if the biggest shake-up yet in how Internet domains are awarded is approved. After years of preparation and wrangling, ICANN, the body that coordinates Internet names, is expected to approve the move at a special board meeting in Singapore on Monday. Today, just 22 generic top-level domains (gTLDs) exist -- .com, .org and .info are a few examples -- plus about 250 country-level domains like .uk or .cn. After the change, several hundred new gTLDs are expected to come into existence. The move is seen as a big opportunity for brands to gain more control over their online presence and send visitors more directly to parts of their sites -- and a danger for those who fail to take advantage. It will also change the way search engines like Google find results, and the way organizations use search-engine optimization to improve the visibility of their websites in search results. "As a big brand, you ignore it at your peril," says Theo Hnarakis, chief executive of Australian domain name-registration firm Melbourne IT DBS, which advises companies and other organizations worldwide about how to do business online. "We're advising people to buy their brands, park them and redirect visitors to their existing site, at the very least," says Hnarakis, whose more than 3,500 customers include Volvo, Lego and GlaxoSmithKline. If the change is approved on Monday, applications are likely to open in January for a 90-day period before closing ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/oracle-seeking-billions-from-google-over-java-infringement-digital-trends/ oracle-seeking-billions-from-google-over-java-infringement-digital-trends Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:31:26 +0300 Last August, Oracle filed suit against Google claiming the company’s Android operating system infringed on Java patents and copyright. This week, for the first time, Oracle has started to lay out the amount of damages it is seeking in the case—and according to a court filing this week, the amount is in “the billions of dollars.” Google’s Android operating system includes the Dalvik virtual machine, a Java-compatible system that was developed independently of Sun’s Java virtual machine—both enable computers to run Java software. Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2009, and is now pursuing Google for infringement, claiming the Dalvik VM infringes on patents the company acquired along with Sun. Oracle also alleges Google was fully aware of the Sun patents, and even hired some of Sun’s Java engineers. In a letter to the court earlier this month, Google characterizes Oracle’s damages claims as inflated and inaccurate, since Google believes they are based on legal errors. According to Reuters, Google described Oracle’s claim of billions in damages as “unreliable and results-oriented.” In an unusual move for a company that prides itself on transparency, Google asked the court to keep particular details of Oracles’ damages claim private; however, the judge in the case has ordered Google to publicly reveal information on damages for the record today. The amount of damages being sought in the case can be significant: if a potential judgment in the billions of dollars is hovering over the future of Android, it may dissuade developers and hardware makers from continuing to embrace the platform since, if Google is ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-imploding-blackberry-starting-to-spoil-contributornetwork/ rim-imploding-blackberry-starting-to-spoil-contributornetwork Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:31:27 +0300 Obviously, Research In Motion isn't dead yet. But with the company's profits tanking, and "streamlining" (read: layoffs) in the works, what's happened to the once-beloved BlackBerry maker? It'd be easy to say that RIM simply didn't catch on, when the world shifted to favoring iPhone-style devices. But the actual situation is more complicated -- and, unfortunately, more depressing -- than that. BlackBerry profit margins slipping Mark Hachman of PC Magazine reports that RIM's profits have slipped from last year's total of $934 million, to only $695 million this year. But in that same time period, RIM's revenue actually went up, from $4.24 billion to $4.9 billion. Why is that? Apparently, the BlackBerry's average selling price is going down. It dropped by more that 10 percent in just the past 90 days. And this is a long-term trend: The Mobile Opportunity blog explains (in more detail than you probably care to read) how the BlackBerry market is saturated, and RIM is having to cut costs in order to sell more BlackBerries. Worse, most of those BlackBerries are being sold to current BlackBerry owners, and not new BlackBerry subscribers. BlackBerry product quality not up to par Can't RIM just make its BlackBerry smartphones better? That's the $4.9 billion question, isn't it? Unfortunately, so far its efforts haven't panned out. Both of the recent touch screen BlackBerries, the Storm and the Torch, were widely panned by reviewers. Meanwhile, the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet can't even use email without a BlackBerry smartphone connected to it, and it missed analysts' sales projections by more ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-down-over-20-percent-on-wall-street-afp/ rim-down-over-20-percent-on-wall-street-afp Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:31:29 +0300 NEW YORK (AFP) – Shares in Research in Motion fell sharply on Wall Street on Friday after the BlackBerry maker lowered its outlook for the year and said it would be cutting jobs. RIM was down 22.62 percent, or $7.99, to $27.34 around mid-day. Shares in the Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM have lost around 50 percent of their value since the beginning of the year. Friday's drop came a day after RIM said it expected earnings per share for fiscal 2012 to be between $5.25 and $6.00, sharply less than the $7.50 forecast previously. RIM, which is facing increased competition from Apple's iPhone and mobile phones running Google's Android software, also announced Thursday it would be cutting jobs this quarter as part of a plan to "streamline operations." It did not say how many jobs would be eliminated. The Canadian handset maker posted a net profit of $695 million, or $1.33 per share, in the first quarter of its 2012 fiscal year, compared with $769 million, or $1.38 per share, a year ago. Revenue grew 16 percent to $4.9 billion, short of the $5.1 billion expected by Wall Street analysts. RIM said it shipped 13.2 million BlackBerry smartphones during the quarter, down from 14.9 million last quarter, and 500,000 of its new BlackBerry Playbook tablet computers, RIM's answer to Apple's iPad. "Fiscal 2012 has gotten off to a challenging start," RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie said in a statement. "The slowdown we saw in the first quarter is continuing into the second quarter, and delays in new product introductions into the very late part of August ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/report-google-nexus-4g-specs-boast-39monster-sized-screen39-android-40-pc-magazine/ report-google-nexus-4g-specs-boast-39monster-sized-screen39-android-40-pc-magazine Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:01:39 +0300 Boy Genius Report has unearthed some possible specs for what looks like a button-less, dual-core, super-thin Google Nexus 4G smartphone featuring Android's upcoming OS build, Android 4.0, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich. If true, the phone's most remarkable feature is probably its "monster-sized" screen, which reportedly has 720p HD resolution but lacks the usual Android menu buttons below the screen. The device will be powered by a dual-core 1.2-GHz or 1.5-GHz CPU or Qualcomm's next-generation "Krait" chips, BGR said. It's also supposed to run on 4G LTE, feature 1080p HD video capture and playback, 1-megapixel front-facing and 5-megapixel rear-facing cameras, and 1GB of RAM. It's "going to be an absolute beast," writes BGR's Jonathan Geller, speaking to developers, the Nexus line's biggest fan base. However, and perhaps we're being oversensitive, it should be noted that Geller has peppered his post with unusually conservative phrases like "most likely" and "said to be" and "also possible." Geller also warned that this may just be a reference phone for Ice Cream Sandwich that will be manufactured by another company, such as Motorola's Droid and Motorola's Xoom did for Android 2.0 and 3.0, which both launched on Verizon. Geller's source didn't name a carrier, which led him to believe that this will be AT&T's debut phone for its upcoming LTE network, despite AT&T's long-term relationship with the iPhone. Verizon runs the only commercial LTE network, but if this is a pure Nexus phone it'd be surprising if Google went with Verizon given the failed Nexus One tie-up. Furthermore, an AT&T Nexus phone would be ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/firefox-5-rc-updates-version-number-and-little-else-pc-magazine/ firefox-5-rc-updates-version-number-and-little-else-pc-magazine Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:01:41 +0300 Over the past seven years, we've come to expect Firefox Web browser releases to bring major new interface changes, improved performance, and browsing tools. But since Mozilla decided to follow Google's frequent release strategy, we'll have to temper our expectations for new Firefox releases. Version 5 of Mozilla's volunteer-crafted browser software brings a lot of fixes, but pretty much zilch when it comes to interface advancements or new user tools. In the new schedule, any new features that don't make a cut-off date are excised from the version, and judging by version 5, this rigid release plan will result in some less than sensational new version numbers. The one "new" feature users may notice is that the browser's "Do Not Track" setting is more visible at the top of the Privacy tab on the Options dialog. Under the hood, Firefox 5 adds support for a few new Web technologies, most notably for CSS animations, which let Web designers create effects like having text slide across the window, using keyframes. Mozilla also claims improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas, but on the HTML5test.com measure of HTML5 support, Firefox 5 does no better than version 4 (see slideshow above), with a score of 240 out of 400 points, compared with Google Chrome's score of 291. A recently noted security threat is addressed in version 5, too. A researcher at the Context Information Security consulting firm issued a warning last month that WebGL, a 3D graphics technology for the Web, introduces some serious vulnerabilities. Microsoft ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/report-spotify-us-launch-is-imminent-pc-magazine/ report-spotify-us-launch-is-imminent-pc-magazine Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:01:56 +0300 Things seem to be lining up for Spotify. According to a reports, a U.S. launch is imminent. "We're signing the remaining deals as I speak," Jonathan Forster, Spotify's general manager of Europe and global vice president of ad sales, said during an appearance at the Omnicom conference in London. A U.S. version, however, "won't launch before July 5," he said. In recent months, there have been reports about Spotify signing deals with U.S. labels, including Universal and Sony, leaving Warner Music Group as the final holdout. As All Things D's Peter Kafka notes, Spotify also recently finalized a huge funding round that values the company at about $1 billion, including about $100 million from DST, Kleiner Perkins, and Accel. Last year, PCMag crowned Spotify the best music service you can't have; it's currently available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. It offers both a paid and a free option; users can listen to a set amount of music every month on the gratis ad-supported version, and paid users can listen to as much music as they want. Prices for the unlimited service in the U.S. haven't been revealed, but if competitors like Rhapsody are any indication, Spotify would probably charge about $10 per month. Music label deals have been the major impediment to Spotify launching here in the states. But as Kafka notes, the online music game has changed in recent months. Google and Amazon have announced their own cloud locker services, and Apple just announced iCloud, a service that will store your content ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/oracle-cere-google-daune-de-miliarde-de-dolari-pentru-patente-legate-de-segmentul-smartphone-urilor/ oracle-cere-google-daune-de-miliarde-de-dolari-pentru-patente-legate-de-segmentul-smartphone-urilor Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:03:35 +0300 Grupul IT Oracle vrea daune de miliarde de dolari de la Google într-un proces asupra unor patente legate de segmentul smartphone-urilor. Documentul depus la tribunal este prima menţiune publică a valorii despăgubirilor vizate de Oracle. Oracle a deschis procesul împotriva Google anul trecut şi a acuzat că tehnologia Android, folosită de Google pentru sisteme de operare îi încalcă patentele pentru limbajul de programare Java. Unii analişti consideră disputa un semn al intensificării rivalităţii între cele două companii. Cazul face parte, de asemenea, dintr-o serie mai largă de litigii între producătorii de telefoane mobile şi firmele de software privind proprietatea asupra patentelor folosite pentru smartphone-uri şi tablete. În lipsa unei înţelegeri, procesul dintre Oracle şi Google ar urma să înceapă până în noiembrie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/oracle-vrea-de-la-google-despagubiri-de-cateva-miliarde-de-dolari-motivand-ca-au-fost-incalcate-brevete-legate-de-tehnologia-java/ oracle-vrea-de-la-google-despagubiri-de-cateva-miliarde-de-dolari-motivand-ca-au-fost-incalcate-brevete-legate-de-tehnologia-java Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:03:54 +0300 ​Oracle cere despagubiri de ordinul miliardelor de dolari de la Google pe care a chemat-o in instanta vara trecuta pe motiv ca ar fi incalcat o serie de patente tehnologice pe care Oracle le-a obtinut prin achizitia Sun MicroSystems, scrie PCPro. Plangerea e legata de sistemul de operare Google Android prezent pe zeci de milioane de smartphone-uri, insa Google spune ca Oracle a facut calcule eronate, iar suma este "umflata".In plangerea depusa anul trecut la un tribunal federal californian Oracle acuza Google ca la dezvoltarea Android a incalcat cu buna stiinta drepturile de proprietate intelectuala, insa nu se stia valoarea daunelor materiale solicitate. Google s-a opus publicarea unei cifre exacte, insa Oracle a tinut sa mentioneze ca cere cateva miliarde dolari, fara a comunica exact cat.Google spune ca Oracle a calculat intr-un mod eronat valoarea daunelor si adauga ca suma solicitata este mult umflata.Tehnologia Java a fost dezvoltata de Sun Microsystems, compania care a fost achizitionata la inceputul lui 2010 de Oracle, pentru 7,4 miliarde dolari. Si patentele Sun au trecut in proprietatea Oracle care acuza acum Google ca foloseste Java fara a fi primit permisiunea sa utilizeze aceasta tehnologie.Ramane de vazut ce va decide justitia intr-un moment in care zilnic se vand circa 400.000 de telefoane ce utilizeaza sistemul Android.E de asteptat ca justitia sa se proonunte in noiembrie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-lanseaza-un-serviciu-de-management-al-reputatiei-online/ google-lanseaza-un-serviciu-de-management-al-reputatiei-online Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:04:18 +0300 Utilizatorii isi vor putea controla mai simplu reputatia pe internet multumita unui nou serviciu oferit de Google. Functia "Me on the web" (Eu pe Internet) este integrata in profilul Google al fiecarui utilizator si permite setarea de alerte atunci cand un set de cuvinte cheie, cum ar fi numele sau adresa de email, sunt postate undeva pe internet. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tableta-antiglont-panasonic-toughbook-cu-google-android/ tableta-antiglont-panasonic-toughbook-cu-google-android Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:04:18 +0300 ​Panasonic a anunțat joi prima tabletă din seria Toughbook bazată pe sistemul de operare Google Android. Noul gadget va fi destinat celor care lucrează în medii solicitante și periculoase și va fi rezistentă la apă, căderi puternice și vibrații intense. Tableta va avea o diagonală de 10,1 inci și va rula o variantă nespecificată de Google Android, care pare a fi 2.X din câte se poate vedea în fotografiile puse la dispoziție de producator. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/put-a-cork-in-the-internet-bubble-talk-for-now-ap/ put-a-cork-in-the-internet-bubble-talk-for-now-ap Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:01:22 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – It's starting to feel like a 1999 flashback. A slew of Internet companies — some of them profitable, some not — sense a golden opportunity and are lining up to go public this year. But here's something to keep in mind as the latest case of Internet fever grips Wall Street: It's still nowhere close to the giddy days of the dot-com boom, when investors bought stocks as impulsively as lottery tickets. Technology stocks today are the cheapest in more than nine years, at least judging by one benchmark for appraising companies. This year could yield the most initial public offerings of technology stocks since 2000. But the venture capitalists who bankroll high-tech startups aren't pouring money into the Internet like they once did. And even rapidly growing Internet companies LinkedIn Corp. and Pandora Media Inc. have lost some of their luster after dazzling investors when they went public in recent weeks. All those factors signal that cooler heads are prevailing, especially with the global economy on shaky ground. So far this year, 28 of the 74 IPOs completed in the U.S. have been by technology companies, according to IPO investment advisory firm Renaissance Capital. If, as expected, another 31 tech IPOs are completed by the end this year, it will be the most from the sector since 2000. The growing enthusiasm for Internet services reflects how far the Internet has come since the dot-com boom. An estimated 2 billion people worldwide have Web access now, about eight times as many as in 2000. High-speed Internet connections ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/spotify-finally-making-us-debut-digital-trends/ spotify-finally-making-us-debut-digital-trends Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:31:52 +0300 Spotify is starting to look like the boy who cried wolf. After trying to introduce a US version for two years, and despite the months of “imminent US launch” whispers we’ve endured, it once again sounds like Spotify is about to arrive stateside. As usual, there is some pretty solid evidence to back this up: AllThingsD reports that the European music streaming phenom has just closed a $100 million round of fundraising (raising its valuation to approximately $1 billion) and is in talks with yet another big US record label, Warner Music Group. Capping that off is Spotify exec Jonathon Forster’s confirmation. “We’re signing the remaining deals as I speak. We won’t launch before July 5,” Forster said at an Omnicom conference in London earlier this week according to Silicon Valley Watcher. Spotify has already struck agreements with Universal Music Group, Sony, and EMI Music Group. Getting its ducks in a row prior to an official launch has its benefits and consequences: Introducing a music streaming service without the advised prerequisite label support has proven to be a risky move, one that at the very least gets skeptics raising an eyebrow and the music industry turning a cold shoulder (right Google and Amazon?). The consequence is that the longer Spotify is absent, the more time consumers have to acclimate to their current subscription music model of choice. There’s no shortage of options: Rdio, Mog, Slacker, Pandora, Rhapsody, and Sony Music Unlimited are just a few of the label-supported services out there. And Google Music, Amazon Cloud Player, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/new-nexus-phone-from-google-could-offer-lte-newsfactor/ new-nexus-phone-from-google-could-offer-lte-newsfactor Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:31:29 +0300 Google's latest attempt at its own branded hardware may be in the pipeline, and this time the device may be part of the vanguard of LTE devices. A report said the latest Nexus phone is likely to be 4G LTE compatible, but didn't specify a carrier or a manufacturer. The phone, possibly called Nexus 4G, will have a "monster-size" (though unspecified) touchscreen with no mechanical buttons, a 720p high-definition display, and run Google's next Android update, 4.0, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, according to information obtained by Boy Genius Report. Inside, the device is said to pack a dual-core 1.2- or 1.5-gigahertz Snapdragon processor with Qualcomm-designed Krait chips. Other leaked specs include a one-megapixel front camera and a five-megapixel rear camera as well as 1080p high-definition video capture and playback, the report said. If at First You Don't Succeed ... Attempt number one at a Google phone was the low-selling flagship Nexus One, with a 3.7-inch display, made by HTC and sold only via Google's online store beginning in March 2010 for $529 or subsidized via T-Mobile and AT&T. When the experiment went awry, Google shut the online store and offered the Nexus One through retail stores and to developers for use in making Android applications. Making matters worse, Apple sued HTC over the design of the phone, saying it infringed Apple's patents . The Nexus S, made by Samsung, also with a 3.7-inch display, came next in December after premiering at the Web 2.0 summit. Versions are now available via T-Mobile and Sprint. Spearheading AT&T's LTE? Boy Genius said the LTE Nexus ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/chrome-firefox-browsers-to-get-tighter-pdf-integration-newsfactor/ chrome-firefox-browsers-to-get-tighter-pdf-integration-newsfactor Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:31:32 +0300 Browser developers at Google and Mozilla are working on new ways to more tightly integrate PDF capabilities. Google was the first browser maker to integrate a PDF reader in Chrome instead of a plug-in vulnerable to hacker attacks. Now Chrome developers have taken the next step. A new print-preview function in Chrome 13 beta lets web surfers convert any web page into a PDF file. Users on a Wi-Fi-only notebook, media tablet, or PDF-compatible e-reader should find this capability useful because web content can now be stored as PDF files for later reading where hot-spot access is unavailable. "Print preview uses Chrome's built-in PDF viewer to display the page you want to print, and it updates automatically as you adjust your print settings," noted Google software engineer Chris Bentzel. "You can also choose to save any web page as a PDF file, using the 'Print to PDF' option that's automatically included in the printer list." From Web To PDF Using print preview is a straightforward process. Users encountering a web page they wish to print can click on the tool icon in the upper right corner of the Chrome 13 browser to select the print menu option. Print preview automatically appears in a separate window that shows users what the web page currently being viewed will look like when printed. The Print To PDF option is among the available selections in the drop-down menu next to the word "destination." Users can even specify a single page or pages of content to be printed from among those displayed in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-broadens-legal-complaint-against-samsung-newsfactor/ apple-broadens-legal-complaint-against-samsung-newsfactor Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:31:40 +0300 With more than $70 billion in cash, Apple could buy out struggling Research In Motion, Nokia, Motorola and HTC. But for now the iPhone maker is setting its sights on putting the kibosh on Samsung's mobile-phone designs. Apple on Thursday amended the complaint it filed against Samsung in April. Apple still maintains that the mobile-device maker is using too many Apple ideas in its products. But Apple has found something more to beef about. In April, Apple flat-out accused Samsung of stealing ideas from the iPad and the iPhone. Apple filed suit in U.S. District Court in Northern California alleging Samsung trespassed on its patents and its trademark with the Galaxy product line, which includes the Galaxy S smartphone and the Galaxy Tab tablet. More Devices, More Infringements Now Apple is adding more trespasses to the list, focusing on Samsung's Nexus 4G, Sidekick, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Droid Charge, and eight other devices. In all, Apple said 15 of Samsung's devices "slavishly" copy the iPhone and iPad. Apple added three new violated patents to the suit, including a touchscreen-related patent, a UI-related patent, and a multi-touch hardware patent. Apple is also accusing Samsung of unfair competition. The iPad maker seeks injunctions as well as actual and punitive damages against its one-time ally. Apple also wants the court to rule that the alleged infringement was willful. Samsung hasn't responded to the latest accusations, but previously said it would "respond actively to this legal action taken against us through appropriate legal measures to protect our intellectual property." Earlier this week, Apple settled a patent ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/jk-rowling-previews-cryptic-39pottermore39-site/ jk-rowling-previews-cryptic-39pottermore39-site Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:32:52 +0300 (CNN) -- Harry Potter fans, already an excitable bunch, are in a tizzy over a mysterious new website from series creator J.K. Rowling that hints at future Harry Potter-related content. The site, Pottermore.com, launched Thursday with a single teaser page depicting two owls against a dark pink background and the words "Coming soon ..." above Rowling's signature. Clicking either owl takes visitors to Rowling's YouTube channel, where a video screen counts down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until a Rowling "announcement" -- set for 7 a.m. ET Wednesday. There's also a new Pottermore Twitter account, which as of Friday morning had posted only two tweets: one linking to the YouTube page and another mentioning a Google Maps-powered puzzle game that revealed the letters "POTTERMORE." Blogs and Twitter are full of fans hyperventilating about what it all means. "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This Is like the most exciting thing that's happened in a realy long time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been freaking out and running around the house screaming :)" posted one user on MuggleNet, a Harry Potter fan site. Guesses range from an online game to a digital comic book to a virtual Harry Potter encyclopedia to a new promotional effort for the final movie in the franchise, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," which hits theaters July 15. What it probably doesn't mean, however, is a new Harry Potter book. A representative for Rowling told UK newspaper The Guardian on Thursday, "All we can say is that Pottermore is the name of J.K. Rowling's new project. It will be announced soon, and it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/are-search-engines-a-spys-best-friend-yahoo-news/ are-search-engines-a-spys-best-friend-yahoo-news Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:01:22 +0300 A team of researchers at the Warsaw University of Technology have uncovered a way that spies (yes, actual spies) can communicate with one another using search engines like Yahoo and Google. And we're not talking about sending email messages back and forth; this method uses the search autocomplete feature, and is much more covert. According to Wojciech Mazurczyk, who heads the team, the random search options that appear as you type in your query could very well be used for nefarious purposes. Search engines often employ complex autocompletion algorithms to suggest possible queries before you've completed your typing. For example, when searching for "Tecca," the "T" prompts things like "Target" and "Twitter" to pop up. Adding the letter "e" changes the suggestions to things like "Tetris" and "Texas," and so on. Using a special malware program installed on a user's computer, the researchers were able to remotely modify what appears on these autocompletion lists to include additional words that wouldn't normally show up. The "spy" can then compile these words and convert them into numbered sequences in order to decode the message being sent. It's a complicated and somewhat time-consuming chore, but it would allow covert communications even in if the user's computer is being monitored. Unfortunately for the spies, the research team believes that the amount of data being modified would set off a few bells and whistles, ultimately putting the authorities hot on your trail. (Source) More from Tecca: Watch a hummingbird-shaped spy drone flutter around, steal your secrets 7 spytastic images of the new Wikileaks website data storage ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-gets-antitrust-approval-to-buy-skype-reuters/ microsoft-gets-antitrust-approval-to-buy-skype-reuters Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:01:30 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Microsoft has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy the Internet phone service Skype, the Federal Trade Commission said in a website posting on Friday. Microsoft announced in May it was buying Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich bet on mobile and the Internet to try and best rivals such as Google Inc. The approval was announced in a listing of deal approvals that comes out several times a week. Microsoft's interest in the money-losing, but popular service highlights a need to gain new customers for its Windows and Office software. Skype has 145 million users on average each month and has gained favor among small businesses. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/justice-to-review-google-deal-investor39s-business-daily/ justice-to-review-google-deal-investor39s-business-daily Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:31:38 +0300 The search leader's $400 mil deal to buy display ad firm AdMeld will get an antitrust review from the Justice Dept., according to published reports. The FTC reviewed past Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) buys, including its takeovers of AdMob and DoubleClick. The FTC also reportedly plans to launch an antitrust review into Google's search-market dominance. AdMeld allows publishers to instantly sell display ads that follow Web users as they move from site to site. It fell 3%. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/spam-storm-clogs-the-kindle-self-publishing-platform-digital-trends/ spam-storm-clogs-the-kindle-self-publishing-platform-digital-trends Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:01:23 +0300 The Kindle’s ebook store has become a new outlet for self-publishing spammers in the past few months, forcing users to wade through a growing number of low-value, subpar content to get to the titles they want. This recent trend may be damaging to Amazon’s push into self-publishing and may even dig into the Kindle’s reputation, hurting the 10 percent of business Citigroup analysts say the product will account for in 2012. Spammers are exploiting something known as PLR content, or Private Label Rights. Though there is potential for this work to be of high quality, PLR allows someone to grab informational content for free or for very cheap on the internet and reformat it as a digital book. The form of PLR these spammers use tends to be poorly written, generic and lets them put anyone’s name on it, slap a catchy title and churn it out for 99 cents. Amazon then pays out 30 to 70 percent of the revenue. Sometimes these ebooks will just be stolen content from actual work. Reuters points out a case concerning a New Zealander and her debut historical novel which she found being sold on the platform under a different author’s name. The case was resolved by Amazon’s British team, but it points to a larger issue. Reuters cited Internet marketer Paul Wolfe, who explained that the common tactic involves copying an bestselling ebook and repackaging it with a new title and cover. The problem has not been hitting Google eBooks or Barnes & Noble’s Nook so far, but ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/5-tips-for-transitioning-from-college-to-startup-life-mashable/ 5-tips-for-transitioning-from-college-to-startup-life-mashable Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:31:20 +0300 Elliott Spelman is an intern at WePay which allows you to collect payments online without the hassle. You can contact him at elliott.spelman@wepay.com. Four years and three internships later, I’m a graduate of USC. Like a lot of people my age, I’ve become pretty comfortable with the fact that I don’t really know what I want to do in life. Every graduation speaker I’ve ever listened to, from Steve Ballmer to Mr. Gowen, my elementary school gym teacher, has urged the same advice: Do what you’re passionate about. [More from Mashable: #Nerdbird: Virgin America’s Newest Plane Is a Twitter Hashtag] For people in my position, though, there seems to be a choice between doing a job you love and doing a job that’s available to you. We’re left with the question: If doing something rewarding is the ultimate goal, what if it takes some time to figure it out? Just because I'm not on a prescribed career path doesn’t mean I’m not interested in anything. On the contrary, actually. My college resume is a veritable potpourri of potential professions. All three of my college internships were tied to personal interests (non-profits, travel, music). I majored in economics and creative writing. I pledged a fraternity and worked for the geography department one summer. And now I’m feeding my interests again, picking a summer internship at a tech startup in Silicon Valley over other full-time job offers. [More from Mashable: Sequins & Social Media: Lady Gaga to Wear Dress Featuring Faces of Followers] People ask me all the time, with genuine concern in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/spotify-scores-100m-in-funding-will-launch-this-summer-in-us-report-mashable/ spotify-scores-100m-in-funding-will-launch-this-summer-in-us-report-mashable Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:31:42 +0300 For months, we've been hearing rumors that Spotify had raised $100 million in funding from DST, Kleiner Perkins and Accel. Now it seems that round has finally closed, giving the music subscription service a $1 billion valuation. All Things Digital is reporting that with this influx of cash, the service can likely launch in the U.S. this summer. Spotify already reportedly signed licensing deals with UMG, EMI and Sony, and is in talks with Warner Music Group. [More from Mashable: Interactive Music Video Lets You Share Your Tears] "We're signing the remaining deals as I speak," Jonathan Forster, general manager of Europe and global vice president of ad sales at Spotify, said at a conference in London this week. Still, Forster told Silicon Valley Watcher that the service won't launch stateside before July 5. So why has it been taking so long to bring Spotify to the States? The U.S. record companies were reportedly not overly enthusiastic about Spotify’s “freemium” business model, where the company gives away ad-supported music in hopes of signing paying subscribers to its ad-free version. That premium service lets users choose and replay their music. [More from Mashable: Friday No More: Rebecca Black Takes Down Her Hit YouTube Video] Still, Spotify cut back on free music in May, requiring users to pay for deeper access, so the company is clearly open to compromise. It seems rumors have been swirling about Spotify nonstop lately, with folks speculating that it would partner with Google for a cloud-based music service (it didn't) and that Facebook is interested in teaming up ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-android-tablets-fail-contributornetwork/ why-android-tablets-fail-contributornetwork Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:31:20 +0300 I don't mean "fail" as in "perform badly." In a world where Google's Android operating system powered the only "tablet" devices, they'd be magical and best-selling. But this is not that world. The iPad is the elephant in the room, and it dominates both buyers' and app developers' preferences. By "fail," what I mean is that they're failures in the marketplace. The first "real" Android tablet to sell, the Xoom, was basically a flop. And the only one to make headlines or sell out these days is the Asus Transformer, which (perhaps not coincidentally) is also the cheapest Android tablet, at $399. You probably already know the differences between the various tablets; how Android tablets have roughly equal specs to the iPad, and usually have some feature or another that it lacks, but don't have its 65,000 apps. This isn't about those differences. What it is about, is what the "tablet market" is like, and which markets it isn't like. Confused? Let me explain. A tale of two markets Okay, imagine a market that's divided into two segments. One is an exclusive, super-profitable, high-end segment that's basically owned by one company. The other is the much larger low end, where the products are commodity items that compete with each other on price. Whether you're thinking that sounds like the smartphone market or the home computer market, you're right. Unlike the Mac, the iPhone had a head start, which gave it the lead in both quality and quantity for a while. Android phones combined have recently caught up to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/2012-audi-a7-review-digital-trends/ 2012-audi-a7-review-digital-trends Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:01:24 +0300 It all started with a moment of road rage. Sure, I was focusing too much on browsing my iPhone’s vast music collection and driving a hair slow, but some guy in a broken-down pick-up accelerated up to the bumper of the 2012 Audi A7 I’m reviewing, honked his horn and flipped me the bird. Yes, we are living in a down economy, and granted this particular model costs about $60,000, but — dude, I’m just a car tester. Don’t hold that against me. After a few seconds, I glided to the shoulder and smiled as he chugged away with one last salute. The panic moment would have been much more severe if I was making the payments on this roadster: a low-slung, medium-gray sedan that shares more than a passing resemblance to recent luxury models from Jaguar. Interestingly, the all-new A7 shares many of the same features of the A8 we reviewed a few months ago, yet has a distinctly different purpose in life. The A8 uses some of the most advanced technology available to ease you around corners using an adaptive suspension and make potholes much less infuriating, in addition to a host of other creature comforts like front speakers that rise out of the dashboard. The Audi A7 is more focused on the thrill of driving. The intent here is luxury, speed, and a sporty drive for every condition. First, a note about the styling. This sedan is roughly 55 inches tall, which you’ll notice right away. Like the Jaguar, the car looks longer than the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-buys-dvr-company-sagetv-google-tv-upgrade-coming-digital-trends/ google-buys-dvr-company-sagetv-google-tv-upgrade-coming-digital-trends Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:01:21 +0300 Industry watchers received a shock Saturday night with news that Google has purchased DVR software and set-top box company SageTV. The announcement came via an email sent to SageTV customers and a near-identical statement posted to the company’s website, which has ceased all functionality aside from a landing page that explains the acquisition. “[A]s the media landscape continues to evolve, we think it’s time our vision of entertainment management grows as well,” said SageTV in a statement. “By teaming up with Google, we believe our ideas will reach an even larger audience of users worldwide on many different products, platforms and services.” SageTV goes on to explain that it believes Google’s “developer efforts…stimulate innovation across the web.” The two companies also have a “shared vision for open technology,” which will help SageTV “advance the online entertainment experience.” In its email to customers, SageTV explained that its store has been entirely shut down, but customer support for its DVR products “will continue.” The SageTV forum will remain up and running, the company said. Neither the price Google paid for SageTV nor any other details about the sale have yet been announced. Started in 2002, SageTV has produced versatile DVR software that works with Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems. The software’s fexibility makes it possible to turn almost any computer with a TV tuner card into the primary hub of a home entertainment system. SageTV software accepts nearly any audio, video or photo file format tossed its way, so a machine loaded with SageTV becomes one of the most powerful ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-android-has-more-free-apps-than-the-iphone-contributornetwork/ why-android-has-more-free-apps-than-the-iphone-contributornetwork Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:01:24 +0300 It's official: There are now more free apps available in the Android Market than in the iTunes App Store. But is this really a good thing, for Android or Android phone owners? On the surface, it seems like it. Who doesn't like getting free apps? When you look deeper, though, you realize that the reason there are so many free Android apps is one of the same reasons Android apps tend to be ugly: The extremely low barrier to entry. Undiscriminating taste As I explained in that article, it's a lot easier to get an app on the Android Market than it is to get one on the App Store. First, it costs less: A one-time fee of $25, plus $20 to sell paid apps, gives you Android Market access for life, compared to $99 per year for the App Store. Second, the skills that it requires aren't as specialized. iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps are written in Objective-C using the Cocoa libraries, and are basically the only things in the world that use them. Meanwhile, Android uses Java. Java is extremely common, is taught in most colleges' programming courses, and is relatively easy to learn and to work with. And third, the Android Market doesn't have any kind of approval process. To get on the App Store, your app has to be reviewed and approved by Apple, and screened to make sure it's not malware. In contrast, anything can be put on the Android Market. And while Google removes malware once it's found, its biggest defense is that apps ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china39s-huawei-unveils-tablet-to-take-on-apple-samsung-reuters/ china39s-huawei-unveils-tablet-to-take-on-apple-samsung-reuters Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:32:25 +0300 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China's Huawei Technologies unveiled a new tablet computer called the MediaPad on Monday that it hopes could take on market leaders Apple and Samsung Electronics. The launch would be part of an aggressive push by Huawei, the world's second-biggest supplier of telecommunications equipment behind Ericsson, into the consumer space. "With the Huawei MediaPad, we are demonstrating yet again that design, functionality and performance is within anyone's reach," Victor Xu, chief marketing officer of Huawei Device, said in a statement. Huawei Device is a division of Huawei Technologies that makes cellphones, smartphones and tablet PCs. Huawei said the 7-inch MediaPad will run on the Android operating system from Google Inc and use a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor from Qualcomm. It will also come with pre-installed applications such as Facebook and Twitter. The global tablet PC market is now dominated by Apple's iPad with about 80 percent of market share. In China, apart from Apple, Huawei's tablet PCs also compete with Lenovo and ZTE. (Reporting by Eveline Danubrata and Harry Suhartono; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-intel-si-google-vor-sa-cumpere-ceea-ce-a-mai-ramas-in-urma-falimentului-nortel/ apple-intel-si-google-vor-sa-cumpere-ceea-ce-a-mai-ramas-in-urma-falimentului-nortel Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:06:57 +0300 Companii ca Apple, Intel, Google şi Ericsson se află în competiţie pentru a cumpăra mii de patente ale producătorului canadian de echipamente telecom Nortel, aflat în faliment, procesul de vânzare urmând să aibă loc în iunie, au declarat surse apropiate situaţiei pentru Wall Street Journal. Nortel a anunţat, săptămâna trecută, că amână vânzarea a 6.000 de patente şi aplicaţii până la 27 iunie, după ce iniţial procedura a fost programată pentru luni. Patentele privesc tehnologie wireless şi pentru reţele de socializare. Nortel, care a intrat în faliment în ianuarie 2009, a vândut cea mai mare parte a activelor. La licitaţie a fost acceptată şi firma americană RPX, care cumpără patente în numele altor companii. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cea-mai-mare-schimbare-din-lumea-internetului-posibilitati-infinite-pentru-adresele-de-web/ cea-mai-mare-schimbare-din-lumea-internetului-posibilitati-infinite-pentru-adresele-de-web Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:07:20 +0300 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) a decis crearea de noi domenii online, în prezent existând numai 22, aceasta fiind cea mai mare schimbare din lumea web din ultimii ani. Adresele de internet se vor putea termina cu orice cuvânt, în orice limbă, nu numai cu sufixe de tipul ".net", ".com" sau ".org". ICANN va începe să primească cereri de aprobare de anul viitor, mai precis din 12 ianuarie, estimându-se că oraşele şi corporaţiile vor fi printre primele care vor cere un domeniu cu numele lor, informează BBC News Online. "ICANN a deschis sistemul de adrese de internet posibilităţilor infinite ale imaginaţiei umane. Nimeni nu poate să prezică unde ne vor duce aceste decizii istorice", a declarat Rod Beckstrom, preşedinte şi CEO al ICANN. Vor fi create sute de noi adrese care se vor termina cu sufixe precum ".google", ".coke" sau ".BBC". În prezent, există 22 de nume de domenii generice de top, precum şi circa 250 de domenii asociate unor ţări, precum ".ro", ".it", ".fr". Implementarea noilor sufixe de domenii va costa 185.000 de dolari, iar companiile trebuie să demonstreze că cererea lor de înregistrare a unui anumit domeniu este legitimă. Analiştii consideră că marile companii vor fi dispuse să plătească acest preţ pentru a-şi potenţa prezenţa pe internet. Votul ICANN vine după un proces de negocieri de şase ani şi este cea mai mare schimbare din lumea internetului de la introducerea domeniului ".com", în urmă cu 26 de ani. ICANN va demara un program global de comunicare pentru a promova noile domenii. Anul trecut, ICANN a lansat sistemul care permite introducerea adreselor web scrise cu caractere non-latine, un "moment istoric" în lumea online. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/icann-a-aprobat-extinderea-numelor-de-domenii-internet-pentru-companii/ icann-a-aprobat-extinderea-numelor-de-domenii-internet-pentru-companii Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:07:49 +0300 Organizatia care gestioneaza domeniile internet a aprobat, luni, la Singapore, crearea de noi nume de domenii pentru companiile private. Consiliul ICANN a aprobat crearea de domenii care folosesc sub forma de sufix numele companiilor, decizia reprezentand una dintre cele mai importante evolutii din domeniul internetului din ultimii ani, potrivit AFP.Adresele de internet vor putea acum sa se incheie cu un nume de companie, in loc de .org sau .net. "Aceasta este cea mai mare schimbare de nume de domeniu de la fondarea .Com, in urma cu 26 de ani", a declarat Theo Hnarakis, director al Melbourne IT Services, o companie specializata in servicii de internet. Masura este vazuta ca o oportunitate mare pentru branduri de a obtine mai mult control asupra prezentei lor on-line si de a trimite mai multi vizitatori, in mod direct, catre site-urile lor. Totodata, noile nume de domenii vor influenta motoarele de cautare ale Google, scrie Reuters.Companiile care vor avea numeroase beneficii de pe urma acestei decizii sunt brandurile cu o strategie de marketing clara si orientata spre client, sustine Hnarakis."Brandurile trebuie sa actioneze in consecinta si sa se inscrie in cursa pentru utilizarea acestor nume de domenii, deoarece procesul nu este la fel de simplu ca in cazul unei adrese .com. Este un proces complex, care necesita o investitie," a precizat Hnarakis. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/not-only-coms-as-internet-body-throws-open-domain-names-reuters/ not-only-coms-as-internet-body-throws-open-domain-names-reuters Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:02:15 +0300 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – good.food, learnto.salsa, glossy.lipstick -- people and companies will be able to set up a website with almost any address by the end of next year if they have a legitimate claim to the domain name and can pay a hefty fee. The Internet body that oversees domain names voted on Monday to end restricting them to suffixes like .com or .gov and will receive applications for new names from January 12 next year with the first approvals likely by the end of 2012. And they can be in any characters -- Cyrillic, Kanji or Devanagari for instance, for users of Russian, Japanese and Hindi. "It's the biggest change I think we have seen on the Internet," Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), told reporters. "We have provided a platform for the next generation of creativity and inspiration." The new gTLD, or generic top-level domain, program was approved by 13 votes to one with two abstentions by the board of ICANN at a meeting in Singapore. The sole opposition came from a member who felt that more time was needed to hold discussions with government and others parties, ICANN officials said. The new names could infringe on social and religious sensitivities, for instance if someone wanted to set up a .nazi domain, said Dengate Thrush. And people who have invested in securing lucrative .com domains will find the value of the holdings diluted by the new rules, he added. Thrashing out the rules and overcoming objections has taken years, ICANN officials said. For instance, while ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/british-library-google-in-deal-to-digitize-books-ap/ british-library-google-in-deal-to-digitize-books-ap Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:02:26 +0300 LONDON – Google has struck a deal with the British Library to make thousands of historic books available online. The deal, announced Monday, will let Internet users read, search and copy 250,000 texts published between 1700 and 1870. The deal applies to works in the library's collection that are no longer covered by copyright restrictions. Google has similar deals with libraries around the world. Its plan to put millions of copyrighted titles online has been opposed by the publishing industry and is the subject of a legal battle in the United States. The British Library has a collection of 14 million books and almost 1 million periodicals. Last year it announced plans to digitize up to 40 million pages of newspapers dating back three and a half centuries. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china39s-huawei-storms-into-tablet-pc-sector-reuters/ china39s-huawei-storms-into-tablet-pc-sector-reuters Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:32:19 +0300 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China's Huawei Technologies unveiled a 7-inch Android-based tablet PC in Singapore on Monday and said it was also developing a 10-inch device, putting it in competition with Apple and Samsung Electronics. Victor Xu, the chief marketing officer of Huawei unit Huawei Device, told Reuters in an interview that the company plans to be among the top five handset vendors in three years time, a market currently dominated by the likes of Nokia, Samsung and Apple. "We are also developing a 10-inch tablet...We hope to launch it this year," Xu told Reuters. However, he declined to give more details and also would not reveal the likely price of the newly introduced 7-inch tablet, the MediaPad. The company, the world's second-biggest supplier of telecommunications equipment behind Ericsson, has not specified any sales target for the MediaPad which will be commercially available in the third quarter this year through retail stores as well as telecom operators. Huawei Device is a division of Huawei Technologies that makes cell phones, smartphones and tablet PCs. It said the MediaPad will run on the Android operating system from Google Inc and use a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor from Qualcomm. It will also come with pre-installed applications such as Facebook and Twitter. Huawei competes with Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks and ZTE Corp in global network gear and is increasingly pushing into the mobile devices sector. "We believe we can enter into the top five vendors in the global handset market over the next three years," Xu said. The firm had said in April it expects revenue to reach ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-signs-up-british-library-to-books-project-reuters/ google-signs-up-british-library-to-books-project-reuters Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:00:54 +0300 LONDON (Reuters) – Google plans to digitize a quarter of a million books from the British Library's collections covering a period from the French Revolution to the end of slavery as part of its ambitious books project. The search engine giant has already scanned 13 million books through partnerships with more than 40 libraries around the world, which it makes available through its search results. The British Library project involves a selection of books published between 1700 and 1870, including feminist pamphlets about Queen Marie-Antoinette and an account of a stuffed hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange. Google will bear the costs of digitization, and the items will then be available for full-text search, download and reading through Google Books as well as being searchable through the British Library's website and stored in its digital archive. Google does not make any money from its library partnerships, but says the inclusion of material from books that have never been published online enriches its search results. "Our aim at Google has always been to give people as much access to the world's information as is possible," Peter Barron, Google's head of external relations, told Reuters on Monday. In Europe, Google only scans out-of-copyright books but its practice of scanning all books of its U.S. library partners has landed it in trouble with U.S. authors and publishers, who filed a lawsuit against Google in 2005 that is not yet settled. Google was offering excerpts of books online without the permission of copyright holders, putting the onus on authors and rights holders to claim payments ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/5-important-things-tablets-cant-do-yet-yahoo-news/ 5-important-things-tablets-cant-do-yet-yahoo-news Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:02:27 +0300 Tablet computers have actually been on the market for some time. However, it wasn't until the iPad came out that the tablet format really took off. With the marketing arm of Apple behind it, along with the raging success of the iPhone, the iPad was a shoe-in for a mass-market mobile computing device. Despite all of the fanfare, when we come back to reality, the tablet computer still has a long way to go before it can replace the laptop or netbook for most people and here are 5 reasons why.1. To type or not to typeTyping on any touchscreen device can be a tricky thing to get used to. On a smartphone it's probably easier than on a tablet, at least at first. This is because you're already used to letting your thumbs do the typing from using keypad mobile phones. But when it comes to a tablet, it's a whole new ballgame. Some tablets (the 7" size is a great example) can still be used in this manner by placing the tablet in the portrait position. The keyboard usually fills the bottom of the display screen, and is still easily accessible by the thumbs of an average person. On larger tablets, such as the iPad, it's a bit difficult to make your thumbs stretch across the width of the device, even in portrait mode. This is probably the motivation behind Apple's new split keyboard feature, which will be implemented in iOS 5. Any size of tablet can also be used in the landscape position, which also ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-some-dissatisfied-users-are-shunning-facebook/ why-some-dissatisfied-users-are-shunning-facebook Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:04:53 +0300 Editor's note: Blake Snow is a freelance writer and media consultant. He lives along Utah's Wasatch Mountains with his family. Contact information and published works can be found on his website. (CNN) -- There's no denying the cultural impact of Facebook. It has united almost 700 million people, including most of you reading this, becoming the greatest social introduction platform the world has ever seen. But there are also some recent signs of "Facebook fatigue." There is only so much you can do to socialize online, especially after you've exhausted your friend list. Some people also complain they're spending so much time on Facebook that they're short-changing the rest of their lives. Evidence suggests a small but increasing number of users -- at least in North America, where Facebook use is especially saturated -- may be shunning the site. The site lost more than 7 million active users in the United States and Canada last month, according to data from the blog Inside Facebook, although Facebook disputes those figures. Others are consciously reducing the time they spend on the site. "I figured out that I wouldn't look back as an old man and wish I had spent more time on Facebook," says David Cole, an IT manager from Boston. Cole said he believes the popular social-networking site is a useful tool, but not a replacement for what he calles "realbook" experiences. "Instead of working on an essay, I would waste time browsing people's walls," says Kip Krieger, a college student from Virginia, who like Cole has consciously ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/computer-virus-lets-30000-ugly-people-join-exclusive-dating-site-yahoo-news/ computer-virus-lets-30000-ugly-people-join-exclusive-dating-site-yahoo-news Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:32:14 +0300 A dating website that prides itself on matching only the best-looking individuals has deleted the accounts of more that 30,000 users after a computer virus accidentally allowed them to skip the site's screening process. BeautifulPeople employes a strict community voting system that only grants accounts to good-looking applicants, but the aptly-named "Shrek" virus changed that, letting new users skip the screening protocols and begin interacting with the "beautiful" people. Dating sites like eHarmony and Match have gained popularity in recent years among people who simply don't have the time, and perhaps patience, to meet a potential mate by more traditional means. Virtual matchmaker BeautifulPeople takes this concept a step further, by screening applicants based on looks, allowing only the most perfectly sculpted specimens to join its ranks. Members who pass the test pay $25 per month to be matched with other hotties. Once the virus was discovered, the site's managing director Greg Hodge decided that the only way to correct the problem was to boot the 30,000 less desirable users from the site, stating "We have to stick to our founding principles of only accepting beautiful people — that's what our members have paid for. We can't just sweep 30,000 ugly people under the carpet." (Source) More from Tecca: Prison computer error lets 450 violent felons walk free Spams & Scams: Dating deception Google yanks 21 malware apps from the Android Market http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/huawei-introduces-first-7-inch-android-32-powered-tablet-digital-trends/ huawei-introduces-first-7-inch-android-32-powered-tablet-digital-trends Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:32:22 +0300 Who cares about Android version 3.1 anymore? 3.2 is the new hotness. The next update to Google‘s mobile operating system hasn’t been released yet, but it will be soon, installed into an upcoming 7-inch tablet from Huawei. The 7-incher is Huawei’s MediaPad, a press release reveals. The company tells Engadget that the upcoming Android update is pretty much the same thing as Android 3.1, only it’s built to play well with the tablet display’s smaller size. Android version 3.x, dubbed Honeycomb is exclusive to tablets, only a handful of which are available right now. So 3.2 simply scales that experience down a bit. The tablet itself sports a half-inch thick shell and weighs slightly less than one pound. On the inside you’ve got a dual-core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm processor, a 1.3 MP front-facing camera, a 5 MP rear-facing camera that can do HD video recording, an HSPA+ wireless receiver for 3G wireless, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Flash 10.3 support. Battery life clocks in at around six hours. The 7-inch LCD touchscreen can also handle 1080p HD video playback, and can send that content out to an external display through a built-in HDMI port. The MediaPad isn’t a beast, but it can certainly compete so long as the price is right. No price is revealed in the release — nor is any information about how much RAM there is — but the device is expected to start shipping in the third quarter of this year. There are apparently no plans to release a Wi-Fi-only model, Engadget adds. For comparison, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/british-library-and-google-put-250000-books-online-afp/ british-library-and-google-put-250000-books-online-afp Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:31:05 +0300 LONDON (AFP) – Pamphlets about Queen Marie Antoinette and an account of a stuffed hippopotamus are among 250,000 books being made available online in a deal announced on Monday by Google and the British Library. Internet users will be able to consult the texts dating from 1700 to 1870, which have been digitised by the search engine giant and chosen by the library, they said in a statement. The works are all out of copyright, thus avoiding problems Google has previously faced in the United States and France over its attempts to create a universal digitised library. "Our aim is to provide perpetual access to this historical material, and we hope that our collections coupled with Google's know-how will enable us to achieve this aim," British Library chief executive Lynne Brindley said. She said it was building on the library's "proud tradition of giving access to anyone, anywhere and at any time." Among the first works to be digitised will be feminist treatises written in 1791 on Queen Marie Antoinette of France, the wife of King Louis XVI who was executed after the French Revolution. There are also plans written by the Spanish inventor Narciso Monturiol dating from 1858 for the first combustion engine-powered submarine, entitled "A Scheme for Underwater Seafaring: the Ichthyneus or Fish-Boat". The collection further features "The Natural History of the Hippopotamus, or River Horse", written by George Louis Leclerc in 1775, which tells the story of a stuffed hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange. All the works will be available for text search download and reading on the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/demand-for-video-driving-mobile-data-traffic-report-reuters/ demand-for-video-driving-mobile-data-traffic-report-reuters Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:32:47 +0300 LONDON (Reuters) – Up to 60 percent of mobile data traffic is generated by consumers watching video, with owners of Apple's iPhone driving the demand, according to a company that specializes in traffic management. Bytemobile, which helps operators manage and condense traffic, said the overall data demand was also likely to intensify as 90 percent of the total data traffic was currently generated by just 10 percent of mobile data users. The company said video watched on iPhones generated 58 percent of data traffic, with phones on the Google operating system Android on slightly less at 52 percent, as smartphones now copied the usage patterns of laptops Mobile operators have been taken by surprise in recent years by the intense demand for data services, as consumers opt to access the Internet and video on the go. Some analysts and investors have also doubted whether the operators can fully profit from the change, as they have to invest in their networks to support the demand. "Continued aggressive growth in mobile data -- fueled by video and application usage over faster networks and more powerful, user-friendly devices -- has created a formidable traffic management challenge for carriers," said Ronny Haraldsvik, vice president of Global Marketing at Bytemobile. Bytemobile, which produces a report on the changing trends in data traffic, said demand stayed strong from midday to midnight and those users with access to better networks watched videos for longer. (Reporting by Kate Holton; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/british-library-va-posta-online-250000-de-carti-din-secolele-al-xviii-lea-si-al-xix-lea/ british-library-va-posta-online-250000-de-carti-din-secolele-al-xviii-lea-si-al-xix-lea Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:36:24 +0300 British Library, biblioteca naţională britanică, va posta online circa 250.000 de opere din fondul ei de carte, publicate între anii 1700 - 1870, care vor fi accesibile gratuit, în cadrul unui parteneriat încheiat cu grupul Google, ce a fost făcut public luni. Printre primele volume disponibile gratuit spre a fi consultate pe internet se numără un pamflet despre regina Marie-Antoinette şi planurile inventatorului spaniol Narciso Monturiol datând din 1858, care a desenat unul dintre primele submarine. Toate operele ce vor fi digitalizate au fost selecţionate de experţii de la British Library. Lipsite de drepturi de licenţă şi scrise în mai multe limbi europene, ele vor fi accesibile pe site-ul instituţiei britanice (www.bl.uk) şi pe serviciul "Google Books", se afirmă în comunicatul emis de British Library. Cheltuielile ocazionate de digitalizarea acestor 40 de milioane de pagini vor fi acoperite de Google. Gigantul american a stabilit deja parteneriate de acest tip cu peste 40 de biblioteci din lumea întreagă, în special cu cele ale universităţilor Stanford şi Harvard din Statele Unite, dar şi cu altele din Europa, precum cele din Italia (Roma, Florenţa), Olanda şi Austria. Cele 250.000 de documente selecţionate reprezintă "un eşantion vast de cărţi, pamflete şi periodice acoperind o perioadă în care au avut loc Revoluţia franceză şi revoluţia industrială, bătălia de la Trafalgar şi Războiul Crimeei, inventarea căilor ferate şi a telegrafului (...), dar şi sfârşitul sclaviei", se afirmă în comunicatul British Library, care a ales să privilegieze operele care nu sunt încă disponibile gratuit pe internet. Odată digitalizate, ele vor fi accesibile pentru lectură, descărcare, cercetare şi stocare din arhivele bibliotecii. "Cercetătorii, studenţii şi alţi utilizatori ai bibliotecii vor putea accesa aceste conţinuturi istorice (...), să le copieze, partajeze ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/british-library-google-put-thousands-of-books-online-afp/ british-library-google-put-thousands-of-books-online-afp Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:32:28 +0300 LONDON (AFP) – Pamphlets about Queen Marie Antoinette and an account of a stuffed hippopotamus are among 250,000 books being made available online in a deal announced on Monday by Google and the British Library. Internet users will be able to consult the texts dating from 1700 to 1870, which have been digitised by the search engine giant and chosen by the library, which has one of the world's largest collections, they said in a statement. The works are all out of copyright, thus avoiding problems Google has previously faced in the United States and France over its attempts to create a universal digitised library. "Our aim is to provide perpetual access to this historical material, and we hope that our collections coupled with Google's know-how will enable us to achieve this aim," British Library chief executive Lynne Brindley said. She said it was building on the library's "proud tradition of giving access to anyone, anywhere and at any time." Among the first works to be digitised will be feminist treatises written in 1791 on Queen Marie Antoinette of France, the wife of King Louis XVI who was executed after the French Revolution. There are also plans written by the Spanish inventor Narciso Monturiol dating from 1858 for the first combustion engine-powered submarine, entitled "A Scheme for Underwater Seafaring: the Ichthyneus or Fish-Boat". The collection further features "The Natural History of the Hippopotamus, or River Horse", written by George Louis Leclerc in 1775, which tells the story of a stuffed hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange. All the works will be available ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pentagon-constructing-virtual-cyber-warfare-training-ground-yahoo-news/ pentagon-constructing-virtual-cyber-warfare-training-ground-yahoo-news Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:32:21 +0300 Elite military forces require advanced training grounds in order to test their skills. Now, those combating cyberterrorism will have a similar training ground, with the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) building a mock internet on which to test defense strategies. The fake web will allow the agency to simulate different scenarios and plan the best response to various types of cyberattack. Multiple versions of the virtual proving grounds — which will be known as the National Cyber Range — are in development. One is under construction by big-time defense contractor Lockheed Martin, and another by researchers from Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. DARPA will pick one of the prototypes this summer, and begin the rigorous task of testing the new platform. DARPA is the perfect government entity to tackle such a project; the group is responsible for an early version of the internet which it developed in the 1960s, long before 'cyberterrorism' was even in our vocabulary. Now, with the U.S. declaring that cyberattacks can be met with a military response, it's no surprise that over $130 million is being spent on the new project, which is expected to be up and running by mid-2012. CNET via Reuters More from Tecca: Watch a hummingbird-shaped spy drone flutter around, steal your secrets Cyber thief steals $450,000 worth of experimental virtual currency Wikileaks confirms China to blame for cyber attack on Google http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-icloud-vs-google-music-vs-amazon-cloud-digital-trends/ apple-icloud-vs-google-music-vs-amazon-cloud-digital-trends Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:32:44 +0300 The last few months have seen the emergence of three different services from big players designed to give users cloud-based access to their personal music libraries. With smartphones, tablets or iPads, laptops, and home computers, it’s no wonder that consumers are looking for a better way to store and have access to their often large libraries of digital music. Amazon was the first to announce its Cloud Drive storage service a few months back, and it’s the only cloud-based music service that is completely available to users as of today. Google recently announced its highly-anticipated Google Music Beta service, but like the name suggests, it’s still in an invite-only beta testing stage, although anyone can request an invite and hope to be chosen. To round out the group of three, Steve Jobs announced Apple’s iCloud service last week at WWDC, which offers a host of cloud-storage features including the speculated iTunes integration. While it will be hard to tell which service will win out in the end until all three are available for full use, there are significant difference between the services that users and music lovers should be aware of. Price and availability Amazon Cloud Drive Amazon is offering 5GB of storage for free to anyone with an Amazon account, but we all know that that will only cover a fraction of most users’ libraries. You can store 20GB for $20 a year, and extra storage beyond that costs about $1 per GB in increments of 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1,000. If you have less than ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/defense-firms-see-opportunity-in-cyber-attacks-reuters/ defense-firms-see-opportunity-in-cyber-attacks-reuters Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:02:17 +0300 LE BOURGET, France (Reuters) – A spate of high-profile online break-ins has given defense firms at the Paris Air Show a new sales pitch: cyber security. Targeted by hackers looking to steal source codes, R&D information and trade secrets, aerospace and defense firms are turning the tables on the pirates and are making security a key sales argument. "We see huge potential to do deals this week because interest in cyber security has soared given recent events," Paul MacGregor, general manager of Finmeccanica's UK security arm, Vega Consulting Services, told Reuters. He added that cyber security was now an "arms race," with defense firms battling to stay one step ahead of the hackers. "Information is now used as a weapon and companies need to defend it at all costs or they themselves could lose out on contracts if they are seen as having weak defenses," he said. Earlier this month, some of U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin's systems -- home to sensitive U.S. defense technologies -- were hacked, while the Pentagon said that cyber attacks perpetrated by foreign governments could now be considered acts of war. Other recent prominent attacks have targeted entities such as the International Monetary Fund, the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Senate, as well as multinationals Google and Sony. "When you see an airplane coming at you firing missiles, you can see it. This other threat, you have no idea whether they are there or not. That's why I don't sleep at night," Raytheon Chief Executive William Swanson told Reuters. "Our opportunity is to make sure we protect ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-to-bring-250000-british-library-books-online-pc-magazine/ google-to-bring-250000-british-library-books-online-pc-magazine Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:02:22 +0300 With a catalog of about 14 million books, the British Library's collection is one of the biggest in the world, second only to the U.S. Library of Congress. Many of these titles will soon be available to anyone, anywhere; a new partnership between Google and the British Library will put about 250,000 of those texts online. Google is footing the bill to digitize content that is no longer under copyright. People can view, copy, and search this content dating from 1700-1870 for free via either the British Library site or the Google Books site. Content will be available in a variety of languages, and a focus will be placed on items that have never been available online before. One of the library's goals is to allow access to its texts to anyone who wants to do research. "Through this partnership [we] believe that we are building on this proud tradition of giving access to anyone, anywhere, and at any time," the library's chief executive, Dame Lynne Brindley said. "Our aim is to provide perpetual access to this historical material, and we hope that our collections coupled with Google's known-how will enable us to achieve this aim." Google already has similar deals with around 40 libraries across the globe. "What's powerful about the technology available to us today isn't just the ability to preserve history and culture for posterity, but also its ability to bring it to life in new ways," Peter Barron, Google's director of external relations, said in a statement. "This public domain material ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/huawei-unveils-mediapad-first-7-inch-tablet-to-run-android-32-pc-magazine/ huawei-unveils-mediapad-first-7-inch-tablet-to-run-android-32-pc-magazine Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:02:29 +0300 The time has come for an Android 3.2 tablet. Huawei on Monday debuted what it says is the world's first 7-inch tablet running Android 3.2. The MediaPad, unveiled at CommunicAsia in Singapore, will reportedly move ahead of the current pack of tablets with the newest version of Google's Android Honeycomb OS. Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 currently ships with Android 3.1, but—according to Huawei—the MediaPad will ship with Android 3.2, which was designed for 7-inch tablets. PCMag's Sascha Segan is at Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen. Company reps told him they did not have a unit running software that will reflect the user experience at launch, so we'll have to wait a bit for some hands-on time with an Android 3.2 tablet. The MediaPad will run a Qualcomm dual-core 1.2-GHz processor. Comparatively, both the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola Xoom sport dual-core 1-GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processors. Huawei's tablet measures 0.4 inches thick. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a just a tad slimmer at 0.34 inches, while the Motorola Xoom is thicker at around 0.5 inches. The MediaPad weighs just 0.86 pounds while the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Xoom measure 1.25 pounds and 1.6 pounds, respectively. The MediaPad will come preloaded with Flash 10.3, Facebook, Twitter, Let's Golf, and Documents to Go. The Huawei tablet also has a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with HD video-recording capabilities. Huawei said the tablet will launch in select markets starting in the third quarter. For more from Julius, follow him on Twitter @jcmodus http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/new-york-post-goes-paywall-but-only-for-ipad-users-yahoo-news/ new-york-post-goes-paywall-but-only-for-ipad-users-yahoo-news Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:02:43 +0300 If you want to get access to the New York Post, you'll no longer be able to do so for free via your iPad. The paper has erected a paywall around its content for iPad users only, meaning you can no longer access the site free of charge. When viewing the NY Post you are directed to go and use the NY Post app instead, which will cost you $1.99 from the iTunes store, plus a subscription, ranging from $6.99 a month to $74.99 for a year. The NY Post is owned by the Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns, amongst other things, Fox News and the subscription-based iPad app The Daily, which produces digitally-enhanced content for readers and delivers it right to the iPad each day. It has received mostly favorable reviews, however its long term profitability is still unknown. Check out Tecca's review of The Daily for more information. You can easily get around the NY Post iPad paywall by using an alternative iPad browser like Skyfire, as the NY Post (for now) only recognizes you're browsing from an iPad when you use the iPad's built-in web browser, Safari. You can download Skyfire for $4.99 from the iTunes store. The NY Post isn't the only news paper to have a paywall up. The New York Times recently entered the arena as well, and reviews are mixed, at best. Other major news sites are also considering erecting paywalls around their content in order to increase profits, in a time when many sites are seeing their ad revenue ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/report-tivo-iphone-android-apps-are-coming-pc-magazine/ report-tivo-iphone-android-apps-are-coming-pc-magazine Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:02:45 +0300 A TiVo app for the iPhone has reportedly been in the works for some time, and a recent advertisement has provided a few more details. In a full-page ad in the June issue of CEPRo, Bard Williams, TiVo's director of retail and channel marketing, describes a "beautiful, easy-to-use interface." "It offers ... complete control over management and program selection, a multi-touch remote that features gestures-based navigation, and the ability to manage and navigate Season Pass recording, your queue and info about cast, crew, similar shows – without interrupting your TV experience," Williams wrote in the ad, uncovered by Zatz Not Funny. "When you're not at home, the app still lets you interact with your Premiere for basic management and recording tasks." TiVo already has an iPad app that works much like a remote control for the Premiere set-top box. The ad revealed that TiVo is cooking up apps for devices running on Google's Android OS. Williams said the apps can be used to "enable two-way interaction with TiVo devices for things like managing shows, browsing TV guides, and other tasks familiar to TiVo users," but he did not specify how the iPhone and Android apps would differ from the existing iPad app. Even without the nitty-gritty details, as Electronista notes TiVo has been hinting that it would expand its suite of mobile apps, but this is the first time the company's plans have been formally divulged. However, the release date is unclear and these apps might not appear for several months, Electronista added. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hackers-take-sega-data-lulzsec-offers-to-help-newsfactor/ hackers-take-sega-data-lulzsec-offers-to-help-newsfactor Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:02:54 +0300 Sega is the latest Japanese video-game company to come under hack attack. The company confirmed the theft of information belonging to 1.3 million customers from its database. That makes the Sega attack larger than the Sony PlayStation, Nintendo and Codemasters hacks of the past weeks. In a statement written in Japanese, the company confirmed that names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and passwords of gamers were stolen from its Sega Pass web site on Friday. However, Sega was clear that credit-card numbers were not revealed. "We sincerely apologize for troubles this incident has caused to our customers," said the statement. "An investigation has been launched to find the cause and channels used for the leakage." LulzSec on a Vengeance LulzSec, the culprit behind the Nintendo hack, denied responsibility for the Sega intrusion. Noteworthy is the fact that LulzSec has offered to find and punish the Sega database hackers. "Well, it's bad news for those one-million-plus Sega customers as their e-mail addresses and dates of birth have been grabbed by the hackers. Those e-mail addresses could be used in phishing e-mails or targeted attacks designed to trick people into believing they really were from Sega," said Graham Cluley, a senior security analyst at Sophos. "Sega has apparently reset passwords. Users would be wise to use different passwords on every web site they access, as once you get your details compromised in one place, your other accounts can begin to fall down like a pack of cards." Everybody Getting Hit Cyberattacks on governments, corporations and individuals are spiking. Sony's PlayStation Network, Lockheed Martin, PBS, Google's Gmail ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mozilla-spars-with-microsoft-over-webgl-security-digital-trends/ mozilla-spars-with-microsoft-over-webgl-security-digital-trends Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:32:27 +0300 Last week, Microsoft raised some hackles in the Web development community by claiming that there was no way to implement the WebGL open 3D graphics standard in Internet Explorer without exposing users to unacceptable potential security risks. WebGL is a 3D graphics environment build on OpenGL 2.0, used for many 3D games and technologies, and promises to bring hardware-accellerated 3G graphics support to Web browsers. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox already support WebGL, and Opera and Safari are working on support. However, while Microsoft has made many strides with Internet Explorer 9—and is already showing off work on IE10— Internet Explorer offers no support for WebGL. In a detailed posting, Microsoft outlined its primary reasons for considering WebGL a security risk: that WebGL exposes hardware functionality (e.g. video cards and processing) to Web content in an “overly permissive” way, that WebGL security servicing relies too heavily on third party components, and that today’s graphics systems were never intended to cope with shaders and 3D geometries that are specifically designed as attacks. “We believe that WebGL will likely become an ongoing source of hard-to-fix vulnerabilities,” Microsoft wrote. “In its current form, WebGL is not a technology Microsoft can endorse from a security perspective.” Microsoft also cited two reports from Context Information Security that outlined security issued in WebGL. Not surprisingly, WebGL supporters take issue with Microsoft’s position, and leading the charge for the moment is Mozilla’s VP of technical strategy, Mike Shaver, who notes that Microsoft seems to overcome all of the concerns it has over WebGL in its own Silverlight ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-to-take-top-spot-in-us-display-ad-market-reuters/ facebook-to-take-top-spot-in-us-display-ad-market-reuters Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:02:17 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook's U.S. advertising revenue will total roughly $2.2 billion in 2011, displacing Yahoo Inc to collect the biggest slice of online display advertising dollars, according to a new study. Facebook's U.S. advertising revenue will give it a 17.7 percent share of the market for graphical display ads that appear on websites, according to a report released on Monday by research firm eMarketer. Last year Facebook had 12.2 percent share of the U.S. market. The figures underscore the growing clout of Facebook, the world's No.1 Internet social network. It has seen its valuation soar to roughly $80 billion in recent transactions for its shares on the private markets and some investors anticipate it could have an initial public offering next year. While Facebook has grabbed the top ranking, eMarketer analyst David Hallerman said the overall market for display ads, which include banner ads, video ads and Web page sponsorships, is growing robustly enough that it is benefiting numerous companies. "It's not a zero sum game," said Hallerman, noting that the display advertising market is experiencing rapid growth as both big international brands and small, local businesses increasingly turn to the Web to reach consumers. Internet companies such as Yahoo, Google Inc and Microsoft Corp are competing for those advertising budgets, while new players such as online coupon company Groupon are offering marketers alternatives to traditional online display ads. Web portal Yahoo will grow its online display business in the U.S. by 13.6 percent this year, eMarketer said. But that will lag the overall U.S. display market's growth rate of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/british-library-collection-will-be-added-to-google-books-newsfactor/ british-library-collection-will-be-added-to-google-books-newsfactor Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:02:19 +0300 Google plans to add an additional 250,000 titles to its Google Books online service by digitizing up to 40 million pages of content from the London-based British Library collection. Google's partnership demonstrates that despite recent legal setbacks, new CEO Larry Page hasn't abandoned his long-term vision of scanning every book on the planet and making it freely available online. Last March, New York District Court Judge Denny Chin rejected a proposed $125 million settlement between Google and the representatives of publishers and authors for Google to copy and distribute materials still protected by copyright laws. Among other things, Chin found fault with Google's unilateral decision to engage in "wholesale, blatant copying" without prior permission. This time around, Google will be sticking to titles dating between 1700 and 1870, and therefore no longer copyright-protected. Moreover, all materials that Google scans from the library's collection will be made available online, noted British Library spokesperson Miki Lentin. "The project will be done over a period of several years [and] the complete text will be available for all to access," Lentin said. Going To an Undisclosed Location According to the British Library, the books will be taken to an undisclosed location for digital scanning by Google employees. The multiyear project is expected to be a bonanza for researchers covering the period from the French revolution to the end of slavery. "Our aim is to provide perpetual access to this historical material, and we hope that our collections, coupled with Google's know-how, will enable us to achieve this aim," said British Library ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-marketing-executive-jumps-ship-for-samsung-reuters/ rim-marketing-executive-jumps-ship-for-samsung-reuters Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:02:35 +0300 TORONTO (Reuters) – Brian Wallace, who headed digital marketing efforts at Research In Motion, has left the BlackBerry maker for a job at Samsung, a smartphone competitor that uses Google's Android software. The departure was first reported by trade publication Advertising Age, which said Wallace will become Samsung's vice-president of strategic marketing for the United States, working from Dallas. Reuters confirmed the exit with a source at RIM, while Wallace also acknowledged the move on his Twitter page. The change comes at a pivotal time for Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM as it works to push out new smartphones with the QNX operating system that it uses in its PlayBook tablet. The exit comes days after news of a medical leave for Chief Operating Officer Don Morrison. It also follows the departure of Keith Pardy, RIM's head of marketing, in March, just weeks before RIM launched the PlayBook, its answer to Apple's hugely successful iPad. RIM said last Thursday it would reduce staff numbers after posting a disappointing profit and warning its earnings would fall further due to delays launching new devices. Its shares have lost half their value this year and were down 5.8 percent at $26.14 on Nasdaq on Monday afternoon, a fresh five-year low. (Reporting by Alastair Sharp; editing by Peter Galloway) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/explaining-the-internet39s-new-domain-endings/ explaining-the-internet39s-new-domain-endings Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:04:53 +0300 (CNN) -- On Monday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted to allow a new array of Internet domain endings. But what does that mean? The change means that the familiar ".com," ".org" and ".net" could be getting a lot more company in the next year or so. As our colleagues at CNNMoney said, "Forget .com -- here's .coke." Here's a breakdown of the vote that ICANN chairman Peter Dengate said "will usher in a new Internet age." First, what's ICANN? It's the nonprofit group that assigns addresses to Internet service providers. The organization was founded in 1998, has members from all over the world and is dedicated to "keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable," according to ICANN's website. One of the organization's main jobs has become assigning and overseeing domain names on the Internet. They've been gradually expanding the options for years, a process which has added such top-level domain names as ".biz" and ".xxx." What did they change? Right now, there are a limited number -- 22, to be precise -- of what's called "generic top-level domains." The most familiar ones are "com," "org," "info," "edu" and "net." Under the new rule, people will be able to apply to ICANN to register most any word, in any language, as their domain ending. So, I can set up my own domain? That depends. Are you rich? Are you an established corporation or government? If the answer to any of the above is "no," then probably not. ICANN will be charging at least $185,000 per domain application (more in the case of buyers who ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/flashflex-update-develops-apps-for-multiple-platforms-newsfactor/ flashflex-update-develops-apps-for-multiple-platforms-newsfactor Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:32:24 +0300 Adobe Systems has delivered an update to its Adobe Flash Builder/Flex app-development software. It means developers will be able to use a single platform to build mobile offerings for Android, iOS and BlackBerry mobile devices. The integrated development environment can serve as a stand-alone tool or function as part of Adobe's Creative Suite 5.5 offering, Adobe said Monday. What's truly revolutionary about the Flash Builder/Flex 4.5 release is that developers will only need to assemble a single code base to deploy their apps to multiple platforms. "To create an app natively for one platform would have taken at least three times the amount of time -- and then we would have had to start from scratch all over again for a native app on the next platform," said HD Interactive President Sean Carey. "It's unbelievable the amount of time we save using Flash Builder 4.5 to build and deploy our apps." Leveling the Playing Field According to Vision Mobile's latest survey of 850 developers worldwide, Apple's iOS ranked third (27 percent) behind Google's Android OS (35 percent) and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 (32 percent). However, Adobe's Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 framework could end up leveling the playing field. It would be ironic if Adobe's new developer tools boost the number of offerings in Apple's App Store in light of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' heavy criticism of Adobe Flash. Flash Builder/Flex 4.5 also could give Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform a boost, since developers will be able to assemble apps for Android and iOS devices as well as ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-raises-gay-pride-flag-in-search-results-pc-magazine/ google-raises-gay-pride-flag-in-search-results-pc-magazine Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:02:49 +0300 Google is honoring Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) month by adding a rainbow image to the top of search results of gay-related searches. For instance, when you search for phrases like "gay," "homosexual," "LGBT" your search bar will show an symbolic gay image over the search button (pictured right). Google has supported its LGBT employees in various ways over the years, beginning with co-founder Sergey Brin's public opposition to Proposition 8 (the law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman) in 2008. Last year Google helped its same-sex domestic partners living in the U.S. by calculating their health insurance benefits in a way that offset associated tax burdens. That month hundreds of Googlers also participated in Gay Pride parades across the country. Last fall Google also contributed employees' coming out stories to a YouTube video supporting national anti-gay bullying efforts. Its merchandise store also sells a t-shirt that depicts two green Android robots holding hands and waving a gay pride flag. Google also donated $50,000 to the Trevor Project, a suicide hotline for gay youths. In 2009, Google issued its public support for gay marriage, several months after Apple also donated $100,000 to the cause. Google typically honors legends or momentous occasions with wildly popular Google doodles, notably recent ones for musician Les Paul, dancer/choreographer Martha Graham, and the recent lunar eclipse. But on Monday it received a backlash against a Father's Day feature that reminded Gmail users to "call dad." http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what-the-internet39s-new-domain-endings-mean/ what-the-internet39s-new-domain-endings-mean Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:04:24 +0300 (CNN) -- On Monday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted to allow a new array of Internet domain endings. But what does that mean? The change means that the familiar ".com," ".org" and ".net" could be getting a lot more company in the next year or so. As our colleagues at CNNMoney said, "Forget .com -- here's .coke." Here's a breakdown of the vote that ICANN chairman Peter Dengate said "will usher in a new Internet age." First, what's ICANN? It's the nonprofit group that assigns addresses to Internet service providers. The organization was founded in 1998, has members from all over the world and is dedicated to "keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable," according to ICANN's website. One of the organization's main jobs has become assigning and overseeing domain names on the Internet. They've been gradually expanding the options for years, a process which has added such top-level domain names as ".biz" and ".xxx." What did they change? Right now, there are a limited number -- 22, to be precise -- of what's called "generic top-level domains." The most familiar ones are "com," "org," "info," "edu" and "net." Under the new rule, people will be able to apply to ICANN to register most any word, in any language, as their domain ending. So, I can set up my own domain? That depends. Are you rich? Are you an established corporation or government? If the answer to any of the above is "no," then probably not. ICANN will be charging at least $185,000 per domain application (more in the case of buyers who ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-some-are-shunning-facebook/ why-some-are-shunning-facebook Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:04:26 +0300 Editor's note: Blake Snow is a freelance writer and media consultant. He lives along Utah's Wasatch Mountains with his family. Contact information and published works can be found on his website. (CNN) -- There's no denying the cultural impact of Facebook. It has united almost 700 million people, including most of you reading this, becoming the greatest social introduction platform the world has ever seen. But there are also some recent signs of "Facebook fatigue." There is only so much you can do to socialize online, especially after you've exhausted your friend list. Some people also complain they're spending so much time on Facebook that they're short-changing the rest of their lives. Evidence suggests a small but increasing number of users -- at least in North America, where Facebook use is especially saturated -- may be shunning the site. The site lost more than 7 million active users in the United States and Canada last month, according to data from the blog Inside Facebook, although Facebook disputes those figures. Others are consciously reducing the time they spend on the site. "I figured out that I wouldn't look back as an old man and wish I had spent more time on Facebook," says David Cole, an IT manager from Boston. Cole said he believes the popular social-networking site is a useful tool, but not a replacement for what he calls "realbook" experiences. "Instead of working on an essay, I would waste time browsing people's walls," says Kip Krieger, a college student from Virginia, who like Cole has consciously ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-investor39s-business-daily/ google-investor39s-business-daily Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:32:44 +0300 Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) acquired SageTV, which makes media software and digital video recorders, for an undisclosed price. Analysts said the acquisition is aimed at helping the online search leader further extend its brand and media offerings from the Internet to TV. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-expands-digital-library-investor39s-business-daily/ google-expands-digital-library-investor39s-business-daily Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:32:45 +0300 The No. 1 online search company will pay an undisclosed sum to the British Library to digitize 250,000 scholarly books published between 1700 and 1870. Internet users will be able to read, search and copy books from the British Library and Google Books websites. The library plans to make the bulk of its 14 mil books and 1 mil periodicals available in digital form by 2020. Google has digitized 13 mil books in similar deals so far. Shares dipped 0.1% to 484.58. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-to-launch-windows-phone-later-this-year-reuters/ nokia-to-launch-windows-phone-later-this-year-reuters Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:32:36 +0300 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Ailing Finnish cellphone maker Nokia will launch its first smartphone using the Microsoft Windows platform later this year, and will begin to ship the models in volume in 2012, Chief Executive Stephen Elop said on Tuesday. "Our primary smartphone strategy is to focus on the Windows phone," Elop, who moved to Nokia from Microsoft last year, said at a telecom conference in Singapore. "I have increased confidence that we will launch our first device based on the Windows platform later this year and we will ship our product in volume in 2012," Elop reiterated. He provided few details on how he planned to arrest a slide in Nokia's market share. Last month, Nokia said it decided to abandon hopes of meeting key targets just weeks after setting them, raising questions over whether Elop can deliver on a turnaround he promised in February. Nokia also unveiled its new N9 smartphone, the first and last to use the MeeGo platform, at the Singapore event and said the commercial launch will be held later in the year. Nokia has been losing ground in the smartphone market to Apple Inc's iPhone and Google Inc's Android devices, and in the low-end mobile phones to more nimble Asian rivals such as China's ZTE and India's Micromax. In a research note this month, Nomura said Samsung Electronics will become the world's largest smartphone maker this quarter and Apple Inc will take the number two spot next quarter, pushing Nokia to the third place. Nokia has led the market since 1996 when it launched the Communicator, a smartphone ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/india-it-hub-orders-google-to-suspend-street-view-service-reuters/ india-it-hub-orders-google-to-suspend-street-view-service-reuters Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:00:40 +0300 NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Google Inc has been ordered by city police to suspend its "Street View" service in the Indian IT hub of Bangalore, the company said on Tuesday, in the latest setback to its global mapping project that has been hit by privacy fears. The technology giant has sent a fleet of cars around the globe to capture millions of images used with maps as part of its panoramic Street View service, but faces regulatory challenges from authorities across the world on data protection concerns. "We received a letter from the commissioner of police regarding Street View. We are currently reviewing it and have stopped our cars until we have a chance to answer any questions or concerns the police have," Google said in a statement. The commissioner of police declined to elaborate on the reasons for the letter when contacted by Reuters. Bangalore is the leading IT hub in Asia's third-largest economy, where Google employs thousands nationwide and where global technology giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Intel also have offices. Google began collecting images three weeks ago in Bangalore, the first Indian city targeted by Street View. The company aims to cover all of India with the mapping service, a spokesperson told Reuters. Regulators across Europe, Canada and Singapore have conducted investigations into the legality of Street View, after Google admitted to U.S. authorities that the vehicles used to take the photographs for the service had also collected personal information such as emails and passwords from unsecured WiFi networks. France's data protection regulator fined the firm 100,000 euros ($143,650) ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bangalore-police-orders-google-to-suspend-street-view-service-reuters/ bangalore-police-orders-google-to-suspend-street-view-service-reuters Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:01:04 +0300 NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Google Inc has been ordered by city police to suspend its "Street View" service in Bangalore, the company said on Tuesday, in the latest setback to its global mapping project that has been hit by privacy fears. The technology giant has sent a fleet of cars around the globe to capture millions of images used with maps as part of its panoramic Street View service, but faces regulatory challenges from authorities across the world on data protection concerns. "We received a letter from the commissioner of police regarding Street View. We are currently reviewing it and have stopped our cars until we have a chance to answer any questions or concerns the police have," Google said in a statement. The commissioner of police declined to elaborate on the reasons for the letter when contacted by Reuters. Bangalore is the leading IT hub in Asia's third-largest economy, where Google employs thousands nationwide and where global technology giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Intel also have offices. Google began collecting images three weeks ago in Bangalore, the first Indian city targeted by Street View. The company aims to cover all of India with the mapping service, a spokesperson told Reuters. Regulators across Europe, Canada and Singapore have conducted investigations into the legality of Street View, after Google admitted to U.S. authorities that the vehicles used to take the photographs for the service ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/9-things-you-need-to-know-about-icann39s-new-top-level-domains-mashable/ 9-things-you-need-to-know-about-icann39s-new-top-level-domains-mashable Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:32:20 +0300 On Monday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), approved the creation of generic top-level domains (TLDs) for brands and organizations. Historically, only 22 general use-approved TLDs, which include .com, .org, .net and a host of others, have existed across the web. A number of country code top-level domains (like .me and .ly) also exist and throughout the years, many individuals not from those countries have used those domains to give their domain or brand a more memorable (or in some cases, shorter) URL. [More from Mashable: How Big Is the Web & How Fast Is It Growing?] The promise of more generic TLDs is immense because it could conceivably open up new domain extensions and opportunities for a wider variety of brands, organizations and services. SEE ALSO: How Big Is the Web & How Fast Is It Growing? [More from Mashable: New .XXX Domain Approved for Porn Sites] Still, the entire TLD process is complicated and difficult to understand. We've been sucked down the rabbit hole of ICANN and the gTLD application process in the past, and it isn't something we recommend for the faint of heart. We read (or at least skimmed) the 352-page draft New gTLD Applicant Guidebook [PDF] to get to the bottom of what the gTLD process is, how much it costs, and ultimately, why regular users should care. 1. How Many New TLDs Will Be Issued? ICANN has said between 300 and 1,000 new gTLDs could be created per year under the new program. Still, this number assumes ICANN can process and deal with that many ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/will-facebook-launch-a-music-service-in-august-mashable/ will-facebook-launch-a-music-service-in-august-mashable Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:32:51 +0300 The music/tech rumor mill has been grinding away -- not yet sated by the release of cloud-based music services from Google and Apple. The most recent grist? Facebook. In May, Forbes reported that Facebook was working with music subscription service Spotify on an integrated platform that would allow users to listen to tunes via Facebook. [More from Mashable: New York State Senator Asks Twitter & Facebook Followers How To Vote on Gay Marriage Bill] Both companies declined to confirm the rumor. In fact, at the eG8 forum in Paris, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also implied that there's no such deal, stating: “We don’t have the DNA to be a music company or a movie company." Now, however, GigaOM is reporting that Facebook has been reaching out to several online music services -- not just Spotify -- and that the next f8 developer conference (which will likely take place in August) will center on music. [More from Mashable: What’s the Most Social City in the World? [CONTEST]] Here's how GigaOM outlines a possible music service: A new tab titled "Music" will appear on the left-hand column of Facebook for those who listen to music via one of Facebook's partners. Clicking on that tab will open a "Music Dashboad," which will feature music notifications (if your friends listen to songs recommended by you or featured on your profile), recommended songs (which you can listen to in-Facebook), top songs from friends, top albums from friends (with art), what your friends are listening to and a "happening now" ticker. "The Persistent Playback/Pause Button" will show ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-unveils-new-windows-smartphone-reuters/ nokia-unveils-new-windows-smartphone-reuters Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:32:26 +0300 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop unveiled a new smartphone on Tuesday that uses software the firm plans to ditch, a move analysts said would probably condemn the device to obscurity. Once the undisputed leader in hand phones, Nokia has rapidly lost ground in the smartphone market to Apple's iPhone and Google's Android devices, and at the low end of the market to Asian rivals such as China's ZTE and India's Micromax. At a telecoms conference in Singapore, Elop reiterated that Nokia would launch its first smartphone using Microsoft's Windows platform later this year, even as he unveiled the new all-screen N9 smartphone, which uses a platform called MeeGo. The model -- Nokia's first and last to use MeeGo -- can be navigated by a single finger swipe and comes in black, cyan and magenta colors in a polycarbonate design. "It seems pointless to launch a phone like the N9 on a platform that has been cut by management," RBS analyst Didier Scemama in London said in a research note. Elop said the N9 was part of Nokia's drive to introduce "an exciting experience around the user interface, the industrial design and the developer platform". "Our primary smartphone strategy is to focus on the Windows phone," said Elop, who moved to Nokia from Microsoft last year. "I have increased confidence that we will launch our first device based on the Windows platform later this year and we will ship our product in volume in 2012." The MeeGo platform -- a newcomer in the market dominated by Google Inc and Apple Inc ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-celebreaza-solstitiul-de-vara-printr-un-logo-special/ google-celebreaza-solstitiul-de-vara-printr-un-logo-special Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:35:36 +0300 Google, cel mai renumit motor de căutare din lume, sărbătoreşte solstiţiul de vară printr-un logo special, inspirat din operele artistului japonez Takashi Murakami. Pagina de start a motorului de căutare Google marchează sosirea verii din punct de vedere astronomic, printr-un logo deosebit de colorat, intitulat "Prima zi de vară". Acest logo este inspirat din operele artistului plastic nipon Takashi Murakami şi pare desprins din universul manga. Născut pe 1 februarie 1962, Takashi Murakami este un renumit sculptor şi artist plastic contemporan japonez. Murakami colaborează în mod constant cu brandul de lux Louis Vuitton şi a realizat coperta albumului "Graduation" lansat de rapperul american Kanye West. Considerat unul dintre iniţiatorii curentului neo-pop japonez, denumit "Superflat", Murakami revendică moştenirea culturală lăsată de Andy Warhol şi de curentul pop-art american, analizând totodată maniera în care arta japoneză poate să îşi găsească o anumită autonomie în faţa modelului occidental. În septembrie 2010, o expoziţie de amploare a artistului nipon a fost vernisată la palatul Versailles. Solstiţiul de vară marchează cea mai lungă zi a anului, de obicei pe 21 iunie. Această zi este marcată pe 20 iunie în anii bisecţi - acei ani în care luna februarie are 29 de zile. Solstiţiul marchează venirea verii din punct de vedere astronomic, iar de la această dată zilele încep să devină mai scurte. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-a-prezentat-smartphone-ul-n9-intampinat-cu-scepticism-de-analisti-foto/ nokia-a-prezentat-smartphone-ul-n9-intampinat-cu-scepticism-de-analisti-foto Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:05:42 +0300 Directorul general al Nokia, Stephen Elop, a prezentat marţi la Singapore smartphone-ul N9, pe o platformă software la care grupul finlandez a anunţat deja că renunţă, fapt care, în opinia analiştilor, va condamna produsul la obscuritate. Odată liderul indiscutabil al industriei telefoanelor mobile, Nokia a pierdut teren pe piaţa smartphone în ultimii ani în faţa produselor mai inovatoare precum gadget-urile Android şi Apple iPhone, în timp ce segmentul low end este acaparat în tot mai mare măsură de producători asiatici precum ZTE (China) sau Micromax (India), care pot oferi preţuri mult mai avantajoase. Elop a reiterat, la conferniţa susţinută marţi la Singapore, că Nokia intenţionează să lanseze primul smartphone pe platforma Microsoft Windows în cursul acestui an, deşi scopul evenimentului a fost prezentarea telefonului Nokia N9, care foloseşte platforma MeeGo. Modelul, cu interfaţă multi-touch, este primul şi ultimul Nokia cu acest sistem de operare. "Pare fără rost să lansezi un telefon ca N9 pe o platformă la care a renunţat deja management-ul", comentează analistul RBS Didier Scemama. Sistemul de operare MeeGo, un jucător proaspăt pe o piaţă dominată de Google şi Apple, a fost creată în februarie 2010, când Nokia şi Intel au anunţat fuziunea platformei Maemo a Nokia cu softul Moblin al Intel, ambele bazate pe Linux. Nokia s-a retras din acest proiect acum patru luni. "N9 este prea aproape de lansarea primului telefon Nokia cu Windows Phone pentru a avea un impact real asupra problemelor pe care le are compania pe segmentul smartphone. Puterea ecosistemelor rivale lasă puţin spaţiu pentru MeeGo. Mi-e greu să văd N9 ca altceva decât un produs de nişă. N9 se va vinde cu greu", a arătat Ben Wood, director la CCS Insight Londra. Analistul IDC Melissa ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-unveils-new-smartphone-analysts-not-impressed-reuters/ nokia-unveils-new-smartphone-analysts-not-impressed-reuters Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:31:01 +0300 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop unveiled a new smartphone on Tuesday that uses software the firm plans to ditch, a move analysts said would probably condemn the device to obscurity. Once the undisputed leader in hand phones, Nokia has rapidly lost ground in the smartphone market to Apple's iPhone and Google's Android devices, and at the low end of the market to Asian rivals such as China's ZTE and India's Micromax. At a telecoms conference in Singapore, Elop reiterated that Nokia would launch its first smartphone using Microsoft's Windows platform later this year, even as he unveiled the new all-screen N9 smartphone, which uses a platform called MeeGo. The model -- Nokia's first and last to use MeeGo -- can be navigated by a single finger swipe and comes in black, cyan and magenta colours in a polycarbonate design. "It seems pointless to launch a phone like the N9 on a platform that has been cut by management," RBS analyst Didier Scemama in London said in a research note. Elop said the N9 was part of Nokia's drive to introduce "an exciting experience around the user interface, the industrial design and the developer platform". "Our primary smartphone strategy is to focus on the Windows phone," said Elop, who moved to Nokia from Microsoft last year. "I have increased confidence that we will launch our first device based on the Windows platform ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mba-journal-looking-back-looking-forward-businessweek/ mba-journal-looking-back-looking-forward-businessweek Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:34:29 +0300 You know that feeling when you're reading on a train, your eyes glancing over the newspaper headlines in front of you, and suddenly another train blows past yours so quickly it actually reverberates the train car, peeling you away from your reading to see the last bit of caboose disappear in a flash? That's about the speed at which the first year of the MBA at London Business School (London Full-Time MBA Profile) seems to have passed.A flash of memories in an instant -- late nights studying in the library, captivating speeches at LBS's inaugural TEDx conference, the intense competition at this year's MBAT (MBA sports tournament) held at HEC Paris, a sea of people struggling to catch a glimpse of the Royal Wedding procession.Now we stand ready to dive off into the "real world," even if just for the summer.In a few short weeks, our class will scatter to all corners of the earth, from Cairo to Cupertino, to put some of this year's learning into practice during our summer internships. Everyone's feeling a bit nostalgic this time of year, knowing that things will change significantly from here on out. Flexibility was a key factor in my choice to matriculate to LBS. The full-time MBA program offers three timelines -- 15, 18, and 21 months. Regardless of the length you choose to pursue, the first year consists of more than 15 core classes, from financial accounting to strategy to managing organizational behavior. Divided into five streams of around 80 students, we've all become quite close with ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/police-halt-google-39street-view39-project-in-india-afp/ police-halt-google-39street-view39-project-in-india-afp Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:00:43 +0300 BANGALORE, India (AFP) – Indian police said on Tuesday they had ordered Google to stop taking photos of the city of Bangalore for its Street View product because of fears the images could be used by militants. Technology giant Google launched its plan to collect panoramic images of India last month, picking IT and software hub Bangalore as the starting point for the gigantic undertaking. "Since Bangalore has been on the radar of terrorists and anti-national elements as a high target area, we are wary of its streets and localities being filmed and made available on Google Maps," Bangalore additional police commissioner T. Sunil Kumar told AFP. Kumar said Google would need written permission from the ministry of home affairs and the ministry of external affairs to continue filming. Neither ministry commented when contacted by AFP. Google, which claimed it had received all the necessary authorisations from the state and federal authorities last month, said it had pulled its cars and tricycles with specially mounted cameras off the roads. "We received a letter from Bangalore's commissioner of police and are reviewing it. We will not be collecting any more images for Street View until we speak to the police," a Google spokeswoman told AFP. "We expect to have any issues sorted out soon." Street View, which operates in more than 25 countries, has proved hugely popular with users since its launch in the United States in 2007, but it has also run into trouble with several governments concerned about privacy. In March, France's data privacy regulator fined Google 100,000 euros ($143,500) for collecting ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/would-you-pay-100000-for-a-razor-yahoo-news/ would-you-pay-100000-for-a-razor-yahoo-news Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:02:24 +0300 $100,000 can buy many things: a brand new sports car, a boat, or a ridiculously luxurious vacation, just to name a few. But if you already have a new Audi in your driveway, a yacht at the marina, and just got back from a trip around the world, perhaps you'd rather drop your cold hard cash on a limited edition iridium razor. The pricey item is crafted by Zafirro, a company which seems to have just one product in its lineup, and just 99 of the "Zafirro Iridium" razors will be made. The handle of the razor is made entirely of iridium, an extremely scare and expensive metal that is so dense it could survive a drop into molten lava. Most iridium that appears on Earth is the result of crashed meteorites. The blades of the beast are made from artificially grown sapphire, making them hypoallergenic, not to mention many orders of magnitude sharper than your average Bic. The company boasts a 10-year blade life, and backs it up with free sharpening for a decade if the razor ever dulls. The Zafirro Iridium, while promising "generations" of enjoyable use, is clearly made for the millionaire who already has everything. The company says the upgrade from a traditional razor to the $100,000 model is like changing from a CB radio to an iPhone, but unless your morning shave takes place at the mouth of a volcano, we're not sure it's worth it. Zafirro via Laughing Squid More from Tecca: This auto-inspired desk costs more than your car BMW's all-electric i3 boasts 100-mile range, $35,000 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/web-address-boom-could-be-search-engine-boon-afp/ web-address-boom-could-be-search-engine-boon-afp Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:03:10 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – The decision to open the Internet to a flood of Web addresses ending in anything from company names to social movements could prove a boon to search engines. The Internet's global coordinator on Monday approved the creation of website addresses ending in just about any word, triggering one of the biggest ever shake-ups in how the web operates. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted overwhelmingly for the proposal at a meeting in Singapore despite fears the shift would cause some confusion and favor large companies. The change shouldn't make it tougher to scour the Internet for what people seek, according to Internet search giant Google and its rival Bing. "Google is experienced in ranking and returning web pages, regardless of top-level domain (TLD)," Google told AFP, referring to the code after the second dot in web addresses, such as .com, .gov and .org. "If the best result is on a non-traditional domain, we still intend to return that page to our users," the California-based firm said. Microsoft online services division senior director Adam Sohn said that freeing constraints on the endings of Web addresses will have "not much" of an impact on the company's Bing search engine. "When you look at how search is done, the domains do not have a big impact... On the consumer side, people search using keywords or names, not domains," he said. On the back end, or indexing side, search services examine content, links, and myriad other "signals" to rank pages in search results. The new domain names could drive more ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/more-pain-for-nokia-rim-seen-as-smartphones-get-cheaper-reuters/ more-pain-for-nokia-rim-seen-as-smartphones-get-cheaper-reuters Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:32:51 +0300 (Reuters) – Credit Suisse said competitive pressure in the smartphone industry was likely to increase over the next 12-18 months as a wave of low-end Android phones hits the market and Apple is seen releasing a cheaper iPhone in 2012. The brokerage, however, said the overall market for mobile phones would continue to grow as low-end smartphones phase out feature phones, a term used to describe phones with less computing power. Credit Suisse said Apple and Samsung Electronics would be the biggest gainers in the smartphone market and sees increasing signs of vulnerability for BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion, Nokia and Motorola Mobility. The brokerage downgraded Motorola Mobility by two notches to "underperform." Shares of the company, which was spun off from Motorola Inc in January, were down more than 3 percent in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange. While the growth momentum for phones based on Google's Android operating system is expected to continue, the brokerage said Motorola Mobility could lose out because of limited exposure to the lower and mid-end of the smartphone market. An onslaught from rival Android phone makers, such as Samsung and HTC, could also hurt Motorola Mobility's market share in the United States. LOW-END SMARTPHONES TO HURT RIM, NOKIA The brokerage said there was a high likelihood of Apple introducing a low-end iPhone in 2012, but added that "the precise timing is difficult to predict." Credit Suisse cut Research in Motion to "neutral" and maintained Nokia at "underperform," saying a cheaper iPhone could further erode their market share. Nokia, on Tuesday, released its latest smartphone running on ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-street-view-told-to-halt-filming-in-india-ap/ google-street-view-told-to-halt-filming-in-india-ap Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:00:39 +0300 NEW DELHI – Google has been barred from taking pictures of streets in India for its popular Street View service until it obtains approval from the federal government, police said Tuesday. T. Sunil Kumar, a senior police official in the technology hub of Bangalore, said the company would be allowed to resume filming only after it produces security clearances from the Home Ministry and Ministry of Defense. The Mountain View, California-based company has so far not produced any clearance despite claiming to have it, Kumar said. "We have security concerns. There are a lot of sensitive establishments in Bangalore and those pictures would be available in the public domain," he added. Officials at Google's India subsidiary did not immediately comment. India is especially sensitive about detailed photographs and locations of key buildings being made public since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, in which 10 gunmen rampaged through city landmarks, killing 166 people. Google India launched its Street View service in Bangalore in late May and plans to include other cities as well. Street View has raised privacy concerns in many countries. In Switzerland the company is appealing a court ruling that obliges it to ensure all faces and vehicle license plates are blurred before pictures are uploaded to the Street View service. The service allows users to click on virtually any spot in a city to zoom into a series of street-level pictures taken by cars mounted with 360-degree cameras. In Germany, Street View went online after a monthslong battle with authorities who insisted that citizens had the right to have images of their properties blurred. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/olanda-e-pe-cale-sa-aprobe-o-lege-care-sa-garanteze-neutralitatea-internetului-mobil/ olanda-e-pe-cale-sa-aprobe-o-lege-care-sa-garanteze-neutralitatea-internetului-mobil Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:05:52 +0300 Parlamentul olandez supune marti la vot un proiect de lege care va garanta neutralitatea internetului mobil, astfel incat anumite tipuri de continut sa nu mai poata fi tratate in mod preferential in raport cu alte tipuri. Olanda vrea sa devina un exemplu si pentru alte tari europene in domeniul neutralitatii internetului pe seama caruia s-a discutat masiv in SUA, insa in Europa s-a facut relativ putin. Daca proiectul va fi adoptat, Olanda va avea cea mai radicala lege europeana pentru neutralitatea internetului.Sunt toate sansele ca legea sa primeasca OK-ul legislativului olandez, astfel ca operatorii de telefonie mobila nu vor putea trata preferential diferite tipuri de continut si nu le vor putea taxa diferit. Mai ales in SUA s-a discutat mult despre pericolul unui "internet cu doua viteze" in care, spre exemplu, paginile unor companii care platesc sa se incarce mai repede in comparatie cu site-urile care nu contribuie cu nimic.Furnizorii de servicii de telefonie mobila sustin existenta unei tratari diferentiate si spun ca daca toate tipurile de continut sunt tratate la fel, nu vor mai putea garanta calitatea conexiunii.In Europa cei mai mari furnizori de internet sunt companii telecom precum Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom sau Telefonica, giganti care au mare putere in gestionarea retelelor proprii si pot rationaliza traficul, astfel incat anumite site-uri ale concurentei sa se incarce mai greu.Exista un conflict latent intre marii operatori telecom si companii care ofera servicii gratuite cum ar fi Facebook, Google si Skype. Operatorii telecom spun ca aceste servicii incarca mult retelele, generand volum urias de tarfic, ceea ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/best-buy-soft-launches-music-cloud-service-digital-trends/ best-buy-soft-launches-music-cloud-service-digital-trends Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:33:13 +0300 Have you ever heard the expression: when it rains, it pours? Well, things are getting pretty cloudy. Best Buy hasn’t officially launched its Music Cloud service, but you can already give it a try if you head to the site. The service is Best Buy’s attempt to compete with Amazon’s Cloud Player, Google Music, and Apple’s iCloud, among others. The new service lets users stream their music to multiple device including computers, phones, and tablets. Not to be outdone, Music Cloud allows users to save songs locally to devices for offline play, which may be more common with data prices beginning to skyrocket out of control. Unlike Apple’s iCloud, however, it looks like users will have to upload their music. The heart of the music uploading service is powered by Catch Media’s PlayAnywhere technology, and it works with iOS devices, BlackBerry phones, and Android-based products. It looks like there will be a free “lite” version and a subscription “pro” version with more features and storage. Unfortunately, the service is currently limited and will only allow you to use it if you connect it to your iTunes library. Yes, there is no way to use the new service if you don’t have iTunes installed. It will not upload from Windows Media Player or a folder/directory on your desktop. We’re hoping Best Buy fixes this, and streamlines the entire setup process, by the time the product officially launches. For those who use iTunes, this Best Buy blog post will help you install the software. We were not able to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analysis-new-internet-rules-will-spawn-battle-for-dots-reuters/ analysis-new-internet-rules-will-spawn-battle-for-dots-reuters Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:02:30 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – When it comes to branding on the Internet, 2012 may be the dawn of a chaotic new era with companies and other groups expected to battle over suffixes like .cancer, .chocolate and just about .anything. The decision on Monday by the body that governs Internet domain names to stop restricting them to suffixes like .com and .gov will change the way companies interact with consumers and how much they'll be paying to do so. "It's going to make the Wild West look positively civilized," said James Gregory, chief executive of CoreBrand, a corporate brand consultancy. Currently, there are 22 "generic top-level domains," such as .info and .org, plus about 250 country-level domains such as .uk, .de or .ca. That framework has already created an environment in which companies own thousands of possible domain names, even if they don't use them, just to prevent bad faith "cybersquatting." New names -- which could end in anything from .pepsi to .food to .healthy -- are expected to start getting approved by the end of 2012. That means hundreds more top level domains are expected to come into existence, creating the possibility for a complex network of possible URLs such as coke.zero or italian.food. Companies already spend hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars a year to maintain registries for domain names not in use, partly to prevent others from snapping them up for ill intentions such as domain name trafficking, financial fraud or selling counterfeit goods. Now that the number of possible domains is growing exponentially, so too might ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/for-185000-plus-you-can-name-your-own-domain-newsfactor/ for-185000-plus-you-can-name-your-own-domain-newsfactor Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:02:31 +0300 Get ready for www.starbucks.coffee -- or even www.coffee.starbucks. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided Monday to allow virtually any word to become a new top-level domain to compete with the old favorites of .com, .net, .org and .gov. ICANN President and CEO Rod Beckstrom said the decision will open "the Internet's naming system to unleash the global human imagination," in that it "respects the rights of groups to create new top-level domains in any language or script." $185,000 Fees, Plus Until this decision, there were 22 generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, of which .com, .net, .org and .gov were the best known. Under the new guidelines, gTLDs now can be "almost any word in any language." But the groups whose imagination will be unleashed will likely be limited to large and flush ones. Application fees will cost $185,000. ICANN has determined that level of fees is needed to cover its cost in evaluating the applications, and, if a group is turned down, the fee will not be returned. Some observers have estimated that, in addition to the application fee, other costs for application preparation, legal, trademark searches, and web-site preparation and maintenance could add hundreds of thousands of dollars more. In addition to restricting the new domains to groups that can afford them, the high cost of entry could also tame the gold-rush fever that accompanied the first wave of URL naming. If two or more groups want the same domain, that domain goes to auction. Biggest Beneficiary? Applications for the new domains will be accepted beginning in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/10-new-internet-domains-everyone-will-want-pc-magazine/ 10-new-internet-domains-everyone-will-want-pc-magazine Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:02:35 +0300 Next year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will open up its list of generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) to applications from anybody with the $185,000 evaluation fee. Would-be gTLD owners have a bit of time to put on their thinking caps&#8212the application period runs from January 12 to April 12, 2012, after which time ICANN will publish all the domains that were requested and people can raise objections to any of them. That process could take some time, and who knows which words or strings of words will make the final cut. But it's likely there will be a whole lot of new gTLDs added to the current list of 22, which includes such stalwarts as .com, .org, and .net. With that in mind, PCMag is trying to figure out which likely gTLD entries will prove to be the most prized. We welcome your additional input in comments. Here's a first take on a potential list of gTLD heavy hitters: .sex Yes, it's almost too easy. Plus ICANN has already approved a generic .XXX domain. But this is the Internet, where sex sells well enough for at least a dozen gTLDs that really hit below the belt. Of course, .porn and .bootycall probably won't make the final list. .games, .music, .movies You have to figure that these will get snapped up. You just wonder if an Amazon, an Apple, or a Netflix would ever jump on the bandwagon for a given content-specific gTLD. .apps There is somebody in Apple's legal department with a pre-prepared objection to this gTLD loaded up ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/alternate-apps-nook-vs-kindle-for-your-computer-yahoo-news/ alternate-apps-nook-vs-kindle-for-your-computer-yahoo-news Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:02:39 +0300 Amazon recently announced that they sell more ebooks than they do traditional print and paper books. While it's certain that e-readers are a significant part of the publishing industry, many laptop owners, however, like to curl up around their computer to read a good book, instead. They consider the computer screen plenty good enough for reading already. For those folks, both Barnes & Noble and Amazon have made their e-readers available as desktop applications. You can download the Kindle app from Amazon and the Nook app from Barnes & Noble. Since both applications are free, you could certainly load both on your machine. But most folks like to use a central service and program to get their content; no one wants to try to remember which book is on which program. It's best to keep things simple. So, let's talk about which e-reading app is better for the computer; should you use the Kindle or the Nook? Since we're talking about both Mac and PC applications here, you should know that the Kindle is identical across both operating systems. However, the Nook is much different on Mac than it is on the PC. Book displayLet's start with the most critical part of reading a book on your computer: how does it actually look? After all, if you're just reading a wall of text, then you might as well be reading a Pages document. The Kindle displays a single "page" at a time. It basically looks like a word processing document, although you can toggle the display to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mozilla-releases-firefox-5-digital-trends/ mozilla-releases-firefox-5-digital-trends Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:32:40 +0300 Mozilla has released Firefox 5, the latest version of its popular Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The release comes just three months after Mozilla released Firefox 4, and not even a month after the first Firefox 5 beta: the release follows Mozilla’s new rapid-release schedule, which aims to ship a new major version of the browser every three months in order to get new features and technologies to users more quickly. “The latest version of Firefox includes more than 1,000 improvements and performance enhancements that make it easier to discover and use all of the innovative features in Firefox,” Mozilla wrote on its blog. “This release adds support for more modern Web technologies that make it easier for developers to build amazing Firefox Add-ons, Web applications, and Web sites.” Firefox 5 is available as a free download for Windows 2000 or newer, Mac OS X 10.5 or newer (Intel-only), and LInux—a variety of localizations are already available, and more should be coming soon. Firefox 4 users will start seeing updates rolling out to their systems today; Mozilla will soon extend offers to upgrade for users of Firefox 3.6. Mozilla is touting Firefox 5 as the first browser to offer cross-platform support for “Do Not Track” functionality, which basically inserts special headers into page-loading requests that ask remote sites not to record any personal information about the visitor—of course, it’s up to the remote sites to actually honor that request). Mozilla also says Firefox 5 fixes several stability and security issues (including cross-domain texture security ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-translates-more-india-languages-afp/ google-translates-more-india-languages-afp Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:02:21 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google on Tuesday expanded its free Internet translation service to include five languages spoken by more than a half million people in India and Bangladesh. Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu were added to Google Translate, bringing to 63 the number of languages supported by the California-based firm's online service. Translation of the newly added languages were in "alpha" form meaning that there was polishing to be done, Google research scientist Ashish Venugopal said in a blog post. "If you notice incorrect or missing translations for any of our languages, please correct us; we enjoy learning from our mistakes and your feedback helps us graduate new languages from alpha status," Venugopal said. "We hope that the launch of these new alpha languages will help you better understand the Indic web and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages," he added. Google also made software for fonts used in the languages available for download. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mozilla39s-firefox-5-now-available-for-download-pc-magazine/ mozilla39s-firefox-5-now-available-for-download-pc-magazine Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:32:37 +0300 Staying true to promises of a quick-release cycle, Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 5, about three months after Firefox 4 made its debut. Firefox 5 is now available for download for Windows, Mac, Linux, and blog post. Mozilla promised more than 1,000 improvements and performance enhancements in the updated browser. "This release adds support for more modern Web technologies that make it easier for developers to build amazing Firefox Add-ons, Web applications and Web sites," the company said. Mozilla also added the "do not track" option to the Android release, which the company said makes it the first browser to support the feature on multiple platforms. To access it, navigate to Firefox Preferences and the "Tell sites not to track me" option. But as PCMag software analyst Michael Muchmore noted when examining the Firefox 5 release candidate, the update brings a lot of fixes, but pretty much zilch when it comes to interface advancements or new user tools. Under the hood, Firefox 5 adds support for a few new Web technologies, most notably for CSS animations, which let Web designers create effects like having text slide across the window, using keyframes. Mozilla also claims improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas, but on the HTML5test.com measure of HTML5 support, Firefox 5 does no better than version 4 with a score of 240 out of 400 points, compared with Google Chrome's score of 291. Other changes for Firefox 5 include: better spell checking in some languages; improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance; better Linux desktop integration; and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mobile-malware-alert-beware-of-fake-android-market/ mobile-malware-alert-beware-of-fake-android-market Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:35:05 +0300 Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- This week, mobile security provider Lookout is warning Android users of a new twist on malware (one of the key mobile security risks I covered last week). There's a malicious app called GGTracker, which tricks you into installing it by leading you to a fake version of Google's Android Market. Here's how it works: According to the Lookout blog, GGTracker is a Trojan (a malicious program concealed within otherwise harmless software). Its creators lure unsuspecting Android users via ads that appear in other Android apps. So far, those ads have been touting free apps for optimizing your phone battery or adult content. But that could easily change, so consider any in-app ad for a free app as a possible malware lure. When users click on the in-app ad, they're taken to something that looks like the official Google Android Market -- what you'd expect if you're about to download an Android app. However, it's really a website designed to look just like the Android Market. Lookout has published a screen grab of the fake market, showing a URL in the browser's location bar that is nothing like the real Android Market address -- which is https://market.android.com/. However, linking to any Web page for an app download is a red flag in and of itself. Android users almost always access it through the Market app that comes ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/uk-teenager-arrested-in-global-hacking-probe-reuters/ uk-teenager-arrested-in-global-hacking-probe-reuters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:32:39 +0300 LONDON (Reuters) – British police arrested a 19-year-old man in England on suspicions that he was linked to cyber attacks on the CIA, Britain's anti-organized crime agency and Sony Corp. As part of international efforts to catch the culprits behind a string of high-profile hacks, London's Metropolitan Police, working with the U.S. FBI, said they arrested the teenager in the town of Wickford, close to London. The raid was linked to recent attacks on the websites of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the British police Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), which targets organized crime in Britain and overseas, police said. The suspect's computer was being examined for data linked to Sony, whose websites have also been attacked. The Lulz Security group of hackers has claimed responsibility for these attacks, but police declined to say whether the suspect was linked to that organization. Lulz Security said on Twitter that the suspect was not a group leader. It said he was "at best, mildly associated" with the group and that Lulz Security used one of his servers to host one of several chatrooms. In addition to attacks on Sony, the CIA and SOCA, Lulz Security has also claimed responsibility for targeting the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service and Fox.com. Fox is a unit of News Corp. But no hackers have claimed responsibility so far for some more serious recent security breaches including attacks on the International Monetary Fund, Lockheed Martin Corp, Citigroup Inc, Google Inc and Michaels Stores. Lulz Security has also not claimed responsibility for two major attacks against Sony that captured personal data ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/is-the-iphone-now-the-underdog-pc-magazine/ is-the-iphone-now-the-underdog-pc-magazine Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:02:29 +0300 I had an epiphany this morning while staring at the pointless Nokia N9 smartphones images. No, not that the moribund MeeGo operating system is not where consumers want to place their smartphone bets, but that the MeeGo interface looked a lot like an iPhone. Then it hit me: Every smartphone interface looks like an Apple iPhone knockoff. Okay, okay. This is not a revelation, but the more I thought about the alarming commoditization of the smartphone market, the more I realized that what was special about Apple's premiere smartphone is slipping away. From a distance, I often cannot tell if people are carrying an Android phone or an iPhone. Up close, I can usually tell (cases make it more difficult), but the experiences of using the different phones feel more and more the same. Interestingly, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is now the only phone platform that stands out. The tiles are unique, the way it displays apps is unusual; really nothing about it feels like an interpretation of the iPhone UI. Apple, though, probably isn't sweating Windows Phone 7 very much right now. Its launch trajectory is taking the same slow, low-flying path as Android did a few years ago: Flying so low that no one believes it can soar. I'm not so sure, but that's a tale for another day. Android, on the other hand, went from being a spec in Apple's rear-view mirror to eating up half the smartphone market. It did so, by the way, with a very simple strategy: Team up ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-breaks-billion-visitor-barrier-afp/ google-breaks-billion-visitor-barrier-afp Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:32:22 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Figures released by industry tracker comScore credited Google with being the first online operation to attract more than a billion visitors in a single month. Slightly more than a billion people went to Google websites in May in what comScore billed as an unprecedented turn-out on the Internet. Microsoft websites were closing in on the milestone with about 900,000 "unique visitors" for the month, according to comScore. Facebook had the third most visited Web addresses, but topped other online venues in terms of how long people lingered after they arrived. ComScore extrapolated the findings from a sampling of two million Internet users. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/india-blocks-google-cameras-investor39s-business-daily/ india-blocks-google-cameras-investor39s-business-daily Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:32:59 +0300 The No. 1 Web search engine was barred from taking pictures of streets in India for its Street View service until it obtains gov't approval, citing security concerns for the block. Other countries have raised similar concerns, but India is especially sensitive since the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166. The 10 terrorists allegedly used satellite photos shown on Google Earth to plot their assault. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) didn't immediately comment. Shares rose 1.7% to 493. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/making-it-harder-for-ads-to-track-you-online/ making-it-harder-for-ads-to-track-you-online Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:34:57 +0300 (CNN) -- What's the best way to let advertisers know you don't want to be tracked online? As companies gather, and sell, information about people's Web activity, more users are asking that question. And so are governments, ad giants and startups looking to capitalize on a gestating shift in the industry. Data collection for the purpose of tailoring ads to each visitor, a process called "behavioral targeting," has exploded in recent years. Now, several initiatives are jockeying to become the standard way by which people can opt out of Web-advertising systems that log browsing history. So far, online ad agencies and their Web-publisher clients have operated without many restraints. Yahoo, for instance, automatically tells 75 different third-party services when a person has landed on its home page, and Microsoft's MSN.com, another portal, transmits similar information to 41 third-party databases, according to independent research conducted by privacy-software firm Disconnect and reviewed by CNN. News sites like CBS' CNET.com sends info to 46 third parties, and the Walt Disney Company's Go.com, which hosts ESPN.com, alerts 41, according to this data, compiled by Disconnect founder Brian Kennish. "In recent years, many players have entered the behavioral targeting space," wrote researchers from NYU and and Stanford University in a recent report. This type of ad targeting "holds the promise of more effective advertising while presenting users with ads that are more relevant to their interests." CNN.com shares limited information with 31 partners. CNN and most other sites don't share names of visitors. Not all the companies collecting such information are doing so for advertising ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/australia-unveils-cybercrime-laws-to-combat-global-threat-reuters/ australia-unveils-cybercrime-laws-to-combat-global-threat-reuters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:32:34 +0300 CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia's government unveiled legislation on Wednesday to crack down on cybercrime in the wake of recent cyber attacks on multinational companies and institutions, from Google to the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Senate. Cybercrime was a growing threat to individuals, businesses and governments, Attorney-General Robert McClelland said, with the country's giant resource industry having warned recently of near-daily hacking attempts from offshore. "The increasing cyber threat means that no nation alone can effectively overcome this problem and international cooperation is essential," McClelland said. The laws, once passed by parliament, will give Australian police and intelligence agencies the power to force telecommunications companies to keep sensitive information that was normally stored only briefly before being destroyed. They also aim to strengthen cooperation with overseas cybercrime agencies, giving police and security agencies better access to information stored overseas when investigating crimes locally committed using the internet. "Australia must have appropriate arrangements domestically and internationally to be in the best possible position to fight cybercrime and cyber security threats," McClelland said. Cyber hackers have launched a series of attacks in recent weeks targeting not only U.S. lawmakers, but also global companies and institutions, from Citigroup Inc to aerospace company Lockheed Martin, forcing governments and private companies to look at strengthening defences. Henry Kissinger, an architect of Sino-U.S. relations in the 1970s, earlier this month called for the United States and China to reach an agreement to restrict cyber attacks and designate some areas as off limits. Australia is already developing a cyber defense strategy to combat hacking and electronic espionage, including the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-pregateste-lansarea-urmatorului-iphone-pentru-septembrie-ce-imbunatatiri-va-avea/ apple-pregateste-lansarea-urmatorului-iphone-pentru-septembrie-ce-imbunatatiri-va-avea Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:05:44 +0300 Apple pregăteşte pentru luna septembrie lansarea unui nou iPhone, care va avea un procesor mai puternic şi o cameră foto/video mai avansată, au declarat pentru Bloomberg două surse apropiate situaţiei. Telefonul va fi echipat cu procesorul A5 de pe iPad 2, şi cu o cameră de 8 megapixeli, faţă de cea de 5 megapixeli de pe iPhone 4, au afirmat persoanele citate. Apple testează de asemenea o nouă versiune a tabletei iPad, care se laudă cu un ecran de rezoluţie mai mare, a arătat una dintre surse. IPhone-ul este cel mai bine vândut produs al Apple, generând jumătate din venituri trimestrul trecut. Un chip mai rapid va permite procesarea mai accelerată a datelor şi va consolida poziţia iPhone pe piaţă în raport cu smartphone-urile rivale lansate de companii precum Samsung şi HTC pe platforma software Android a Google. Noul telefon Apple va rula sistemul de operare iOS 5 prezentat recent de companie la o conferinţă cu dezvoltatorii de software. Sistemul are funcţii îmbunătăţite de mesagerie şi photo-sharing şi poate rula pe toate gadget-urile mobile ale Apple, a spus una dintre surse. Până la sfârşitul anului trecut, iPhone-urile, iPad-urile şi iPod Touch foloseau versiuni uşor diferite ale iOS. Reprezentanţii Apple au refuzat să comenteze informaţiile. Compania a amânat prezentarea celui de-al cincilea iPhone pentru a coincide cu lansarea iOS 5, au afirmat sursele citate. Firma de cercetare de piaţă IDC estimează că piaţa smartphone-urilor va ajunge la un miliard de unităţi vândute până la sfârşitul anului 2015. IDC anticipează că Apple va avea o cotă de piaţă de 18,2% în acest an, faţă de 38,9% pentru telefoanele Android. Apple este aproape de finalizarea unei versiuni mai ieftine şi mai mici a iPhone, destinată consumatorilor din ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-says-no-cyber-warfare-between-it-us-reuters/ china-says-no-cyber-warfare-between-it-us-reuters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:30:58 +0300 BEIJING (Reuters) – There is no cyber warfare taking place between China and the United States, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday, after weeks of friction over accusations that China may have launched a string of Internet hacking attacks. The two countries might suffer from cyber attacks, but they were in no way directed by either government, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai told a small group of foreign reporters ahead of a meeting with U.S. officials in Hawaii this weekend. "I want to clear something up: there are no contradictions between China and the United States" on the issue of hacking, Cui said. "Though hackers attack the U.S. Internet and China's Internet, I believe they do not represent any country," he added. Both countries were in fact already discussing the problem of hacking during their regular strategic consultations, Cui said. "The international community ought to come up with some rules to prevent this misuse of advanced technology," he added. The accusations against China have centered on an intrusion into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Corp and other U.S. military contractors, as well as efforts to gain access to the Google email accounts of U.S. officials and Chinese human rights advocates. China has vociferously denied having anything to do with hacking attacks, saying it too is a major victim. "Internet security is an issue for all countries, and it is a most pressing matter," Cui said. "Of course, every country has different abilities when it comes to this problem," he added. "The United States is the most advanced country in the world when it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pro-tv-cel-mai-fascinant-brand-romanesc/ pro-tv-cel-mai-fascinant-brand-romanesc Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:36:14 +0300 Pro TV este cel mai fascinant brand românesc, potrivit unui studiu realizat de Unlock Market Research, care a stat la baza Topului 50 Branduri Fascinante lansat, miercuri, de revista Biz, acesta fiind un demers ce a urmărit să prezinte mărcile care îi fascinează pe români. În Top 50 Branduri Fascinante, care a inclus şi mărci internaţionale de prestigiu, Pro TV s-a clasat pe locul al treilea, surclasând nume celebre din industria media precum Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo şi Google. Pe primul loc în acest top s-a clasat brandul auto italian Ferrari, iar pe locul al doilea, brandul Discovery. "Pro TV este fascinant pentru români, pentru că reuşeşte să strălucească prin fiecare produs pe care îl lansează. Istoria Pro TV a început pe 1 decembrie 1995, cu salutul Andreei Esca - «Bună seara, România! Bună seara, Bucureşti!». (...) Printre emisiunile de succes se numără Ştirile Pro TV, «Românii au talent», «Dansez pentru tine» sau «Happy Hour»", se precizează în prezentarea făcută brandului Pro TV. Topul celor mai fascinante zece branduri se continuă cu Facebook, pe locul al patrulea, Porsche, pe cinci, Heineken, pe şase, Stella Artois, pe şapte, Swatch, pe opt, Murfatlar, pe nouă, şi Harley Davidson, pe zece. Printre brandurile româneşti care mai figurează în acest clasament al celor mai fascinante 50 de branduri se numără Joe (locul 24), Gerovital (26), Rom (29), Adevărul (35), Napolact (45), Dorna (46) şi Borsec (49). În clasament apar şi branduri internaţionale de renume precum Sony (locul 17), L'Oreal (19), Vichy (21), Coca-Cola (27), Adidas (31), Nokia (33), Yahoo (34), Microsoft (36), Apple (42), Google (44), Durex (50). "Un top al mărcilor fascinante poate inspira în mai mare măsură la acţiune, comparativ cu un top al mărcilor ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-devine-prima-companie-de-internet-ale-carei-site-uri-au-avut-peste-un-miliard-de-vizitatori-unici-intr-o-luna/ google-devine-prima-companie-de-internet-ale-carei-site-uri-au-avut-peste-un-miliard-de-vizitatori-unici-intr-o-luna Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:36:13 +0300 Site-urile Google au avut luna trecuta peste un miliard de utilizatori unici, premiera in randul companiilor de internet, in timp ce pe site-urile Microsoft au intrat peste 900 de milioane de unici, arata datele companiei de cercetare ComScore. Totusi, la capitolul timp petrecut pe site-uri, Facebook a avut cea mai mare crestere si este lider.Luna trecuta, pe site-urile detinute de Google au intrat 1,009 miliarde de utilizatori unici, crestere de 8% fata de acum un an. Pe site-urile Microsoft au intrat 905 milioane utilizatori, pe Facebook au intrat 714 milioane (+30%), iar pe site-urile Yahoo! au intrat 689 milioane de "unici".Sunt cinci ani de cand ComScore publica date legate de traficul pe internet la nivel global si are la baza un "panel" de doua milioane de utilizatori. In 2006, Google avea pe site-urile sale aproape jumatate de miliard de utilizatori, iar Microsoft avea circa 540 milioane de utilizatori unici.Tot mai important devine insa timpul petrecut pe internet de utilizatori, iar Facebook sta cel mai bine cu un total de 250 miliarde minute petrecute de utilizatori pe site in luna mai (crestere de 66% fata de luna similara a lui 2010). Pe site-urile Microsoft timpul petrecut a scazut cu 14%, spre 204 miliarde minute, iar pe Google au petrecut in total 200 miliarde minute. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/dutch-parliament-voting-on-mobile-39net-neutrality39-ap/ dutch-parliament-voting-on-mobile-39net-neutrality39-ap Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:32:28 +0300 AMSTERDAM – The Dutch parliament is set to approve a twice-delayed bill that would force mobile Internet providers to let their customers use Skype and other third-party services on their networks without charging extra or giving preferential treatment to their own offerings. If passed and approved by the senate, it would set an example in Europe as the strongest "net neutrality" law on record. Telecommunications companies oppose the move, saying it will make it difficult for them to give quality guarantees and they won't expand their networks if they can't profit from them. But advocates say the bill will spur innovation. It is seen as benefiting major software companies, notably Facebook, Skype owner Microsoft, and Google. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/brazilian-arm-of-lulzsec-hits-government-sites-pc-magazine/ brazilian-arm-of-lulzsec-hits-government-sites-pc-magazine Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:02:45 +0300 LulzSec is branching out. An international arm of the hacker group has successfully targeted Brazilian government Web sites, earning praise from the original LulzSec crew. "Our Brazilian unit is making progress. Well done @LulzSecBrazil, brothers!" LulzSec tweeted today. Early this morning, messages posted to the @LulzSecBrazil Twitter feed said the group had taken down the Brazilian government Web site (www.brasil.gov.br/) as well as the Web site for President Dilma Rousseff (www.presidencia.gov.br/). On Wednesday morning, both sites were still inaccessible. The LulzSecBrazil Twitter feed appeared on June 18 with a promise to attack the Brazilian government Web site if it reached 1,000 followers. That proved difficult, however, and the group said the next day that it was trying to enter into an agreement with LulzSec to reach its goal, according to a translated tweet. As of Wednesday morning, the feed had 1,099 followers; the main LulzSec feed has almost 250,000 followers. Today, LulzSecBrazil promised a day full of "news and repercussions," but has not yet named additional targets. Not to be outdone, the Brazilian arm of Anonymous has also posted a video that criticizes the government's manipulation of information. A lack of transparency threatens democracy, and Brazil is heading down that road unless people take action, Anonymous said. According to Google's Transparency Report, the search giant received 2,435 requests for data and 398 requests to remove 19,806 items from Brazil between January and June 2010. Google partially or fully complied with 68 percent of those removal requests. In the U.S., Google received 4,287 data requests and 128 requests to remove 678 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-iphone-patent-a-huge-blow-to-rival-smartphone-makers-pc-magazine/ apple-iphone-patent-a-huge-blow-to-rival-smartphone-makers-pc-magazine Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:03:04 +0300 Apple has been awarded its long sought-after patent on the iPhone. Intellectual property experts say it's so broad and far-reaching that the iPhone maker may be able to bully other smart phone manufacturers out of the U.S. market entirely. Some three-and-a-half years after filing for a patent on the iPhone, Apple on Tuesday was awarded U.S. patent number 7,966,578 for "[a] computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display, [that] comprises displaying a portion of page content, including a frame displaying a portion of frame content and also including other content of the page, on the touch screen display." That's just the beginning of the abstract for Apple's iPhone patent, which the company filed back in December 2007. It gets quite a bit more technical in its full form, but there's one thing patent experts consulted by PCMag agree on—Apple has been awarded an incredibly broad patent that could prove to be hugely problematic for other makers of capacitive touch-screen smartphones. Apple's patent essentially gives it ownership of the capacitive multitouch interface the company pioneered with its iPhone, said one source who has been involved in intellectual property litigation on similar matters. That's likely to produce a new round of lawsuits over the now-ubiquitous multitouch interfaces used in smartphones made by the likes of HTC, Samsung, Motorola, Research in Motion, Nokia, and others that run operating systems similar in nature to Apple's iOS, like Google's Android, said the source, who asked not to be named. What's more, the patent seems broad ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/your-guide-to-iphone-5-rumors-the-atlantic-wire/ your-guide-to-iphone-5-rumors-the-atlantic-wire Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:32:58 +0300 A new report from Bloomberg today sheds light on a number of long-simmering rumors related to the expected fall release of Apple's newest iPhone. Compounded with previous reports about the device, we're starting to get a better picture of what it might offer. Here's the latest intel on the iPhone 5 Related: What Techno Goodies to Expect from Steve Jobs Today Timing  Apple will introduce the iPhone 5 in September, reports Bloomberg. It would've come out sooner but executives wanted its release to coincide with the launch of its new operating system iOS 5, which was introduced to developers earlier this month. Related: The Cool New Apple Products Steve Jobs Unveiled Today Hardware  In a move that's playing out well in tech circles, the iPhone 5 will have the same A5 chip that the iPad 2 runs on, which is more powerful and much faster. "A faster chip will enable speedier data downloads and help the device vie with handsets being introduced by rivals such as Samsung Electronics Co. that are powered by Google's Android software," reports Bloomberg. Another big advancement is its 8-megapixel camera (a 3 megapixel increase from the iPhone 4). Additionally, tech blog Boy Genius Report, which has "unusually good sources in the cellphone industry" according to Apple expert Philip Elmer-Dewitt, reported yesterday that the iPhone's exterior would have a "radical new case design" though further details weren't given. On that front, in April, former Engadget editor released a Photoshop mockup of what he thinks the phone will like, based on his sources (pictured on the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/arrest-of-suspected-uk-hacker-significant-police-reuters/ arrest-of-suspected-uk-hacker-significant-police-reuters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:01:08 +0300 WICKFORD, England (Reuters) – Britain's top policeman said on Wednesday the arrest of a suspected teenage hacker was "very significant" in the international hunt for a group suspected of carrying out cyber attacks on global companies and law enforcement agencies. The 19-year-old was held by London's Metropolitan Police on Tuesday as part of a joint investigation with the U.S. FBI into recent attacks on high profile websites. However, an undercover group which claims responsibility for attacks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), and Sony Corp rejected suggestions the teenager was a leading figure. British media have named him as Ryan Cleary, who lives with his mother in an unassuming house in Wickford, a quiet suburban town to the northeast of London. The detached house had all the curtains drawn and a sign on the door reading: "To all concerned, please do not knock for an interview as I'm unable to comment." Police said on Wednesday the teenager remained in custody where he was being questioned on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act offences. "It's a very significant arrest," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson said without elaborating. "The challenges around cyber crime are extraordinarily significant and deeply worrying." Cleary's mother Rita, 44, told the Daily Mail newspaper her son suffered from agoraphobia and attention deficit disorder. She said he had not left his home for four years, and barely left his room. "He is incredibly intelligent but he had very complex needs," the paper quoted her as saying. The Lulz Security (LulzSec) group of hackers, which ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/samsung-won39t-get-peek-at-unreleased-iphone-ruling-reuters/ samsung-won39t-get-peek-at-unreleased-iphone-ruling-reuters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:02:53 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge rejected Samsung's request for a peek at Apple's unreleased iPhone and iPad, which was brought in the course of high-stakes patent litigation between the two companies. Apple sued Samsung in April, claiming Samsung's Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets infringe several patents and trademarks. Samsung counter-sued, asserting its own patents against Apple. Late last month, Samsung filed a request for Apple to hand over the unreleased versions of the iPhone and iPad, saying it would be "highly relevant" to its defense. A judge had already ordered Samsung to produce similar materials for Apple, Samsung attorneys argued in court filings. Apple opposed the request, saying it was an attempt to "harass" Apple into disclosing extremely sensitive trade secrets. In a ruling released late on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said Apple's legal claims are only based on its products that have already hit the market. "Common sense suggests that allegations of copying are necessarily directed at Apple's existing products, to which Samsung has access and could potentially mimic," Koh wrote, "and not at Apple's unreleased, inaccessible, next generation products." Representatives from Apple and Samsung could not immediately be reached for a comment. Samsung's Galaxy products use Google's Android operating system, which directly competes with Apple's mobile software. The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al, 11-1846. (Reporting by Dan Levine, editing by Maureen Bavdek) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-devenit-prima-companie-de-internet-cu-peste-un-miliard-de-utilizatori-intr-o-luna/ google-a-devenit-prima-companie-de-internet-cu-peste-un-miliard-de-utilizatori-intr-o-luna Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:06:25 +0300 Google a devenit prima companie de Internet care a atras într-o lună peste un miliard de utilizatori unici, potrivit datelor aferente lunii mai ale firmei de analiză a pieţei comScore, relatează Wall Street Journal. În decurs de un an, numărul de vizitatori ai Google într-un interval de o lună a crescut cu 8,4%, la peste un miliard. În aceeaşi perioadă, Microsoft s-a menţinut pe poziţia a doua, cu 905 milioane de utilizatori, în creştere cu 15%. Numărul vizitatorilor Facebook a avansat în luna mai cu 30%, la 714 milioane. Yahoo! a atras în aceeaşi perioadă 689 milioane de vizitatori, în creştere cu 10,8% comparativ cu aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut, compania fiind devansată de Facebook în octombrie. Estimările comScore se bazează pe un eşantion mondial de două milioane de utilizatori ai Internetului, metoda fiind similară calculării ratingurilor de televiziune de către compania Nielsen. Un purtător de cuvânt al Google a refuzat să comenteze. ComScore a început să măsoare traficul de vizitatori ai site-urilor de Internet la începutul lui 2006, când Google avea circa 496 de vizitatori unici pe lună. La momentul respectiv, Microsoft, cu motorul său de căutare MSN şi site-urile de conţinut, se afla pe primul loc, cu 539 milioane de utilizatori. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/low-barrier-to-entry-lets-great-android-apps-stand-out-contributornetwork/ low-barrier-to-entry-lets-great-android-apps-stand-out-contributornetwork Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:33:30 +0300 The rise of the mobile app has led to a new category of lifestyle business, where indie app developers work alone at home or in small teams. Even hobbyists have been getting on board, as books that teach programming can be easily found at the library or downloaded online. And for a one-time fee of $45, anyone can submit unlimited free or paid apps to the Android Market, Google's online app market for Android smartphones and tablets. Partly because of this, the huge numbers of apps on the Market -- Google's smartphones have more free apps than Apple's -- don't mean as much as you'd think. A lot of those "apps" are just hobbyist projects and tests, or else ringtones, wallpapers and soundboards. These apps are quickly thrown together, with AdMob advertisements slapped inn in the hopes of making a buck. Meanwhile, even "name-brand" apps like Meebo and Facebook often look worse on Android than on iOS. This is partly because of the time that it takes to make quality apps work on all kinds of Android devices, and partly because these apps are just side projects for companies focused on iPhones and the web. So what happens when a developer writes a really good, polished Android app? It stands out and makes money Just ask Spacetime Studios, the developer of the Pocket Legends MMORPG. Or Noah Bordner, developer of a game called Battleheart. Games and apps like these are the diamonds in the rough, the polished gems that are featured ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-eyeing-further-display-ad-acquisitions-reuters/ google-eyeing-further-display-ad-acquisitions-reuters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:34:09 +0300 CANNES, France (Reuters) – Google will buy more companies to boost its presence in the booming online display ad sector in a challenge to Facebook, even as European regulators examine its dominant web search position. Speaking to a small group of reporters on the sidelines of the Cannes Lions advertising festival, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said the group would continue to snap up companies that specialized in handling display ads such as banners and video. "It would be good to have more diversified revenue," Eric Schmidt said, just days after Google announced plans to buy AdMeld to grab a larger slice of the market for graphical display ads. "I would argue that we're doing really well there. We started off with largely text ads, and now we have this display business which is going to end up being a $10 billion, $20 billion kind of business. It will be very large." The vast majority of Google's revenue, which totaled roughly $29 billion in 2010, comes from the small ads that appear alongside its search results. But some analysts have suggested that Google needs to diversify its business with products such as social networking tools to prevent advertisers moving over to the social network Facebook instead. According to a report released earlier this week by research firm eMarketer, Facebook will displace Yahoo Inc to take the biggest slice of online display ad dollars in 2011. With that in mind, Google has engaged in a buying spree of technology and engineering talent to bolster initiatives outside of the search business, including in mobile advertising. Schmidt ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-devenit-prima-companie-de-internet-cu-peste-un-miliard-de-utilizatori-intr-o-luna-cine-se-afla-pe-pozitia-a-doua/ google-a-devenit-prima-companie-de-internet-cu-peste-un-miliard-de-utilizatori-intr-o-luna-cine-se-afla-pe-pozitia-a-doua Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:06:37 +0300 Google a devenit prima companie de Internet care a atras într-o lună peste un miliard de utilizatori unici, potrivit datelor aferente lunii mai ale firmei de analiză a pieţei comScore, relatează Wall Street Journal. În decurs de un an, numărul de vizitatori ai Google într-un interval de o lună a crescut cu 8,4%, la peste un miliard. În aceeaşi perioadă, Microsoft s-a menţinut pe poziţia a doua, cu 905 milioane de utilizatori, în creştere cu 15%. Numărul vizitatorilor Facebook a avansat în luna mai cu 30%, la 714 milioane. Yahoo! a atras în aceeaşi perioadă 689 milioane de vizitatori, în creştere cu 10,8% comparativ cu aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut, compania fiind devansată de Facebook în octombrie. Estimările comScore se bazează pe un eşantion mondial de două milioane de utilizatori ai Internetului, metoda fiind similară calculării ratingurilor de televiziune de către compania Nielsen. Un purtător de cuvânt al Google a refuzat să comenteze. ComScore a început să măsoare traficul de vizitatori ai site-urilor de Internet la începutul lui 2006, când Google avea circa 496 de vizitatori unici pe lună. La momentul respectiv, Microsoft, cu motorul său de căutare MSN şi site-urile de conţinut, se afla pe primul loc, cu 539 milioane de utilizatori. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/blackberry-playbook-launched-in-india-reuters/ blackberry-playbook-launched-in-india-reuters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:31:44 +0300 NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The BlackBerry PlayBook, Research In Motion (RIM)'s disappointing challenger to the hugely successful iPad 2, hit store shelves in India on Wednesday, nearly two months after the revamped Apple tablet made its India debut. Customers have the option to buy the PlayBook, which features Wi-Fi support, with 16, 32 or 64 GB of memory and the models are priced between 27,990 rupees and 37,990 rupees. The PlayBook is being distributed nationally through Redington India and Ingram Micro, initially in 1,000 retail stores across eight cities, the company said in a statement. RIM has struggled to win consumer fans since Apple's iPhone and a slew of devices running Google's Android entered the smartphone fray. Reviewers have panned the PlayBook for the absence of inbuilt email and organiser functions -- the gadget needs a BlackBerry to access those. Critics said the company rushed the tablet computer to the market before it was ready. The PlayBooks North American launch in April was in stark contrast to the global frenzy when Apple launched its iPad 2 and consumers lined up overnight to buy the gadget. (Writing by Tony Tharakan) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-chrome-to-gain-skype-skills-pc-magazine/ google-chrome-to-gain-skype-skills-pc-magazine Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:02:32 +0300 In addition to search, browsing, cloud computing, mobile platforms, and just about everything else, Google is preparing to challenge Microsoft on the software giant's freshest front, VoIP. Google intends to take on Skype by building open-source audio and video-chat capabilities into its Chrome Web browser, according to CNET. The latest development follows last month's public release of WebRTC, an open-source audio and video chat project. WebRTC was made possible by Google's acquisition of Global IP Solutions (GIPS) , a company that specialized in Internet telephony and videoconferencing. "Our goal is to enable Chrome with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple Javascript APIs," Henrik Andreasson, Google GIPS programmer wrote in a Chromium Developer blog post. "We are working hard to provide full RTC support in Chrome all the way from WebKit down to the native audio and video parts. When we are done, any web developer shall be able to create RTC applications, like the Google Talk client in Gmail, without using any plugins but only WebRTC components that runs in the sandbox." Gmil already has audio and video communication that requires a proprietary plugin; this announcement could help Google integrate Gmail Chat with its burgeoning Google Voice service. At the same time, Google is seeking to grow WebRTC into a dominant Web standard for videoconferencing and communications. If Google and its partners can build the tech into other browsers—such as Firefox and Opera—anyone building a Web site or Web app could rely upon that communications tech instead of a dedicated application such as Skype. If you're Google, and you're ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-to-transfer-2800-staff-to-accenture-ap/ nokia-to-transfer-2800-staff-to-accenture-ap Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:02:40 +0300 HELSINKI – Nokia Corp. said Wednesday it has completed a deal to outsource Symbian software development to Accenture, including the transfer of 2,800 workers to the global management-consulting firm. The announcement came two months after Nokia disclosed the plan as part of its aim to cut costs by $1.5 billion (euro1 billion) by 2013, including 7,000 global layoffs, and catch up with top rivals in the tough smartphone market. The Finland-based company faces strong competition from Research in Motion's Blackberry, Apple's iPhone and Google's Android, as it continues to see market share fall. Last month it issued a big profits warning. Nokia's share price has plunged in recent months and recently has been trading at multiyear lows of around euro4.20 ($6.05). Its stock closed at euro4.21 ($6.06) in Helsinki — unchanged from Tuesday's closing rate. Nokia said Accenture PLC will provide it with software services through 2016 with the personnel transfer expected in October when the deal closes. Half of the workers are based in Finland with another 1,400 in China, India, Britain and the United States. Besides the personnel transfer, Nokia has said it plans to lay off 4,000 people by the end of 2012, mostly in Denmark, Finland and Britain. In another move to improve services, Nokia announced Wednesday that it will integrate its NAVTEQ mapping unit with social location services operations to develop "a new class of integrated social location products and services for consumers." The struggling company, which claims more than 1.3 billion mobile customers, said it wants to provide new products and support for bringing the Internet ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/uk-teenager-charged-with-hacking-attacks-police-reuters/ uk-teenager-charged-with-hacking-attacks-police-reuters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:30:58 +0300 WICKFORD, England (Reuters) – British police said on Wednesday they had charged a teenager with launching a series of cyber attacks against a national law enforcement agency and two well-known British music industry bodies. Ryan Cleary, 19, was earlier held as part of a joint investigation with the U.S. FBI into recent attacks on high profile websites. London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement that Cleary is accused of attacking the website of Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). He has also been charged with carrying out attacks against websites owned by the British Phonographic Industry and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, police added. Cleary, of Wickford, a quiet suburban town to the northeast of London, is due to appear in a London court on Thursday charged with five offences under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act. The detached house where he lives had all the curtains drawn and a sign on the door reading: "To all concerned, please do not knock for an interview as I'm unable to comment." Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson described his arrest in the global hunt for a group suspected of targeting companies and police forces as "very significant." He did not elaborate. However, an undercover group that claims responsibility for attacks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Britain's SOCA and Sony Corp rejected suggestions that the teenager was a leading figure. The Lulz Security (LulzSec) group of hackers, which says it has hacked into the websites of the CIA, SOCA and Sony, distanced themselves from Cleary and dismissed any suggestion he ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/dutch-parliament-approves-mobile-neutrality-bill-digital-trends/ dutch-parliament-approves-mobile-neutrality-bill-digital-trends Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:32:36 +0300 In what may prove to be a major step forward for mobile network neutrality, the Dutch parliament has approved a bill that would require mobile Internet operators to enable customers to use Skype or SMS app WhatsApp on their networks without additional charges. The bill would also prevent operators from giving preferential service to their own offerings. The bill still needs to be approved by the Dutch senate, but that step is usually a formality once a bill has been approved by parliament. If enacted as law, it would mark one of the strongest net neutrality laws in any nation—and is more notable for applying specifically to the mobile industry. The bill is essentially a legislative response to pricing policies enacted by Dutch mobile operator KPN, which announced disappointing first-quarter earnings in April and laid part of the blame on a service called WhatsApp, which enables users with Internet-connected phons to sidestep KPN’s SMS offerings via Internet-based messaging. Although SMS messages cost mobile operators very little to support, they’re offered at very high profile margins and often constitute a significant portion of a mobile operator’s revenue stream. To make up the difference, KPN head Eelco Blok announced plans to charge customers for using WhatsApp as well as Skype, which enables users to bypass traditional mobile voice services with VoIP calling. KPN’s announcement outraged customers, not only because of the prospect of having to pay more to user Internet services, but also because it revealed KPN was performing deep packet inspection on its network traffic to monitor closely what ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ap-gets-knight-funding-to-create-journalistic-tool-ap/ ap-gets-knight-funding-to-create-journalistic-tool-ap Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:02:30 +0300 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Associated Press will be among 16 news organizations and Internet entrepreneurs sharing $4.7 million in funding to design innovative ways to find and deliver news in the digital age. The funding, announced Wednesday, came through the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge. The AP's grant will fund a project to help journalists mine large documents for stories. The system, called Overview, will create an interactive, visual display that maps out frequently occurring keywords and shows the relationship between topics, people, places and dates. In a proof of concept, Overview scanned 400,000 documents from the Iraq war logs and plotted each incident as a colored dot. The dots were clustered based on shared keywords, such as "blindfolded" and "handcuffed." The resulting image quickly highlighted certain themes that guided further exploration. Knight said the project will get $475,000 over two years. The AP plans to share its tool with other news organizations, groups and individuals. AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll said such a tool would be useful for journalists to analyze data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. "A tool that helps make sense of the material in those caches will help journalists and citizens alike better understand the world," she said. Among other grants awarded: • $150,000 to create Panda, from the Chicago Tribune, Investigative Reporters and Editors and The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash. The set of Web-based tools, like Overview, will seek to find relationships within large data sets. • $320,000 to develop a new feature on the Investigative Reporters and Editors' ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/firefox-5-begins-auto-updates-ends-firefox-4-support-newsfactor/ firefox-5-begins-auto-updates-ends-firefox-4-support-newsfactor Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:02:39 +0300 Mozilla released a new Firefox browser Tuesday as the first fruit of its commitment to a new fast-track process under which the browser will be automatically refreshed at eight-week intervals. The vast majority of the Firefox 5 improvements are under the hood, including support for the CSS Animations standard and a new privacy feature that lets users opt out of tracking used for behavioral advertising. Unlike previous Firefox releases, the launch of Firefox 5 came without huge fanfare. But with the rollout, the Mozilla Foundation is also ending security updates for Firefox 4, which received its final scheduled patch in April. "Firefox 5 will be the security update for Firefox 4 and delivered as a minor update," wrote Firefox release manager Christian Legnitto late last month in a Mozilla developer mail list. "We most definitely reserve the right to change the plan later due to new information or invalid assumptions, but we are currently driving to mark Firefox 4 as unsupported when Firefox 5 comes out." Security Issues Some Firefox 4 users may not want to click on the upgrade to Firefox 5 pop-up window when it appears because of concerns about the new version's compatibility with the plug-ins they are currently using. If they delay updating or opt out of the process entirely, however, this will leave them vulnerable to security holes. On the other hand, Mozilla left the door open should a critical security flaw arise in Firefox 4 that requires immediate attention. "But that would be an 'unplanned' emergency release and not a planned ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim39s-hometown-upbeat-as-blackberry-maker-sags-sacks-workers-reuters/ rim39s-hometown-upbeat-as-blackberry-maker-sags-sacks-workers-reuters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:32:34 +0300 WATERLOO, Ontario (Reuters) – The mood is grim in Thirsty's, the tiny blue-collar pub across from Research In Motion's low-rise block of manufacturing buildings. Barmaid Debbie said a trio of workers came in Monday afternoon to drown their sorrows, among the first to pay the price as the BlackBerry maker trims fat to better compete with larger rivals spitting out more popular devices. Yet in a gastro-bar a few blocks east, where white-collar RIM staff meet daily, owner Jody Palubiski shrugs off concern that RIM's belt-tightening will hurt his sales. "As much as RIM helps add to my business, whether my business is going to survive is up to me and how dedicated I am," he said from a booth at the back of Wildcraft. Two hundred RIM factory workers in Waterloo got marching orders on Monday, according to local media reports and residents. Others have lost jobs just outside Toronto, said an ex-employee still in touch with former colleagues. RIM declined comment on the depth of the cull beyond what co-chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie said on an earnings call last Thursday. They are the first job cuts at RIM for almost a decade, reflecting the tougher competition and a stock price that's sagged to 5-year lows. But business and civic leaders in the region say the tech ecosystem RIM helped to build is resilient enough to withstand a period of reflection at the company. RIM's BlackBerry was long the benchmark for a security conscious business world. But investors and shareholders are fast losing patience as the company slips from smartphone ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/liderul-senatorilor-udmr-propunerea-presedintelui-basescu-interesanta-e-in-analiza-uniunii/ liderul-senatorilor-udmr-propunerea-presedintelui-basescu-interesanta-e-in-analiza-uniunii Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:36:01 +0300 Liderul senatorilor UDMR, Fekete Andras Levente, a declarat, miercuri, pentru MEDIAFAX, că propunerea preşedintelui Traian Băsescu de reorganizare în opt judeţe la care să se adauge Harghita şi Covasna este una "interesantă", care este încă în analiza Uniunii. "Ar fi o variantă legată de un anumit statut special al Ţinutului Secuiesc, pe care unii nu vor să îl recunoască, iar noi spunem că de 800 de ani există. Ar fi o variantă care se pare că ar fi o variantă agreată de PDL şi de Traian Băsescu, care este o temă de discuţie. Este o variantă interesantă. Exact aşa am spus şi preşedintelui României, că este o variantă interesantă această posibilitate pe care va trebui să o discutăm", a menţionat senatorul. El a spus că această propunere a fost discutată, miercuri dimineaţă, la şedinţa grupurilor parlamentare reunite ale UDMR, este discutată în continuare şi va fi, de asemenea, abordată sâmbătă, în Consiliul Reprezentanţilor, unde va fi luată o hotărâre. Întrebat dacă UDMR agreează, în principiu, această propunere, liderul grupului UDMR de la Senat a refuzat să dea un răspuns, menţionând că subiectul este analizat în continuare. "Maghiarimea din România nu este reprezentată numai de acest ţinut (n.r. Ţinutul Secuiesc), unde trăiesc 40 la sută dintre maghiari. Noi, dacă suntem o uniune, care încercăm să îi reprezentăm pe toţi maghiarii, indiferent că se află în Botoşani, Bucureşti sau în Maramureş, atunci trebuie să avem grijă de toţi, nu numai de secui. Din asta fiecare trage concluzia sa", a spus, Fekete Andras Levente. "Preşedintele vrea opt megajudeţe lângă care probabil că ar fi un oarecare accept şi pentru un oarecare statut special sau să rămână judeţe de sine stătătoare. Este o temă de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/privatesky-shields-online-exchanges-from-prying-eyes-afp/ privatesky-shields-online-exchanges-from-prying-eyes-afp Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:32:50 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A free service launched on Wednesday called PrivateSky lets Internet users shield email, Facebook updates, and other online exchanges from hackers or other unwanted snoops. The service from startup CertiVox comes as hackers appear to be rampaging through the Internet, cracking defenses at companies, attacking public websites, and tricking their way into email accounts to spy on contents. PrivateSky works with Internet Explorer (IE) browsers to provide encryption for whatever people type into message boxes and decodes it only for those they chose. Users highlight blog posts, Facebook updates, email messages or other text then indicate who should be allowed to read them. Missives are decrypted only for intended recipients. "It is literally one click encryption and decryption," said CertiVox founder and chief executive Brian Spector. Internet security firm Trend Micro warned this month that cyberattackers have attempted to infiltrate Web-based email services run by Microsoft and Yahoo! as well as Google. "There has been a variety of recent attacks on popular Webmail platforms," Trend Micro senior threat researcher Nart Villeneuve said in an online post. "In addition to Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail have also been targeted." Trend Micro released the news after Google said a cyber spying campaign originating in China had targeted Gmail accounts of US officials, military personnel, journalists, Chinese political activists, and officials in several Asian countries, mainly in South Korea. Encrypting email is seen as a way to thwart email snooping, but the process has typically taken a bit of software savvy. CertiVox set out to make encryption simple with PrivateSky. "This is kind ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/best-buy-launches-its-own-music-cloud-service-newsfactor/ best-buy-launches-its-own-music-cloud-service-newsfactor Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:32:51 +0300 Seems like everyone has their heads in the clouds these days. With a growing emphasis on synchronizing media purchases and applications on multiple mobile devices and computers, retailer Best Buy is launching Music Cloud. The service is available for devices powered by Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and Research In Motion's BlackBerry operating systems and requires downloading software that enables music streaming. The desktop app copies libraries and playlists from iTunes (required) on a home computer and puts them in an account to be accessed on multiple mobile devices. It's powered by Catch Media's Play Anywhere service. Listen on the Bus "With Best Buy Music Cloud, your digital music lives in one place but you access it from wherever you are," according to the Best Buy web site. "Enjoy all your music when you're at a friend's house, in the car, on the bus, walking to work ... virtually anywhere." "You can store your favorite songs and playlists for when you're offline," it adds. "You can select just a single song, a playlist, or even an artist, allowing you to continue listening when you don't have coverage." The premium version is available for $3.99 and, for now only, a demo version is available with 30-second playbacks of your songs. Early reviews are mixed. "I quickly became familiar with the controls and was impressed with the customizability of the library," wrote Everything Mobile blogger Brian Joseph. But PC magazine's Mark Hachman found the software "inflexible, and painful, and with some odd design decisions, to boot." Best Buy's Music Cloud comes on the heels of Apple ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-is-first-site-ever-to-get-a-billion-unique-visitors-in-one-month-pc-magazine/ google-is-first-site-ever-to-get-a-billion-unique-visitors-in-one-month-pc-magazine Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:02:27 +0300 Google sites raked in more than a billion unique visitors in the month of May, the first time an Internet company has reached that milestone, according to comScore data first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Traffic to Google properties has increased by 8.4 percent over the past year to reach the billion hit mark. Microsoft has maintained the second-place spot with 905 million unique visitors last month, a 15 percent increase. Facebook takes the No. 3 spot with about 714 million visitors, up 30 percent. Yahoo comes in at number four with 689 million unique visitors in May. While traffic to Yahoo increased by 10.8 percent, the company was leapfrogged by Facebook in October. Wikimedia sites rounded out the top five, with about 411 million visitors last month. The WSJ notes that comScore started monitoring traffic to Google back in 2006, when it reported that Google had about 496 million unique visits per month. Back then, Microsoft and its MSN properties were the most-visited sites with roughly 536 million unique visitors each month. But in the years following, the game has changed; Google has vastly expanded its brand, launching Gmail, acquiring YouTube, and introducing a mobile platform with Android. Perhaps more notable than the number of unique visitors is the amount of time spent on a website. Facebook is tops in this area. Last month, comScore says people spent 250 billion minutes on Facebook, two-thirds more time than they were spending on the social-networking site a year ago, and much more time than they're ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/congress-google-clash-over-schmidt-page-appearance-pc-magazine/ congress-google-clash-over-schmidt-page-appearance-pc-magazine Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:03:10 +0300 A Senate subcommitte is pushing Google to have Eric Schmidt or Larry Page testify at an upcoming hearing on search competition, and is reportedly using the threat of a subpoena to force an appearance. "We write to request that Google testify at the hearing and, specifically, that one of you appear as the company's witness," Sens. Herb Kohl and Michael Lee, chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, wrote in a June 10 letter to Schmidt and Page. The subcommitee plans to hold a hearing on competition issues related to Internet search before Congress' August recess. Google offered up chief legal officer David Drummond, according to the letter, but Kohl and Lee said they "strongly prefer" to speak to Schmidt or Page because the hearing will "address fundamental questions of business operations rather than merely legal issues." The senators said they will be flexible in accomodating the executives' schedules. "We much prefer to work this out by agreement rather than needing to resort to more formal procedures," they said. Those formal procedures apparently include the threat of a subpoena, according to Bloomberg. "The threat of subpoenas is one of the ways the committee is pressuring Mountain View, California-based Google to send Page or Schmidt, according to two people familiar with negotiations between the panel and the company," Bloomberg said. A Google spokeswoman said "we're in talks with the Subcommittee, and we'll send them the executive who can best answer their questions." Google is currently facing questions over the competitiveness of its search engine across the pond. The debate dates ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-to-start-making-tvs-report-says/ apple-to-start-making-tvs-report-says Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:05:07 +0300 (CNN) -- Apple might want to sell you your next TV. Technology blog DailyTech on Wednesday was quoting an unnamed "former Apple executive" who said Apple plans to enter the television display market by the end of the year. Apple plans to "blow Netflix and all those other guys away" with a console that would have Apple TV and iTunes built into it, the source reportedly told DailyTech. The report says Apple plans to team up with an existing manufacturer to provide televisions that would be branded under the Apple name. "You'll go into an Apple retail store and be able to walk out with a TV," said the former exec, who DailyTech said spoke under the condition of anonymity. "It's perfect." Brian White, an analyst with Ticonderoga Securities, was bullish on the prospect of Apple entering what he described as the $100 billion LCD television market. "In our view, the combination of Apple's powerful ecosystem, industrial design savvy, powerful brand and ability to reinvent product categories could make Apple a powerful force in the TV world in the coming years," White wrote in a report on the article. He wrote that during a trip to China last year, Ticonderoga was "the first to uncover data points" suggesting Apple planned to release a "smart TV" by the end of the year. Apple already makes an Apple TV device which, amid a string of recent successes such as the iPhone and iPad, has floundered by the Cupertino, California tech giant's standards. The system, first introduced in 2007, is a box-like gadget that lets users stream ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-nokia-aproape-junk-la-nivel-mondial-neaga-orice-probleme-in-romania-care-va-fi-soarta-marcii-maybach-concurent-chinez-pentru-airbus-si-boeing-orasele-industriei-comuniste-au-zilele-numarate/ business-report-nokia-aproape-junk-la-nivel-mondial-neaga-orice-probleme-in-romania-care-va-fi-soarta-marcii-maybach-concurent-chinez-pentru-airbus-si-boeing-orasele-industriei-comuniste-au-zilele-numarate Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:06:01 +0300 Orasele industriei comuniste au zilele numarate. Dupa ce si-au trait perioada de glorie in anii '70 si '80, zeci de localitati urbane se dovedesc, pur si simplu, inutile in contextul economiei capitaliste. Dilema statului e greu de rezolvat: le salvam sau le lasam sa moara? Strazi desfundate, blocuri gri, cu dare negre in dreptul zecilor de cosuri din tabla care strapung peretii. Maidane acoperite de buruieni, pe care alearga copii prost imbracati si pasc animale triste. Banci rupte, pe care stau oameni tacuti ori peste masura de galagiosi, tinand in maini sticle cu cea mai ieftina bere ori cea mai tare tuica de la chioscul din colt. Oras minier din Valea Jiului, Banat ori Oltenia? Fost centru siderurgic din Transilvania ori orasel ridicat in sudul tarii odata cu industria chimica? Petrila ori Calan, Anina sau Zimnicea, peisajele sunt, in mare masura, intersanjabile. In afara imaginii deloc incantatoare, aceste localitati mai au ceva in comun: s-au dezvoltat in jurul unei companii sau al unei industrii, iar intrarea in declin a acesteia, de cele mai multe ori petrecuta in anii '90, a pus la grea incercare localnicii si autoritatile, scrie Capital.(Olt)chimia privatizarii. De ce a prins viteza Oltchim, in conditiile in care starea financiara a companiei abia daca da semne de revenire? Cateva indicii pot fi gasite la bursa."Actiunile Oltchim fac spectacol", "Cand sarim din racheta Oltchim?", "Oltchim isi continua raliul la BVB", acestea sunt cateva din titlurile presei din Romania de la inceputul lunii iunie. In spatele acestor titluri care descriu o evolutie spectaculoasa a cotatiilor ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mog-launches-moggles-find-music-by-snapping-album-art-with-phone-mashable/ mog-launches-moggles-find-music-by-snapping-album-art-with-phone-mashable Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:02:37 +0300 Music subscription service MOG has gone all Google Goggles with a new update that lets you take pictures of album art in order to find music. Meet Moggles. To find the tool, navigate to the second home screen of the (iPhone or Android) app -- swipe to the right. Aim at an album of your choosing and snap away. Granted, Moggles is still in beta, so it still doesn't work perfectly -- in fact, a warning screen will pop up when you first use it that says that the service "may produce inaccurate or hilarious results." [More from Mashable: China Is Second Largest Market for App Store Downloads [STUDY]] In my own test, I had issues locating music from snapshots of the CDs on my desk. However, when I tried snapping a pic of Beck's Odelay on my computer screen, the album came right up on the app. Quirks aside, though, it's a fun idea. The update also includes the ability to favorite artists, albums, tracks and playlists; sign in from multiple devices (watch out Tennessee); and other tweaks. [More from Mashable: Grooveshark Adds Channel for Emerging Artists] Image courtesy of Flickr, freeloosedirt This story originally published on Mashable here. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/webrelease-cosmote-romania-lanseaza-un-nou-plan-tarifar-pentru-telefoanele-blackberry/ webrelease-cosmote-romania-lanseaza-un-nou-plan-tarifar-pentru-telefoanele-blackberry Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:06:14 +0300 COSMOTE Romania lanseaza noi planuri tarifare pentru clientii telefoanelor inteligente BlackBerry, imbunatatind accesul la solutia BlackBerry atat pentru clientii de business cat si cei rezidentiali. Solutia BlackBerry asigura acces mobil facil la cele mai performante solutii din industrie pentru e-mail si mesagerie, social networking, telefon, organizator, web, multimedia si altele aplicatii mobile de business si lifestyle. Planurile tarifare BlackBerry sunt disponibile promotional, pana pe 15 iulie 2011, impreuna cu o gama de telefoane inteligente BlackBerry precum BlackBerry Curve 8520, BlackBerry Curve 8900, BlackBerry Bold 9000, BlackBerry Bold 9700 si BlackBerry Bold 9780.Dispunand de o mare varietate de aplicatii preinstalate, special concepute pentru terminalele BlackBerry, gama de telefoane inteligente BlackBerry le va permite clientilor COSMOTE sa fie conectati cu prietenii, familia si colegii atunci cand se afla in miscare. Pentru clientii corporate, planurile tarifare ofera pachete competitive pentru o comunicare performanta si caracteristici multimedia. Pentru utilizatorii rezidentiali, COSMOTE ofera acces la cele mai performante servicii de internet BlackBerry, care permit accesul la serviciile de date BlackBerry inclusiv acces internet si pana la 10 conturi de e-mail corporate si personal incluse. Aplicatiile preinstalate includ Facebook pentru terminalele BlackBerry, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger si mereu popularul BBM (BlackBerry Messenger).Planurile tarifare COSMOTE BlackBerry sunt disponibile pentru toti clientii noi ai COSMOTE Romania si includ minute nationale si internationale, minute in retea, SMS-uri si trafic de date pe mobil. Pachete si tarife BlackBerry 50 BlackBerry 60 BlackBerry 80 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/jk-rowling-set-to-unveil-new-potter-project-afp/ jk-rowling-set-to-unveil-new-potter-project-afp Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:30:59 +0300 LONDON (AFP) – Harry Potter fans will be invited on a global online "treasure hunt," according to media reports Thursday citing a leaked memo on "Pottermore", creator J.K. Rowling's latest project. The multi-million selling writer of the boy wizard's adventures is due to officially announce details of her new enterprise later Thursday after a week of fevered speculation since a teaser was discovered on the Internet. But several British newspapers said they had received an email with details about the project, apparently sent by mistake by a public relations company that appears to be behind it. The memo sets out the marketing strategy for Pottermore and suggests it is an online game with clues to prizes hidden in the real world, including magic wands concealed in Britain and the United States, the reports said. The PR company, Adam and Eve, previously set up an online treasure hunt using Google maps to publicise a video game. The Times newspaper warned however that the email "could be a canny marketing exercise." Last week a spokesman for Rowling said the new enterprise was not a new book and was "not directly related" to the release next month of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," the final film in the epic saga. A Pottermore website features a purple screen containing two owls and the scrawled message "Coming Soon". A click on an owl redirects the user to a YouTube page with a clock marking down time until Rowling's announcement and the message "The owls are gathering -- find out why soon". A Pottermore Twitter account has ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/olanda-e-la-un-pas-sa-devina-prima-tara-europeana-care-garanteaza-prin-lege-principiul-neutralitatii-internetului/ olanda-e-la-un-pas-sa-devina-prima-tara-europeana-care-garanteaza-prin-lege-principiul-neutralitatii-internetului Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:44:46 +0300 Camera Reprezentantilor din Parlamentul olandez a aprobat legea care garanteaza neutralitatea internetului si impiedica operatorii de telefonie mobila sa discrimineze anumite tipuri de continut in raport cu altele. Legea trebuie sa treaca si de Senat, insa acest lucru pare a fi o formalitate, astfel ca Olanda e la un pas sa devina prima tara europeana care garanteaza prin lege neutralitatea internetului, scrie The Telegraph. Companii precum Vodafone si T Mobile se opun si spun ca daca legea trece, internetul mobil va fi mai scump.Cand operatorul telecom KPN a anuntat ca vrea sa-i taxeze suplimentar pe cei care folosesc pe telefoane diverse servicii de comunicare prin internet gen Skype, opinia publica a luat pozitie. Prin legea aprobata de prima camera a Parlamentului, utilizatorii care folosesc astfel de servicii nu pot fi taxati in plus si nici accesul la aceste aplicatii nu poate fi blocat.Practic, Olanda devine prima tara europeana care se opune unui internet mobil "cu doua viteze" in care anumite tipuri de continut sunt privilegiate in raport cu altele.Operatorii de telefonie mobila s-au opus acestei legi si au spus ca autoritatile s-au grabit, nu au analizat lucrurile cum trebuie si e foarte posibil ca preturile la facturile de internet mobil sa creasca daca legea intra in vigoare. Legea trebuie sa primeasca si OK-ul Senat-ului, lucru care este foarte probabil ca se va intampla. Olanda ar putea da un exemplu si altor tari europene, mai ales ca in UE s-au facut putine pe subiect. Un exemplu este insa si Chile care a votat in 2010 o ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/expedition-impossibles-dave-salmoni-talks-tech-yahoo-news/ expedition-impossibles-dave-salmoni-talks-tech-yahoo-news Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:06:46 +0300 Reality television fans rejoice, because this week ABC is kicking off a new summer series called Expedition Impossible, airing Thursday night at 9/8c. The show will follow 13 teams as they race across Morocco and, as you'd expect from reality TV, every week one team will be eliminated while the others trek onward. While we waited for this Indiana Jones-style adventure to air we caught up with the show's host, adventurer and wildlife expert Dave Salmoni, to talk about tech and travel. When he's not roughing it, Salmoni — a self-proclaimed gadget-lover — is as tech-friendly as anyone and has a long list of gadgets as traveling companions. He says he can't leave home without his iPod or BlackBerry smartphone and likes to keep his PlayBook and Sony Reader with him when he's on the road. The PlayBook for work and playThe PlayBook hasn't had a warm reception from all tech enthusiasts, but Salmoni has nothing but praise for his BlackBerry tablet. Though he tells us he tried the iPad, it felt more like an interesting toy than a useful device, while the PlayBook lets him mix work and play. Because he has a BlackBerry smartphone, he can take advantage of the PlayBook's ability to sync wirelessly (via Bluetooth) with a BlackBerry phone — something Apple has been slow to develop. As for apps, he has a lot of games for playing when he's off the clock, finds weather apps to be handy, and, of course, uses the social networking app Twitter. But for the most part, Salmoni seems ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cyberwarfare-finds-a-captive-audience/ cyberwarfare-finds-a-captive-audience Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:13:40 +0300 (CNN) -- From scanning news headlines over the last couple of months, you might think the walls around Internet strongholds are made of rotting wood. Yet the frequency of data breaches actually hasn't increased dramatically, according to security experts and reports compiled by nonprofit advocacy group Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. What appears to be changing is how quickly companies are publicly disclosing network intrusions and the breadth of information stolen in each case. Those factors, in turn, spur the rabid media attention that's being given to digital security. More personal info is being nabbed as part of these break-ins because, simply, each company is taking in reams of data from more customers. As Web usage grows and becomes more personalized, so too do the databases that store the names, addresses and, in worse instances, credit card numbers that are routinely dispensed over Internet lines. Still, the incidents, with new targets popping up every week, are no less frightening. Several national governments are on the defensive, while simultaneously exploring ways to use cyber tactical strikes to their own ends. Google said last year that a widespread intrusion into its system originated in an area that's home to a national security branch of the Chinese army and then blamed the Chinese government for slowing access to its services. A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks charged that the Chinese government ordered the computer hacking, according to a report in The New York Times. Chinese officials denied any involvement in the attack. Hackers from China, Russia and other countries reportedly penetrated the U.S. electrical grid ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-to-receive-ftc-subpoenas-report-reuters/ google-to-receive-ftc-subpoenas-report-reuters Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:36:14 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google Inc is set to receive civil subpoenas from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in preparation for an investigation into the Web giant's Internet search business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company, which dominates the U.S. and global markets for search advertising, has been accused by competitors of favoring its own services over rivals in its search results. Google is already the subject of an investigation by European regulators on similar issues. Google and the FTC declined to comment. (Reporting by Bill Rigby; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ftc-to-issue-subpoenas-in-google-antitrust-probe-ap/ ftc-to-issue-subpoenas-in-google-antitrust-probe-ap Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:36:21 +0300 WASHINGTON – A published report says federal regulators are preparing to issue subpoenas to Google and other companies as authorities gather information for a broad antitrust probe into the Internet search leader's business practices. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission will issue subpoenas "within days." The FTC is looking into whether Google abuses its Internet search monopoly to extend its dominance into other online markets, such as mapping, comparison shopping and travel. Rivals complain that Google Inc., which handles two out of every three Internet searches in the U.S., manipulates its results to steer users to its own sites and services and bury links to competitors. Google and the Federal Trade Commission refused to comment Thursday. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-reportedly-facing-ftc-antitrust-investigation-over-search-pc-magazine/ google-reportedly-facing-ftc-antitrust-investigation-over-search-pc-magazine Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:37:22 +0300 Google is reportedly the target of an antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, with requests for information expected to be handed to the search giant within days. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that any investigation will likely focus on Google's search and advertising business, the foundation of the company. At issue, according to the paper, is whether Google uses those services to keep users on its own Web sites, instead of sending them elsewhere on the Web. The requests for information could arrive about the same timeframe as another request. The Senate has asked either Larry Page or Sergey Brin to testify on search competition, even going so far as to consider a subpoena. A Google spokeswoman told PCMag.com earlier "we're in talks with the Subcommittee, and we'll send them the executive who can best answer their questions." Google representatives could not be reached for comment on the possibility of an FTC investigation. To date, much of the investigation into Google's search practices has been centered in Europe, where the EU opened an investigation into Google's search practices last November. Three companies - Foundem, a French legal search engine called ejustice.fr, and Ciao! from Bing, levied complaints against Google. EJustice's parent, 1PlusV, added its own complaint in February . Google executives had dismissed the complaints as ones driven by Microsoft, a competitor. However, the EU investigation was oriented around the way in which Google ranks third-party Web sites, not the way which Google directs consumers via its search results. A complaint could cover ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-3-d-silly-but-evo-3d-smart-overall-ap/ review-3-d-silly-but-evo-3d-smart-overall-ap Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:06:26 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – There has been a big push for 3-D at movie theaters and on TV sets, so it was only a matter of time before digitally enhanced fisticuffs started popping out of smartphone screens, too. The 3-D technology is the most boasted-about feature on HTC's new EVO 3D smartphone, which goes on sale Friday. You can watch 3-D movies and play 3-D games without putting on annoying glasses. You can shoot 3-D photos and videos, too. The inclusion of 3-D is gimmicky and might make you feel nauseous, but it is creative at times and the EVO 3D is a fine smartphone overall. The phone costs $200 with a two-year service plan with Sprint Nextel Corp. I wear glasses, so I was excited that I didn't need to put on another pair to try out the EVO 3D. The phone creates the appearance of depth using a technique called autostereoscopy. The screen has a layer that guides light so that the light from one pixel goes to the left eye and from the next to the right. I got right to work watching a 3-D version of "The Green Hornet," which came with the phone. I was wowed by a fight scene where glass seemed to be flying out of the screen. A friend I handed the phone to even flinched when the shards blew past. I also checked out some animated 3-D clips on YouTube. The scenes that looked best were, not surprisingly, those with people and objects in the foreground and background and with things moving ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/it-doesn39t-matter-how-many-apps-android-has-contributornetwork/ it-doesn39t-matter-how-many-apps-android-has-contributornetwork Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:06:27 +0300 COMMENTARY | As David from 37signals pointed out, "the established wisdom now is that you cannot win without hundreds of thousands of apps" if you're trying to buy or make a new smartphone. That's why companies like Motorola and HTC are playing along with Google to make Android smartphones; they could take the open-source Android code and run with it, but if they're not in Google's good graces, so their customers don't get to buy apps from the Android Market. In a survey by Business Insider, though, only 8.1 percent of respondents said "App selection" was the most important factor to them when choosing a new smartphone. So does it really matter how many hundreds of thousands of apps are in the Android Market, or that Android has more free apps than iOS? What does matter, anyway? To Google, to HTC, and to you as a smartphone buyer? Core experience The biggest reason the iPhone does so well is because Apple nailed the experience on it. And by "experience," I don't mean it has glossy buttons. I mean the way it feels, the way it works, and the way you can Get Stuff Done on an iPhone without feeling like you're fighting it. My HTC Aria, for instance, often lags a second behind my swiping through home screens, but the iPhone tends to be perfectly responsive. As David put it, "Ten apps is [sic] all I need," and he described ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/summary-box-ftc-to-issue-google-probe-subpoenas-ap/ summary-box-ftc-to-issue-google-probe-subpoenas-ap Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:08:13 +0300 THE NEWS: The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to issue subpoenas to Google and other companies as authorities gather information for a broad antitrust probe into the Internet search leader's business practices. THE PROBE: The FTC is looking into whether Google abuses its Internet search monopoly to extend its dominance into other online markets, such as mapping, comparison shopping and travel, by steering users to its own sites and services and burying links to competitors. THE BACKDROP: The European Commission and the Texas attorney general have already opened investigations into whether Google uses its enormous clout as a major gateway to the Internet to stifle competition broadly online. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/new-tools-aim-to-plug-facebook-leaks/ new-tools-aim-to-plug-facebook-leaks Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:43:06 +0300 (CNN) -- Your Facebook friends aren't the only ones reading those wall posts. Many of Facebook's 600 million members make intimate "friend" connections with corporations without knowing the extent of those relationships. Facebook users forge these ties when they install a Facebook application from a company, click a "Like" button on a company page or log into many third-party websites by using their Facebook accounts. In many cases, these actions also cause unknowing users to fork over their names, lists of friends, e-mail and home addresses, phone numbers and other personal info. People who sign up to send greeting cards on Jibjab by using the Facebook Connect button, for example, give that site's owner access to information they've posted on their Facebook profiles. Ditto for apps, those little utilities and games that show up on or interface with the social network. Facebook says users install 20 million apps on the website per day. Instead of wading through the swamps of app-connection and privacy settings pages buried within Facebook's menus, some third-party developers have designed tools to help people manage the information they're sharing, often unknowingly, with strangers and corporations. Social Monitor, a service that launched Thursday, is a Web browser extension that looks at apps attached to the user's Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. Social Monitor's dashboard shows an indicator next to each app, which looks like those scary Homeland Security threat level signs at airports. The colors signify how much info the app can access from a social-network profile. Next to that color rating, users see an evaluation of the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-and-movl-interpret-social-tv-as-games-pc-magazine/ google-and-movl-interpret-social-tv-as-games-pc-magazine Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:05:18 +0300 Google and technology start-up MOVL are drawing on games to develop a new kind of social TV experience with two new apps called WeDraw.tv and PokerFun.tv. Users play the apps using their iOS or Android smartphones or tablets, but use a television screen as the communal game board. It sounds a lot like multiplayer gaming, only with smartphones instead of keyboards and mice and television screens instead of computer monitors. The concept and trial-and-error deployment of socially-enhanced television experiences has resurfaced dozens, if not hundreds of times in the past decade, but no company has yet nailed the concept or delivered it at the right time for it to catch on massively. Google and MOVL seem ready to try again, this time leaning on games for back-up support. What's odd is that the "TV" part of this social TV set up isn't really "TV" at all. Only the screen is being utilized (not television programming content) as part of the network. Viewers—or really "players"—will be able to connect with other players in front of other television screens who are in different geographic locations. WeDraw is a drawing guessing game in which the TV becomes the game board and players use their phones as controllers to draw pictures and guess secret words. PokerFun turns the TV set into a poker table. Players see what cards they've been dealt on their phone or tablet, where they also place their bets and play out the hand. Both apps are available to check out in the GoogleTV Spotlight (video below). The news was announced ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mozilla-to-businesses-we39re-not-interested-pc-magazine/ mozilla-to-businesses-we39re-not-interested-pc-magazine Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:05:25 +0300 A Mozilla executive has incurred the wrath of IT professionals with a somewhat callous comment made about Firefox and its focus on the enterprise. The comment was in response to a blog posting by Firefox specialist and consultant Mike Kaply. Kaply was justifiably lamenting Firefox's rapid release scheduling and its negative impact on businesses. Case in point: Firefox 4 was only released in March. Now, three months later Firefox 5.0 is out in stable release. Hence, Mozilla has ceased supporting Firefox 4. Kaply points out that this breakneck update schedule may "work for the average user" but "it doesn't fly in [a] corporate environment, especially places like banks". "Expecting a company to go through a full deployment cycle of their web browser every six week is simply ludicrous." Others apparently are in agreement, as his post is now at 60-something comments and counting. Particularly vociferous posts are being made by IT people who support thousands of clients running Firefox: "I have 500,000 corporate users on Firefox 3.6. We just completing a test cycle of Firefox 4 on many thousands of internal business web applications," one said. The same poster addresses his concerns over the end of support: "By the time I validate Firefox 5, what guarantee would I have that Firefox 5 won't go EOL when Firefox 6 is released?" However, what really stoked the flame on that blog was Mozilla executive Asa Dotzler's response to Kaply: "Mike, you do realize that we get about 2 million Firefox downloads per day from regular user types, right? Your "big numbers" here are ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/will-apple-ditch-google-maps-in-ios-5-pc-magazine/ will-apple-ditch-google-maps-in-ios-5-pc-magazine Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:05:37 +0300 Apple could be ditching Google Maps in favor of its own navigation software in iOS 5. MacRumors uncovered a new section in the legal disclaimers section of iOS 5 called "Map Data" that references several different third-party mapping and naviation companies such as CoreLogic, Getchee, Localeze, and TomTom, among others. It wouldn't be much of a shock if Apple ditched Google Maps and launched its own mapping service. In recent years, Apple has snapped up a couple of mapping companies, Placebase and Poly9. Apple has also been hiring engineers with mapping and navigation experience to join the iOS team. On top of that, when Apple responded to the outpouring of media scrutiny about iPhone location tracking in April, the company revealed it was creating its own traffic database. But Apple is still using Google Maps for now, and Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt said last month at the D9 conference that Google "just renewed [its] Map and Search agreements with Apple." Reports of an Apple-powered mapping service have been circulating for quite some time. Last month, 9to5Google attempted to quash the rumors, claiming while "Apple is working to improve the iOS Maps application, iOS 5 will not bring an Apple developed maps service and Google Maps is still in." MacRumors speculates that Apple is actively working on its own mapping solution, but it's possible that it's not ready for iOS 5, meaning consumers will have to wait a while to see what it would look like. Apple showed a preview of iOS 5 earlier ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/casey-anthony39s-mother-i-searched-for-chloroform-reuters/ casey-anthony39s-mother-i-searched-for-chloroform-reuters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:00:13 +0300 ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) – The mother of accused child killer Casey Anthony offered the startling revelation in court on Thursday that she was the one who searched for information about chloroform on the family's computer. Cindy Anthony testified that she was trying to research information on her dog, who had been eating bamboo leaves and not feeling well. She said her search led her from chlorophyll to chloroform, as several types of chlorophyll can produce chloroform. Previous witnesses at Casey's first-degree murder trial in Florida have testified they found evidence of what they considered to be a surprisingly large quantity of chloroform, as well as residue from a decomposing human body, in Casey's car trunk. Prosecutors accuse Casey, 25, of using duct tape to suffocate her 2-year-old daughter Caylee on June 16, 2008 and then storing the child's body in the trunk. Cindy also testified on Thursday that the trunk liner in Casey's car was already stained when Cindy and her husband George bought the car from a used car dealership in Orlando. Prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick challenged Cindy's claims, asking why records showed she was at work on the dates of the Internet searches in March 2008. Cindy said because she was salaried, her work record often varied from reality. "We were not supposed to report overtime, so sometimes we'd only work a half day to make up for longer hours," she said. Cindy said she previously had given law enforcement and the state attorney's office the information about her computer searches. "This is not new," she said. MOTHER RECALLS "INHALATION" SEARCH Casey and Caylee ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ftc-to-deepen-google-probe-report-reuters/ ftc-to-deepen-google-probe-report-reuters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:06:41 +0300 (Reuters) – Google Inc is about to receive the civil equivalent of a subpoena from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission as part of a probe into the giant Web company's Internet search business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Separately, the Financial Times on Friday reported that attorneys-general in California, New York and Ohio have also started antitrust investigations into Google. The states that have recently joined the inquiries into Google are still at an early stage in their deliberations, people familiar with their thinking told the Financial Times. The company, which dominates U.S. and global markets for search advertising, has been accused by competitors of favoring its own services over rivals in its search results. Google, the world's No. 1 search engine, and the FTC declined to comment on the Journal report. Google was not immediately available for comment on the Financial Times report. The attorney general of California declined comment while the attorneys general of New York and Ohio were not immediately available for comment. The FTC plans to send the civil investigative demand with a request for more information, the civil equivalent of a subpoena, within five days, according to the report. U.S. antitrust regulators have been concerned about Google's dominance of the Web search industry, and it has been under investigation by the European Commission since last November. Complaints has been filed with regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, many from Google rivals who specialize in vertical searches like price comparison websites, which are widely seen as a threat to Google's ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/first-look-at-google-tv-20-39fishtank39-digital-trends/ first-look-at-google-tv-20-39fishtank39-digital-trends Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:35:01 +0300 We heard in April that Google was preparing to improve its connected TV, “revamping” the product with a faster chipset and upgraded UI, as well as Android app availability. Now we’re getting a look at that product, via Geek, which got an early look at a developer release. Software Right away you can see that the new interface looks a lot like Honeycomb. In actuality, it’s Google TV 2.0 beta, or a simplified take on Android 3.1 Ice Cream Sandwich. Keep in mind, this is a very early release and there are likely to be more preinstalled apps, but for the time being there is a clock app, a live TV app, and Chrome browser. Apparently, how exactly the live TV function will work is still up in the air, and something Google’s keeping close to its chest. For the moment, live TV can only be accessed via the HDMI port. Live TV can work behind the home screen, allowing users to run multiple applications. But developers (who allegedly came up with the idea to run data over live broadcasts) aren’t getting access to this feature’s API, creating some friction between Google and its developers. All arguments aside, the color scheme is reminiscent of the PSN and Ice Cream Sandwich – all blacks and blues. There will be the ability for split-screen viewing as well. Hardware Developers are working with an Intel CE4100 reference platform running Google TV 2.0 beta. The CE4100 is designed for set-top sets, meaning it’s equipped for streaming, broadcast, and other Internet use. It’s also supposed ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/exclusive-forget-spy-kids-try-kiddie-hacker-conference-reuters/ exclusive-forget-spy-kids-try-kiddie-hacker-conference-reuters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:35:38 +0300 BOSTON (Reuters) – Children as young as eight years old are invited to Las Vegas this summer to learn that it's cool to be a hacker -- provided they don't cheat, steal or commit other crimes. The first-ever Defcon Kids conference in August is a chance for children between eight and 16 to learn the skills of computer hackers, as well as protect themselves against cyber attacks. It will also be an opportunity for U.S. federal agents to size up tech-savvy youngsters who could form the next generation of digital crime-fighters. Police, intelligence agents, military officers and the consultants working for them have long attended as well as recruited from Defcon, the world's biggest gathering of hackers held in Las Vegas every summer. This year, against a backdrop of high-profile cyber attacks on targets ranging from Google Inc to the International Monetary Fund, Defcon organizers are holding Defcon Kids on August 6 and 7 alongside the main conference. Kids need to register in advance at www.defconkids.org to be able to participate in some conference activities. One goal of Defcon Kids is to convince children from age 8 to 16 that it is cool to be a "white hat," or benevolent hacker who uses computer skills to fight crime. "Black hats," in contrast, work on the dark side of the Internet, using their skills to steal money, identities and other perform nefarious deeds. "Hacking isn't just fun and games. It isn't about breaking into systems," said a 16-year-old who goes by the hacker handle "FS." He will teach Defcon Kids how to protect ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-battle-for-yahoo39s-future-mashable/ the-battle-for-yahoo39s-future-mashable Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:35:27 +0300 Thanks to a weakening business, painful talent exodus and stagnant stock price, Yahoo is a house divided. And as President Abraham Lincoln famously once said, "a house divided against itself cannot stand." It's no secret that Yahoo is struggling. The company hasn't staged the dramatic turnaround that its investors envisioned CEO Carol Bartz would lead. Almost half of its market value is derived from its 40% stake in Alibaba, the China Internet giant with a market cap of approximately $8 billion. Most importantly, Yahoo hasn't been able to create growth or articulate a clear vision for substantive growth. [More from Mashable: Google Now Reaches 1 Billion People Per Month [STATS]] The result has been turmoil. Yahoo is fighting with Alibaba over online payment system Alipay (the two sides have yet to settle) and the former Internet giant has been experiencing a massive talent drain (Yahoo ranks as the worst in terms of talent retention when compared to other tech giants). The calls for Bartz's head have been rising as well, and that has created more headaches for a company that already has a migraine. And it's not just from the media; investors are publicly and privately questioning the former Autodesk CEO's leadership. At Yahoo's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, one investor took the microphone and made scathing remarks about Yahoo's chief executive: [More from Mashable: Who Is Winning & Losing in the Tech Talent Wars? [INFOGRAPHIC]] "The last thing Yahoo needs right now is a lame-duck CEO. The buyout talks over your contract need to start today and a search ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-facing-wide-ranging-us-antitrust-probe-wsj-afp/ google-facing-wide-ranging-us-antitrust-probe-wsj-afp Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:36:49 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Federal Trade Commission is poised to open a formal antitrust probe into whether Internet search giant Google has abused its dominance on the Web, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the matter," said the FTC is preparing to serve Google with civil subpoenas "signaling the start of a wide-ranging, formal antitrust investigation." The Journal said the five-member commission will send Google the formal demands for information "within days" and other companies were likely to receive requests for information about their dealings with Google. The FTC declined to comment on the report and there was no immediate response to a request for comment from the Mountain View, California-based Google. Google, which controls around 65 percent of the lucrative US Internet search market, has been the target of numerous antitrust investigations by the FTC and the US Department of Justice in recent years. But the Journal said the FTC's probe "is the most serious to date" in the United States because it will examine "fundamental issues relating to Google's core search advertising business." The newspaper said the FTC probe is expected to take a year or more to unfold and "won't necessarily lead to any federal allegations of wrongdoing against the company." Google makes most of its money from search-related advertising. According to digital marketing firm eMarketer, Google's share of net US search advertising revenue will grow 38.9 percent this year to $10.92 billion, giving Google a 75.9 percent share of overall US search revenue. The Journal said the probe will look at whether Google ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-este-in-centrul-mai-multor-investigatii-ale-guvernului-american/ google-este-in-centrul-mai-multor-investigatii-ale-guvernului-american Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:43:26 +0300 Google este în centrul mai mutlor investigaţii antitrust ale guvernului american, care încearcă să determine dacă gigantul căutărilor pe internet abuzează de poziţia dominantă pe piaţa publicităţii online pentru a-şi zdrobi concurenţii. Procurorii din cel puţin trei state americane au început anchete privind operaţiunile Google, a declarat o sursă apropiată situaţiei. Persoana a refuzat să dea detalii, dar a arătat că procurorii generali din California, Ohio şi New York sunt în primele etape ale anchetelor. Surse apropiate investigaţiilor au oferit informaţii similare şi ziarului Financial Times. Totodată, Wall Street Journal scrie că Google urmează să primească "echivalentul civil al unei citaţii" de la Federal Trade Commission (FTC) în cadrul unei investigaţii privind operaţiunile companiei din domeniul căutărilor pe internet. Compania, care domină piaţa americană şi cea globală în privinţa căutărilor pe internet şi publicităţii prin acest canal, a fost acuzată în repetate rânduri de competitori că îşi favorizează propriile servicii în rezultatele căutărilor, în defavoarea celor oferite de rivali. Reprezentanţii Google şi cei ai FTC au refuzat să comenteze informaţiile. Procurorii generali din California şi New York au refuzat de asemenea să facă declaraţii, în timp ce procurorul general al statului Ohio nu a fost disponibil pentru comentarii. Autorităţile antitrust din SUA sunt îngrijorate de ceva timp de dominaţia Google asupra industriei căutărilor pe internet. Totodată, compania este anchetată în Europa de Comisia Europeană din noiembrie anul trecut. Guvernele din America şi Europa au primit numeroase reclamaţii privind activităţile Google, majoritatea din partea rivalilor companiei. Între timp, acţiunile companiei au intrat pe un trend descendent abrupt. După ce a început anul uşor peste 600 de dolari pe acţiune, Google a coborât sub nivelul de 500 de dolari şi a închis joi pe Nasdaq la 480,2 dolari pe acţiune. Compania ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/blackberry-maker-upbeat-on-asian-growth-markets-afp/ blackberry-maker-upbeat-on-asian-growth-markets-afp Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:06:04 +0300 SINGAPORE (AFP) – BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is banking on Indonesia and other populous markets for growth in Asia, while it faces intensifying competition worldwide from rivals like the iPhone. The Canadian firm had one of the most prominent stands at the CommunicAsia telecom fair that ended Friday in Singapore, where industry executives gather annually to check out new technology and seal deals. "We are in a great spot. When I think about the (Asian) markets, I have a big smile on my face," RIM's regional managing director Gregory Wade told AFP at the expo. Wade said BlackBerry currently leads the smartphone market in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Technology research firm IDC estimates that RIM shipped 1.5 million BlackBerry devices to Asia in the first quarter of this year and since 2004 has sold at least 8.5 million units in the region. Asia accounted for 11 percent of RIM's global shipments in the first quarter of 2011, compared to eight percent for all of 2010, it said. Wade said that as more consumers seek replacements for older handsets, there's ample room for further growth in the Asian smartphone sector. "There is a huge adoption of technology, consumers are making that leapfrog," he said. Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand have a combined population of 400 million, and Indonesians have a particular fondness for BlackBerry's instant-messaging function, which spares them from texting charges. "If you look at the countries he (Wade) mentioned, those are good success stories for them despite the beating they are getting globally," said Byan Ma, an analyst with IDC. "In ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/attorney-casey-anthony39s-parents-want-to-know-the-truth/ attorney-casey-anthony39s-parents-want-to-know-the-truth Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:11:22 +0300 Tune in to HLN's "Nancy Grace" at 8 ET for live reports from Florida with all the details of the Casey Anthony trial. And follow the action on Nancy's special Casey Anthony trial page. (CNN) -- An attorney for Casey Anthony's parents says the couple has not come to any conclusion about whether their daughter is guilty of murder, comments that came as the capital murder trial neared the conclusion of its fourth week. Attorney Mark Lippman made the statement the same day that Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony, testified that she, not her daughter, conducted Internet searches for key words including chloroform and alcohol on the Anthony family computer in March 2008. Prosecutors allege Casey Anthony used chloroform to render her daughter unconscious, then used duct tape to cover her nose and mouth, suffocating her. Caylee's remains, prosecutors allege, were then put into Casey Anthony's car trunk and eventually disposed of. The girl's skeletal remains were found in a wooded field on December 11, 2008, nearly six months after her family last reported having seen the child. Defense attorneys say Caylee was not murdered, but that she accidentally drowned in the family pool on June 16, 2008, the day she was last reported to have been seen. They argue that Anthony and her father, George Anthony, panicked and covered up the death. George Anthony rejected that scenario in his testimony. Casey Anthony, 25, is charged with seven counts in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in 2008, including first-degree murder. If convicted, she could face the death penalty. Caylee ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-hides-gay-pride-rainbow/ google-hides-gay-pride-rainbow Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:11:28 +0300 (CNN) -- Google creates "doodles" for all kinds of random occasions. The search engine changed -- or doodled -- the logo on its home page in celebration of the painter Paul Cezanne's 172nd birthday; Robert Louis Stevenson's 160th birthday; the first day of school in Poland; and Pac-Man's 30th anniversary. All of these, with the exception of Poland, which appeared only in that country, were automatically visible to everyone who visited Google.com. But for Gay Pride Month -- which, in case you didn't notice the parade in the city center, is happening now -- the company took a much less visible approach. It's one that's stirred up criticism from the gay community. There's never been an actual Google Doodle in honor of Gay Pride. Instead, during June, a little rainbow pops up next to Google's search bar only when users search for certain "pride-related" terms, including, "gay," "lesbian," "homosexuality," "LGBT," "marriage equality," "bisexual" and "transgender." "During the month of June, Google is celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Pride," the company said in an e-mail. "For some Pride-related search queries, we are showing a rainbow at the end of the search bar." So why hide this feature beneath specific searches? A company spokeswoman did not provide specifics. "We enjoy celebrating holidays and special events at Google. As you may imagine, it's difficult for us to choose which events to celebrate on our site, and have a long list of those we'd like to celebrate in the future," a statement said. Critics say Google is hiding the feature to avoid criticism from anti-gay ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ftc-probing-google-practices-investor39s-business-daily/ ftc-probing-google-practices-investor39s-business-daily Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:06:19 +0300 The search giant will soon receive the civil equivalent of a subpoena from the FTC as part of its probe into possible violations of antitrust laws, said the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources. Several companies have accused Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) of abusing its dominance. For example, TripAdvisor.com and health site WebMD.com have complained the No. 1 search engine favors its own services over theirs in search results. EU antitrust regulators launched a similar inquiry in Nov. Google fell 1.4% to 480.22. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/baidu-buys-qunar-to-boost-travel-search-reuters/ baidu-buys-qunar-to-boost-travel-search-reuters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:36:33 +0300 HONG KONG (Reuters) – Baidu Inc, China's top search engine, is buying the country's leading travel website Qunar to strengthen its foothold in the competitive Internet sector. Baidu, which is focusing more on e-commerce and online video, dominates China's search engine market after Google Inc pulled out following a high-profile fallout with Beijing over censorship last year. Baidu, which competes with other players such as Tencent Holdings Ltd, SINA Corp and Alibaba.com Ltd, said on Friday it would pay $306 million to become majority shareholder in Qunar. "Travel has long been one of the top categories on Baidu, and the number of travellers in China has been growing very rapidly, so this is a market of obvious strategic importance to us," Jennifer Li, Baidu's Chief Financial Officer, said in a statement. "Our investment in Qunar will create an even better search experience for users planning trips," Li said. Shares in Baidu, which has a market capitalization of about $43.5 billion, ended 3.5 percent higher on Thursday. Its shares are up by a third since the start of the year. China, with more than 450 million users, is the world's largest Internet market, but with web penetration hovering around 30 percent and lack of sophisticated users outside the big cities, the potential for growth is huge. Chinese consumers are using the Internet more often to book hotels and air tickets via websites such as Ctrip.com International Ltd as traveling becomes more common with increasing wealth. (Reporting by Lee Chyen Yee; Editing by David Cowell) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/republican-lawmakers-embrace-new-interactive-youtube-platform-daily-caller/ republican-lawmakers-embrace-new-interactive-youtube-platform-daily-caller Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:04:08 +0300 They may be a little older, but lawmakers — particularly Republicans — are finally becoming a part of the YouTube generation, thanks to a new feature developed by the ubiquitous video sharing site. Unlike its familiar one-video-per-page format, YouTube’s “Town Hall” section pits Republicans and Democrats against one another, debate-style, on a single page. User’s can select topics ranging from education to the economy before filing through short, video answers submitted by national politicians. “Town Hall” allows users to actually see the lawmakers positions on hot political topics, all on one user-friendly page. The YouTube experience wouldn’t be complete without audience involvement, though, and Town Hall not only allows users to vote the numerous videos up or down, but also chooses user-submitted questions from which lawmakers base their video answers. Of course, the Democratic responses appear on the left and those of their Republican counter-parts on the right. The new, integrated platform was launched by YouTube in late May and the response from both the public and lawmakers have been great, said a YouTube representative. More than 115,000 votes were cast on the 25 videos submitted for the first round of question, and a second round of topic questions was launched on Wednesday. If YouTube’s “Leaderboard” is any indication, Republicans are winning the video debate. New Mexico Democratic Sen. Tom Udall did received the most votes with his video “Time for Afghanistan Transition,” but the other top four June videos of come from Republican leaders. Only Democratic Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Chris Van Hollen make the list of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/is-tapping-our-emergency-oil-supply-a-mistake-the-week/ is-tapping-our-emergency-oil-supply-a-mistake-the-week Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:40:22 +0300 New York – The Obama administration is uncorking America's oil reserves in an international effort to drive down energy prices — at least for a short while The Obama administration will release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve — half of the 60-million-barrel release coordinated by the International Energy Agency (IEA) to make up for losses in Mideast supplies. The news sent oil prices down about 5 percent on Thursday. The SPR, which currently holds a record 727 million barrels, has only been tapped a few times since its creation in 1974. Does the war in Libya and other oil-disrupting unrest in the Middle East merit tapping America's emergency supply? No. This sets a risky precedent: Obama's decision to uncork our oil reserves now is "totally mystifying," says Barb Arrigo in the Detroit Free Press. The apparent rationale is that high oil prices will cripple the global economy, but gas prices have already been falling for weeks. And even if this helps us, it sets a worrisome precedent that the SPR should be tapped for economic reasons, "rather than solely for emergencies that affect supply more sharply than the fighting in Libya has.""Pouring oil on troubled (economic?) waters" Plus, it probably won't help much: The IEA and White House tried to get OPEC to step up production, and only acted when Iran, Venezuela, and Libya quashed that effort, says Bryan Walsh at TIME. Tapping the reserves is one of the few tools we have left. But 2 million extra barrels a day for one month is a very short-term economic ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nortel-patent-sale-attracts-tech-giants-reuters/ nortel-patent-sale-attracts-tech-giants-reuters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:05:01 +0300 TORONTO (Reuters) – Valuable broadband and networking patents developed by bankrupt Nortel Networks go up for sale next week, with tech giants like Google, Apple and Intel heading the list of would-be buyers. In one of its last asset sales in a drawn-out bankruptcy break-up, Nortel is selling 6,000 patents and patent applications, ranging across its whole spectrum of expertise in wireless, data and optical networking, voice, Internet, semiconductors and other technologies. The sale could fetch $1.5 billion, said Josh Walker, CEO of Lex Machina Inc, which consults on intellectual property litigation. "This is one of the largest and one of the most strategically significant ones," he said. The most prized patents in the collection relate to next-generation mobile broadband technology used in emerging 4G standards such as long term evolution (LTE). Mike Lazaridis, the co-chief of Canada's Research In Motion, once described these patents as a "national treasure." But RIM will likely be outbid by deep-pocketed mobile companies including Google and Apple. A source at chipmaker Intel called the portfolio a "gold mine" for its own push into mobile. Several sources have said likely bidders also include Sweden's Ericsson and U.S.-based RPX Corp, which licenses patents on behalf of member clients for a fee. Chinese network equipment maker ZTE has also expressed interest in the LTE portion. The auction, almost certainly the largest public sale of its kind, comes amid strong mobile industry growth -- and soaring litigation -- as relative latecomers Apple and Google seek to bolster weaker collections of patents versus rivals. Walker said a $1.5 billion price tag was not ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-says-gets-civil-subpoena-from-ftc-reuters/ google-says-gets-civil-subpoena-from-ftc-reuters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:07:19 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. antitrust regulators told Google they opened a formal investigation into whether the dominant search company illegally abuses its market power. Google said on its Official Google Blog that it received "formal notification from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it has begun a review of our business." The notification came on Thursday, they said. The company, which dominates U.S. and global markets for search advertising, has been accused by competitors of favoring its own services over rivals in its search results. Google defended its practices, saying it focused on the consumer. "It's still unclear exactly what the FTC's concerns are, but we're clear about where we stand. Since the beginning, we have been guided by the idea that, if we focus on the user, all else will follow," Google said in the blog. (Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Derek Caney) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-confirms-us-probe-into-search-business-afp/ google-confirms-us-probe-into-search-business-afp Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:34:53 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google confirmed on Friday that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun a review of the Internet giant's lucrative search and advertising business. "Yesterday, we received formal notification from the US Federal Trade Commission that it has begun a review of our business," Google said. "We respect the FTC's process and will be working with them (as we have with other agencies) over the coming months to answer questions about Google and our services," Google said in a blog post. Google said in the blog post that it was "still unclear exactly what the FTC's concerns are." But in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company said it had received a subpoena from the FTC "relating to a review by the FTC of Google's business practices, including search and advertising." The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the FTC would open a formal antitrust probe into whether Google was abusing its dominance on the Web. The newspaper said the probe will look at whether Google "unfairly channels users to its own growing network of services at the expense of rivals." Google controls around 65 percent of the lucrative US Internet search market and makes most of its money from search-related advertising. In the blog post, Google's Amit Singhal said the company is guided by doing "what's best for the user" and that its business principles will "stand up to scrutiny." European Union competition watchdogs opened an investigation in November into whether Google is abusing its power in online search and the US state of Texas ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/proxy-advisor-urges-rim-ceochairman-roles-be-split-reuters/ proxy-advisor-urges-rim-ceochairman-roles-be-split-reuters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:35:24 +0300 TORONTO (Reuters) – Shareholders in Research In Motion should vote to split the roles of chief executive and chairman of the board at the BlackBerry maker's annual meeting next month, proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis said on Friday. Both roles are shared by RIM co-founder Mike Lazaridis and by Jim Balsillie, who have struggled recently to present the company's products as a legitimate third option in a smartphone race increasingly dominated by tech giants Apple and Google. The issue was forced by a Glass Lewis client, RIM shareholder Northwest & Ethical Investments, earlier this month and will be voted on at RIM's annual general meeting on July 12. "We believe replacing a CEO becomes more difficult and happens less frequently than it should when the chief executive is also in the position of overseeing the board," the advisory firm's analysts, Dimitri Zagoroff and Marian Macindoe, wrote. Glass Lewis also said investors should withhold a vote on returning John Richardson to the board, citing his position on RIM's audit committee at a time when company executives were being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Ontario Securities Commission for stock-option backdating. Balsillie, Lazaridis and other senior RIM executives paid millions in February 2009 to settle regulator charges that the company illegally backdated options to coincide with low stock prices between 1998 and 2006. It restated $250 million of earnings between September 2006 and May 2007. "We hold this director (Richardson) accountable for the poor oversight that eventually led to restatement," Glass Lewis said. Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM has said investors should ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-gets-early-win-in-oracle-patent-battle-digital-trends/ google-gets-early-win-in-oracle-patent-battle-digital-trends Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:05:00 +0300 Oracle’s patent infringement suit against Google over the Java implementation in Android may be facing a significant setback: of the 21 patents Oracle claims Google is violating, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected 17 claims on re-examination. As a result, the judge in the case has asked both Oracle and Google to reduce the number of claims they are making against each other in order to avoid wasting the court’s time on patents that will likely be ruled invalid or uninfringed. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office ruling was first reported by Groklaw. Oracle has not yet indicated how it intends to proceed in the case, but options include appealing the patent re-examination, reducing the number of claims it is making against Google. Earlier this month, Oracle began to describe the damages it aims to collect from Google in the case: one court filing estimates the damages at over $6 billion. Google has disputed the manner in which Oracle arrived at its figures. Oracle filed suit against Google last year over alleged patent violation in the Java virtual machine used in Android. Google maintains it has done nothing wrong. Overall, Oracle has made 168 infringement claims against Google to on seven patents. The USPTO’s process is ongoing. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/podcast-new-domains-amish-tech/ podcast-new-domains-amish-tech Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:11:09 +0300 (CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg discuss the approval of new Internet domain endings. This means the tired, old ".com" might be getting some company from the likes of ".cocacola," ".apple" and ".nyc." Also, in a Tech Check first, we break down the secret world of Amish technology. Yes ... Amish technology. News that a man was allegedly sending slimy text messages from a horse and buggy highlighted the fact that not all members of the religious group are as tech-free as you might think. Our Reader Comments of the Week come from our story on author JK Rowling introducing "Pottermore," an online and e-reader experience that will continue the Harry Potter story. Inevitably, this leads to discussion of fanfic. We don't feel good about this. And in our Tech Fail of the Week, we give a "wag of the finger" to Google for what feels like a half-measure on a non-doodle for Gay Pride Month. To listen, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can find the Tech Check RSS feed here or subscribe on iTunes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cars-2-star-eddie-izzard-plans-political-career-reuters/ cars-2-star-eddie-izzard-plans-political-career-reuters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:37:33 +0300 Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Since breaking out of Britain's comedy ranks, Eddie Izzard has carved out a strong career in Hollywood movies and TV. His HBO comedy special, "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill" earned him two Emmy Awards, and his movie credits include the two "Ocean's Eleven" sequels. Izzard, 49, a transvestite, is now voicing a role in animated movie "Cars 2," which opens in U.S. movie theaters on Friday. He sat down with Reuters to talk about his role in the film and his plans for a new career -- in politics. Q: Sir Axlerod is a former oil baron who puts on a race to show off his new clean-burning fuel. Relate to him much? A: "My dad worked for an oil company and I do like business. I'm into retail. I like good merchandise and I like good ideas, so that's what I channeled in to Sir Miles Axlerod. He (represents) all the positive businesses like Google and Apple who try to do something different in a good way. Except he has a slight twist and an interesting aftertaste." Q: You had your own series "The Riches" on U.S. cable network FX and this past year appeared on the Showtime series "United States of Tara." Any plans for more television? A: "I'm developing a political drama with FX. We're working toward shooting a pilot. There are hoops you have to jump through before it gets to series but I'm a determined bastard. I'm a transvestite that's got this far." Q: Beyond that -- films, TV, stand-up -- ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-phone-7-39leak39-may-have-been-planned-newsfactor/ nokia-phone-7-39leak39-may-have-been-planned-newsfactor Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:05:02 +0300 Nokia and Microsoft's first collaboration generated a substantial amount of buzz this week after a video of the smartphone appeared on a Hungarian web site -- the kind of buzz Windows Phone 7 will need to gain traction in the smartphone market. The device, code-named Sea Ray, was unveiled at a Nokia Connections event in Singapore by CEO Stephen Elop and Jukka Kiiskinen, a Nokia sales manager. "This is something that is super-confidential and we don't want to see it out on the blogosphere," Elop said. Really? Someone in the audience had other ideas. A crystal-clear video with clear sound from what seems to be a fixed high-quality camera found its way onto Technet.hu, and then quickly made its way to tech sites around the world. Struggling to catch up to Apple's iPhone and Google's Android-powered devices, Nokia and Microsoft, who recently announced a major collaboration, can use all the publicity they can get to create a bigger market for the Windows Phone 7 devices they will release this fall, observers say. "One thing Apple fans do for Apple and Android fans do [for Google] is create publicity," said Strategy Analytics wireless analyst Alex Spektor. "It would serve Microsoft well and serve Nokia well to build similar buzz since those are the ecosystems they are trying to fight in that space." Photos of, and details about, Apple and Android products are routinely leaked to tech blogs. The most famous recent example is the iPhone 4 prototype that ended up on Engadget and Gizmodo last year, months ahead of release. The companies ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/texas-attorney-hunts-kills-big-gator/ texas-attorney-hunts-kills-big-gator Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:11:05 +0300 (CNN) -- A Texas attorney made personal history on a June hunting trip. Levi McCathern of Dallas killed a 14-foot, 900-pound alligator along the Trinity River in Leon County on June 11. It was the first time he'd ever been alligator hunting, McCathern said. "We got a lot of the meat and the hide, and all is at the taxidermy shop," he said. "We'll probably mount it." The alligator, whose hind leg looks as big as a man's torso, was shot in the head with a .308-caliber rifle with a scope. "I met some people who were 'Swamp People' on this (television) show," McCathern said. "I Googled these guys named the Gar Guys and found them. ... I said I want to go out with you ... they said sure, we'll just take you." "Swamp People" is the popular History Channel show that chronicles the lives of Louisiana Cajuns who rely on alligator hunting season to make a living. McCathern and his guide, Steve Barclay, spent two days stalking the animal down the river. He killed it with one shot. McCathern hasn't confirmed if his was the largest alligator ever "taken" in Texas. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/opera-co-founder-von-tetzchner-to-leave-company-pc-magazine/ opera-co-founder-von-tetzchner-to-leave-company-pc-magazine Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:05:26 +0300 Opera co-founder Jon S. von Tetzchner is leaving Opera Software in June, the browser company said Friday. "It has become clear that The Board, Management and I do not share the same values and we do not have the same opinions on how to keep evolving Opera," von Tetzchner said in a memo to employees, as obtained by TechCrunch. Opera representatives declined to comment. Von Tetzchner co-founded Opera Software in 1995 with Geir Ivarsøy, and led the company up to 2010, when he stepped down as chief eexecutive to become a strategic adviser. His last day will be June 30. Opera said that von Tetzchner "has ideas about new projects, but is not ready to reveal any of his ideas as of right now". Opera has traditionally trailed behind the other browser makers; the most recent estimates from Net Applications put the combined market share of Opera and Opera Mini at 3.3 percent, well behind the various flavors of Internet Explorer (54.3 percent), Mozilla Firefox (21.7 percent), Google's Chrome (12.5 percent) and Apple's Safari (7.28 percent). "We have had a lot of fun during these years, and to say that Jon has created a great company is an understatement", said Lars Boilesen, chief executive of Opera, in a statement. "He has taught me and everyone working here a lot. He believed in, and pushed out innovation after innovation that we see our competitors constantly struggling with copying, making Opera a first mover in the technological development of web browsers as we know them today. We ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ftc39s-antitrust-inquiry-turns-up-heat-on-google-ap/ ftc39s-antitrust-inquiry-turns-up-heat-on-google-ap Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:36:39 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Google may be entering a make-or-break phase in its colorful history now that U.S. regulators have opened an investigation into whether the company has been abusing its dominance of Internet search and advertising to stifle competition. The probe by the Federal Trade Commission, confirmed by the company Friday, will require Google to convince regulators that its closely guarded recipe for search results is designed to give people the best recommendations, not bury links to its rivals. If you search for a local business, for example, Google might highlight its own listing, from a service called Google Places, instead of one on Yelp, a popular review site and Google competitor. Requests for directions may turn up Google Maps, and queries for a video might point to the company's own site, YouTube. Or if you type "mortgage" in Google's main search box, the top ad might be for Google Advisor, which lists the lowest interest rates. The inquiry also is expected to peer into Google's financial engine: the advertising links tied to the subject of each search request. Some of these commercial messages appear, shaded in color, at the top of the results page, while others are stacked in the right-hand column. Even as Google has expanded into video, mobile phones and television, the text advertising that pops up alongside search results and other Web content generates most of Google's revenue — an amount expected to exceed $35 billion this year. Some websites contend Google has rigged its system in a way that drives up the ad prices, even though ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cashing-in-on-the-data-crush-investor39s-business-daily/ cashing-in-on-the-data-crush-investor39s-business-daily Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:36:08 +0300 Before Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) rolled out its ground-breaking iPhone in June 2007, it bestowed what would become an awesome responsibility on telecom services giant AT&T (NYSE:T - News). AT&T was to provide the network over which iPhone users of all ages would access the Internet, fire off photographs and download countless cool apps. Apple wagered the utility-grade telecom had the scale to enable millions of users to talk, play and work around the globe, around the clock. Apple lost that bet. The flood of data from thousands of apps roared through AT&T's data switches and other gear, quickly overwhelming both its bandwidth and network capacity. The quality of service quickly eroded, especially in areas that were far from its transmitters. "AT&T wasn't equipped to handle the iPhone. They were penny-wise and pound-foolish, and they have been catching up ever since," IDC analyst John Byrne said. Apple stripped AT&T of its exclusive status in February, naming Verizon Wireless — a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ - News) and U.K.-based Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD - News) — as a second service provider partner. "What we in the industry have learned the last couple of years is you can't afford not to invest in your network any more. You will pay dearly if you don't invest," Byrne said. The lesson has benefited makers of all types of equipment to help manage the rising surge of high-speed and wireless data. A number of the leaders in that space, including Acme Packet (NASDAQ:APKT - News), Communications Systems (NASDAQ:JCS - News) and France's Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU - News), are part of IBD's ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-confirms-gov39t-probe-investor39s-business-daily/ google-confirms-gov39t-probe-investor39s-business-daily Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:36:51 +0300 The search leader said the FTC has begun a formal antitrust inquiry into its business practices, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) said, confirming earlier media reports. But the company said, "It's still unclear exactly what the FTC's concerns are." The probe is expected to focus on whether Google abused its dominance to direct search users to Google-tied sites. The EU is conducting a similar inquiry. Shares fell 1%. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-responds-to-ftc-antitrust-investigation-mashable/ google-responds-to-ftc-antitrust-investigation-mashable Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:05:29 +0300 One day after becoming the target of an FTC antitrust investigation, Google is publicly making its case for why it's simply looking out for its users and not breaking federal law. "Yesterday, we received formal notification from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it has begun a review of our business," Google Fellow and head of the search ranking team Amit Singhal said in a blog post. "We respect the FTC’s process and will be working with them (as we have with other agencies) over the coming months to answer questions about Google and our services." [More from Mashable: Google To Shutter PowerMeter & Google Health Projects] Yesterday we learned that the FTC intended to launch a probe of Google's business practices. It seems as if the FTC will be focusing on whether Google uses its overwhelming dominance in search to drive clicks to its products and lock out competitors. Companies such as Yelp, Expedia and Microsoft have complained that Google is engaging in antitrust practices. In the post, Google argues that it's only making decisions and developing products based on what is best for the user. "It’s still unclear exactly what the FTC’s concerns are, but we’re clear about where we stand. Since the beginning, we have been guided by the idea that, if we focus on the user, all else will follow," Singhal said. He elaborated further, explaining that Google has been building a model "that has helped change the way people find answers," all for free. The company also emphasized that using Google is a choice, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/spinning-robotic-landers-make-space-exploration-a-hop-and-skip-spacecom/ spinning-robotic-landers-make-space-exploration-a-hop-and-skip-spacecom Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:38:36 +0300 LAUREL, Md. — A former robot contender for the Google Lunar X Prize may find resurrection as a robotic lander for surface missions to planets and moons across the solar system. Its secret rests in a spinning midsection based on proven satellite technology that ensures almost unshakable stability. The spinning lander could land and hop across alien surfaces on springy legs that have the flexibility "between a golf club shaft and a fishing pole," said Rex Ridenoure, president and CEO of Ecliptic Enterprises in Pasadena, Calif. His company holds pending patents on the space technology that originated with Harold Rosen, a satellite pioneer. One version of the lander intended for an asteroid mission might have extra detachable harpoon legs to temporarily anchor itself to the rock, Ridenoure told a crowd of scientists and engineers at the 9th IAA Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference here. Another version aimed at Europa might add a drill for tapping the Jupiter moon's icy secrets. [Best and Worst Mars Landings] Whatever the destination, the spinning design ensures a relatively easy landing compared to most space missions. "The neat thing is that the thing will not tip over," Ridenoure said. "The thing will just hop and bounce and skitter until it comes to a stop." That vision began with Rosen, a former engineer for the Hughes Aircraft Company who first harnessed spinning back in 1965 as a way to stabilize satellites holding the same geostationary orbit above the Earth. His dual-spin design kept the main satellite body spinning while an instrument platform remained motionless. Space explorers such as ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-regulators-investigating-google-over-search-afp/ us-regulators-investigating-google-over-search-afp Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:06:07 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – US regulators have launched a probe into Google's lucrative search and advertising business in a move that could pose the most serious legal challenge yet to the Internet giant. Google confirmed the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) inquiry in a blog post and a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and expressed confidence it could withstand the scrutiny. "Yesterday, we received formal notification from the US Federal Trade Commission that it has begun a review of our business," the Google blog post said. The Mountain View, California-based company, which controls around 65 percent of the US Internet search market and earns billions from search-related advertising, said it was "still unclear exactly what the FTC's concerns are." But in the SEC filing, Google said it had received a subpoena from the FTC "relating to a review by the FTC of Google's business practices, including search and advertising." "Google is cooperating with the FTC on this investigation," it said. According to The Wall Street Journal, the FTC is looking into whether Google is abusing its dominance on the Web and if it "unfairly channels users to its own growing network of services at the expense of rivals." As it has grown from a scrappy startup into an Internet titan, Google has branched out into various businesses including online mapping, shopping and travel and providing operating systems for mobile phones and tablet computers. But Google makes most of its money from search-related advertising and that is why an FTC investigation targeting its core business is seen by analysts as a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china39s-baidu-invests-306-mln-in-travel-website-afp/ china39s-baidu-invests-306-mln-in-travel-website-afp Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:31:54 +0300 BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese search engine Baidu has agreed to invest $306 million in domestic travel website Qunar as it seeks to cash in on the booming tourism market in China. Baidu, which dominates the Chinese search market after Google retreated following a spat with Beijing over censorship and cyberattacks last year, will take a majority stake in the travel search engine, Baidu said late Friday. "Travel has long been one of the top categories on Baidu, and the number of travellers in China has been growing very rapidly, so this is a market of obvious strategic importance to us," chief financial officer Jennifer Li said in a statement. Chinese tourism has ballooned in recent years along with blistering economic growth as an increasingly wealthy middle class travels around the country and overseas for leisure. The country's air travel market is growing fast with a total of 267 million air passenger trips in 2010, up 15.8 percent from the previous year, according to official figures. Qunar will operate as an independent company, with both firms cooperating on certain areas of online travel search, the statement said. "By working with Baidu, we can focus on enhancing our search technology and the quality of our products and services," said Zhuang Chenchao, co-founder and chief executive of Qunar. China is the world's biggest online market, with 477 million Internet users, according to official data. Baidu had a 75.8-percent share of the overall search market in the first quarter of 2011, dwarfing Google's dwindling 19.2 percent, according to figures from research firm Analysys International. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/is-google-playing-it-safe-for-gay-pride-month-mashable/ is-google-playing-it-safe-for-gay-pride-month-mashable Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:35:08 +0300 Google's been on a roll lately with its popular Google doodles. Because June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, the company wanted to celebrate that, too, but ran into controversy when it decided not to create a Google doodle commemorating the occasion. Instead, for June, Google decided to make a little rainbow, a symbol of gay pride, appear next to its search window whenever certain search terms were entered, including words such as "gay," "lesbian," "homosexuality," "LGBT," "marriage equality," "bisexual" and "transgender." [More from Mashable: Google To Shutter PowerMeter & Google Health Projects] Google wouldn't say why it decided to hide its Gay Pride artwork unless certain search terms were entered, and explained the lack of a Gay Pride Google doodle that everyone could see by telling CNN, "It's difficult to choose which events to celebrate," adding that the company has "a long list of those we'd like to celebrate in the future." Some critics are disappointed in Google's approach, saying that Google knows that anti-gay users are unlikely to enter any of those search terms into the Google window. Nicholas Jackson of The Atlantic wishes Google had been more obvious with its artwork. Jackson, who is gay, writes, "Instead of boldly declaring its support of gay and lesbian pride month, Google added a tiny rainbow to the end of its search bar." [More from Mashable: Google Sites Now Automatically Render for Mobile] It certainly looks to us like Google was trying to avoid offending anti-gay activists. Perhaps the company should have been more courageous with this ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-a-depasit-in-marea-britanie-pentru-prima-data-site-urile-microsoft-ca-numar-de-vizitatori/ facebook-a-depasit-in-marea-britanie-pentru-prima-data-site-urile-microsoft-ca-numar-de-vizitatori Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:43:14 +0300 Facebook a depăşit în luna mai pentru prima dată site-urile Microsoft în Marea Britanie ca număr de utilizatori, urcând pe locul al doilea după Google, datorită interesului populaţiei în vârstă de peste 50 de ani pentru reţelele sociale, potrivit unui studiu al UKOM/Nielsen, preluat de Reuters. Numărul vizitatorilor Facebook din Marea Britanie a urcat în mai cu 7% faţă de aceeaşi lună a anului trecut, la 26,8 milioane, faţă de 26,2 milioane pentru site-urile Microsoft, MSN, WindowsLive şi Bing. În acelaşi timp, Google a avut 33,9 milioane de vizitatori unici în Marea Britanie. Audienţa britanică a Twitter a urcat cu circa o treime, la 6,1 milioane de vizitatori. UKOM/Nielsen notează că numărul de pensionare britanice care au vizitat Twitter s-a dublat după scandalul privind aventurile extraconjugale ale fotbalistului Ryan Giggs. "Creşterea ratingurilor acestor reţele sociale este generată acum în principal de grupa de vârstă 50+", a declarat directorul general al UKOM, James Smythe. Facebook a atras în luna mai 140 milioane de vizitatori în Statele Unite (+12%). În Spania, numărul vizitatorilor site-ului a urcat cu 7%, în Franţa cu 18%, în Italia cu 26%, iar în Germania cu 72%. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-overtakes-microsoft-in-uk-ukomnielsen-reuters/ facebook-overtakes-microsoft-in-uk-ukomnielsen-reuters Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:04:53 +0300 LONDON, Jun (Reuters) – Facebook overtook Microsoft websites in Britain for the first time last month, becoming the UK's second-most popular after Google as people aged over 50 flocked to social networks, online measurement body UKOM/Nielsen said. Facebook attracted a record 26.8 million visitors in Britain in May, up 7 percent year on year, beating the 26.2 million who visited Microsoft's MSN/WindowsLive/Bing sites combined, the organization said on Monday. Google had 33.9 million. Twitter's UK audience jumped by a third to 6.1 million, after thousands of users retweeted allegations of celebrity scandals in defiance of gagging orders, including an extra-marital affair by Manchester United soccer star Ryan Giggs. UKOM/Nielsen said the number of women pensioners visiting the site doubled after "Giggsgate." [ID:nLDE74M1KJ] "The growth in audiences to these social networks is now primarily being driven by the 50-plus age group. Just a few years ago, this group may have found itself out of place on these sites," UKOM general manager James Smythe said. He said over-50 year-olds accounted for more new adults visiting Facebook in the last two years than under-50s, resulting in an age profile far more closely reflecting that of the UK online population as a whole than previously. Older age groups were also more likely to visit Twitter than in the past, but under-18s were less likely to visit the site than two years ago -- which was not the case for Facebook. Business network LinkedIn, whose market value has risen 58 percent to $6.65 billion since its New York stock market debut last month, registered 3.6 million UK ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-lansat-in-romania-serviciul-navigare-cu-harti-disponibil-pe-smartphone-cu-android-si-gps/ google-a-lansat-in-romania-serviciul-navigare-cu-harti-disponibil-pe-smartphone-cu-android-si-gps Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:12:31 +0300 Google a lansat luni în România serviciul "Navigare cu Hărţi", aplicaţie gratuită care funcţionează pe telefoanele mobile cu GPS şi cu sistem de operare Android 1.6, sau versiune mai recentă, a anunţat directorul general al biroului local al companiei americane, Dan Bulucea. "Lansarea acestui serviciu vine ca răspuns la utilizarea în creştere a hărţilor Google în România şi a smartphone-urilor cu Android. «Navigarea cu Hărţi Google» este o aplicaţie gratuită ce pune în valoare conexiunea la Internet a telefonului, pentru o ghidare simplă, cu acces la cea mai recentă versiune a hărţilor, cu diverse moduri de vizualizare şi care funcţionează pe orice telefon cu Android şi GPS", a spus Bulucea. El a arătat că România este una dintre cele 20 de ţări în care acest serviciu a fost lansat. Navigarea foloseşte conexiunea de internet a telefonului mobil pentru a furniza cele mai recente hărţi sau informaţii despre diferite obiective, cum ar fi companii, restaurante sau cafenele. Utilizatorii nu trebuie să achiziţioneze sau să actualizeze hărţile, deoarece au acces la cea mai recentă versiune a hărţilor Google. Totodată, au posibilitatea să vizualizeze în diferite modalităţi ruta, atât de la nivel stradal, cât şi din aer. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-fined-by-taipei-over-app-refund-afp/ google-fined-by-taipei-over-app-refund-afp Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:35:28 +0300 TAIPEI (AFP) – Taipei said Monday it had fined Google Tw$1,000,000 ($34,600) for refusing to grant customers a seven-day trial period when they download apps for their cell phones. Taiwan's consumer protection law stipulates that consumers are entitled to a seven-day trial period after purchasing any products via Internet, including cell phone software applications. The capital city's government found that Google and Apple had violated the law and on June 8 ordered them to alter their trading rules. "Google refused to change its rules," Betty Chen, the head of a consumer protection at the city government, said. Apple changed its rules. Under the terms of service for Google?s Android Market, consumers are allowed only 15 minutes to decide whether they want a refund after buying an app online. In reaction, Google suspended the sale of its paid apps to Taiwan consumers, according to Chen, who described the move as "unfriendly". No Google Taiwan officials were immediately available for comment. Chen said Google plans to send officials from the United States to Taiwan on Thursday over what she said was the company's violation of the island's law. Officials said they may impose a similar fine if Google does not make the change by July 1. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-lanseaza-in-romania-serviciile-de-navigare-gps-avansata-pe-telefoanele-android/ google-lanseaza-in-romania-serviciile-de-navigare-gps-avansata-pe-telefoanele-android Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:13:25 +0300 Google a lansat luni in Romania serviciul "Navigare cu Harti", aplicatie gratuita care functioneaza pe telefoanele mobile care includ un cip GPS si ruleaza sistemul de operare Android. Noul serviciu va fi disponibil pe toate terminalele care ruleaza versiuni intre 1.6-2.3 si va folosi conexiunea la internet a smartphone-urilor pentru a descarca cele mai noi harti."Lansarea acestui serviciu vine ca raspuns la utilizarea in crestere a hartilor Google in Romania si a smartphone-urilor cu Android. ”Navigarea cu Harti Google” este o aplicatie gratuita ce pune in valoare conexiunea la Internet a telefonului, pentru o ghidare simpla, cu acces la cea mai recenta versiune a hartilor, cu diverse moduri de vizualizare si care functioneaza pe orice telefon cu Android si GPS", a declarat Dan Bulucea, directorul biroului local al Google, citat de Mediafax.Spre deosebire de un sistem de navigatie conventional, noul serviciu Google va ghida utilizatorii in mod gratuit, pe cele mai noi harti, fiind astfel eliminata necesitatea cumpararii unui program dedicat pentru navigatie GPS. Serviciul mai este disponibil si in alte 19 tari in afara de Romania si a fost lansat initial in SUA anul trecut. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-launched-in-romania-advanced-gps-navigation-on-android-cells/ google-launched-in-romania-advanced-gps-navigation-on-android-cells Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:16:22 +0300 Google launched on Monday in Romania the Map Navigation service, a free application that works on all cells with a GPS chip and Android operating system. The new service will be available on all cells that have versions from 1.6 to 2.3 and will use the internet connection of smartphones to download the latest maps.  The application is free and underlines the value of the internet connection of the cell for a simple guide with access to the recent version of maps that will work on every terminal with Android and GPS, Google’s head of office in Romania Dan Bulucea said for news agency Mediafax. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-sees-growing-struggle-over-web-censorship-reuters/ google-sees-growing-struggle-over-web-censorship-reuters Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:35:02 +0300 DUBLIN (Reuters) – Internet giant Google's tussles with some governments over Internet censorship could get worse, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Monday, adding he feared his own colleagues faced mounting danger of occasional arrest and torture. After the "Arab spring" saw revolutionary crowds largely organised over the Internet topple leaders in Tunisia and Egypt, governments in other authoritarian states have moved to try to lock down Internet dissent -- although with mixed success. Google has long had issues with China over restricted use of the Internet and partially pulled out of the world's largest Internet market by users last year over censorship concerns and a computer hacking attempt it said it traced to the country. The chairman of the world's largest web search engine warned that in certain countries governments would try to make sure the Internet became as regulated as television. "I think this problem is going to get worse," Schmidt told a Google-organised Dublin summit on militant violence. "The reason is that as the technology becomes more pervasive and as the citizenry becomes completely wired and the content gets localized to the language of the country, it becomes an issue like television." "If you look at television in most of these countries, television is highly regulated because the leaders, partial dictators, half dictators or whatever you want to call them understand the power of television imagery to keep their citizenry in some bucket." Google's friction with China resurfaced this month when it said it had broken up an effort to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/a-guide-to-properly-insulting-the-2012-gop-candidates-the-atlantic-wire/ a-guide-to-properly-insulting-the-2012-gop-candidates-the-atlantic-wire Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:04:08 +0300 When Chris Wallace asked Michele Bachmann if she's a "flake," many were outraged. Some thought it was sexist. But Jacob Weisberg said it was simply inaccurate. "Bachmann's not a flake, she's a wacko," he tweeted. "Newt's a flake." Given that Newt Gingrich's top campaign staff quit because he didn't want to put in the time shaking hands and kissing babies required to run a presidential campaign, it's hard to argue with Weisberg: Gingrich probably is more deserving of the flake tag. So as a service to any Sunday talk show anchors who might be nervous about which exact put-down to throw in a candidate's face, here's our glossary for the preferred and accepted zinger for each Republican presidential contender, per the current conventional wisdom. Related: GOP Debate Preview: Hey, We're Not So Bad Michele Bachmann: Wacko. Alternative: Nutjob. Variant: right-wing nutjob. Newt Gingrich: Flake. Alternative: Whipped. Mitt Romney: Phony. Variant: Soulless phony. Variant II: Corporate phony. Alternative: Dork. Tim Pawlenty: Wimp. Rick Santorum: Poor Santorum--his own last name has been turned into an insult of sorts thanks to a clever Google-bombing campaign waged against the social conservative by gay rights activists. Aside from that, we nominate Culture Warrior. Not exactly an insult, but dismissive and marginalizing nonetheless. Sarah Palin: Tease. Jon Huntsman: The conventional wisdom has yet to form on what, exactly, is Huntsman's most annoying attribute. We nominate Dudebro, for the billionaire candidate's insistence on riding motorcycles, touting his cheesy anthem rock playlist, and refusing to stop talking about his high school glory days playing for a band called Wizard.   Want to add to this ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analysis-tencent-in-steep-climb-to-be-china39s-facebook-twitter-reuters/ analysis-tencent-in-steep-climb-to-be-china39s-facebook-twitter-reuters Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:05:20 +0300 HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings Ltd, the world's third largest Internet firm, aims to be China's Facebook, Twitter and Google -- all rolled into one. While the company's market value has quadrupled to $50 billion over the past 2- years, its revenue and profit growth is expected to slow over the next few years, forcing the company to rethink its future. Tencent is aggressively diversifying away from the highly competitive online gaming industry and into China's social networking, e-commerce and mobile search engine sector. The company, an investor darling whose mascots are a pair of chubby penguins with wraparound scarves, faces many risks, including managing its partners, content regulations and strong competition from rivals such as Baidu Inc, SINA Corp and Alibaba.com. "Tencent needs to look for other gold mines to counter slowing online gaming growth. Otherwise, they won't be able to maintain the strong growth they've had over the past few years," said Hover Xiao, an analyst at technology research firm IDC. Tencent, which runs China's largest instant-messaging service QQ and online gaming community with 674 million QQ accounts in total, has been relying on its games business for about 60 percent of its revenues, which totaled 19.6 billion yuan ($3 billion) in 2010. This month, Tencent opened its once-proprietary platform by launching a so-called Q+ platform, an open system championed by Facebook and Apple to attract external software developers to boost users and grow revenue. With this launch, Tencent can allow third-party developers to market their products to the legions of QQ users on the platform through a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/second-proxy-firm-advises-rim-ceochairman-split-reuters/ second-proxy-firm-advises-rim-ceochairman-split-reuters Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:05:32 +0300 TORONTO (Reuters) – Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services on Monday joined calls for Research In Motion management to step away from leading the BlackBerry maker's board. Shareholders will vote on the issue at RIM's annual meeting next month, after mutual fund Northwest & Ethical Investments called for the split between chairman and CEO roles. Both jobs are shared by RIM co-founder Mike Lazaridis and by Jim Balsillie, who have struggled recently to defend the company's products against intense smartphone competition increasingly dominated by Apple and Google. ISS, a unit of MSCI, said the Canadian company's board was not an adequate counterbalance to management and was unable to ensure independent oversight and accountability to shareholders. "There seems to be no compelling rationale for the company to resist handing over all of the duties of chair along with the title," ISS said in a report. Lazaridis and Balsillie are also RIM's largest shareholders, with each holding a more than 5 percent stake. Balsillie resigned as chairman in March 2007 and stepped down from the board in February 2009 following a stock options scandal. He returned, along with Lazaridis, as co-chairman in December 2010. RIM has advised shareholders to vote against the motion at its annual meeting on July 12, saying independent board member John Richardson acts as de facto head of the board. A RIM spokeswoman declined to comment on Monday beyond what the company said in a regulatory filing earlier this month. Glass Lewis, a rival advisory firm, issued a report on Friday backing the split and also said shareholders should withhold a vote to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/appstore-fragmentation-comes-to-apple39s-iphone-contributornetwork/ appstore-fragmentation-comes-to-apple39s-iphone-contributornetwork Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:05:33 +0300 "Fragmentation" is a word people use to mean this: There are a lot of different Android phones out there. It's confusing for buyers, because they don't know what kind of phone to get. And it's frustrating for app developers, because it's hard to write apps that work on all of them. Especially now that thanks to the Amazon Appstore, there are even multiple app markets for Android. "So what?" you ask. "How does that affect the iPhone? We don't have to deal with stuff like apps that don't work on our phones. Like when Angry Birds Rio came out; we just got it from the App Store like always, while Android owners had to use Amazon. Are you saying we have to deal with that now, too?" Actually ... yes. Android exclusives John Gruber of the Daring Fireball blog asked "Where Are the Android Killer Apps?", and noted that basically the only apps that were exclusive to Android were the ones that wouldn't work on the iPhone. The biggest reason, of course, was money: With app developers making more money from Apple's App Store, seemingly the only people who wrote apps for Android were large corporations and hobbyists. But that is starting to change. Spacetime Studios, the indie developers of the popular Pocket Legends MMORPG for both Android and iPhone, have noticed that they make more money from Android phone users. Perhaps partly because of that, the exclusive beta of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/iphone-leads-european-smartphone-market-with-40-pct-share-digital-trends/ iphone-leads-european-smartphone-market-with-40-pct-share-digital-trends Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:06:03 +0300 Market research firm the Yankee Group finds that the Apple iPhone is the leading smartphone in Europe, commanding some 40 percent of the market. In comparison, Android netted a 190 percent share, RIM’s BlackBerry came in third with 17 percent, and Nokia managed fourth place with 15 percent of the European smartphone market. “These findings highlight the continued strength of Apple in the European smartphone market and, in particular, its phenomenal brand appeal,” said Yankee Group research VP Declan Lonergan, in a statement. “The data also highlights the enormous challenges faced by Nokia and RIM to retain mind share and market share in this increasingly dynamic and competitive marketplace.” The Yankee Group also found that “most” users have more than one device, and they access the same sets of services and content using whichever screen is most appropriate at the time. The study also finds that employees are increasingly taking consumer smartphones into enterprise environments with IT’s explicit approval of the devices or platforms—and employees claim that tablets make them 58 percent more productive during long-distance travel. The study polled some 5,000 consumers and 2,250 “employees and IT decision-makers” in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The Yankee Group’s findings that the iPhone occupies the top of the European smartphone markets contradicts studies in the United States, where Google’s Android platform commands a solid lead. However, recent reports suggest that Android’s growth may have peaked in March—some industry watchers attribute that to the Apple iPhone’s recent availability via Verizon Wireless. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/new-firefox-vision-aims-to-find-content-in-new-ways-newsfactor/ new-firefox-vision-aims-to-find-content-in-new-ways-newsfactor Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:36:39 +0300 The Mozilla Foundation has released a new vision statement for its Firefox browser. The goal is to inspire developers to construct a browser environment for users to interact with web sites, apps and people in a personalized and secure way without relying on search engines and mobile-app stores. Over the past several quarters, the Firefox community has revamped its development and release model to increase the pace of innovation, noted Firefox Vice President Jay Sullivan. "Now that we have a solid base to work from, and greatly improved agility, it's a good time to look at the quickly evolving landscape and chart our path forward," he wrote in a developer e-mail. Sullivan's release of the new Firefox vision statement Monday is meant to inspire developers to fundamentally rethink the role of the browser in discovering web sites, apps and people. "To enable this, we will look for the opportunities made possible by being alongside each person who travels the web to understand more about intent and personal preferences," Sullivan wrote. Bypassing Search-Engine Discovery Search giants and social-networking sites have largely taken over the content-discovery role for which users previously looked to their browsers, Sullivan noted. So the next step for Firefox is to build in intelligence to automatically discover and present personalized content. This would let Firefox users avoid the barrage of advertising and irrelevant content served up by today's search giants and social networks. To make this happen, however, developers need to build browser designs that can intelligently analyze information about a user's web-surfing history and contacts with trusted ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-basing-social-strategy-on-sync-search-pc-magazine/ google-basing-social-strategy-on-sync-search-pc-magazine Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:36:19 +0300 Google executives gave a few more hints at the company's social strategy last week - and it looks like the company wants to forge contacts first, and then possibly relationships. In an interview, Shan Sinha, the group product manager for enterprise at Google, explained two problems that the company is working on: improving the relationships between existing contacts on the consumer side, and, in business, improving the relationships between different teams within a corporation. Both are just examples of what Google has up its sleeve in the social space, Sinha said. Sinha's responsibilities include Google Calendar and Gmail, two products where Google has already innovated - and also part of Google Apps, Google's cloud-based solution for businesses. Microsoft is expected to announce Office 365, its latest cloud-based office product, at an event in New York on Tuesday. Google's social efforts have been the subject of much debate since Digg founder Kevin Rose tweeted about a Google service known as "Google Me"; speculation then turned to 2011, when Google Me supposedly was set to launch. But with the launch of Google's +1, talk died down. "Take your address book. For the last 20 years, Outlook and Lotus Notes, has offered you a digital version of your Rolodex or a little black address book," Sinha said. Beside it, he added, usually sits the user's inbox, a list of email messages, organized chronologically. Last year, Google announced "Priority Inbox," which allows users to specify which inboxes are the most important, and flag those for immediate viewing. Sinha called the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-fears-web-crackdown-after-arab-uprisings-afp/ google-fears-web-crackdown-after-arab-uprisings-afp Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:04:54 +0300 DUBLIN (AFP) – Google chairman Eric Schmidt on Monday warned that the ongoing Arab uprisings could lead to an upsurge in internet censorship and an increased risk of arrest for colleagues working in restive nations. Speaking at the Summit Against Violent Extremism in Dublin, Schmidt claimed regimes were keen to clamp down on internet freedoms after the web was widely used by dissidents to organise anti-government movements in the Arab world. "The reason is that as the technology becomes more pervasive and as the citizenry becomes completely wired and the content gets localised to the language of the country, it becomes an issue like television," Schmidt reasoned. "If you look at television in most of these countries, television is highly regulated because the leaders, partial dictators, half dictators or whatever you want to call them understand the power of television imagery to keep their citizenry in some bucket," he added. Google has repeatedly come into conflict with China over the Asian powerhouse's attempts to regulate access to websites. The executive chairman expressed concern that Google workers in certain countries were in danger of being arrested due to the recent unrest, which has led to the toppling of regimes in Egypt and Tunisia. "There are countries where it is illegal to do things that Google encourages," he explained. "In those countries, there is a real possibility of (employees) being put in prison for reasons which are not their fault." Google executive Wael Ghonim was detained and blindfolded for two weeks as protests raged in Egypt in January. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-sent-google-8888-requests-for-user-data-in-2010/ us-sent-google-8888-requests-for-user-data-in-2010 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:30:49 +0300 (CNN) -- Governments have come knocking on Google's door more frequently seeking people's private usage information. Google fielded 8,888 requests from the United States government last year asking for information on people using its services, the company wrote in a report on Monday. The total number is likely higher because the Google statistics only cover criminal investigations. The U.S. is by far the most active, and successful, solicitor of private info from Google, accounting for about one-third of all federal requests last year, according to the data. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission formally launched an antitrust investigation into Google's business on Thursday. In the latter half of 2010, Google provided at least 4,323 pieces of info to the U.S. Google did not disclose how many requests it complied with prior to changing its policy in July 2010. The U.S. sent Google 3,580 user-data requests during the last six months of 2009, which is when the Internet giant began its twice-yearly "transparency report." "The number of requests we receive for user account information as part of criminal investigations has increased year after year," Google notes in the report. "The increase isn't surprising, since each year we offer more products and services, and we have a larger number of users." Relatively little is known about the extent of government requests to companies. Google's report sheds some light on the practice. The Mountain View, California, company is one of the largest Internet communications and services providers, but other corporations don't typically disclose info about data requests. U.S. requests to Google last year were ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-va-lansa-doua-telefoane-in-toamna/ apple-va-lansa-doua-telefoane-in-toamna Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:32:01 +0300 După intenesele speculaţii privind lansarea de către Apple a iphone 5, în următoarea perioadă, un analist al Deutsche Bank plusează: în toamnă, compania va scoate la iveală nu unul, ci două telefoane. Analistul Deutsche Bank, Chris Whitmore, spune că producătorul american Apple pregăteşte două telefoane, un iphone 5 şi un smartphone accesibil care va costa doar 350 de dolari. Pentru că Nokia şi RIM (Research în Motion) sunt tot mai agresive, Apple trebuie să intre şi pe piaţa telefoanelor inteligente mai accesibile publicului larg", spune Whitmore, citat de Business Insider. Cei de la Time fac şi un calcul. Dacă va costa 350 de dolari şi va fi vândut la liber, telefonul îi va duce un profit uriaş companiei Apple, dar şi operatorilor. Şi asta pentru că, din 1,5 miliarde de abonaţi la companiile de telefonie, două treimi au cartela. În ceea ce priveşte planurile tarifare practicare de operatori de telecomunicaţii, lucrurile vor fi ca în cazul tabletelor iPad şi iPad 2.Dacă vorbele lui Whitmore sunt adevărate, atunci totul ar lămuri zvonurile care au circulat în jurul lansării unui nou model de iphone. Din februarie şi până acum, nenumărate rapoarte au menţionat un iphone mai ieftin şi care ar putea facă faţă competiţiei telefoanelor cu Google Android. Însă, în acelaşi timp, au existat şi opinii potrivit cărora Apple nu plănuieşte lansarea iphone 5, ci doar a unei versiune îmbunătăţite a iphone 4. CIteşte mai multe despre lansarea a două telefoane Apple pe www.incont.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-fost-data-in-judecata-de-o-companie-franceza-din-cauza-practicilor-anticoncurentiale/ google-a-fost-data-in-judecata-de-o-companie-franceza-din-cauza-practicilor-anticoncurentiale Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:02:14 +0300 Google a fost dată în judecată în Franţa de către o companie locală, care îi cere daune de 295 milioane de euro pentru că ar bloca concurenţa să obţină venituri din publicitate online şi ar da întâietate site-urilor proprii în rezultatele serviciilor de căutare, transmite Bloomberg. Compania 1PlusV, publisher web cu sediul în Paris, cere în reclamaţia făcută la tribunalul comercial din capitala franceză şi un ordin prin care Google să fie obligată să publice timp de trei luni, pe site-ul său din Franţa, detalii legate de "comportamentul anticoncurenţial". "Google a aplicat timp de patru ani un număr de practici anticoncurenţiale şi un comportament lipsit de etică, astfel încât 1PlusV să nu aibă capacitatea să îşi desfăşoare afacerile şi să atragă publicitate. Aceste practici includ sufocarea companiilor concurente din sectorul tehnologic", se arată într-un comunicat al 1PlusV. Compania franceză a făcut, anul trecut şi în februarie, două plângeri similare la autorităţile de reglementare din Uniunea Europeană, în care a susţinut că Google discriminează aşa-numitele site-uri de căutare pe verticală, precum 1PlusV. Alte companii, între care şi Microsoft, s-au alăturat 1PlusV, solicitând evaluarea practicilor Google. "Tocmai am primit reclamaţia şi nu putem încă să o comentăm", a declarat Al Verney, purtător de cuvânt al Google din Bruxelles. Autorităţile antitrust din Uniunea Europeană şi Statele Unite investighează Google pentru a vedea dacă discriminează alte companii în rezultatele serviciilor de căutare şi împiedică alte site-uri să atragă publicitate. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/best-of-the-west-10-top-monuments/ best-of-the-west-10-top-monuments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:31:01 +0300 (Sunset) -- The West's top national monuments: Build a great vacation around a spectacular island, forest, cliff dwelling, canyon, fossil bed, tower or volcano. 1) Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico Bandelier has been entrancing people for nearly 1,000 years -- from when the Ancestral Pueblo people first began building homes in the cliffs of Frijoles Canyon. They're easily seen on the monument's Main Loop Trail; more ruins can be glimpsed in Tsankawi Canyon to the north. But archeology isn't the only reason to come here -- the monument is stunningly beautiful, with dramatic mesas and broad views across Northern New Mexico. All this only a 45-minute drive from Santa Fe. 2) Admiralty Island National Monument, Alaska Everything you want from Alaska is here. Deep green old-growth forests (thanks to 100 inches of rain a year), rushing streams alive with salmon, a rugged coastline, and the largest collection of brown bears -- AKA grizzlies -- anywhere in the world. In fact, one of the best places to see brown bears anywhere (from a safe distance) is at Pack Creek, on the island's northern shore. Admiralty Island is wild but it isn't remote, just about 15 miles west of Juneau and reachable by boat and floatplane. Tongass National Forest even has cabins you can rent; there are also wilderness lodges. Top 10 national park beaches 3) Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona Canyon de Chelly in northern Arizona is one of the longest continuously inhabited places in North America. But it's no mere living history museum -- t's still a vital part ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what-do-you-love-google39s-ultimate-mashup/ what-do-you-love-google39s-ultimate-mashup Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:31:07 +0300 (Mashable) -- Google has launched a new, mysterious service called What Do You Love. It's a simple search box, similar to the one on Google's homepage, but it returns results from over 20 different Google services, including Google Translate, Trends, YouTube, Maps, Groups etc. The results are presented in little boxes which can, in some cases, be expanded by clicking on the icon in the lower right corner; if you need even more results, you can always click the button in the upper right corner of the box and go directly to the chosen service. The concept reminds us of iGoogle, a service that lets you add simple apps to your own personalized portal. What Do You Love, however, instantly creates a mini-portal about any term you choose, which makes it a nice option for users who don't have the time to tinker with options and simply want to have access to Google's many services on one page. The service, located on the address http://www.wdyl.com/ and google.com/whatdoyoulove/, bears Google's copyright mark, but very little explanation, and it hasn't so far been announced on any of Google's official blogs. Tell us how you like it in the comments! See the original article on Mashable.com © 2010 MASHABLE.com. All rights reserved. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-i39m-raising-my-son-to-be-a-nerd/ why-i39m-raising-my-son-to-be-a-nerd Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:00:29 +0300 Editor's note: LZ Granderson writes a weekly column for CNN.com. A senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com, he has contributed to ESPN's "Sports Center," "Outside the Lines" and "First Take." He is a 2010 nominee and the 2009 winner of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for online journalism and a 2010 and 2008 honoree of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for column writing. Follow him on Twitter: @locs_n_laughs Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- You know the kind of dad who registers his son for soccer almost as soon as he takes his first step? That was me. You know that dad who yells so much on the sideline that he leaves the game a little hoarse? Yeah, that was me too. You know the dad who cheers when his kid brings home an A? No? Well me neither ... until I became that dad a few years ago. I used to beam with pride watching my son rack up the trophies as he bounced from soccer to hockey to tae kwon do. Over the past couple of years, track has been his focus, as he crushed several school records during citywide meets. What can I say? My kid's a stud. But one thing I've noticed over the years is that while everyone from his coaches to other parents and even family members are quick to point out his potential to earn a college scholarship, they do so with all of the emphasis on his athletic prowess. No one -- and I mean, no one -- ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-maps-pentru-smartphone-uri-in-romania/ google-maps-pentru-smartphone-uri-in-romania Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:01:23 +0300 Google a lansat în România versiunea beta a sistemului de navigaţie Google Maps pentru telefoane mobile, scrie business-review.ro. Cei care doresc să folosească sistemul, care este gratuit, trebuie să aibă un smartphone conectat la internet, cu GPS şi cu sistemul de operare Android. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-blogs-not-sold-on-google39s-39facebook-clone39/ tech-blogs-not-sold-on-google39s-39facebook-clone39 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:00:45 +0300 (CNN) -- There's an old joke in the tech world: Google is socially awkward. Coming from people who stare at computer screens for a living, this is pretty funny. Well, at the very least it has double meaning. Meaning one: Tech geeks and code masters aren't always the life of the party. And two: Perhaps consequently, the Mountain View, California, company is really bad, its critics say, at creating online social networks that real people actually want to use. But, like any pimply but determined teenager, Google keeps trying. On Tuesday the search giant unveiled a "project" called Google+. Pronounced "Google Plus," this online network, according to Google, is nothing like Facebook. According to the tech bloggers who have been rushing to review it, Google+ is trying to be a lot like Facebook -- it's just not succeeding. This opinion is not unanimous, of course. MG Siegler, a prominent blogger at TechCrunch, for instance, wrote of Google+: "It's social, it's bold, it's fun, and it looks good." But many bloggers are quite skeptical of the Google effort. The Business Insider, a Silicon Valley blog, declared it a "long-awaited Facebook clone." "Google has fallen on its face repeatedly as it tries to build social networks," that blog says. "Google+ might have a better design than the rest, but we haven't read a compelling reason to use "+" over Facebook or Twitter." SearchEngineLand, a blog focused on Google and its search engine competitors, says Facebook users have little reason to turn away from that already-dominant network.. "If you're already happy using Facebook, you may have ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/crib-safety-standards-expanded/ crib-safety-standards-expanded Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:00:32 +0300 Washington (CNN) -- Cribs made and sold in the United States will face the toughest safety standards in the world, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Tuesday. The new federal safety requirements ban drop-side cribs, where a side rail can be raised and lowered. They can no longer be manufactured or sold. Hardware, mattress support durability, and slat strength will all undergo tougher testing from the commission. Commissioner Robert Adler of the CPSC hailed the new rules as a "great victory for consumers." Starting Tuesday, all new cribs for sale in stores must be compliant with the new federal requirements. "I feel like it's been a long 13½ years," Michele Witte said. In 1997 her 10-month-old son, Tyler, suffocated in the middle of the night when his drop-side malfunctioned and his head was caught between the side rail and the headboard. "At first I viewed it as a fluke accident," she said by phone from her home in Merrick, New York. "Until Google. Google helped me find out there were many parents who lost children because of drop-side cribs," she said. Since 2000, 32 infant suffocation and strangulation deaths were associated with drop-side cribs, according to the CPSC. Since 2007, 11 million cribs have been recalled in the United States. Witte became an outspoken advocate against drop-side cribs and fought hard for legislation and new regulations aimed at banning the cribs. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas, was one of the legislators who worked for new laws that paved the way for the federal effort. "When I was in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-chinezii-cumpara-ungaria-bucata-cu-bucata-windows-8-ar-putea-fi-lansat-pe-piata-in-aprilie-2012-vezi-de-ce-renunta-microsoft-atat-de-repede-la-windows-7-cum-arata-autostrada-construita-de-bechtel-in-albania-mai-ieftina-ca-a-noastra-si/ business-report-chinezii-cumpara-ungaria-bucata-cu-bucata-windows-8-ar-putea-fi-lansat-pe-piata-in-aprilie-2012-vezi-de-ce-renunta-microsoft-atat-de-repede-la-windows-7-cum-arata-autostrada-construita-de-bechtel-in-albania-mai-ieftina-ca-a-noastra-si Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:33:36 +0300 Ultimul dinozaur de la stat are imunitate de 20 de ani. Constantin Roibu pare a fi pus stapanire pe combinatul din Valcea. Presa a prezentat pe larg interesele managerului si cum este capusat Oltchim, insa autoritatile nu au luat nicio masura. Mandria valcenilor de acum 20 de ani, atunci cand combinatul chimic se afla pe primul loc in Europa Centrala si de Est, a palit usor din 2007, an in care compania a intrat pe pierderi. Culmea este ca de atunci Oltchim nu a reusit sa treaca de handicap si a acumulat pierderi peste pierderi, fara insa ca autoritatile sa ia vreo decizie in acest sens. Daca la Transelectrica, Transgaz, Romgaz si altele (companii cu rezultate pozitive), cat si la cele cu pierderi - Termoelectrica, CNH sau SNLO, Ministerul Economiei a schimbat conducerea fara sa clipeasca, la Oltchim lucrurile au ramas la fel. Mai exact, in mainile unui singur om Constantin Roibu, scrie Capital.ro.Intensitatea tranzactiilor a crescut puternic dupa deschiderea NYSE. Sedinta de marti a stat sub semnul unei atitudini de prudenta a investitorilor, manifestata cu precadere in intervalul de la deschiderea tranzactiilor de la Sibiu si pana la cea a bursei de pe Wall-Street. Apoi, atitudinea de asteptare a disparut, ritmul tranzactiilor crescand puternic. Pe segmentul indici cotatiile au testat ambele directii, pentru ca ulterior, sa se impuna o tendinta de crestere. Si euro a variat mixt fata de dolar in timp ce pentru derivatele pe actiunile SIF5 cotatiile au crescut. Si preturile aurului au crescut, sedinta fiind una de scadenta pentru contractele SIBGOLD ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-va-fi-detronat-google-a-lansat-reteaua-de-socializare-google/ facebook-va-fi-detronat-google-a-lansat-reteaua-de-socializare-google Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:02:38 +0300 Google a lansat reţeaua de socializare Google+, cel mai curajos efort de până acum al companiei de a detrona Facebook şi de a-şi perpetua dominaţia pe internet. Google a încercat de mai multe ori, fără succes, să-şi contureze o prezenţă solidă pe piaţa reţelelor sociale. Google+ reprezintă cea mai ambiţioasă încercare a companiei în această direcţie de la începutul mandatului de director general al lui Larry Page, în luna aprilie. Page a introdus reţelele sociale printre principalele priorităţi ale Google, operatorul celui mai mare motor de căutare pe internet din lume, a cărui poziţie ca principală poartă de acces către informaţia online este ameninţată de popularitatea tot mai mare a serviciilor ca Facebook şi Twitter. "În trecut, şi-au permis să facă greşeli cu iniţiativele de socializare. Nu mai au acest lux. Companiile care au succes în zona socială a internetului vor câştiga vizitatorii şi accesările, vor obţine fidelitatea utilizatorilor şi, în final, banii din publicitate care sunt acum atât de importanţi pentru Google", comentează Ray Valdes, analist la Gartner. Platforma Google+ este disponibilă pentru testare, iar structura este similară cu cea a Facebook, construită în jurul fotografiilor de profil şi fluxurilor de informaţii despre prietenii utilizatorului şi despre subiectele care îl interesează. Analiştii consideră că va fi dificil pentru oricine să convingă internetul să adere la un nou serviciu de socializare online. "Va fi o bătălie la deal pentru Google, din cauza efectelor de reţea ale Facebook. Cu cât Facebook atrage mai mulţi utilizatori, cu atât mai greu va fi pentru Google să-i fure", comentează un analist al Hudson Square Research, adăugând însă că popularitatea Google pe căutări online şi e-mail ar putea ajuta compania în zona reţelelor sociale. Potrivit unor firme de cercetare, Facebook ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-google-a-prezentat-o-serie-de-aplicatii-care-sa-faca-din-compania-din-mountain-view-un-rival-pentru-facebook/ video-google-a-prezentat-o-serie-de-aplicatii-care-sa-faca-din-compania-din-mountain-view-un-rival-pentru-facebook Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:02:54 +0300 ​Google a prezentat marti o serie de aplicatii de socializare online grupate sub numele Google+ care sunt gandite sa devina o concurenta serioasa pentru Facebook si sa faca interactiunea online mult mai apropiata de cea din viata reala. Google+ e in faza de test si poate fi accesat doar prin invitatie, insa printre aplicatiile prezentate se numara una de partajare a informatiilor doar cate un anumit grup de prieteni si una de videochat. Multi spun insa ca o mare parte dintre lucruri exista deja la Facebook, iar pentru Google va fi greu sa atinga un numar atat de mare de utilizatori.Google spune ca interactiunea online din prezent este ciudata si rigida si sustine ca prin Google+ lucrurile se pot schimba, iar interactiunea online poate fi mai apropiata de cea din intalnirile live. Google+ consta practic din mai multe aplicatii care integreaza diverse servicii Google deja existente si le combina cu unele noi.Aplicatia Circles permite plasarea prietenilor in anumite grupuri si partajarea anumitor tipuri de continut cu anumiti prieteni. Aplicatia Hangouts permite chat video simultan intre mai multi prieteni, iar Huddle este o mesagerie instant pentru grupuri de prieteni. Sparks se vrea o aplicatie care sa conecteze diverse persoane cu interese comune, pe zeci de domenii si in diferite limbi."Problema este ca serviciile online existente au transformat prietenia in fast-food, invelind pe toata lumea cu o hartie pe care scrie prieten", spune Google care adauga ca acest lucru este infiorator si deranjant, astfel ca era nevoie de un serviciu nuantat.Google spune ca proiectul + permite ca ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-reteaua-de-socializare-a-google-a-fost-lansata-vezi-cum-arata/ google-reteaua-de-socializare-a-google-a-fost-lansata-vezi-cum-arata Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:31:26 +0300 Google a lansat reţeaua de socializare Google+, cel mai curajos efort de până acum al companiei de a detrona Facebook şi de a-şi perpetua dominaţia pe internet, transmite Reuters. Google a încercat de mai multe ori, fără succes, să-şi contureze o prezenţă solidă pe piaţa reţelelor sociale. Google+ reprezintă cea mai ambiţioasă încercare a companiei în această direcţie de la începutul mandatului de director general al lui Larry Page, în luna aprilie. Page a introdus reţelele sociale printre principalele priorităţi ale Google, operatorul celui mai mare motor de căutare pe internet din lume, a cărui poziţie ca principală poartă de acces către informaţia online este ameninţată de popularitatea tot mai mare a serviciilor ca Facebook şi Twitter. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-google-compares-to-facebook/ how-google-compares-to-facebook Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:31:02 +0300 (CNN) -- With Tuesday's debut of Google+, a new social network, comparisons to Facebook are inevitable, and immediate. CNN.com has yet to demo the service, which lets users gather and organize contacts through such Google products as Gmail and Picasa. But based on what Google has posted about it online, here are some initial impressions. Punch for punch, Google+ reproduces some of Facebook's most popular tools but adds one distinctive function: video chat. Google refers to the video service as Hangouts. Several friends can join a room, and the live feeds from their webcams appear as separate blocks along the bottom of the window. The main video box shows the person who's speaking the loudest at any given time. Hangouts can also integrate with Google's YouTube. By contrast, Facebook hasn't made video conferencing available on its website. But the social networking giant has a close relationship with Microsoft, which acquired Skype last month. Recent versions of the Skype desktop software tie into Facebook's services. With Hangouts, Google+ has at least one technological advantage over Facebook. But Google's apparent ambition is not to unseat Facebook right away. Google has set up barriers to fast adoption, as it has done with some of its other products, by only allowing people who have been invited by friends to use Google+. How tech bloggers are reacting to Google+ When crafting a service to take on Facebook, Google was wise not to ignore what that popular network, with its more than 600 million users, already does well. Google+ has photo sharing, which places a large emphasis on smartphone usage. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/actiunile-apple-au-avut-in-primul-semestru-cea-mai-slaba-evolutie-din-ultimii-trei-ani/ actiunile-apple-au-avut-in-primul-semestru-cea-mai-slaba-evolutie-din-ultimii-trei-ani Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:01:37 +0300 Acţiunile Apple au scăzut cu 4% în această lună iar în primele şase luni au avut cea mai slabă evoluţie din ultimii trei ani, în condiţiile în care investitorii aşteaptă lansarea unor noi produse şi sunt îngrijoraţi de concurenţa Google, care ar putea duce la încetinirea dezvoltării companiei. Apple a înregistrat un declin de 8% al titlurilor, de la un maxim record de 363,13 dolari pe unitate atins pe 16 februarie. Titlurile Apple nu au mai avut performanţe atât de slabe în primele şase luni ale unui an după cele din 2008, când piaţa de capital a fost afectată de cea mai gravă recesiune după Marea Depresiune. Investitorii, îngrijoraţi deja de problemele de sănătate ale directorului general Steve Jobs, aflat în concediu medical, sunt preocupaţi de evoluţia acţiunilor ca urmare a creşterii Google pe piaţa smartphone. În plus, a trecut mai mult de un an de când Apple a lansat tableta iPad, iar viitoarea versiune a iPhone nu va fi lansată decât în septembrie. Investitorii aşteaptă noi produse care să susţină cotaţia acţiunilor Apple, chiar dacă profitul companiei a crescut cu peste 75% în ultimele două trimestre. "Au un succes atât de mare în activităţile desfăşurate încât au nevoie de ceva uriaş pentru ca acţiunile să crească puternic", a declarat Michael Yoshikami, analist şef pentru investiţii la compania YCMNet Advisors, care administrează active de un miliard de dolari în Walnut Creek, California. El a arătat că investitorii au nevoie să ştie care va fi "viitoarea mină de aur". Acţiunile Apple, au scăzut miercuri cu 1,22 dolari la bursa Nasdaq, avansul din acest an fiind de 3,6%. Titlurile au scăzut însă cu 4,1% din 14 ianuarie, ultima zi de tranzacţii înainte de anunţul ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/with-3-d-slow-to-catch-on-tv-makers-face-slump/ with-3-d-slow-to-catch-on-tv-makers-face-slump Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:00:44 +0300 (CNN) -- Having recently traded in their chunky tubes for high-definition flat-screens, most consumers aren't finding a compelling new reason to go out and buy more TV sets. And that's starting to spell trouble for TV makers, who are just coming off their HD high. Television manufacturers are thinking up all kinds of incentives and cramming a bevy of extras into their high-end product lines. In larger sets, three-dimensional viewing (with special glasses included), multimedia Internet features (using a built-in Wi-Fi chip) and bright screens with LED backlighting are quickly becoming commonplace. A decade ago, the sales pitch for an HD, flat-screen, digital television was fairly straightforward: It opens up space in the living room, it's equipped for the national shift to digital broadcasting and the picture is sharper, see? But to witness 3-D, a salesman hands the shoppers a pair of thick plastic glasses, usually attached to a string to prevent theft. The potential buyer frets over buying special glasses for everyone in the family, over having to buy a 3-D Blu-ray player and discs and over the motion sickness that some people experience when viewing 3-D entertainment. That's an expensive, risky proposition, especially in a sputtering economic climate. Conventional wisdom in the TV industry has been that 3-D would drive most new TV purchases now that HD sets have saturated the market. For confirmation look no further than the two most recent Consumer Electronic Shows, the annual industry spectacle in Las Vegas, where 3-D TVs have been hugely hyped. Sure, more 3-D TVs are being bought versus last year, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hp39s-webos-tablet-plays-solid-hand-against-stacked-deck/ hp39s-webos-tablet-plays-solid-hand-against-stacked-deck Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:30:47 +0300 (WIRED) -- When the chips are down and the cards have been dealt, do you go big or go home? With the debut of its TouchPad tablet, HP's answer is clear: "We're all in, baby." As a hardware device, it's competitive and solid. The software is impressive -- it sports webOS, the company's proprietary mobile platform. But the real question is, when drawing down against other tablets, does HP have a winning hand? First things first: In the tablet market, hardware specs alone don't win the war. Tablets from all of the major contenders -- Apple, Motorola, RIM, Samsung -- boast similar stats. Things like dual-core processors, front-facing cameras, and brilliant, hi-res touch displays aren't bragging points. At this point in the game, they're table stakes. Thankfully, the TouchPad's hardware doesn't stray far from the pack. It sports a 1.2-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chip backed by a gig of RAM, more than enough to let me zip through menu screens and open applications with relative ease. With Bluetooth compatibility, a 9.7-inch display and a slick-yet-durable plastic exterior shell, the TouchPad's specs stand up to competitors. It isn't exactly easy on the arms. Similar to Motorola's Xoom at 1.6 pounds and a little over half an inch thick, the TouchPad is the antithesis of skinny, airy tablets like the iPad 2 or the Galaxy Tab 10.1. This isn't as much of a problem while I'm on the couch with an arm rest. But if you're casually browsing or reading during, say, a 30-minute commute on the subway, you'll start to feel ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/idee-controversata-un-oras-chinez-planuieste-o-zona-cu-internet-necenzurat-destinat-afaceristilor-straini/ idee-controversata-un-oras-chinez-planuieste-o-zona-cu-internet-necenzurat-destinat-afaceristilor-straini Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:01:57 +0300 ​Autoritatile din Chongqing, megalopolis chinez cu peste 30 de milioane de locuitori, au un plan controversat de a construi centre de date care sa ofere acces necenzurat la internet doar angajatilor companiilor straine care investesc in zona. China este faimoasa pentru gradul avansat de cenzura aplicat internetului si utilizatorii locali se arata dezamagiti de acest plan discriminatoriu, scrie Computerworld, citand informatii aparute in presa chineza.Un amplu proiect de cloud - computing prevede instalarea de centre de date mari in zona megalopolisului chinez Chongqing iar autoritatile vor - pentru a atrage cat mai multi investitori straini - ca in aceasta zona companiile straine sa aiba parte de internet necenzurat.Intr-o tara celebra pentru cenzura drastica aplicata internetului, planul de a face o zona speciala a atras criticile unor utilizatori locali de internet carora nu li se pare corect sa existe o atat de mare discriminare intre straini si chinezi.Practic, orice continut considerat sensibil de autoritati este cenzurat pe internet in China, iar site-uri precum YouTube nu pot fi accesate, in timp ce la rezultatele cautarii pe Google nu apar lucruri critice la adresa autoritatilor.Autoritatile din orasul vizat nu au dorit sa comenteze pe tema acestei zone cu statut special, insa au spus ca proiectul de constructie a marilor centre de date va merge inainte.O buna parte dintre articolele aparute pe aceasta tema in China au fost cenzurate, astfel incat sa nu mai poata fi accesate si se pare ca sursele reporterului care a publicat primul stirea au fost presate sa nu mai spuna nimic pe subiect. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/39halo39-creators-venture-into-mobile-games/ 39halo39-creators-venture-into-mobile-games Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:30:48 +0300 (CNN) -- The "Halo" games never made the base jump to cell phones, but Bungie, the studio that conceived and nurtured the franchise, is ready to explore the world of mobile gaming. Still fresh off its split from Microsoft, Bungie has formed a publishing house, called Aerospace, for mobile and social-networking games. The group managing the new publishing division is small, Bungie representatives said. Most of Bungie's 200-person team in Bellevue, Washington, is hard at work on a new action game, which Activision Publishing will put out. Despite the foray into mobile applications, Bungie has no immediate plans to release a smartphone game of its own. Bungie introduced its first mobile app a week ago, for the iPhone and iPad. Bungie Mobile enables people to check game stats for "Halo," and eventually other games, from their phones. "It's our first small step into the mobile world," Bungie said in a statement. "It really is just a beginning -- our first, super cute baby step." Now for the next step, which involves collaborating with tight-knit groups of proficient mobile designers. In this symbiotic relationship, Bungie provides infrastructure, advice, finances and a devoted following. "The role of traditional publishers has devolved to be primarily a financial instrument," Pete Parsons, the company's operating chief, said in a phone interview Wednesday. "I think we bring a lot more to the table." Bungie intends to use the venture to inform future projects. "We'll learn a lot about the (mobile) marketplace," Parsons said. "Our next big universe is going to be on multiple platforms and devices." The forthcoming franchise from ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-braces-for-huge-fine-from-rogue-drug-ads/ google-braces-for-huge-fine-from-rogue-drug-ads Fri, 1 Jul 2011 04:30:31 +0300 For more on this story, Watch "Anderson Cooper 360°" tonight on CNN at 8 p.m. ET. New York (CNN) -- Internet search giant Google is bracing for a fine that could top $500 million, after a federal probe of illegal online pharmacy ads placed on the website over the past three years, CNN has confirmed. Law enforcement sources tell CNN that federal prosecutors in Rhode Island, along with undercover agents from the Food and Drug Administration, are heading up a massive investigation aimed at showing Google knowingly took advertising money from websites selling highly addictive drugs without a legitimate prescription. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Providence told CNN he could "neither confirm nor deny" reports of the probe, and Google declined comment "since this is a legal matter." But in early May, Google filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying it was setting aside $500 million to potentially resolve a case with the Department of Justice. In its filing, Google stated only that the matter involved "the use of Google advertising by certain advertisers." If a fine of $500 million or higher is in fact imposed on Google, legal experts say it would be the largest such penalty in U.S. history. A recent study by doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Southern California showed a significant expansion in treatment for prescription drug abuse from 2000 to 2007. During those years, the study showed, emergency room admissions for prescription drug abuse rose from 100,000 to 200,000. The study showed states with ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-rim-microsoft-ericsson-si-sony-au-cumparat-inventiile-nortel/ apple-rim-microsoft-ericsson-si-sony-au-cumparat-inventiile-nortel Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:31:26 +0300 Apple, Research In Motion (RIM), Microsoft, Ericsson, Sony şi EMC Corp vor cumpăra, în consorţiu, pentru 4,5 miliarde de dolari, portofoliul de brevete al grupului canadian Nortel, aflat în faliment, după o licitaţie ai cărei mari pierzători sunt Google şi Intel. Pachetul de invenţii vândut include peste 6.000 de brevete şi cereri de omologare în numeroase zone importante ale industriei comunicaţiilor, inclusiv wireless 4G, data networking, tehnologii optice, trafic de voce, internet sau semiconductori. Cele mai râvnite brevete din portofoliul Nortel sunt cele legate de tehnologii broadband mobile folosite în noile standarde 4G, precum LTE. Licitaţia a atras atenţia unor nume mari din industria tehnologiei. Google a deschis în aprilie cu o ofertă de 900 milioane de dolari, urmat de Apple şi Intel, cele trei companii fiind relativ noi în industria comunicaţiilor mobile, un domeniu dominat în ultimii ani de rivalităţi aprinse şi nenumărate litigii între competitori. "Mărimea şi valoarea în dolari a acestei tranzacţii este fără precedent, la fel ca şi interesul marilor companii din întreaga lume pentru portofoliu", a declarat directorul de strategie al Nortel, George Riedel, într-un comunicat. Felia RIM din tranzacţie reprezintă circa 770 milioane de dolari, în timp ce Ericsson investeşte 340 milioane de dolari, au anunţat companiile în comunicate separate. Vânzarea brevetelor trebuie aprobată de autorităţile din Canada şi Statele Unite, prima audiere în acest sens fiind programată pentru 11 iulie, notează Nortel în omunicat. Pachetul de invenţii este ultimul activ important al Nortel, un fost gigant al tehnologiei care a decăzut după spargerea balonului speculativ din industria IT. Compania a intrat înf aliment în ianuarie 2009. Nortel a recuperat de atunci pentru creditori 3,2 miliarde de dolari prin vânzarea diviziilor grupului. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/heineken-parteneriat-global-de-publicitate-semnat-direct-cu-google/ heineken-parteneriat-global-de-publicitate-semnat-direct-cu-google Fri, 1 Jul 2011 13:31:57 +0300 ​Heineken si Google au incheiat un parteneriat de publicitate "inovator" prin care brandurile globale ale producatorului de bere beneficiaza la nivel international de campanii pe YouTube si prin intermediul telefoanelor mobile, potrivit unui comunicat al celor doua companii, preluat de Reuters. Prin acest parteneriat, cele doua companii vor lucra impreuna in peste 20 de piete, anul acesta. Orlando Nicoara comenteaza pe blogul sau, in legatura cu acest subiect: "Google semneaza direct cu clientii. Nu se mai complica sa o faca prin agentiile de media".Potrivit comunicatului de presa, YouTube va fi folosit pe fiecare piata pentru activarea campaniilor globale ale Heineken. Cele doua companii vor desfasura proiecte comune de cercetare si vor colabora in campanii pe platforme mobile pe pietele emergente, unde gradul de utilizare a Internetului mobil este mai mare decat a Internetului fix.In comunicat este citat Henrique de Castro, Global President of Media and Platforms la Google, potrivit caruia "aceasta campanie globala a Heineken este una dintre cele mai mari campanii globale de display pe care le-am desfasurat vreodata.''.Valoarea contractului dintre cele doua companii nu a fost dezvaluita, insa Wall Street Journal scrie ca este vorba despre un acord de multe milioane de euro si care nu afecteaza colaborarea dintre Heineken si principalele agentii de publicitate care se ocupa de portofoliul sau - Wieden&Kennedy si Publicis. Separat, aceeasi sursa mentiona ca Heineken a confirmat joi ca a semnat parteneriatul cu Google in martie a.c., in prezent avand discutii si cu Facebook si alte companii pentru a-si consolida prezenta in social media.Financial Times noteaza la ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/anyone-want-a-google-invite-sorry/ anyone-want-a-google-invite-sorry Fri, 1 Jul 2011 15:30:39 +0300 (CNN) -- Want to come to the Google+ party? Well, sorry, you'll need an invite. It's the tech world's version of the velvet rope. Companies such as Google hope that by limiting the number of people who can join their services -- like Google+, which is seen as Google's answer to Facebook -- they will be able drive up the buzz for those new sites. A theory of human behavior is at work here: People want what they can't have. It's hard not to at least be curious what the new Google social network is like when every tech blogger on the Internet is writing about it. There's ostensibly a technical component, too. If not everyone can join at once, there's less chance the site will crash. But there's a quiet backlash brewing against this cool-kids method to website launches. Not only do people feel left out, but this exclusivity-builds-interest model also has a track record that's far from perfect. (Remember Google Wave?) Before we get into all that, the logistical stuff: For those of you who are still hankering for a Google+ invite, you may be out of luck for the moment. On Tuesday, when Google announced Plus, the company invited only a handful of chosen tech insiders. Then on Wednesday night, the company said that every one of those people could invite whomever he or she wanted. Google's exclusive soiree was suddenly on its way to becoming a free-for-all kegger. But soon afterwards, Google VP Vic Gundotra said the company had shut down this invite-whomever-you'd-like system because of "insane demand." That ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/discounted-kindle-points-to-future-of-ad-supported-electronics/ discounted-kindle-points-to-future-of-ad-supported-electronics Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:30:53 +0300 (CNN) -- Amazon's recent ad-supported Kindle isn't just the future of e-readers. It may also be a look at the future of how people buy electronic gadgets: with a reduced price, subsidized by advertising. Since April, Amazon has offered an ad-supported version of its Wi-Fi-only Kindle -- "with Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers" -- for $114, or $25 cheaper than its standard Kindle. More recently, it has added an ad-supported version of its 3G wireless-enabled Kindle for $164, also $25 cheaper than the standard version. In exchange for the cheaper price, users see advertisements and special discount offers as the Kindle's screensaver module -- samples here -- instead of the standard Kindle screensaver, which is illustrations of authors. Amazon is not putting ads in Kindle books themselves. The results, so far: People seem willing to expose themselves to ads in order to save some money on the price of a Kindle, particularly on the lower end. In dozens of checks of Amazon's "Bestsellers in Electronics" page, the ad-supported, Wi-Fi-only Kindle is consistently the best-selling overall Kindle, followed by the no-ads version. The 3G version is less consistent: Sometimes, the ad-supported version is listed as selling better than the standard version; sometimes it's not. (Perhaps this is a reflection that the discount, percentage-wise, isn't as big for the 3G version.) While the $25 discount isn't huge, it's a start. It's going to be a while before Amazon knows how much of an ad-driven discount it can offer on future Kindles, based on advertiser interest for special offers, how many offers the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/twitter-este-investigata-in-sua-pentru-practici-anticoncurentiale/ twitter-este-investigata-in-sua-pentru-practici-anticoncurentiale Fri, 1 Jul 2011 17:01:32 +0300 Comisia Federală pentru Comerţ din Statele Unite a început să contacteze producătorii de software, într-o investigaţie preliminară referitoare la practicile de afaceri ale Twitter, pentru a evalua dacă operatorul reţelei de socializare limitează concurenţa, potrivit unor surse citate de Bloomberg. Twitter a fost reclamată că împiedică pe unii dezvoltatori de software să proiecteze aplicaţii legate de serviciul oferit de companie, a spus una dintre surse. În ultimele luni, agenţia americană a adoptat un rol mai activ în examinarea comportamentului unor companii mari de servicii pe Internet. Săptămâna trecută, Google, operatorul celui mai folosit serviciu de căutare pe Internet, a anunţat că a primit o citaţie din partea agenţiei, legată de o investigaţie antitrust împotriva sa. Purtătorul de cuvânt al agenţiei şi cel al Twitter au refuzat să comenteze. Reţeaua Twitter este folosită în prezent de 13% din populaţia adultă din SUA care este activă online, numărul utilizatorilor fiind cu 8% mai mare comparativ cu luna noiembrie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/un-consortiu-care-include-apple-microsoft-si-sony-a-cumparat-brevete-de-45-miliarde-dolari-de-la-compania-nortel/ un-consortiu-care-include-apple-microsoft-si-sony-a-cumparat-brevete-de-45-miliarde-dolari-de-la-compania-nortel Fri, 1 Jul 2011 17:31:53 +0300 Un consortiu din care fac parte companii precum Microsoft, Apple, Sony si RIM a cumparat peste 6.000 de brevete de la compania falimentara Nortel Networks, scrie AFP. Suma paltita pentru aceste brevete este fara precedent, 4,5 miliarde dolari, iar marele perdant este Google care avea nevoie de brevete si era dispusa sa dea aproape un miliard de dolari pentru ele.Nortel a dat faliment in 2009 si pana in prezent vanduse active de peste 3,2 miliarde dolari, iar patentele vandute acum sunt ultimele active valoroase ale companiei. Un consortiu care cuprinde companii precum Microsoft, Sony, Apple si Ericsson a cumparat 6.000 de brevete Nortel legate de aproape orice segment telecom de la tehnologii 4G, WiFi, retelistica si procesoare.Initial se credea ca peste aceste patente se va obtine o suma intre unu si doua miliarde dolari, insa rezultatul a fost net superior. Totusi, marele perdant este Google care se arata dispuse sa dea 900 milioane de dolari pentru brevete si explica in aprilie ca vrea sa cumpere cat mai multe patente fiindca este o companie tanara, iar concurentii sai au o istorie mult mai lunga si implicit detin mai multe brevete. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-check-google-violent-video-games-an-epic-myspace-fail/ tech-check-google-violent-video-games-an-epic-myspace-fail Fri, 1 Jul 2011 18:00:42 +0300 (CNN) -- In this week's Tech Check podcast, writers Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg discuss Google's rollout of Google+. Google swears the social-networking platform isn't meant to compete with Facebook, but features like video chat and "social circles" sure look to us like an effort to pull folks away. We also break down some of the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling this week that California's violent video-game law is unconstitutional. The court ruled that, while intended to protect children, the law must provide the same First Amendment protection to games as to other forms of art. We discuss some ofthe bigger violent-game controversies and, using Stephanie's favorite game for comparison, discuss what it would take to make "Mario Kart" more like "Postal 2." For our Reader Comments of the Week, Stephanie looks at responses on John's story about the iPhone turning four years old. And the Tech Fail of the Week looks at the News Corp. sale of Myspace for $35 million, a little more than five years after paying $580 million for it. (On the bright side, Stephanie gets to make a "Sexy Back" joke because of the involvement of the always dreamy Justin Timberlake). To listen, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can find the Tech Check RSS feed here or subscribe on iTunes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-ad-supported-gadgets-may-be-the-future/ why-ad-supported-gadgets-may-be-the-future Fri, 1 Jul 2011 19:30:28 +0300 (CNN) -- Amazon's recent ad-supported Kindle isn't just the future of e-readers. It may also be a look at the future of how people buy electronic gadgets: with a reduced price, subsidized by advertising. Since April, Amazon has offered an ad-supported version of its Wi-Fi-only Kindle -- "with Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers" -- for $114, or $25 cheaper than its standard Kindle. More recently, it has added an ad-supported version of its 3G wireless-enabled Kindle for $164, also $25 cheaper than the standard version. In exchange for the cheaper price, users see advertisements and special discount offers as the Kindle's screensaver module -- samples here -- instead of the standard Kindle screensaver, which is illustrations of authors. Amazon is not putting ads in Kindle books themselves. The results, so far: People seem willing to expose themselves to ads in order to save some money on the price of a Kindle, particularly on the lower end. In dozens of checks of Amazon's "Bestsellers in Electronics" page, the ad-supported, Wi-Fi-only Kindle is consistently the best-selling overall Kindle, followed by the no-ads version. The 3G version is less consistent: Sometimes, the ad-supported version is listed as selling better than the standard version; sometimes it's not. (Perhaps this is a reflection that the discount, percentage-wise, isn't as big for the 3G version.) While the $25 discount isn't huge, it's a start. It's going to be a while before Amazon knows how much of an ad-driven discount it can offer on future Kindles, based on advertiser interest for special offers, how many offers the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-google-a-clean-intuitive-mobile-experience-so-far/ review-google-a-clean-intuitive-mobile-experience-so-far Sat, 2 Jul 2011 02:30:42 +0300 Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- Google on Tuesday unveiled its attempt to rival Facebook, a social-networking product called Google+. I received an invitation from a friend and have been putting this nascent service through its paces -- especially on my Android phone. Here's my experience so far: (Do you want a Google+ invitation? Sorry, you may have to wait.) First, a caveat: Absolutely everything about Google+, including its mobile experience, is in a state of flux. So at least some of what I write here will definitely change in the coming days and weeks. Google+ is very much a "beta" service, sporting plenty of glitches, mysteries and oddities. Therefore it's just as well that the vast majority of people using it so far seem to be serious social media geeks. Yes, that does make for a lot of redundant, tiresome conversations probing the arcane nuances of Google+ and comparing it to Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. But it's probably best to let the geeks kick the tires on Google+ first. Later on, when the service becomes more widely available, less-geeky users will definitely benefit from this process. So be a little patient. There are main components to the Google+ mobile experience are the free Google+ Android app (of course), and the mobile web app (accessible via the mobile browser on most Web-enabled phones). To get Google+ Android app working you must first install ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cea-mai-performanta-bursa-din-lume-a-crescut-cu-23-in-primul-semestru-unda-de-soc-din-grecia-ocoleste-deocamdata-bancile-elene-din-romania-optimism-in-comertul-online-piata-se-tripleaza-in-2012-la-un-miliard-de-euro-forbes-unde-se/ business-report-cea-mai-performanta-bursa-din-lume-a-crescut-cu-23-in-primul-semestru-unda-de-soc-din-grecia-ocoleste-deocamdata-bancile-elene-din-romania-optimism-in-comertul-online-piata-se-tripleaza-in-2012-la-un-miliard-de-euro-forbes-unde-se Sat, 2 Jul 2011 04:02:00 +0300 Cea mai performanta bursa din lume a crescut cu 23% in primul semestru. Romania ocupa locul 16 la nivel global. Venezuela a avut cea mai performanta bursa din lume in primul semestru, aceasta aducand investitorilor un castig mediu de 23%, potrivit unei analize realizate de firma de investitii Bespoke Investment Group. Pe locul doi in topul burselor cu cele mai mari cresteri se plaseaza Bulgaria , cu un avans de 14,2%, aceasta fiind urmata de Letonia, care a avansat in primul semestru cu 12,5%. Acestea sunt de altfel si singurele burse care au avansat cu mai mult de 10% de la inceputul acestui an. In analiza au fost luate in calcul 78 de piete. Cu o crestere de 4,5%, Bursa din Romania ocupa locul 16 la nivel global, fiind inaintea Poloniei (2,11%), Marii Britanii (0,78%) sau Austriei, care a scazut cu 3,7% in primele sase luni, scrie Economic Times.Unda de soc din Grecia ocoleste, deocamdata, bancile elene din Romania. Bancpost este prima banca romaneasca cu capital grecesc care ia o pozitie publica dupa doua saptamani in care ingrijorarile cu privire la criza din Grecia au dominat agenda internationala. Bancile grecesti reprezinta acum 17% din sistemul bancar romanesc, iar problema Atenei poate deveni rapid problema Bucurestiului. Doar ca nu pare sa fie deloc asa, cu exceptia influentelor asupra ratei cursului valutar, pentru Romania criza greceasca aproape ca nu exista, singurele semne ca ceva se intampla fiind o liniste apasatoare din zona bancilor si cateva declaratii preventorii din partea reprezentantilor Bancii Nationale, anunta Capital.ro.Peste 20 milioane euro ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-google-clean-intuitive/ review-google-clean-intuitive Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:30:26 +0300 Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- Google on Tuesday unveiled its attempt to rival Facebook, a social-networking product called Google+. I received an invitation from a friend and have been putting this nascent service through its paces -- especially on my Android phone. Here's my experience so far: (Do you want a Google+ invitation? Sorry, you may have to wait.) First, a caveat: Absolutely everything about Google+, including its mobile experience, is in a state of flux. So at least some of what I write here will definitely change in the coming days and weeks. Google+ is very much a "beta" service, sporting plenty of glitches, mysteries and oddities. Therefore it's just as well that the vast majority of people using it so far seem to be serious social media geeks. Yes, that does make for a lot of redundant, tiresome conversations probing the arcane nuances of Google+ and comparing it to Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. But it's probably best to let the geeks kick the tires on Google+ first. Later on, when the service becomes more widely available, less-geeky users will definitely benefit from this process. So be a little patient. There are main components to the Google+ mobile experience are the free Google+ Android app (of course), and the mobile web app (accessible via the mobile browser on most Web-enabled phones). To get Google+ Android app working you must first install ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/soldier-leaves-legacy-much-larger-than-39he-was-gay39/ soldier-leaves-legacy-much-larger-than-39he-was-gay39 Sat, 2 Jul 2011 15:00:42 +0300 Rosemount, Minnesota (CNN) -- Andrew Wilfahrt changed his gait in the weeks before going off to basic training. He walked more upright. He bulked up with weights. He spoke with a deep Robocop voice. He acted "manly." Through the eyes of his parents, Jeff and Lori, it was all a bit strange. This was the boy who told them he was gay at 16 after being confronted with exorbitant bills from Internet chat rooms. Who lobbied for gay rights in his high school and escaped the fists of football players when hockey players came to his rescue. Who had the courage to wear pink and green even after his car was spray-painted with "Go Home Fag!" All his parents ever wanted was for Andrew to be Andrew. At 29, he sat his mom and dad down at the kitchen table and told them his life was missing camaraderie, brotherhood. "I'm joining the Army," he said. The news surprised them. Why would Andrew enter the military, where he'd be forced to deny a part of who he is? He was a lover of classical music, a composer, a peace activist, a math genius. He studied palindromes, maps, patterns, the U.S. Constitution, quantum physics. A soldier? It had never really crossed the minds of his left-leaning parents. Yet, just as they'd done with all three of their children, they supported him. It wasn't easy. It became dreadfully painful. When their son wound up in Afghanistan in July 2010, Jeff awoke early each day to Google "Kandahar." He tracked every soldier killed in the far-off land. Then, on ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/george-clooney39s-sudan-monitors-warn-about-weaponry/ george-clooney39s-sudan-monitors-warn-about-weaponry Sun, 3 Jul 2011 12:00:42 +0300 (CNN) -- The government of Sudan may be moving heavy weaponry closer to a disputed oil-rich region of the country, a monitoring group started by Hollywood actor George Clooney claimed. Satellite photos show what appear to be four vehicles capable of carrying multiple-rocket launchers at a camp that also appears to include two dozen light vehicles and tents for an infantry battalion, the Satellite Sentinel Project said. "The deployment of such powerful weapons certainly gives added currency to President (Omar al-)Bashir's order on Friday to his army to 'clear' rebel elements from South Kordofan," said John Prendergast, a campaigner against violence in Sudan who works with Clooney. Prendergast warned that Sudan could be on the verge of another "ethnic cleansing" campaign like the ones "that the regime has pursued in the Nuba Mountains, Darfur, Abyei, and parts of South Sudan." "Given that the Khartoum regime does not distinguish between combatants and civilians, utilizing these multiple-rocket launcher systems would dramatically increase civilian casualties," said Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project. President Barack Obama last month urged north and south to agree a cease-fire in South Kordofan, as his United Nations ambassador said Washington was disturbed by events there. "We are deeply concerned about attacks on and threats to and intimidation of U.N. personnel, obstructions to freedom of movement and access for humanitarian goods, allegations and indeed verified reports of aerial bombardment and other attacks against civilian personnel," Susan Rice said. Southern Kordofan is an oil-rich northern border state where fighting has also erupted between government troops and forces loyal to the south as ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/9-motive-pentru-care-google-bate-facebook/ 9-motive-pentru-care-google-bate-facebook Sun, 3 Jul 2011 17:01:26 +0300 Lupta nu se dă doar între două reţele de socializare, ci între doi giganţi ai pieţei IT, pentru că Google+ va deveni nucleul identităţii Google, pe care îl va remodela. Chiar dacă Facebook are un avans enorm faţă de nou lansatul produs de la Google, specialiştii de la PC World au găsit nouă motive pentru care Google+ bate Facebook. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/beware-some-google-39invites39-are-really-spam/ beware-some-google-39invites39-are-really-spam Mon, 4 Jul 2011 23:30:54 +0300 (CNN) -- OK, Google+, you're a bona fide Web sensation now. Which is to say, you've inspired your very own spam. An e-mail claiming to be an invite to the search giant's much ballyhooed answer to Facebook was making the rounds on Monday. But, turns out, it's just one more way to buy illicit Viagra on the internet. Google+ was unveiled last week, but so far invitations to try out the new social-networking service have mostly just been sent to bloggers, journalists and others in the technology world. Google opened a brief window last week for members to invite others, but is otherwise keeping Plus's doors locked for now. The result (and raise your hand if you think this is an accident) has been lots of jealous folks reading other people talk about Google+ and wanting to get in on the action themselves. "The spammers are no doubt hoping that the e-mail will be too hard to resist for many people eager to see Google's new social network," web security firm Sophos wrote on their Naked Security blog, "although just how many users will be tempted to buy drugs online is a mystery." The e-mail looks like the ones sent when a friend adds you to a "circle" on Google+ before you've joined the site. But instead of leading to Google+, the links in the e-mail produce an apparent opportunity to buy Cialis, Viagra, Propecia and other pharmaceutical little helpers. The links do not appaear to upload viruses or other malware. The Google+ effort isn't the only careful-where-you-click issue Sophos is currently ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/beware-some-google-39invites39-are-spam/ beware-some-google-39invites39-are-spam Tue, 5 Jul 2011 00:30:28 +0300 (CNN) -- OK, Google+, you're a bona fide Web sensation now. Which is to say, you've inspired your very own spam. An e-mail claiming to be an invite to the search giant's much ballyhooed answer to Facebook was making the rounds on Monday. But, turns out, it's just one more way to buy illicit Viagra on the internet. Google+ was unveiled last week, but so far invitations to try out the new social-networking service have mostly just been sent to bloggers, journalists and others in the technology world. Google opened a brief window last week for members to invite others, but is otherwise keeping Plus's doors locked for now. The result (and raise your hand if you think this is an accident) has been lots of jealous folks reading other people talk about Google+ and wanting to get in on the action themselves. "The spammers are no doubt hoping that the e-mail will be too hard to resist for many people eager to see Google's new social network," web security firm Sophos wrote on their Naked Security blog, "although just how many users will be tempted to buy drugs online is a mystery." The e-mail looks like the ones sent when a friend adds you to a "circle" on Google+ before you've joined the site. But instead of leading to Google+, the links in the e-mail produce an apparent opportunity to buy Cialis, Viagra, Propecia and other pharmaceutical little helpers. The links do not appaear to upload viruses or other malware. The Google+ effort isn't the only careful-where-you-click issue Sophos is currently ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/39awesome39-facebook-announcement-coming-wednesday/ 39awesome39-facebook-announcement-coming-wednesday Tue, 5 Jul 2011 05:00:34 +0300 (CNN) -- We're sure it's a coincidence that we got this e-mail while we were setting up our Google+ profiles. Just days after the search giant rolled out its new networking platform, Facebook, the reigning champs of the social space, announced Friday that it will hold a news event next Wednesday. Facebook didn't provide any details in an e-mail inviting media members to the event, to be held at its Palo Alto, California, headquarters. But, on Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that Facebook would "launch something awesome" next week. Time.com: Zuckerberg promises 'something awesome' Zuckerberg was touring Facebook's engineering site in Seattle and wouldn't give many details, only saying that the announcement would be about something developed there. By late Friday, the leading theory was that the company will unveil a video-chat feature powered by Skype. CNN content partner Mashable was quoting unnamed sources they said confirmed the plan, which was first reported by blog Tech Crunch. Facebook and Skype already have a deep partnership, with Facebook content being integrated onto Skype clients. When Microsoft bought Skype in May, CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned "social" as one of the company's plans for it. We speculated at the time that Facebook integration might be in the works. Microsoft actually owns a piece of Facebook, having bought in for $240 million in 2007. Adding video chat would be an answer of sorts to Google+. Video chat is one of the features many reviewers have mentioned that set Google's upstart offering apart from Facebook. Other possibilities, should the video chat rumor turn out to be a red herring? ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/arca-a-finalizat-structura-cabinei-avionului-supersonic-iar-111-excelsior/ arca-a-finalizat-structura-cabinei-avionului-supersonic-iar-111-excelsior Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:30:59 +0300 Asociaţia Română pentru Cosmonautică şi Aeronautică - ARCA a finalizat structura cabinei avionului supersonic IAR-111 Excelsior, un aparat destinat lansării rachetei spaţiale Haas II pentru competiţia Google Lunar X Prize şi dezvoltării turismului spaţial, potrivit unui comunicat remis MEDIAFAX. Cabina avionului este realizată din materiale compozite, are o greutate de peste 500 de kilograme, complet echipată pentru zbor, şi primeşte un echipaj de două persoane - pilot şi navigator -, dispuse în tandem. Pilotul, aşezat pe locul din faţa cabinei, va dispune de o consolă centrală care va cuprinde echipamentele de navigaţie analogice şi GPS, un ecran panoramic pentru sistemul HDTV pentru asistarea decolării şi aterizării, iar echipamentul de radiocomunicaţii va fi dispus pe părţile laterale. Postul de pilotaj va fi echipat cu comenzi necesare manipulării aeronavei. Navigatorul, aşezat în spatele pilotului, va dispune pe consola centrală de un sistem integrat de monitorizare a parametrilor de funcţionare a avionului, sistem de comunicaţii radio, sistem de navigaţie GPS, un sistem SDTV de monitorizare a aeronavei şi un ecran pentru radar pasiv. Cabina este ejectabilă în caz de necesitate şi este dotată cu două paraşute acţionate cu motor rachetă. "Realizarea structurii cabinei avionului I.A.R.-111 Excelsior este un moment important pentru echipă şi partenerii săi, fiind unul dintre elementele cel mai dificil de realizat din toată aeronava. În perioada următoare, cabina va fi supusă unui program intensiv de testare la sol şi la zbor, efectuându-se teste de presiune şi solicitări mecanice la suprasarcini şi vibraţii. După parcurgerea acestor teste, cabina va fi echipată cu sistemele de avionică şi va fi integrată în structura aeronavei", a declarat Dumitru Popescu, preşedinte ARCA. Astfel, ARCA va efectua în cursul lunilor iulie-august Misiunea 6, de testare la zbor a cabinei avionului IAR-111, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-strikes-search-deal-with-baidu/ microsoft-strikes-search-deal-with-baidu Tue, 5 Jul 2011 16:30:27 +0300 (FT) -- Baidu, China's biggest search engine by revenue, on Monday announced a partnership with Microsoft that would allow its users to see English-language search results generated by Bing, the US company's search engine. No financial considerations were involved in the deal, which will see Bing's search results labeled and integrated into Baidu's search results from later this year. Any advertising revenue generated as a result of the improved search results will go to Baidu as it controls the site. However, the deal will help Microsoft promote Bing in the world's biggest internet market, where it has less than a 1 per cent market share, according to research firm Analysys International. By contrast, Baidu controls more than three-quarters of the Chinese market while Google still holds 19.6 per cent, despite losing market share after the US company partially retreated from China last year. Google moved its China web search to its Hong Kong site last March after confronting Beijing over censorship issues. The partnership between Baidu and Bing highlights Microsoft's different approach to the Chinese market compared with Google. Unlike Google, which had operated its own search engine independently in China, Microsoft had sought out local partners to help promote Bing. Microsoft had earlier entered into an agreement with Alibaba Group, the business-to-business website, to offer Bing search results on Alibaba's eTao search engine. However, that partnership ended earlier this year.. Samuel Shen, senior vice-president of Microsoft China, said the partnership "would give Baidu's many users better results and a better English search experience. At the same time, it will allow ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-most-popular-google-user-it39s-facebook39s-zuckerberg/ the-most-popular-google-user-it39s-facebook39s-zuckerberg Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:30:48 +0300 (CNN) -- So, based on the buzz, Google+ is the geek-chic social-networking upstart that's going to challenge Facebook, right? Then why is the most popular person on the fledgling service ... Mark Zuckerberg? As of Tuesday morning, the Facebook CEO, who surprised some folks by being one of the first to create a Google+ account, had 29,543 "followers" on the site. That's nearly 10,000 more than Google CEO Larry Page, who clocked in at 19,878 friends for second place, according to the Google+ social statistics page. Google unveiled its long-anticipated social network last week. Since then, it's been opened up to journalists, bloggers and others in the tech community, but not yet to the general public. A look at the site's 100 most-followed users provides a snapshot of its nascent population. After Zuckerberg and Page, the top 10 is rounded out with four more prominent Google staffers (co-founder Sergey Brin, engineers Vic Gundotra, Matt Cutts and Bradley Horowitz) and tech journalists Robert Scoble, Leo Laporte, MG Siegler and Gina Trapani. Web publications like Mashable and The Next Web also made the list. This part probably won't last. But, in a world in which Gaga and Bieber own Twitter, it was refreshing to see a top-100 that was virtually celebrity-free. Actress, web-series creator and geek icon Felicia Day appeared to be the only person to qualify, taking the No. 39 spot with 2,587 followers. Let's just hope Nathan Fillion gets there before Ashton Kutcher. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/syrian-activist-offers-account-of-abduction-beatings/ syrian-activist-offers-account-of-abduction-beatings Wed, 6 Jul 2011 00:00:42 +0300 (CNN) -- He says it is not safe to communicate through Twitter. Facebook? Only if he uses a fake account. Google chat is our best option, he tells me. Just type in Arabic. Keep it short. And please type President Bashar al-Assad's name sparingly. Halfway around the world, a 20-year-old Syrian answers my questions. Every stroke is thoughtful, every word heavy with fear. He asks to go by the name of Ahmed. CNN cannot independently confirm the account that follows, but communications with Ahmed went on for many days, and he provided detail about events and places that supported what he told us. CNN was also able to contact several of his online associates independently, and they confirmed his background and the events he described below. "I had an ego. You never really think you're going to get caught." Ahmed has been involved in peaceful demonstrations against the Syrian regime since the first days of the uprising, often with his 52-year-old father. But one day in May, on a street in Damascus, he and other protesters are ambushed. In a moment, everything becomes distorted: changed expressions and frenzied feet. "Many other protesters ran, but I was stuck. I tried to knock on nearby doors. Nobody answered. I found myself standing in front of security forces. They looked at me but didn't make any move. I was convinced at that moment that nobody was going to open their door for me. So I ran." A security officer strikes him across the head with his stick. He continues to run. He feels another thump. And another one. "I was ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/syrian-activist-recounts-beatings/ syrian-activist-recounts-beatings Wed, 6 Jul 2011 06:00:06 +0300 (CNN) -- He says it is not safe to communicate through Twitter. Facebook? Only if he uses a fake account. Google chat is our best option, he tells me. Just type in Arabic. Keep it short. And please type President Bashar al-Assad's name sparingly. Halfway around the world, a 20-year-old Syrian answers my questions. Every stroke is thoughtful, every word heavy with fear. He asks to go by the name of Ahmed. CNN cannot independently confirm the account that follows, but communications with Ahmed went on for many days, and he provided detail about events and places that supported what he told us. CNN was also able to contact several of his online associates independently, and they confirmed his background and the events he described below. "I had an ego. You never really think you're going to get caught." Ahmed has been involved in peaceful demonstrations against the Syrian regime since the first days of the uprising, often with his 52-year-old father. But one day in May, on a street in Damascus, he and other protesters are ambushed. In a moment, everything becomes distorted: changed expressions and frenzied feet. "Many other protesters ran, but I was stuck. I tried to knock on nearby doors. Nobody answered. I found myself standing in front of security forces. They looked at me but didn't make any move. I was convinced at that moment that nobody was going to open their door for me. So I ran." A security officer strikes him across the head with his stick. He continues to run. He feels another thump. And another one. "I was ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-to-make-39awesome39-announcement/ facebook-to-make-39awesome39-announcement Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:00:45 +0300 (CNN) -- Facebook has scheduled a Wednesday news conference to announce the launch of what it termed "something awesome." The leading theory is that the company will unveil a video-chat feature powered by Skype. Facebook didn't provide any details in an e-mail inviting media members to the event, to be held at its Palo Alto, California, headquarters. But CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised last week it would be "something awesome." Zuckerberg was touring Facebook's engineering site in Seattle and wouldn't give many details, only saying that the announcement would be about something developed there. It's hard to imagine the timing of the announcement is random. Since it was launched last week, Google has been getting all the online buzz in the social-media world for it new networking platform, Google+. To be sure, Google is digital light years away from rivaling Facebook's 600 million or so users worldwide. But after Buzz, Wave and other failed efforts, this looks like Google's most serious leap yet into the social-networking world. And that could mean, as competing smartphone makers discovered with Google's potent Android system, that Facebook has a real rival on its hands. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-cere-samsung-sa-plateasca-drepturi-de-autor-de-15-dolari-pentru-fiecare-smartphone-produs/ microsoft-cere-samsung-sa-plateasca-drepturi-de-autor-de-15-dolari-pentru-fiecare-smartphone-produs Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:01:21 +0300 Microsoft cere Samsung să plătească 15 dolari pentru fiecare smartphone produs bazat pe platforma software Android a Google, deoarece sistemul de operare foloseşte numeroase brevete ale gigantului american, transmite Reuters. Samsung va încerca să reducă suma la circa 10 dolari per smartphone în schimbul consolidării alianţei dintre cele două companii în privinţa platformei software Windows Phone, au declarat surse din industria de profil pentru ziarul sud-coreean Maeil. Microsoft a anunţat, în aprilie anul trecut, că a încheiat un acord de licenţiere cu grupul taiwanez HTC Corp, în baza căruia va încasa plăţi din drepturi de proprietate intelectuală pentru fiecare telefon Android produs de companie. Analiştii estimează că Samsung, al doilea mare producător de telefoane mobile din lume, a vândut circa 19 milioane de smartphone-uri în trimestrul al doilea şi deţine poziţia dominantă în zona terminalelor care rulează sistemul Android. Majoritatea specialiştilor estimează că grupul sud-coreean va depăşi Nokia ca vânzări, preluând prima poziţie la nviel mondial şi detronând compania finlandeză pentru prima dată în 10 ani. Vlad Popescu, vlad.popescu@mediafax.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-adds-skype-video-chat-feature/ facebook-adds-skype-video-chat-feature Wed, 6 Jul 2011 21:30:32 +0300 Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- Facebook on Wednesday announced a video calling feature that will be provided by Skype, the well-known Internet video chat program. The move comes shortly after Google launched a competing social network that also features a video chatting program. The new chat feature will show up on Facebook as a "call" button at the top of every user's profile page. By clicking that button, Facebook users can talk to each other over webcams. That feature has already been rolled out to some users and will continue to become available to others, the company said. This is "the world's easiest one-click way" to chat over video, Facebook engineer Philip Su said at a press conference Wednesday. Facebook also announced updates to its text chat features, including a way for users to chat with several of their friends at once. And the company updated the total number of people who are using the site to 750 million. That move also seems to mirror a feature of Google+, Google's new social network, which is seen by some as a genuine competitor to Facebook. A video feature called "Hangouts" lets Google+ users chat over video with several friends at once. The new network also has a feature called "Circles," which lets people organize their friend lists into groups. Facebook's new video feature does not allow for group chats. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, took subtle jabs at the new Google network, saying Facebook provides the best way for people to organize their friends into groups -- with minimal effort. "If you think about it, it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-reveals-skype-video-calling-feature/ facebook-reveals-skype-video-calling-feature Thu, 7 Jul 2011 02:30:29 +0300 Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- Facebook is encouraging its members to talk face to face -- over the computer. The social networking giant introduced a video-calling feature on Wednesday in partnership with Skype, the popular Internet video-chat provider. The product comes a week after Google launched a competing social network, called Google+, which also includes a video-chatting program. Facebook's version will show up on the site as a "call" button at the top of users' profile pages. By clicking that or finding someone in a new "buddy list" bar on the right-hand side, Facebook users can talk to each other as long as they have webcams. The company began turning that service on for millions of users on Wednesday and will add it to more accounts over time, spokespeople said. This is "the world's easiest one-click way" to chat over video, Facebook engineer Philip Su said at the news conference here. The Seattle programmer was Facebook's only full-time engineer working on its development along with Skype, a Facebook spokeswoman said. Facebook on Wednesday also introduced a change to its instant-messaging service, which now allows people to create on-the-fly group conversations. "This is their response to Google+ right now," said Ray Valdes, an Internet analyst at Gartner Research. "I think it's a little bit of catchup in terms of features." Google bills its new network as a better way to communicate certain messages to subsections of friends. Google+ also has drawn praise for its ability, with a service called Hangouts, to let users video chat with several friends at a time. Facebook's new video ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-to-retire-blogger-picasa-brands/ google-to-retire-blogger-picasa-brands Thu, 7 Jul 2011 02:30:33 +0300 (Mashable) -- Say goodbye to the Picasa and Blogger names: Google intends to retire several non-Google name brands and rename them as Google products, Mashable has learned. The move is part of a larger effort to unify its brand for the public launch of Google+, the search giant's social initiative. Blogger and Picasa aren't going away, of course -- they're two of Google's most popular products. Instead, according to two sources familiar with the matter, Google intends to rename Picasa "Google Photos" and Blogger will become "Google Blogs." Several other Google brands are likely to be affected, though our sources made it clear that YouTube would not be rebranded. The technology giant shut down Google Video, its failed web video service, in May. The move isn't without precedent; Google acquired JotSpot in 2006 and rebranded it as Google Sites in 2008. In 2007, Google acquired VOIP platform GrandCentral and relaunched it as Google Voice in 2009. Mashable: Review | Photos | Videos | Poll | Pros & cons Picasa and Blogger were also Google acquisitions, although both companies have been part of the Google empire for far longer. Picasa was acquired in 2004 and Blogger (co-founded by Evan Williams of Twitter) was acquired in 2003 and is one of the top 10 most visited websites in the world. Although the rebranding could upset some existing customers, it also gives Google the ability to completely integrate both services into Google+. Rebranding coming in next six weeks The transition from Picasa and Blogger to Google Photos and Google Blogs will occur "in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/avionul-supersonic-romanesc-iar-111-excelsior-are-structura-cabinei-finalizata-vezi-cum-arata-foto/ avionul-supersonic-romanesc-iar-111-excelsior-are-structura-cabinei-finalizata-vezi-cum-arata-foto Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:03:09 +0300 Asociaţia Română pentru Cosmonautică şi Aeronautică - ARCA a finalizat structura cabinei avionului supersonic IAR-111 Excelsior, un aparat destinat lansării rachetei spaţiale Haas II pentru competiţia Google Lunar X Prize şi dezvoltării turismului spaţial, potrivit unui comunicat remis MEDIAFAX. Cabina avionului este realizată din materiale compozite, are o greutate de peste 500 de kilograme, complet echipată pentru zbor, şi primeşte un echipaj de două persoane - pilot şi navigator -, dispuse în tandem. Pilotul, aşezat pe locul din faţa cabinei, va dispune de o consolă centrală care va cuprinde echipamentele de navigaţie analogice şi GPS, un ecran panoramic pentru sistemul HDTV pentru asistarea decolării şi aterizării, iar echipamentul de radiocomunicaţii va fi dispus pe părţile laterale. Postul de pilotaj va fi echipat cu comenzi necesare manipulării aeronavei. Navigatorul, aşezat în spatele pilotului, va dispune pe consola centrală de un sistem integrat de monitorizare a parametrilor de funcţionare a avionului, sistem de comunicaţii radio, sistem de navigaţie GPS, un sistem SDTV de monitorizare a aeronavei şi un ecran pentru radar pasiv. Cabina este ejectabilă în caz de necesitate şi este dotată cu două paraşute acţionate cu motor rachetă. "Realizarea structurii cabinei avionului I.A.R.-111 Excelsior este un moment important pentru echipă şi partenerii săi, fiind unul dintre elementele cel mai dificil de realizat din toată aeronava. În perioada următoare, cabina va fi supusă unui program intensiv de testare la sol şi la zbor, efectuându-se teste de presiune şi solicitări mecanice la suprasarcini şi vibraţii. După parcurgerea acestor teste, cabina va fi echipată cu sistemele de avionică şi va fi integrată în structura aeronavei", a declarat Dumitru Popescu, preşedinte ARCA. Astfel, ARCA va efectua în cursul lunilor iulie-august Misiunea 6, de testare la zbor a cabinei avionului ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-facebook-a-lansat-serviciul-de-video-chat-in-colaborare-cu-skype/ video-facebook-a-lansat-serviciul-de-video-chat-in-colaborare-cu-skype Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:03:12 +0300 Facebook a anuntat, miercuri seara, un parteneriat cu Skype care va permite efectuarea de video chat direct din Facebook, relateaza Reuters. Acordul, care reprezinta un nou pas in colaborarea cu Microsoft Corp, companie aflata in proces de achizitionare a Skype pentru 8,5 miliarde dolari, a fost facut public de catre directorul executiv Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg la sediul companiei din Palo Alto, California. Anuntul colaborarii a fost facut in contextul in care Google a lansat, saptamana trecuta, o noua retea sociala, Google+, prin care se pot efectua deja transmisiuni video.Zuckerberg a anuntat ca Facebook are, in prezent, 750 milioane utilizatori, iar introducerea noului serviciu ar putea insemna un pas mare pentru Skype, care are in prezent aproximativ 145 milioane de utilizatori frecventi. De asemenea, Zuckenberg a anuntat ca va oferi utilizatorilor Facebook si un nou serviciu de group-chat."Credem ca este avantajos, pentru ca vom folosi cele mai bune tehnologii pentru a efectua apeluri video cu cea mai buna infrastructura sociala care exista", a spus Zuckerberg. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cum-arata-cel-mai-asteptat-proiect-de-infrastructura-un-rege-al-asfaltului-are-probleme-romanesti-in-irak-top-10-cele-mai-profitabile-actiuni-de-la-bursa-de-valori-anomaliile-salariilor-din-companiile-de-stat-ce-zic-ca-au-invatat-di/ business-report-cum-arata-cel-mai-asteptat-proiect-de-infrastructura-un-rege-al-asfaltului-are-probleme-romanesti-in-irak-top-10-cele-mai-profitabile-actiuni-de-la-bursa-de-valori-anomaliile-salariilor-din-companiile-de-stat-ce-zic-ca-au-invatat-di Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:03:33 +0300 Cum arata cel mai asteptat proiect de infrastructura. Ar urma sa devina rentabil abia din al treilea an de exploatare, dar va produce 1,6 milioane de euro chiar in 2012. Este vorba despre cel mai dorit proiect de infrastructura din Bucuresti, pentru a carei lansare nu ar mai fi de asteptat foarte mult. Stadionul national care urmeaza sa fie inaugurat pe 10 august va aduce bani la buget abia din 2014, iar anul viitor va avea venituri de 1,6 milioane de euro. Vestiarele fotbalistilor, sunt aproape gata, la fel ca si camera destinata supravegherii intregului stadion. Bucuros ca a fost primit cu aplauze de bucuresteni, primarul general al Capitalei, Sorin Oprescu, a promis sa va mai construi inca trei stadioane asemanatoare cu "Lia Manoliu", scrie Capital.Un rege al asfaltului are probleme romanesti in Irak. Desi a castigat un contract de constructie a 35 de km de autostrada in nordul Irakului, compania Romstrade nu poate incepe lucrarile din cauza deselor schimbari de guvernorat local care impiedica eliberarea tuturor avizelor necesare santierului. Compania Romstrade, detinuta de omul de afaceri Nelu Iordache, nu a inceput inca lucrarile la tronsonul de autostrada de 35 de km pe care trebuie sa-l construiasca in Irak din cauza problemelor legate de birocratie. Lucrarile trebuia  sa inceapa inca din luna octombrie a anului trecut insa birocratia din tara araba a facut ca acestea sa se amane pentru o perioada inca nedeterminata. Cei care conduc compania spun, insa, ca nu exista pericolul ca realizarea autostrazii sa fie sistata, potrivit Money.ro.Varsovia, mereu Varsovia. Templeton alege ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-google-versus-facebook-cum-schimba-google-hangouts-peisajul-retelelor-sociale-si-ce-rol-au-hulu-si-skype-in-duelul-gigantilor/ video-google-versus-facebook-cum-schimba-google-hangouts-peisajul-retelelor-sociale-si-ce-rol-au-hulu-si-skype-in-duelul-gigantilor Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:03:38 +0300 ​Retelele de socializare au devenit in ultimii ani cheia de bolta a internetului. De la corporatii la guverne, de la start-up-uri la giganti care valoreaza miliarde de dolari, toata lumea vrea o bucata cat mai mare din noul internet si, automat, din viata fiecaruia dintre noi. Odata cu intrarea Goolge in joc, lucrurile incep sa se schimbe, iar competitia pentru oferirea de noi servicii devine si mai acerba.Dupa mai multi ani marcati de esecuri pentru Google, cea mai mare companie online a lansat un serviciu pe masura Facebook, numit simplu Google+. Aparent extrem de similar cu rivalul principal, noua retea sociala adauga mai multe elemente de diferentiere care ar putea reprezenta linia dintre victorie si inca o infrangere. Aparent, si Google+ este inca un site pe care utilizatorii pot sa impartaseasca imagini, mesaje, link-uri si clipuri video cu prietenii, dar lucrurile nu se opresc aici. Noul serviciu ofera ceva ce pana acum nu a fost disponibil pe nici o retea de socializare online: posibilitatea de a socializa la modul real, de a interactiona cu mai multi prieteni simultan prin intermediul unui webcam in cadrul retelei. Numit Hangouts, noul serviciu al Google permite utilizatorilor dintr-un cerc de prieteni, structura pe care este bazata reteaua Google+, sa creeze o camera de discutii video care sa fie vizibila tuturor membrilor unui grup. Practic, indiferent de distanta dintre ei, utilizatorii se pot vedea intr-un spatiu comun si pot... socializa. Suna banal, iar solutiile tehnice au existat si pana acum, dar Google a simplificat extrem de mult modul in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/la-mare-acces-gratuit-la-internet-in-eforie/ la-mare-acces-gratuit-la-internet-in-eforie Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:04:06 +0300 Cei care decid sa petreaca in aceasta vara la Eforie Nord pot naviga gratuit pe internet, 24 ore din 24, in parc, informeaza telegrafonline.ro. De asemenea, turistii au acces si la o zona de fitness in aer liber.Accesul gratuit la reteaua wireless se poate face in Parcul Teatrului de Vara din Eforie Nord. Autoritatea locala a amenajat aici banci si mese de lucru, pentru a asigura confortul celor care doresc sa navigheze pe internet. Tot in Parcul Teatrului de Vara din Eforie Nord a fost creata si o zona de fitness in aer liber, cu aparate la care au acces atat locuitorii, cat si turistii dornici de miscare.Vezi aici o harta cu ajutorul careia poti gasi Parcul Teatrului de Vara din Eforie Nord. Vezi de asemenea statiunea Eforie Nord cu ajutorul Google Maps. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/primul-supersonic-romanesc-e-mai-aproape-de-realitate-structura-cabinei-este-definitivata/ primul-supersonic-romanesc-e-mai-aproape-de-realitate-structura-cabinei-este-definitivata Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:04:06 +0300 Structura cabinei avionului IAR-111 Excelsior care vrea sa devina primul supersonic romanesc a fost definitivata si in curand va fi testata, a anuntat Asociatia Romana pentru Cosmonautica si Aeronautica - ARCA. Planul este ca intaiul zbor supersonic sa fie facut la sfarsit de 2012, cu decolare si aterizare pe suprafata Marii Negre. ARCA spera ca pana in 2015 va putea trimite un robot pe suprafata Lunii, ca parte a concursului Google Lunar X Prize la care participa 20 de organizatii, printre care si ARCA.Cabina avionului este realizata din materiale compozite, are o greutate de peste 500 kg, complet echipata pentru zbor si primeste un echipaj de doua persoane (pilot si navigator) dispusi in tandem, arata un comunicat al ARCA.Pilotul, asezat pe locul din fata cabinei, va dispune de o consola centrala care va cuprinde echipamentele de navigatie analogice si GPS, un ecran panoramic pentru sistemul HDTV pentru asistarea decolarii si aterizarii, iar echipamentul de radiocomunicatii va fi dispus pe partile laterale. Postul de pilotaj va fi echipat cu comenzi necesare pilotarii aeronavei.Navigatorul, asezat in spatele pilotului, va dispune pe consola centrala de un sistem integrat de monitorizare a parametrilor de functionare a avionului, sistem de comunicatii radio, sistem de navigatie GPS, un sistem SDTV de monitorizare a aeronavei si un ecran pentru radar pasiv.Cabina este ejectabila in caz de necesitate si este dotata cu doua parasute actionate cu motor racheta. ARCA va efectua in curand Misiunea 6, de testare la zbor a cabinei avionului IAR-111."Realizarea structurii cabinei avionului I.A.R.-111 Excelsior este un moment important pentru ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/videochat-pe-facebook-reteaua-de-socializare-a-introdus-servicii-video-in-parteneriat-cu-skype/ videochat-pe-facebook-reteaua-de-socializare-a-introdus-servicii-video-in-parteneriat-cu-skype Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:01:33 +0300 Facebook a introdus servicii de video chat pe paginile sale în parteneriat cu Skype, pentru a consolida poziţia celei mai mari reţele de socializare din lume, ameninţată de eforturile Google pe această nişă, transmite Reuters. Acordul între Facebook şi Skype a fost anunţat de directorul general al reţelei de socializare, Mark Zuckerberg, şi întăreşte cooperarea dintre Facebook şi Microsoft, care a cumpărat Skype în luna mai pentru 8,5 miliarde de dolari. Zuckerberg a declarat că Facebook a ajuns la 750 milioane de utilizatori. Introducerea serviciilor de video chat pe Facebook, disponibile încă de miercuri, s-ar putea dovedi un mare succes pentru Skype, care are în prezent circa 145 milioane de utilizatori activi. Piaţa advertisingului pe internet dominată autoritar până acum de Google a devenit tot mai aglomerată, cu un număr mare de concurenţi noi, precum Facebook, Groupon sau Twitter încercând să pună mâna pe cât mai multe miliarde de dolari. Serviciul de video chat de pe Facebook va fi iniţial limitat la conversaţii unu la unu. Vlad Popescu, vlad.popescu@mediafax.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-readies-a-blitz-of-new-products/ facebook-readies-a-blitz-of-new-products Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:30:35 +0300 Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- Elmer Fudd has "Wabbit Season," and Mark Zuckerberg has just kicked off "Launching Season." Facebook is readying a slew of new products to debut soon, said Zuckerberg, the company's CEO, at a news conference here on Wednesday. Programmers have been toiling away this year on several major projects in anticipation of this acceleration period. "We've been busy building stuff for the past six months or so, and today marks the beginning of what we'll call Launching Season 2011," Zuckerberg said. "Over the next coming weeks and months, we just have a lot of fun stuff to roll out." The starting gun for this stage of frequent product updates sounded at Wednesday's event, which served as a launch pad for new messaging tools. People will be able to make video calls on Facebook's site, thanks to a partnership with Skype, and create impromptu chat rooms. To keep the new features rolling in anticipation of a launching season, Facebook sets tight deadlines on development teams. Facebook software engineers often find themselves working nights and weekends during these periods. They aren't directly asked to work after-hours, Facebook spokeswoman Meredith Chin wrote in an e-mail. "But people do work to get things out the door as fast as possible," she wrote. Last fall was very busy for Facebook. The company convened reporters for three news conferences during a four-week span in October and November. The release cycle began ramping up in August last year, for the f8 developers conference. Facebook plans to hold another one this year, though it hasn't set ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fsb-doreste-acces-la-comunicatiile-efectuate-in-retelele-de-telefonie-mobila-din-rusia/ fsb-doreste-acces-la-comunicatiile-efectuate-in-retelele-de-telefonie-mobila-din-rusia Thu, 7 Jul 2011 17:31:11 +0300 Şeful Serviciului federal de securitate din Rusia (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, a cerut joi tuturor operatorilor de telefonie mobilă din Rusia să furnizeze codurile care ar permite supravegherea comunicaţiilor reţelelor telefonice, informează AFP. "Toate serviciile de informaţii trebuie să aibă acces la codurile operatorilor de telefonie mobilă pentru a putea supraveghea eventualele activităţi ilegale", anunţă Bortnikov. "Toţi operatorii de telefonie străini de pe teritoriul nostru trebuie să se supună acestei reguli", adaugă el. Directorul FSB nu a precizat dacă operatorii străini au fost deja supuşi unei astfel de obligaţii şi nici dacă măsura vizează şi serviciul de roaming în Rusia. Aleksandr Bortnikov a explicat că serviciile sale "colaborează" cu Google şi Skype pentru a "rezolva probleme specifice" despre comunicaţiile prin Internet. Şeful Centrului pentru securitatea informaţiilor din cadrul FSB, Aleksandre Andreeşkin, afirma în aprilie că serviciile Gmail şi Skype reprezintă "ameninţări de amploare" la adresa siguranţei naţionale. Mihai Draghici, mihai.draghici@mediafax.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/5-ways-google-could-steal-music-fans-from-facebook/ 5-ways-google-could-steal-music-fans-from-facebook Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:00:34 +0300 (WIRED) -- Google's social network, Google+, is late. Facebook has a big lead, having ousted MySpace, which in turn deposed Friendster, the site that started us all on this path towards recreating our social fabric as a network of connected personal nodes. Facebook is an excellent tool for sharing music -- usually in the form of Google's YouTube videos -- but even the developer of the top music app on Facebook says it doesn't do enough, musicwise. And when we canvassed the top 20 Facebook music apps, we were shocked by what we found. The list of the most popular music apps on this, the most popular social network, included werevertumorro and Shane Dawson TV, which aren't even music apps; they merely alert fans when one of those videobloggers throws up another video on YouTube. Google+ may have a tough time making a dent in the popularity of Facebook. But on at least on the music front it can make a lot of inroads, fast. Fact is that music apps on Facebook are lacking -- and this is a real opportunity for a quick win. Evolver.fm contacted Google to try to talk about its music strategy for Google+, mentioning Facebook's apparent shortcomings in that area. A spokeswoman declined to comment -- in part, she said, because Music Beta by Google is still in, well, beta. But even without discussing it with Google directly, we can spot five ways in which Google could become "besties" with music enthusiasts to Facebook's detriment. 1. Easy sharing YouTube music videos, which make up many ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/when-it-comes-to-presentation-mark-zuckerberg-is-no-steve-jobs/ when-it-comes-to-presentation-mark-zuckerberg-is-no-steve-jobs Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:30:47 +0300 (CNN) -- Don't let the sweatshirts and flip-flops fool you: The tech world is all about image. And there's no better place to see this than the tech-company press conference -- in which execs show off new products with elaborate PowerPoint presentations. The most recent example: Wednesday's awkward Facebook event, hosted by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Here's a smattering of comments about Zuckerberg's presentation, in which he announced a new video-conferencing feature. These popped up on Facebook, during the event in Palo Alto, California: -- "omg! I'll just read about it later. This is like water torture." -- "Im gona play solitaire if he doesn't get on with it" -- "Someone needs to bump him to get him to stop saying UM" -- "After this, I need an UM detox program.." At one point, Zuckerberg -- forever the geek -- pulled up a chart about Facebook's projected growth, which he introduced as a "log-normalized graph." The Internet's collective eyes rolled back. "Logarithmic graphs? Jesus Christ." So what went wrong? Essentially, Zuckerberg seems to have tried -- and failed -- to imitate the undisputed king of the tech presser: Apple's Steve Jobs, who is known for leaving even the most skeptical of tech bloggers in a "hypnotic daze" after he finishes a talk. "Zuckerberg at times appeared to be attempting to channel Steve Jobs in his presentation style," wrote Beatweek Magazine. "But too often he lost sight of the fact that most of his online audience members were from the non-geek general public." "Steve Jobs builds his presentations around our innermost needs and desires," one Twitter user wrote. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/things-we-do-when-a-bad-mood-hits/ things-we-do-when-a-bad-mood-hits Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:30:50 +0300 (RealSimple.com) -- Readers share the tips and tricks that get them out of an emotional slump. For years I wanted to learn to play the drums, so it was quite a thrill when my husband bought me a set two years ago for my birthday. Since then, I've discovered that banging out a favorite tune, such as the Beatles' "You Can't Do That," improves my mood in a matter of minutes. --Karen Worth, San Antonio, Texas I head to the gym, put on my gloves, and pound on the punching bag. As I strike it, I think about what's bothering me and come up with a solution. The bag weighs 175 pounds, so hitting it requires a great deal of strength and exertion. It feels great to work out my problems and my body at the same time. --Heidi Henriksen, Minneapolis, Minnesota RealSimple.com: 3 quick ways to relieve stress When I get down in the dumps, I set a timer for 20 minutes and vent -- to a friend, to the dashboard of the car, even to the seagulls at the beach. That's all it takes: Once the timer goes off, I've figured out why I am feeling low and have regained control of my emotions. --Leigh Reposa, Narragansett, Rhode Island About 10 years ago, I was having a typically awful day: I had overslept, got caught in traffic, made mistakes at work. In the midst of it all, a friend sent me an e-mail calling for donations for autism research. I logged on to her website, contributed, and immediately felt ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-helps-tech-savvy-mideastern-women-experience-silicon-valley/ us-helps-tech-savvy-mideastern-women-experience-silicon-valley Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:00:49 +0300 Washington (CNN) -- Reem El-Mograby, a 24-year-old software engineer from Egypt, picked a tough time to apply for the U.S. State Department's TechWomen program. Egypt's "Arab Spring" revolution had just begun, and the Internet was shut down. "Our deadline was in two days, so I couldn't complete the application. When it came back on again, I opened my e-mails and found that the deadline was extended for two weeks so we had the time to submit the application. This made me feel that applying to the program was meant to be!" she explained. For the past month, thanks to the TechWomen program, El-Mograby -- a Palestinian refugee who was born in Egypt and grew up in Libya -- has been working at ZaReason, Inc., a company in California's Silicon Valley. "I'm a software person and I was matched with a hardware company, so it was a challenge at first," she said. "But it was such a valuable experience. I got to see how you could become an entrepreneur because my mentor... had a family, she had a work-life balance. And that's what we want back home, the balance between your family and work. We have very strong families in the Middle East and you spend a lot of time at work, especially when launching a product." The experience, El-Mograby said, gave her more self-confidence and helped her to believe in herself. Her dream now: "To create a community for refugee women in technology to network." This is the first group of young women -- 37 of them ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-nu-vrea-razboi-cu-facebook-este-loc-pe-piata-pentru-mai-multe-retele-sociale/ google-nu-vrea-razboi-cu-facebook-este-loc-pe-piata-pentru-mai-multe-retele-sociale Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:01:21 +0300 Preşedintele executiv al Google, Eric Schmidt a declarat că este loc pe piaţă pentru mai multe reţele sociale, lăsând o portiţă pentru cooperarea cu rivali puternici precum Facebook şi Twitter, transmite Reuters. El a afirmat totodată că Google va coopera în totalitate cu autorităţile americane pentru concurenţă, dar nu va permite investigaţiei lansate luna trecută să reprezinte un obstacol pentru implementarea strategiei companiei. Schmidt a cedat în aprilie scaunul de director general în favoarea cofondatorului Google Larry Page şi se ocupă acum de afacerile companiei cu statul. Schmidt a arătat, într-o conferinţă susţinută joi seară în SUA, că este prea devreme să aprecieze performanţele noii reţele sociale Google Plus, însă un indicator important al succesului acesteia este numărul uriaş de utilizatori care s-au înghesuit să ia parte la testarea produsului. Google Plus s-a lansat săptămâna trecută însă este închisă pentru moment publicului larg, fiind disponibilă în regim de testare numai utilizatorilor care reuşesc să obţină o invitaţie. Unul dintre cele mai populare servicii ale Google Plus este cel de video chat, în special în rândul utilizatorilor tineri, a spus Schmidt. El a adăugat că ar dori "o mai bună integrare cu Twitter şi Facebook", făcând referire la serviciile similare oferite de Plus la concurenţă cu cei doi jucători deja consacraţi. Acordul pe căutări online dintre Google şi Twitter a expirat, iar Schmidt a afirmat că cele două companii nu au reuşit să ajungă la o nouă înţelegere, în pofida negocierilor îndelungate. Totodată, Schmidt a arătat că Google a încercat să convingă Facebook să permită utilizatorilor Plus să importe lista de prieteni de pe reţeaua mai veche, însă discuţiile nu au avut rezultat. Preşedintele Google a declarat însă că, în viziunea sa, utilizatorii pot avea multiple identităţi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/5-things-the-skype-deal-teaches-us-about-facebook/ 5-things-the-skype-deal-teaches-us-about-facebook Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:00:27 +0300 Editor's Note: Adam Ostrow is editor-in-chief of tech news site Mashable. (CNN) -- At one point during Facebook's "something awesome" event on Wednesday, more than 60,000 people were simultaneously tuned online to an unassuming meeting room at the company's headquarters to watch Mark Zuckerberg and cohorts unveil a slew of new features for the social-networking site. While that might not be quite on the level of a Steve Jobs keynote, it's impressive given the relative regularity of Facebook product launches and the lack of suspense surrounding the day's announcements (we've known Skype video chat was coming for nearly a week). The ever-growing ubiquity of Facebook was certainly a focal point of Zuckerberg's remarks. He confirmed the company now has more than 750 million active users and shared a personal anecdote about an elderly neighbor conversing with him on Wednesday morning about the event and his desire for video chat. Certainly, a sense that Facebook has "won" the social network battle seemed to permeate, with Zuckerberg saying that the era of connecting people -- forming the underlying social graph that makes Facebook work -- "is more or less done at this point." It's with that backdrop that we learned -- or at least confirmed -- several things about Facebook and where it currently sees itself in the technology world. Facebook is designing for the masses While no small technical feat, Facebook's video calling features aren't remarkably innovative. In fact, the first question Zuckerberg faced in the Q&A was about this week's hottest feature within the early-adopter set -- the "Hangouts" option ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/podcast-video-chat-goes-social-twitter-talks-to-the-president/ podcast-video-chat-goes-social-twitter-talks-to-the-president Fri, 8 Jul 2011 20:00:50 +0300 (CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, CNN Tech's Brandon Griggs, John D. Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg talk about the pluses and minuses of social video chat. Two social networks -- Facebook and the new Google+ -- began offering live video chat features recently. We compare the vastly different approaches these companies take -- and talk about whether anyone even wants to video chat on Facebook anyway. Also in this week's podcast, the CNN Tech gang analyzes Barack Obama's first-ever "Twitter Town Hall," in which the president took questions not from a galley of reporters but from you -- the people of the Internet. We peek inside Twitter's process for choosing which questions to ask the president. Our reader Comments of the Week come from a story on the "Dora Generation" -- i.e., kids under the age of 13 -- taking over Facebook. Some of you aren't super pleased to see these kiddies infiltrating that social network. And, finally, our Tech Fail of the Week is brought to you by none other than Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, whose awkward press conference on Wednesday -- in which he showed off "log-normalized" graphs and stumbled on filler words -- briefly was the mockery of the, um, Internet. Um. To listen, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can find the Tech Check RSS feed here or subscribe on iTunes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/phone-hacking-can-extend-beyond-voice-mail/ phone-hacking-can-extend-beyond-voice-mail Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:00:24 +0300 (CNN) -- While the phone hacking by British tabloid News of the World was unexceptional by technical standards, security experts say the scandal portends how the growth of smartphones will lead to more sophisticated breaches. The tactics that tabloid reporters used to eavesdrop on high-profile British targets -- and eventually led News Corp. to announce Thursday it is killing the 167-year-old publication -- were remarkably low tech. Former News of the World staffers say that reporters employed tricks to access voice-mail inboxes and procure a great deal of information from British celebrities and the royal family. Experts say that to obtain the PIN codes needed to access those accounts, the reporters used an illegal method known as pretexting. This tactic involves calling, say, a customer-service representative for a cell-phone operator and impersonating someone to get details about that person's account. In many places, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, such practices are now prohibited. Pretexting used to be a vital tool for freelance investigators, said Frank Ahearn, a former detective who does consulting on how to avoid detection, in an interview with CNN last year. "I could still do it, but I just don't, because it's illegal now," he said. News of the World appears to have exploited a mechanism in mobile-phone carriers' systems that allows people to access voice-mail messages remotely, from any phone, experts say. The episodes followed an even more primitive breach in the 1990s when the Sun, another British tabloid, published recordings of royal family members' phone conversations. Among the revelations: James Gilbey, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/youtube-testeaza-o-noua-interfata-a-site-ului-numita-cosmic-panda/ youtube-testeaza-o-noua-interfata-a-site-ului-numita-cosmic-panda Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:03:16 +0300 YouTube a lansat spre testare o noua interfata numita Cosmic Panda care vine cu un numar mare de schimbari, de la modul in care clipurile pot fi vizionate pana la modalitati in care canalele pot fi personalizate. Sunt cele mai mari schimbari pe care YouTube le propune aspectului site-ului in ultimii sase ani, insa cei care nu doresc sa incerce Cosmic Panda pot ramane la aspectul traditional cu care s-au obisnuit.Google spune ca prin Cosmic Panda aduce un aspect mai modern al YouTube, cu mai multe functionalitati si mai multe posibilitati de a personaliza channel-urile. O mare diferenta tine de faptul ca video-urile sunt redate pe un background negru, nu pe albul bine-cunoscut, iar in pagina este mai putin text, in incercarea de a face navigarea mai simpla.Cateva functii sunt valabile doar pentru utilizatorii de Chrome, dar marea majoritate sunt disponibile in orice browser. Pentru a testa Cosmic Panda puteti intra aici. Cei de la YouTube spun ca e un experiment la care asteapta reactii (exista si un buton special pentru Feedback) si la care fac modificari continuu. Cei care au testat un timp Cosmic Panda, insa vor sa se intoarca la aspectul cu care s-au obiosnuit, pot face asta fara probleme. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-profitul-petrom-va-creste-cu-peste-50-pana-in-2012-la-un-nivel-record-de-800-de-milioane-de-euro-obiectiv-microsoft-500-de-angajati-in-romania-in-urmatorii-doi-ani-cu-ce-vine-google-sa-te-ia-de-pe-facebook-de-ce-valoreaza-twitter-7/ business-report-profitul-petrom-va-creste-cu-peste-50-pana-in-2012-la-un-nivel-record-de-800-de-milioane-de-euro-obiectiv-microsoft-500-de-angajati-in-romania-in-urmatorii-doi-ani-cu-ce-vine-google-sa-te-ia-de-pe-facebook-de-ce-valoreaza-twitter-7 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:03:47 +0300 Cheful de balaceala al romanilor, o afacere de 125 de milioane de euro. Investitorii mizeaza pe romanii care vor sa isi petreaca zilele libere aproape de casa si construiesc aqua parkuri. Suma totala a proiectelor este de patru ori mai mare decat cea investita pana acum in parcurile existente. Cel mai scump parc acvatic se va construi in Bucuresti, in urma unei investitii de 25 de milioane de euro. Banii provin dintr-un credit bancar (14 milioane de euro), respectiv un credit de constructii. Aqua Park Blue Ciel, dezvoltat de Bleu Ciel in parteneriat cu Primaria Capitalei, prin Administratia Lacuri, Parcuri si Agrement, va fi construit in zona Tineretului, pe o suprafata de 5,3 hectare din care 1,7 hectare reprezinta spatiu verde, scrie Capital.Renaissance Capital: Profitul Petrom va creste cu peste 50% pana in 2012, la un nivel record de 800 milioane de euro. Analistii bancii ruse de investitii Renaissance Capital, care orchestreaza vanzarea a 9,84% din Petrom pe bursa incepand de luni, se asteapta ca in 2012, castigul Petrom sa explodeze pana la cote - record de peste 800 mil. euro, respectiv 3,42 mld. lei. Anul trecut, OMV Petrom a realizat un profit net de 520 mil. Euro, cel mai mare din istoria sa de 14 ani. Potrivit analizei Renaissance, profitul Petrom ar urma sa creasca in acest an cu 38%, urmand ca in 2012 sa mai pluseze cu inca 13%. Anii 2013-2014 ar urma sa aduca o scadere pana la 2,7 miliarde de lei, in timp ce o revenire este vazuta ca fiind posibila ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/noul-drog-al-secolului-21-pornografia-pe-internet/ noul-drog-al-secolului-21-pornografia-pe-internet Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:04:07 +0300 Miza este uriasa. Industria pornografiei pe internet inregistreaza venituri mai mari decat Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple si Netflix la un loc. In anul 2006, incasarile provenite din utilizarea pornografiei pe internet au ajuns pana la 97 miliarde de dolari. Sexul pe internet (cybersex) este la fel de adictiv precum cocaina si poate produce disfunctii erectile. Dependentii de pornografie pe internet par sa se recupereze mai greu decat consumatorii de droguri. Se estimeaza ca exista aproape doua milioane de persoane dependente de sex pe internet. Sunt aceste persoane constiente de faptul ca sufera de o boala? Ce sanse au sa se vindece? Despre noul drog al secolului, pornografia pe Internet, puteti citi pe MedLive.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-vor-fi-lovite-bancile-de-dezastrul-de-la-bac-2011-cum-pierd-bani-copos-si-tiriac-din-generatia-low-cost/ cum-vor-fi-lovite-bancile-de-dezastrul-de-la-bac-2011-cum-pierd-bani-copos-si-tiriac-din-generatia-low-cost Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:01:44 +0300 De ce îţi trebuie BAC-ul? Banii poţi să-i faci şi dacă ai 4 sau 12 clase! O parte dintre miliardarii lumii nu se disting prin şcolile făcute şi toată lumea scrie despre ei, sunt în prim-plan oriunde ar merge. Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Invar Kamprad (Ikea), Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim - cel mai bogat om din lume la ora actuală, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Ion Ţiriac, Ilie Năstase, Adrian Mutu, Gigi Becali sau Silviu Prigoană (aici comparaţia este forţată, dar scriem despre ei). În acest grup, Dinu Patriciu, cu arhitectura la bază şi chiar profesor, a luat "BAC-ul" miliardarilor. Am citit acum 3 luni un articol în revista Bloomberg Business Week despre un miliardar american care a câştigat imens investind la început în Google, Facebook, Twitter şi în alte reţele şi acum le dă "burse" studenţilor pentru a se lăsa de şcoală şi a lucra la afacerile lor. El susţine că şcoala reduce din spriritul antreprenorial, îl sugrumă şi astfel nu apar idei şi produse noi, revoluţionare şi companii care să schimbe lumea, cum au fost cele puse pe piaţă de Bill Gates (Microsoft) sau Mark Zuckerberg( Facebook). Ca să vinzi şi să faci bani din terenuri, oi, fotbalişti, maşini, calculatoare, pagini din Facebook, gunoaie, din cântări, din crâşmă şi restaurante (că tot a zis preşedintele Băsescu că ţara are nevoie de ospătari) nu-ţi trebuie şcoală. Ca să iei terenul cu 10 euro/mp şi să-l dai peste 10 ani cu 800 de euro ai nevoie numai de banii de început, putere de a aştepta şi noroc. Ca să ai terenul în zona potrivită. Ca să mergi în Germania să iei o maşină cu ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/48-de-ore-pe-hotnewsro-exclusiv-romania-renegociaza-conventia-semnata-cu-rusia-in-1996-examenul-de-bacalaureat-2011-si-din-anii-3990-marile-diferente-de-mentalitate-si-sistem-confiscarea-confiscarii-petrom-sustine-ca-a-descoperit-in-sud-vestul-r/ 48-de-ore-pe-hotnewsro-exclusiv-romania-renegociaza-conventia-semnata-cu-rusia-in-1996-examenul-de-bacalaureat-2011-si-din-anii-3990-marile-diferente-de-mentalitate-si-sistem-confiscarea-confiscarii-petrom-sustine-ca-a-descoperit-in-sud-vestul-r Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:02:32 +0300 Exclusiv Romania renegociaza conventia semnata cu Rusia in 1996. Vezi cum ar putea ajunge Romania sa importe de 4 ori mai mult gaz rusesc Romania se afla in plin proces de renegociere a Conventiei semnata la Moscova in 1996 cu Federatia Rusa, potrivit unei informatii transmise de Ministerul Economiei la solicitarea HotNews.ro. Aceasta conventie este foarte importanta in conditiile in care face referire la atat la cantitatile de gaze rusesti livrate in Romania, cat si la tranzitul in tari terte. O modificare esentiala a conventiei va fi introducerea dreptului de a revinde in alte state gazele livrate de Rusia pentru consumatorii romani.Examenul de Bacalaureat 2011 si din anii '90 . Marile diferente de mentalitate si sistem Pana in 2000, media obtinuta de un elev la Bacalaureat era aproape aceeasi cu cea pe care acelasi elev o obtinea in anii II si III la facultate. Din 2004, "BAC-ul si-a pierdut valoarea predictiva", a declarat pentru HotNews.ro Mircea Miclea, psiholog si fost ministru al Educatiei. Acesta a explicat care sunt marile diferente dintre examenele sustinute de elevi in urma cu 20 de ani si Bacalaureatul cu promovabilitate de 44,47%: de la lucrarile sustinute de profesori la clasa si pana la decizia de a urma cursurile unei universitati straine.VIDEO ​​Google+ versus Facebook. Cum schimba Google Hangouts peisajul retelelor sociale si ce rol au Hulu si Skype in duelul gigantilorRetelele de socializare au devenit in ultimii ani cheia de bolta a internetului. De la corporatii la guverne, de la start-up-uri la giganti care valoreaza miliarde de dolari, toata lumea ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/this-week39s-tech-check-podcast/ this-week39s-tech-check-podcast Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:30:31 +0300 (CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, CNN Tech's Brandon Griggs, John D. Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg talk about the pluses and minuses of social video chat. Two social networks -- Facebook and the new Google+ -- began offering live video chat features recently. We compare the vastly different approaches these companies take -- and talk about whether anyone even wants to video chat on Facebook anyway. Also in this week's podcast, the CNN Tech gang analyzes Barack Obama's first-ever "Twitter Town Hall," in which the president took questions not from a galley of reporters but from you -- the people of the Internet. We peek inside Twitter's process for choosing which questions to ask the president. Our reader Comments of the Week come from a story on the "Dora Generation" -- i.e., kids under the age of 13 -- taking over Facebook. Some of you aren't super pleased to see these kiddies infiltrating that social network. And, finally, our Tech Fail of the Week is brought to you by none other than Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, whose awkward press conference on Wednesday -- in which he showed off "log-normalized" graphs and stumbled on filler words -- briefly was the mockery of the, um, Internet. Um. To listen, click on the audio box to the left. To subscribe, you can find the Tech Check RSS feed here or subscribe on iTunes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rumor-apple-working-on-39ipad-hd39/ rumor-apple-working-on-39ipad-hd39 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:30:32 +0300 (CNN) -- Tech blogs are never short on Apple rumors. Here's the latest: The company reportedly is working on a new iPad, due out later this year, that will have a higher-resolution screen. Dubbed the "iPad HD" by a blog called This Is My Next, which is run by former editors from the respected tech site Engadget, the new iPad is said to be a "pro" device that could be used for high-end video editing and photography. "Think MacBook and MacBook Pro," writes Joshua Topolsky, referring to Apple's lines of laptops. The iPad HD, which would have a screen with twice the resolution of the current model, will be introduced in September alongside new software that will cater do these higher-end applications, the blog says, citing unnamed sources. Ars Technica, another tech site, says the rumor makes sense given the fact that Apple has been releasing high-resolution versions of tablet content. "Apple started including pixel-doubled artwork in versions of iBooks for iPad some time ago. It recently added yet more 2048 x 1536 pixel artwork in iOS 5 betas for newer features like Twitter and Newsstand. So it seems a pretty safe bet that a future iPad will definitely use this resolution," that site writes. But Ars Technica doubts Apple would start a second, high-end line of tablet computers. The high-resolution screen could boost the price of the Apple's popular tablet computer, which is the best-selling on the market, says the Time blog Techland. Full disclosure: Time shares a parent company with CNN. "The screen itself would be so expensive that it'd be ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/are-google-music-and-amazon39s-cloud-player-illegal/ are-google-music-and-amazon39s-cloud-player-illegal Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:00:45 +0300 (Ars Technica) -- Amazon.com made waves in March when it announced Cloud Player, a new "cloud music" service that allows users to upload their music collections for personal use. It did so without a license agreement, and the major music labels were not amused. Sony Music said it was keeping its "legal options open" as it pressured Amazon to pay up. In the following weeks, two more companies announced music services of their own. Google, which has long had a frosty relationship with the labels, followed Amazon's lead; Google Music Beta was announced without the Big Four on board (read our first impressions). But Apple has been negotiating licenses so it can operate iCloud with the labels' blessing. The different strategies pursued by these firms presents a puzzle. Either Apple wasted millions of dollars on licenses it doesn't need, or Amazon and Google are vulnerable to massive copyright lawsuits. All three are sophisticated firms that employ a small army of lawyers, so it's a bit surprising that they reached such divergent assessments of what the law requires. So how did it happen? And who's right? A lost decade It was a service ahead of its time. Slip a CD into your computer, and the music on it would instantly be added to your online locker. From there, it could be streamed to any Internet-connected computer. Several services do this today, but MP3.com was launched more than a decade ago. The site was a 1990s dot-com star, flush with cash from its $340 million IPO. The recording industry sued, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-experiencing-some-growing-pains/ google-experiencing-some-growing-pains Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:30:30 +0300 (CNN) -- Since its debut in late June, Google+ has captured much of the tech world's online conversation. The chatter is generally positive, with tech bloggers cheering Google's new social network as a cleaner and more robust alternative to Facebook. But there have been some bumps on the road. Over the weekend, Google admitted to inadvertently "spamming" some Google+ users with notification e-mails -- the messages the company sends out if another user adds you to their "circles" of contacts on the site or comments on one of your posts. Instead of sending those notes out only once, as intended, Google+ sent them "over and over again," writes Google's Vic Gundotra in a post on his Google+ page. "Thank you for helping us during this field trial, and once again, we are very sorry for the spam," the Google vice president wrote Saturday. Most Google+ users seemed quick to forgive the slip-up. "No worries Vic. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to more improvements!" one user wrote in a reply to the apology. "It's alright, man! :D You rocks!" said another. Gundotra chalked the spam up to growing pains. "For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications. Hence our system continued to try sending notifications. Over, and over again. Yikes," he wrote. "We didn't expect to hit these high thresholds so quickly, but we should have." It's unclear exactly how many people have joined Google+, and the service undoubtedly has far, far fewer users than Facebook, which leads the field with 750 million users. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-experiences-some-growing-pains/ google-experiences-some-growing-pains Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:30:32 +0300 (CNN) -- Since its debut in late June, Google+ has captured much of the tech world's online conversation. The chatter is generally positive, with tech bloggers cheering Google's new social network as a cleaner and more robust alternative to Facebook. But there have been some bumps on the road. Over the weekend, Google admitted to inadvertently "spamming" some Google+ users with notification e-mails -- the messages the company sends out if another user adds you to their "circles" of contacts on the site or comments on one of your posts. Instead of sending those notes out only once, as intended, Google+ sent them "over and over again," writes Google's Vic Gundotra in a post on his Google+ page. "Thank you for helping us during this field trial, and once again, we are very sorry for the spam," the Google vice president wrote Saturday. Most Google+ users seemed quick to forgive the slip-up. "No worries Vic. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to more improvements!" one user wrote in a reply to the apology. "It's alright, man! :D You rocks!" said another. Gundotra chalked the spam up to growing pains. "For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications. Hence our system continued to try sending notifications. Over, and over again. Yikes," he wrote. "We didn't expect to hit these high thresholds so quickly, but we should have." It's unclear exactly how many people have joined Google+, and the service undoubtedly has far, far fewer users than Facebook, which leads the field with 750 million users. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-reportinterviu-anca-boagiu-in-2015-vom-avea-845-km-de-autostrada-cu-ce-s-a-ales-statul-din-afacerea-petrom-cati-utilizatorii-are-google-in-acest-moment-economia-chinei-a-inceput-sa-gafaie/ business-reportinterviu-anca-boagiu-in-2015-vom-avea-845-km-de-autostrada-cu-ce-s-a-ales-statul-din-afacerea-petrom-cati-utilizatorii-are-google-in-acest-moment-economia-chinei-a-inceput-sa-gafaie Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:32:02 +0300 Anca Boagiu: "In 2015, vom avea 845 km de autostrada". Dublarea sau chiar triplarea numarului kilometrilor de autostrada le va aduce romanilor si o taxa. Deocamdata nu se stie care va fi valoarea taxei, dar ea va fi introdusa pe toate autostrazile. Interviu integral in Capital.  Cea mai mare amenda colectiva din istorie? 8 milioane de romani ar putea plati statului 1 mld. euro. V-ati asigurat locuinta? Daca nu, incepand de pe 15 iulie, pregatiti-va sa platiti intre 100 si 500 de lei amenda. Nu stiati ca expira termenul? Nu sunteti singurii. In conditiile in care statul nu s-a omorat cu promovarea Legii 260/2008, s-a ajuns in situatia ca primariile sa emita amenzi pentru 7,8 milioane de imobile. Doar 7,1% dintre locuintele din Romania detin o polita de asigurare obligatorie a locuintei, cu numai 4 zile inainte de expirarea termenului limita pana la care fiecare casa trebuie asigurata, scrie DailyBusiness.ro. 40 de ani de cand America a abandonat aurul. 40 de ani de dezordine financiara. Anul acesta, pe 15 august, se implinesc 40 de ani de cand SUA au renuntat unilateral la etalonul aur, adica la covertibilitate deplina a dolarului american in aur. S-a pus astfel capat sistemului instituit la Bretton Woods in 1945, cand dolarul american a devenit moneda de referinta si de rezerva a statelor lumii. Cursurile de schimb au fost fixate fata de dolar, si implicit fata de aur, marja de variatie fiind de 1%, scrie Money.ro.   Analiza SWOT pe oferta Petrom. De ce pariaza analistii straini pe un discount de 15-20% ca la OMV. Pretul la ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-marcheaza-450-de-ani-de-la-inaltarea-catedralei-sfantul-vasile-din-moscova-printr-un-logo-nou/ google-marcheaza-450-de-ani-de-la-inaltarea-catedralei-sfantul-vasile-din-moscova-printr-un-logo-nou Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:31:52 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, marţi, logoul de pe pagina sa principală, pentru a celebra 450 de ani de la construirea catedralei Sfântul Vasile, unul dintre simbolurile oraşului Moscova. În noul logo al Google este inserată o imagine a celebrei catedrale. Catedrala Sfântul Vasile, situată în centrul Moscovei, în Piaţa Roşie, este celebră pentru cupolele sale spectaculoase în formă de ceapă, pictate în culori puternice. Catedrala are nouă capele construite pe o singură fundaţie, fiind ridicată între anii 1555 - 1561, ca simbol al victoriei lui Ivan cel Groaznic asupra tătarilor din Hanatul Kazanului. Lăcaşul de cult ortodox reprezintă unul dintre principalele puncte de atracţie din capitala Rusiei. Catedrala marchează centrul geometric al oraşului. Până în anul 1600, catedrala Sfantul Vasile a fost cea mai înaltă clădire din Moscova, titulatura fiind preluată apoi de Turnul Clopotniţă al lui Ivan cel Mare. Google îşi modifică frecvent logoul pentru a marca evenimente importante ale istoriei universale sau pentru a celebra mari personalităţi. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-e-reader-to-go-on-sale-july-17/ google-e-reader-to-go-on-sale-july-17 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:00:46 +0300 (Ars Technica) -- Google has announced its plans to launch a Google eBooks-optimized e-reader on July 17. Called the iriver Story HD, the e-book reader is designed to give users easy access to the 3 million free titles Google holds in addition to a few hundred thousand paid titles, with a price and design that is very similar to Amazon's Kindle. The Story HD appears to be an evolution of iriver's Story e-reader from 2009, a model that was praised for its wide support of e-book formats. The Story HD has a similar design that includes a QWERTY keyboard, though this edition has plated gold accents on the keys and frame. A long, thin four-direction button centered above the keyboard appears to handle page turning, meaning the Story HD is a step behind the newest Nook's touchscreen page-turns for the same price. Google notes that in addition to reading e-books from local storage, users will be able to read books directly via the Story HD's WiFi connection without having to download the book to the device. The Google Books API is also open to all publishers, retailers, and manufacturers, so anyone can put their content on the store. Given that Google Books is one of the most widely accessible e-book platforms -- computers, Android and iOS devices as well as Nook and Sony readers can all access the e-book content -- we expect the hardware and user experience will have to deliver in order for the reader to make an impact on a market where other brands ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-army-may-soon-equip-troops-with-smartphones/ us-army-may-soon-equip-troops-with-smartphones Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:31:04 +0300 (CNN) -- For U.S. Army troops, smartphones could become requisite field gear, along with boots, guns and ammunition. The Army is wrapping up a six-week program to test the viability of using touchscreen phones and tablets in combat. The pilot program began on June 6 within the White Sands and Fort Bliss training areas in New Mexico and Texas. This dry run has proved so encouraging that Army officials say they expect the first wave of smartphone-equipped soldiers could be shipped overseas later this year. Certain members of brigades are already assigned tactical radios. The phones wouldn't replace radios, but they would be distributed more widely and would ideally operate in conjunction with older equipment, officials said. The infantry is using smartphones to text message updates about their surroundings, send pictures with an attached GPS location, pull up maps, and quickly fill out regular reports. "When they have a problem or need to submit a report, they default to the texting," said Michael McCarthy, an Army director for the program. "These young soldiers grew up with this technology. They're very familiar with it. They're very comfortable with it." Systems that tap a phone's camera and GPS to overlay information on an image of nearby surroundings, also called "augmented reality," is also in development, officials said. In the trials, troops have collectively evaluated more than 300 Android, iPhone and Windows Phone units, McCarthy said. They are also kicking the tires on tablets from Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, he said. Separately, another Army division is testing phones running a specialized version of Google's open-source Android ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-troops-may-soon-get-smartphones/ us-troops-may-soon-get-smartphones Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:00:10 +0300 (CNN) -- For U.S. Army troops, smartphones could become requisite field gear, along with boots, guns and ammunition. The Army is wrapping up a six-week program to test the viability of using touchscreen phones and tablets in combat. The pilot program began on June 6 within the White Sands and Fort Bliss training areas in New Mexico and Texas. This dry run has proved so encouraging that Army officials say they expect the first wave of smartphone-equipped soldiers could be shipped overseas later this year. Certain members of brigades are already assigned tactical radios. The phones wouldn't replace radios, but they would be distributed more widely and would ideally operate in conjunction with older equipment, officials said. The infantry is using smartphones to text message updates about their surroundings, send pictures with an attached GPS location, pull up maps, and quickly fill out regular reports. "When they have a problem or need to submit a report, they default to the texting," said Michael McCarthy, an Army director for the program. "These young soldiers grew up with this technology. They're very familiar with it. They're very comfortable with it." Systems that tap a phone's camera and GPS to overlay information on an image of nearby surroundings, also called "augmented reality," is also in development, officials said. In the trials, troops have collectively evaluated more than 300 Android, iPhone and Windows Phone units, McCarthy said. They are also kicking the tires on tablets from Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, he said. Separately, another Army division is testing phones running a specialized version of Google's open-source Android ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/curtea-europeana-de-justitie-cazul-l39oreal-vs-ebay/ curtea-europeana-de-justitie-cazul-l39oreal-vs-ebay Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:31:57 +0300 Astazi Curtea Europeana de Justitie (CEJ) s-a pronuntat in cazul L'Oreal vs Ebay (C-324/09), o speta ce pune din nou in discutiei rolul intermediarului in activitatile online - si anume ar putea fi responsabil eBay pentru anunturile puse de terti ce incalca drepturile unor marci? Dar daca le ajuta sa le promoveze?Cu siguranta ca intreaba argumentatia merita o reflectie mai detaliata, insa la prima vedere nu pot sa nu remarc reluarea argumentatiei CEJ din cazul Google Adwords care detalia importanta functiei neutre a intermediarului “întrucât comportamentul său este pur tehnic, automat și pasiv, presupunând lipsa cunoașterii sau a controlului datelor pe care le stochează.”. De data aceasta instanta interpreteaza art 14 alin 1 al Directivei privind comertul electronic “în sensul că se aplică operatorului unei piețe online în cazul în care acesta nu a jucat un rol activ care să îi fi permis să aibă o cunoaștere sau un control al datelor stocate.Operatorul menționat joacă un astfel de rol atunci când acordă asistență constând în special în optimizarea prezentării ofertelor de vânzare în cauză sau în promovarea acestora.”Mai mult chiar daca rolul sau nu este activ “operatorul amintit nu se poate prevala totuși de exonerarea de răspundere prevăzută de această dispoziție în cazul în care a avut cunoștință de fapte sau de împrejurări pe baza cărora un operator economic diligent ar fi trebuit să remarce nelegalitatea ofertelor de vânzare în cauză și, în ipoteza unei astfel de cunoștințe, nu a acționat prompt în conformitate cu alineatul (1) litera (b) al articolului 14 menționat.”Cu toate ca ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-offers-chance-for-a-social-reboot/ google-offers-chance-for-a-social-reboot Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:00:34 +0300 (CNN) -- Almost immediately after Google launched its new, not-Facebook social network in late June, a hilarious and much-shared comic strip about the service popped up online. "You should I join Google+!" one stick figure urges another. "What is it?" "Not Facebook!" "What's it like?" "Facebook!" "Oh, what the hell. I guess that's all I really wanted." The comic strip, posted by Randall Munroe on xkcd.com, struck a nerve with an audience in social media overload. If nothing else, many early Google+ users figured, this new social network would give them a chance to start over -- to build a new online network without all the distant ex-classmates, boring business associates, and kooky cousins that have made Facebook, like MySpace and Friendster before it, more of a carnival than a comfy living room. "Much as I've tried to tame my network, it feels more like a hydra or the carnivorous plant from 'Little Shop of Horrors' than the calm and orderly information drag net that I thought I was weaving," wrote Alexis Madrigal, an editor at The Atlantic, in a post titled "Google+: In praise of starting over." "I needed a greenfield in which to grow a different network." Sure, some of the chatter about Google+ has focused on features: The site's 10-person video chat, called Hangouts, is generally considered to be superior to Facebook's recently announced integration with Skype for video calls. On Google+, you don't have to submit friend requests, which some users like because it means you don't have to actively reject anyone. Instead, you add friends to "circles" and then, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/zece-produse-care-au-esuat-inca-de-la-lansare-de-la-bautura-cu-cocaina-la-windows-vista-mari-companii-care-au-dat-rateuri/ zece-produse-care-au-esuat-inca-de-la-lansare-de-la-bautura-cu-cocaina-la-windows-vista-mari-companii-care-au-dat-rateuri Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:31:40 +0300 Doar dacă ai o idee bună, asta nu înseamnă că te vei îmbogăţi. Să luăm ca exemplu băutura energizantă care combină alcoolul cu cofeina şi care era un produs perfect pentru tinerii dornici de senzaţii noi. Câteva spitalizri în rândul consmatorilor au fost de ajuns pentru ca produsul să fie interzis în scurt timp de la lansare. Şi nu este singurul caz al unui produs care s-a dovedit un fiasco încă de la lansare. Giganţi ca Apple, Google sau McDonald's au avut, pe lângă succesele de business răsunătoare, care l-au adus notorietatea de astăzi, şi încercări deloc fericite pe care le-au retras rapid de pe piaţă. Iată câteva exemple de produse "ratate" din ultimii 20 de ani: Google Wave După mai puţin de un an de la lansare, Google a închis definitiv serviciul de instant-messaging, în august 2010. Un serviciu combinat de mesagerie, email şi reţea socială, Google Wave a fost ori prea complicat, ori a fost lansat mai devreme decât trebuia. Află care sunt celelalte eşecuri ale marilor companii pe www.incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/si-marile-companii-dau-rateuri-de-la-bautura-cu-cocaina-la-windows-vista-10-produse-care-au-esuat-inca-de-la-lansare-foto/ si-marile-companii-dau-rateuri-de-la-bautura-cu-cocaina-la-windows-vista-10-produse-care-au-esuat-inca-de-la-lansare-foto Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:01:10 +0300 Doar daca ai o idee buna nu inseamna ca te vei si imbogati. Sa luam ca exemplu bautura energizanta care combina alcoolul cu cofeina si care era un podus perfect pentru tinerii dornici de senzatii noi. Cateva spitalizari in randul consumatorilor au fost de ajuns pentru ca produsul sa fie interzis in scurt timp de la lansare. Si nu este singurul caz al unui produs care s-a dovedit un fiasco inca de la lansare. Giganti ca Apple, Google sau McDonald's au avut, pe langa succesele de business rasunatoare, care le-au adus notorietatea de astazi, si incercari deloc fericite pe care le-au retras rapid de pe piata. Vezi care sunt acestea pe www.incont.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/jihad-cibernetic-pe-facebook-teroristii-au-incercat-sa-invadeze-reteaua-de-socializare/ jihad-cibernetic-pe-facebook-teroristii-au-incercat-sa-invadeze-reteaua-de-socializare Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:01:59 +0300 Teroriştii au încerca să "invadeze" reţeaua de socializare Facebook şi planifică un "jihad cibernetic" devastator împotriva Marii Britanii şi a Occidentului, avertizează experţii, citaţi de cotidianul The Sun. Aceste avertizări intervin în timp ce ministrul britanic de Interne Theresa May a dezvăluit noua strategie antiterorism a Guvernului de la Londra. Oficiali din cadrul serviciilor de securitate susţin că terorismul cibernetic va deveni o ameninţare tot mai mare. Documentul de 123 de pagini dezvăluie că o unitate - Brigăzile Tariq bin Ziyad pentru Jihadul Electronic - a atacat mai multe computere anul trecut. "De la moartea lui Osama ben Laden, Al-Qaida a cerut nu numai comiterea unor acte individuale de terorism, ci şi demararea unui jihad cibernetic", arată documentul. Experţii apreciază că sunt mii de site-uri care au legătură cu terorismul, iar "câteva zeci au o mare influenţă şi sunt frecventate de terorişti", precizează documentul. "Folosirea reţelelor sociale şi a site-urilor de partajare a înregistrărilor video este ceva obişnuit. Au fost numeroase încercări ale teroriştilor şi grupărilor extremiste de a «invada» Facebook", continuă documentul. "Teroriştii folosesc tot mai mult tehnologia online, inclusiv Google Earth şi Street View, pentru planificarea atacurilor", a declarat ministrul britanic. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/trei-americani-au-castigat-premiile-pentru-stiinta-decernate-de-grupul-google/ trei-americani-au-castigat-premiile-pentru-stiinta-decernate-de-grupul-google Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:02:07 +0300 Trei tineri americani au câştigat premiile pentru ştiinţă decernate de grupul Google, impunându-se din 7.500 de participanţi provenind din 91 de ţări, au anunţat, marţi, reprezentanţii acestei companii de internet. Câştigătorii au fost premiaţi pentru proiecte care vizează tratamentul pacientelor suferind de cancer ovarian, agenţii cancerigeni potenţiali din sosurile folosite la frigăruile de pui şi îmbunăţirea calităţii aerului din locuinţe pentru a reduce frecvenţa crizelor de astm. Câştigătoarea primului premiu, Shree Bose, care a concurat la grupa de vârstă 17-18 ani, a primit o bursă de studii de 50.000 de dolari, o călătorie în Insulele Galapagos alături de reprezentanţii programului National Geographic Explorer şi un stagiu la CERN, Organizaţia europeană pentru cercetări nucleare. "Shree a descoperit o modalitate de a îmbunătăţi tratamentul cancerului ovarian la pacientele care au dezvoltat o rezistenţă la chimioterapie", se precizează pe un blog al grupului Google. Ceilalţi doi câştigători sunt Lauren Hodge şi Naomi Shah, care s-au impus la categoriile de vârstă 13-14 ani şi 15-16 ani. Lauren Hodge "a studiat efectele mai multor tipuri de sosuri asupra nivelului agenţilor potenţial cancerigeni şi periculoşi din carnea friptă de pui", au declarat reprezentanţii Google. Naomi Shah "a realizat un studiu pentru a demonstra faptul că efectuarea unor schimbări în interiorul locuinţei poate să amelioreze calitatea aerului şi reduce dependenţa astmaticilor faţă de anumite medicamente", au adăugat reprezentanţii Google. Lauren Hodge şi Naomi Shah au primit fiecare burse de studii de 25.000 de dolari şi stagii la Google şi la fabricantul de jucării Lego. Din juriu au făcut parte oameni de ştiinţă renumiţi, inclusiv laureaţi ai premiului Nobel, vizionari din domeniul tehnologiilor de vârf şi alte nume importante din universul ştiinţific. Acest concurs ştiinţific, anunţat în ianuarie, este primul proiect de acest ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/arca-a-prezentat-la-nasa-programul-iar-111-realizat-pentru-competitia-google-lunar-x-prize/ arca-a-prezentat-la-nasa-programul-iar-111-realizat-pentru-competitia-google-lunar-x-prize Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:02:08 +0300 Asociaţia Română pentru Cosmonautică şi Aeronautică (ARCA) a prezentat programul IAR-111, un aparat destinat lansării rachetei spaţiale Haas II pentru competiţia Google Lunar X Prize, la NASA Ames Research Center (SUA), potrivit unui comunicat remis MEDIAFAX. ARCA participă, în perioada 10 - 13 iulie, la Summitul Google Lunar X Prize, organizat la NASA Ames Research Center şi Seti Institute din San Francisco. În cadrul acestui summit, ARCA a prezentat programul IAR-111 pentru competiţia de 30 milioane de dolari Google Lunar X Prize. Echipa din România a avut posibilitatea să discute cu inginerii de la NASA Ames Research Center despre testarea modelelor de aeronave şi astronave în tunele aerodinamice şi despre protecţia astronavelor la reintrarea în atmosfera terestră. "A fost o oportunitate pentru noi să vedem la NASA Ames locuri legendare pentru industria aerospaţială, locuri în care s-au testat în cursul timpului majoritatea avioanelor experimentale americane, precum şi cabinele Apollo care au purtat astronauţii americani pe Lună şi naveta spaţială. Sunt locuri în care istoria te copleşeşte la tot pasul şi este extraordinar aproape să retrăieşti pe viu experimentele pe care le-ai învăţat din documentele de cercetare publicate de NASA. O experienţă cu adevărat copleşitoare", spune Dumitru Popescu, preşedintele ARCA. Potrivit comunicatului, un moment impresionant a fost atunci când trei cosmonauţi ruşi de pe Staţia Spaţială Internaţională au intrat în legătură cu participanţii la summit şi şi-au exprimat gândurile despre importanţa competiţiei şi despre deschiderea unei noi ere în explorarea privată a cosmosului. Totodată, ARCA a mers la sediul central al Google, unde s-au discutat strategiile pentru competiţie, precum şi despre o mai bună promovare a echipei ARCA utilizând tehnologiile companiei de internet. Reprezentanţii ARCA au declarat pentru MEDIAFAX că participanţii la competiţia Google Lunar ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-elite-struggling-to-define-google/ tech-elite-struggling-to-define-google Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:01:10 +0300 (CNN) -- At first, everyone thought it was Facebook. But as tech insiders take more time to explore Google's new online social network, called Google+, which is currently available only to people who are invited to the service, they're becoming more and more confused. Is this Twitter? Kind of. Some bloggers have rushed to declare Google+ as Twitter's assassin; others say those claims are bunk; and still others say Google+ has made them rethink Twitter to the point that they say it never really was that valuable. Is it Tumblr, the blogging platform? Maybe. Kevin Rose, who founded the once-popular site Digg, is so enamored with Google+ that he essentially gave up his blog in favor of it. Is it something new? No one's really sure about that idea, either. Google+ is the Taco-Bell-meets-KFC of social networking, throwing Twitter's "follower" mentality, Facebook's look, and Tumblr's digital-salon culture all onto one combo plate. But the combo-plate approach to a Web product doesn't always work, and it doesn't explain Google's new features, including "friend circles" and video "hangouts," where users can talk in groups of 10 at once. The reality is that Google+ may still be in the putty phase: It's likely to become whatever its users mold it into. There's precedent for this theory in social media's (short) history. When Facebook started, for example, there was no photo-sharing feature. Consequently, it was common for users to change their profile pictures daily, or even more often, as a way to share new photos with all of their online friends. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, said he noticed this. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/netflix-customers-see-red-after-price-hike/ netflix-customers-see-red-after-price-hike Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:00:34 +0300 (CNN) -- If Netflix had filed Tuesday's price-hike news in a movie genre, it would be either drama or horror. U.S. customers of the DVD-by-mail and Web-streaming service are storming the Internet to protest Netflix's plan to increase the prices of its most popular packages. "The changes you guys have made in the last 4-6 months have turned me from a serious Netflix Geek into considering cancellation. It's a damn shame," wrote a customer named Justin Block, one of almost 6,000 commenters on Netflix's blog. Netflix's Facebook page attracted more than 28,000 comments as of Wednesday morning, most of them critical of the move. And thousands of consumers were voicing complaints under #DearNetflix on Twitter. Netflix has adjusted its offerings, separating physical disc mailings from Internet video. DVD-only subscriptions start at $7.99 per month, the same price as a streaming-only plan. But a monthly plan that combines physical DVDs with Web streaming costs almost $16 -- a 60% price increase. For prospective customers, the new pricing structure went into effect on Tuesday. For current subscribers, the rates will change on September 1. Netflix, which did not respond to a request for comment, outlined the adjustment in a company blog post. In the message, a spokeswoman was very upbeat, describing each plan as "a terrific value." Commenters weren't as enthusiastic. "The only way that this is terrific for the customer is if you plan to offer your entire collection available for streaming," wrote Scotty Fagaly, a self-described longtime customer whose comment was "liked" more than 4,800 times. "Otherwise, this is just yet another ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/amazon-to-launch-touchscreen-tablet-report-says/ amazon-to-launch-touchscreen-tablet-report-says Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:00:37 +0300 (CNN) -- Amazon, the online retailer that ignited demand for electronic readers with its Kindle, might be entering the increasingly crowded tablet computer market. Citing unnamed sources, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Amazon will introduce a color touchscreen tablet before October that will compete with Apple's popular iPad and other similar devices. People familiar with the product told the Journal that it will have a 9-inch screen and run on Google's Android operating system. It won't have a camera, they said. The device will go beyond the Kindle in allowing customers to play movies, music and other content -- books, too -- downloaded from Amazon.com, the Journal reported. Amazon reportedly isn't developing the product itself, unlike the Kindle, but instead will outsource production to an Asian manufacturer. Amazon did not immediately return a request for comment. Rumors about Amazon making a tablet have been swirling for almost a year. Some reports have said the Seattle-based company is partnering with South Korean manufacturer Samsung, which will build the device. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hasn't exactly doused the speculation. Asked by Consumer Reports in May about the possibility of Amazon launching a multipurpose tablet device, Bezos said to stay tuned. Reaction was swift Wednesday afternoon in the blogosphere, which seemed to accept the Journal report as fact. "The lack of a camera is disappointing, but it may be a sign that Amazon is positioning its tablet as more of a competitor to Barnes and Noble's wildly successful Nook Color, a hybrid tablet/e-reader that retails for just $250," wrote Devindra Hardawar in VentureBeat. "The ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-revamps-android-market/ google-revamps-android-market Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:00:40 +0300 (WIRED) -- Look out, iTunes, the Android Market is getting a face-lift. Google launched an entirely new user interface for its mobile platform Tuesday, completely changing the layout of the application portal. "The new Market client is designed to better showcase top apps and games, engage users with an improved UI, and provide a quicker path to downloading or purchasing your products," wrote Android developer Eric Chu in a blog post. Navigating the differing app categories on the phone-based market requires a swipe left or right, which switches to new, tile-based menu screens. The name and price of a given app you've chosen moves to the top of the screen. In addition to apps and games, you'll also be able to browse movies and books available for purchase from the Market. Android has long faced platform criticism for its Market setup, as both users and developers alike have had difficulty finding the programs they want in the 200,000+ app-packed Android Market. Apple, by contrast, has long promoted featured and popular apps in its iTunes-based App Store, a one-stop shop for all things iOS. But Google is trying to counter the complaints: At its I/O developer conference in May, Google rolled out a streamlined, app-promoting look for the Market's web store, with the inclusion of categories like "Top Grossing, Trending" and other 'top' apps. Google claims its latest changes will appeal to developers' bottom line. The new layout enables two-click purchases of apps, eliminating as much friction as possible so customers can purchase apps faster and easier. Typically, developers have started ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-reportcel-mai-bogat-bancher-roman-are-in-conturi-10-de-mil-de-euro-ce-calculator-iti-trebuie-pentru-a-rula-windows-8-casa-poporului-mastodontul-muls-de-arhitecti-si-constructori/ business-reportcel-mai-bogat-bancher-roman-are-in-conturi-10-de-mil-de-euro-ce-calculator-iti-trebuie-pentru-a-rula-windows-8-casa-poporului-mastodontul-muls-de-arhitecti-si-constructori Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:32:00 +0300 Cel mai bogat bancher roman are in conturi 10 de mil. de euro. Nicolae Danila, fostul sef al BCR, este in continuare cel mai bogat om din conducerea Bancii Nationale. Membru in CA al BNR, Danila are doar in conturile bancare aproape 24 de milioane de lei si peste 6,2 milioane de euro, potrivit ultimei sale declaratii de avere publicate pe site-ul institutiei. Nicolae Danila, care este si unul dintre cei mai apreciati economisti romani, isi tine banii in 23 de conturi, 12 in lei, 10 in euro si unul in dolari, deschise la cel putin 15 banci. Pe langa depozite, bancherul mai detine si actiuni (majoritatea la Erste, banca ce a preluat BCR) in valoare totala de 9,725 milioane de euro si putin peste un milion de lei. Integral in Capital.  Germanwings: Bucurestiul este piata castigatoare a regiunii in 2011, pentru noi. Bucurestiul este considerat de oficialii liniei aeriene low-cost Germanwings, membra a grupului Lufthansa, ca piata castigatoare a regiunii in acest an si este unul dintre candidatii programului de extindere pe care operatorul il are in plan pentru 2012, au spus oficialii companiei. Acestia au adaugat ca o posibila extindere a companiei anul viitor depinde, insa, si de evolutia costurilor si tarifelor cerute de aeroporturi. Romania este un posibil candidat in planurile de extindere, mai ales ca piata locala a fost una dintre cele care au performat cel mai bine in acest an. Germanwings a inregistrat in primele 6 luni din 2011 o crestere importanta a gradelor de ocupare ale aeronavelor care opereaza din ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/spotify-music-streaming-service-to-launch-in-us-thursday/ spotify-music-streaming-service-to-launch-in-us-thursday Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:00:43 +0300 (CNN) -- The hottest music venue in Europe is set to open its doors to a select group in the United States. Spotify, which makes Internet music-streaming software, plans to launch the much-hyped U.S. version Thursday morning, after delays and years of negotiation. At first, Spotify will only accept new members to its free service who receive invitations from the company, one of its sponsors or a current user. "This is the biggest market in the world," Kenneth Parks, Spotify's content chief, said in an interview late Wednesday. "We haven't done a launch this large." Google+, the new social network, also launched recently using an invite-only scheme. Spotify plans to welcome all everyone for free after "several weeks," Parks said. The Spotify computer program will let people choose from any of 15 million songs to hear for free, up to 20 hours per month with each track listenable up to five times. For the first six months, however, people who enter during the invitation period are exempt from the monthly limit. After that, users can lift the restrictions by paying $5 a month or buying songs individually, like iTunes. The smartphone apps can be accessed for $10 a month, which includes unlimited streaming and the ability to save copy-protected music for listening offline. The ability to create and share playlists with their Facebook friends has formed a beehive mix-tape culture among the more than 10 million users in Europe. From a small office in Stockholm, Sweden, Spotify quickly spread its tentacles across Europe, but during the past couple of years, the company has ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/spotify-music-streaming-service-hits-us-in-global-push/ spotify-music-streaming-service-hits-us-in-global-push Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:30:27 +0300 (CNN) -- The hottest music venue in Europe is set to open its doors to a select group in the United States. Spotify, which makes Internet music-streaming software, plans to launch the much-hyped U.S. version Thursday morning, after delays and years of negotiation. At first, Spotify will only accept new members to its free service who receive invitations from the company, one of its sponsors or a current user. "This is the biggest market in the world," Kenneth Parks, Spotify's content chief, said in an interview late Wednesday. "We haven't done a launch this large." Google+, the new social network, also launched recently using an invite-only scheme. Spotify plans to welcome everyone for free after "several weeks," Parks said. The Spotify computer program will let people choose from any of 15 million songs to hear for free -- up to 20 hours per month, with each track listenable up to five times. For the first six months, however, people who enter during the invitation period are exempt from the monthly limit, Parks said. After that, users can lift the restrictions by paying $5 a month or buying songs individually, like iTunes. The smartphone apps can be accessed for $10 a month, which includes unlimited streaming and the ability to save copy-protected music for listening offline. The ability to create and share playlists with Facebook friends has formed a beehive mix-tape culture among the more than 10 million users in Europe. From a small office in Stockholm, Sweden, Spotify quickly spread its tentacles across Europe. But during the past couple of years, the company ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/15-sfaturi-pentru-contul-tau-de-google-plus-galerie-foto/ 15-sfaturi-pentru-contul-tau-de-google-plus-galerie-foto Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:31:32 +0300 Deşi Google Plus are un design simplu, primele zile pe noua platformă de socializare pot fi copleşitoare pentru utilizatori, scrie Huffington Post. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/spotify-music-streaming-service-to-launch-thursday-in-us/ spotify-music-streaming-service-to-launch-thursday-in-us Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:30:25 +0300 (CNN) -- The hottest music venue in Europe is set to open its doors to a select group in the United States. Spotify, which makes Internet music-streaming software, plans to launch the much-hyped U.S. version Thursday morning, after delays and years of negotiation. At first, Spotify will only accept new members to its free service who receive invitations from the company, one of its sponsors or a current user. "This is the biggest market in the world," Kenneth Parks, Spotify's content chief, said in an interview late Wednesday. "We haven't done a launch this large." Google+, the new social network, also launched recently using an invite-only scheme. Spotify plans to welcome everyone for free after "several weeks," Parks said. The Spotify computer program will let people choose from any of 15 million songs to hear for free -- up to 20 hours per month, with each track listenable up to five times. For the first six months, however, people who enter during the invitation period are exempt from the monthly limit, Parks said. After that, users can lift the restrictions by paying $5 a month or buying songs individually, like iTunes. The smartphone apps can be accessed for $10 a month, which includes unlimited streaming and the ability to save copy-protected music for listening offline. The ability to create and share playlists with Facebook friends has formed a beehive mix-tape culture among the more than 10 million users in Europe. From a small office in Stockholm, Sweden, Spotify quickly spread its tentacles across Europe. But during the past couple of years, the company ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/spotify-music-streaming-service-launches-in-us/ spotify-music-streaming-service-launches-in-us Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:30:29 +0300 (CNN) -- The hottest music venue in Europe is set to open its doors to a select group in the United States. Spotify, which makes Internet music-streaming software, plans to launch the much-hyped U.S. version Thursday morning, after delays and years of negotiation. At first, Spotify will only accept new members to its free service who receive invitations from the company, one of its sponsors or a current user. "This is the biggest market in the world," Kenneth Parks, Spotify's content chief, said in an interview late Wednesday. "We haven't done a launch this large." Google+, the new social network, also launched recently using an invite-only scheme. Spotify plans to welcome everyone for free after "several weeks," Parks said. The Spotify computer program will let people choose from any of 15 million songs to hear for free -- up to 20 hours per month, with each track listenable up to five times. For the first six months, however, people who enter during the invitation period are exempt from the monthly limit, Parks said. After that, users can lift the restrictions by paying $5 a month or buying songs individually, like iTunes. The smartphone apps can be accessed for $10 a month, which includes unlimited streaming and the ability to save copy-protected music for listening offline. The ability to create and share playlists with Facebook friends has formed a beehive mix-tape culture among the more than 10 million users in Europe. From a small office in Stockholm, Sweden, Spotify quickly spread its tentacles across Europe. But during the past couple of years, the company ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/indian-techie39s-site-makes-him-accidental-hero-of-mumbai-blasts/ indian-techie39s-site-makes-him-accidental-hero-of-mumbai-blasts Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:30:51 +0300 (CNN) -- Nitin Sagar was at his New Delhi office tweeting about needing a girl to fondly run her fingers through his hair when he saw the posts about three deadly blasts many miles away in Mumbai. He noticed many people were tweeting offers to help victims and knew that in no time, they would go viral. "Someone in Bombay please create a Google Doc with numbers/addresses of people willing to help," he posted on Twitter using the old name for Mumbai. He thought aggregate information could help a person bleeding on the street or a relative desperately searching for a loved one. Before he left the office, Sagar created a Google docs spreadsheet. He inserted five names and phone numbers. That was about 8 p.m., an hour after the attacks. "Have compiled numbers and areas where help is available from the time," he tweeted. "Add and share please." By the time Sagar reached home a half hour later, the site had compounded to hundreds of names of people who wanted to donate blood, provide shelter, help transport people or help in any way they could. "You have no idea how fast it grew," he said. "I still don't know why I did it. It was all happening so fast." With a few swift clicks of the mouse, Sagar, a 26-year-old Indian techie, had become an accidental hero of the Mumbai tragedy. The spreadsheet was viewed by thousands. Tweeted by even more. And used by people who finally found an avenue to help. Mumbai architecture student Pranali Patel inserted her phone number and said ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-reteaua-de-socializare-google-are-peste-10-milioane-de-utilizatori-la-doar-doua-saptamani-de-la-lansare/ google-reteaua-de-socializare-google-are-peste-10-milioane-de-utilizatori-la-doar-doua-saptamani-de-la-lansare Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:02:15 +0300 Noua retea de socializare Google+ a ajuns sa aiba peste 10 milioane de utilizatori la doar 16 zile de la lansare, a declarat Larry Page, CEO al Google."Peste 10 milioane de persoane s-au inscris pe Google +. Este o mare reusita pentru noi", a declarat Page, in cadrul unei conferinte in care au fost prezentate rezultatele trimestriale ale grupului, relateaza AFP.Desi Google + a fost lansat pe 28 iunie in versiunea experimentala si este accesibil numai prin invitatie, ultimile rezultatele arata ca Google a fost capabil sa dea un raspuns pe masura rivalului sau principal, Facebook. "Google a atacat zona cu inovatiile majore", a scris la inceputul acestei saptamani Trip Chowdhry, analist al companiei Global Equities Research, adaugand ca "migratia in Google + din Facebook e abia la inceput". http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cel-mai-bogat-israelian-pana-cand-tinerii-romani-vor-avea-acces-la-un-apartament-vor-fi-de-varsta-mijlocie-google-introduce-verificarea-in-doi-pasi-pentru-gmail-ministerul-turismului-a-platit-5-milioane-de-euro-ca-sa-fim-confundati-cu/ business-report-cel-mai-bogat-israelian-pana-cand-tinerii-romani-vor-avea-acces-la-un-apartament-vor-fi-de-varsta-mijlocie-google-introduce-verificarea-in-doi-pasi-pentru-gmail-ministerul-turismului-a-platit-5-milioane-de-euro-ca-sa-fim-confundati-cu Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:01:57 +0300 Cel mai bogat israelian: Pana cand tinerii romani vor avea acces la un apartament vor fi de varsta mijlocie. Omul de afaceri Eyal Ofer, cel mai bogat israelian, intentioneaza sa isi continue cele 25 de proiecte imobiliare din Romania, care presupun investitii de circa 900 mil. euro, chiar daca recunoaste ca a supraestimat potentialul pietei locale. El a incheiat recent un contract de 400 mil. euro cu Santierul Naval Mangalia, care trebuie sa ii livreze acestuia patru cargouri, scrie Capital.ro.Pica Italia? Si daca da, cum va fi lovita Romania. Italia, tara care se confrunta cu o criza majora din cauza escaladarii serviciului datoriei publice (1.800 miliarde dolari - 120% din PIB), este al doilea mare partener comercial al Romaniei, dupa Germania. In cazul in care Italia va ajunge in situatia de acum a Greciei este de asteptat ca volumul schimburilor comerciale sa inregistreze un declin. Cat de mare, nimeni nu o poate spune. In schimb companiile italiene cu investitii in Romania par sa nu fie afectate de ceea ce se intampla in tara avand obiective locale bine fixate, anunta Money.ro.Sase mari grupuri bancare au planuri de extindere in Europa. Nu este niciun secret ca, in vremuri de criza, castigatori sunt cei care dispun de lichiditatile necesare pentru a se extinde si pentru a-si creste valoarea. Iar astfel de exemple ne parvin din toate domeniile si de peste tot din lume. In ceea ce priveste sistemul bancar, cel putin sase grupuri financiare, doua europene si patru asiatice au luat in vizor Europa, inclusiv zona ei emergenta. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-plus-ajunge-astazi-la-zece-milioane-de-utilizatori-vezi-cat-va-avea-saptamana-viitoare/ google-plus-ajunge-astazi-la-zece-milioane-de-utilizatori-vezi-cat-va-avea-saptamana-viitoare Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:01:14 +0300 Noua reţea de socializare Google Plus creşte cu rapiditate: astăzi, este aşteptat utilizatorul cu numărul 10.000.000, iar săptămâna viitoare vor fi deja 20 de milioane de useri, scrie Yahoo. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/indian-techie39s-site-helps-blast-victims/ indian-techie39s-site-helps-blast-victims Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:30:20 +0300 (CNN) -- Nitin Sagar was at his New Delhi office, tweeting about needing a girl to fondly run her fingers through his hair, when he saw the posts about three deadly blasts many miles away in Mumbai. He noticed many people were tweeting offers to help victims and knew that in no time, they would go viral. "Someone in Bombay please create a Google Doc with numbers/addresses of people willing to help," he posted on Twitter, using the old name for Mumbai. He thought aggregate information could help a person bleeding on the street or a relative desperately searching for a loved one. Before he left the office, Sagar created a Google docs spreadsheet. He inserted five names and phone numbers. That was about 8 p.m., an hour after the attacks. "Have compiled numbers and areas where help is available from the time," he tweeted. "Add and share please." By the time Sagar reached home a half hour later, the site had compounded to hundreds of names of people who wanted to donate blood, provide shelter, help transport people or help in any way they could. "You have no idea how fast it grew," he said. "I still don't know why I did it. It was all happening so fast." With a few swift clicks of the mouse, Sagar, a 26-year-old Indian techie, had become an accidental hero of the Mumbai tragedy. The spreadsheet was viewed by thousands. Tweeted by even more. And used by people who finally found an avenue to help. Mumbai architecture student Pranali Patel inserted her phone number and said ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/veniturile-si-profitul-google-au-urcat-cu-peste-30-in-trimestrul-doi-depasind-toate-estimarile/ veniturile-si-profitul-google-au-urcat-cu-peste-30-in-trimestrul-doi-depasind-toate-estimarile Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:31:10 +0300 Veniturile Google au crescut cu 32% în trimestrul al doilea, la peste 9 miliarde de dolari, iar profitul net a urcat cu 35%, la 2,5 miliarde de dolari, depăşind şi cele mai optimiste estimări de pe Wall Street. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-users-are-nearly-all-male/ google-users-are-nearly-all-male Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:00:55 +0300 (Mashable) -- Here's an interesting tidbit from the Google+ stats trackers: Three quarters (or more) of Google+ users are male. SocialStatistics, a third-party site that gathers data from select profiles, pegs the percentage of male users at 86.8%, while FindPeopleOnPlus, which curates information from about a million users, says men constitute 73.7% of Google+. FindPeopleOnPlus also discovered that 95% of the Google+ users who say they are "looking for love" on the site are male. Some 25,000 users in their sample identify themselves as single, versus 19,000 married and 12,000 in a relationship. The vast majority of the million users sampled don't say what they are. With around 60% of users identifying themselves as web developers or software engineers, that paints a fairly stereotypical picture of Google+'s userbase: nerdy guys who have deep understandings of technology and who don't mind killing some time setting up Circles of friends. It's true that the early adopters of any new technology are usually male. But Google+ will have to appeal to a mainstream audience if it's to reach mass adoption anytime soon. Consider the gender breakdown for Google+'s biggest competitor, Facebook. The social network is close to a 50-50 split between men and women. And some of Facebook's most addicted, most enthusiastic users are women. Meanwhile, Google is about to stop requiring users to input their gender -- meaning we may get less accurate stats as time progresses. See the original article on Mashable.com © 2010 MASHABLE.com. All rights reserved. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tech-check-podcast-is-spotify-all-that/ tech-check-podcast-is-spotify-all-that Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:00:49 +0300 (CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, CNN's tech team discusses the hot European music service Spotify, which swam across the pond to the United States this week. Get our tips for using this service, which is available for free only by invitation for now but will launch to the broader public in coming weeks. John Sutter, Mark Milian and Stephanie Goldberg also talk about Netflix, which caused an online hullabaloo this week when it hiked the price of its packaged DVD-rental-and-video-streaming service, which is quite popular. We read some of your comments about Turntable.fm, a site that lets anyone become an online cartoon DJ. The discussion followed a list of tips for using the site, offered up by our netiquette columnists, Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich. Many of you thought this much-buzzed-about site is actually pretty worthless -- or that it's only useful for the unemployed and too-bored. Finally, we also talk about Google+, the new online social network that has tech bloggers swooning but that may or may not break into the mainstream. To listen, click on the audio player on the left of this page; go to our RSS page; or subscribe to our feed on iTunes, where you can download our latest episodes. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sony-preps-two-oddly-shaped-tablets/ sony-preps-two-oddly-shaped-tablets Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:00:52 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- A tablet computer doesn't have to look like a flat rectangle. For its entry into the U.S. tablet market, Sony Electronics is forgoing that common design, popularized by Apple's iPad. The Japanese company's upcoming tablets look and feel more like folded magazines and a pair of sunglasses than the parade of rectangles on the market now. The first Android tablet, the S1, looks like dozens of other tablets at first glance. But the back has a "wraparound" curved lip that's supposed to feel like a magazine does when it's folded over. In a brief test Wednesday, this design felt more natural than some models with flatter backs. The second, the S2, resembles an oversize pair of sunglasses glasses. The rounded metallic gizmo can be flipped open like a book to reveal two touchscreens, each measuring 5.5 inches diagonally. The split-screen display is appropriate for reading books, and Sony will include a version of its e-book software that's optimized for the device. But the S2 "will coexist" with the dedicated monochrome-display e-readers Sony sells, said Phil Molyneux, president and operating chief for Sony Electronics. The S2's clamshell design -- an old idea that has been resurrected from the flip-phone era -- is intended to make the S2 more portable, Molyneux said. "There's not many actual other products that you can actually fit in your pocket today unless you make your pocket much bigger," Molyneux said. Except for phones? To which Molyneux said: "This will show you a whole page of the Internet." The S2 will be sold jointly with AT&T ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-techie-hero-of-the-mumbai-blasts/ the-techie-hero-of-the-mumbai-blasts Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:30:35 +0300 (CNN) -- Nitin Sagar was at his New Delhi office, tweeting about needing a girl to fondly run her fingers through his hair, when he saw the posts about three deadly blasts many miles away in Mumbai. He noticed many people were tweeting offers to help victims and knew that in no time, they would go viral. "Someone in Bombay please create a Google Doc with numbers/addresses of people willing to help," he posted on Twitter, using the old name for Mumbai. He thought aggregate information could help a person bleeding on the street or a relative desperately searching for a loved one. Before he left the office, Sagar created a Google docs spreadsheet. He inserted five names and phone numbers. That was about 8 p.m., an hour after the attacks. "Have compiled numbers and areas where help is available from the time," he tweeted. "Add and share please." By the time Sagar reached home a half hour later, the site had compounded to hundreds of names of people who wanted to donate blood, provide shelter, help transport people or help in any way they could. "You have no idea how fast it grew," he said. "I still don't know why I did it. It was all happening so fast." With a few swift clicks of the mouse, Sagar, a 26-year-old Indian techie, had become an accidental hero of the Mumbai tragedy. The spreadsheet was viewed by thousands. Tweeted by even more. And used by people who finally found an avenue to help. Mumbai architecture student Pranali Patel inserted her phone number and said ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sibex-valoare-medie-de-circa-65-milioane-leizi-n-saptamna-11-15-iulie/ sibex-valoare-medie-de-circa-65-milioane-leizi-n-saptamna-11-15-iulie Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:02:15 +0300 La Sibex, ultima şedinţă a săptămânii a indicat scăderi, speculatorii menţinând miza pe „roşu”. Acestă tendinţă s-a înregistrat pe întreg parcursul zilei, deşi în partea a doua a şedinţei s-a observat, la un moment dat, o temperare a deprecierilor, pe cele mai lichide produse (DESIF şi Dow Jones), fără ca aceasta să se menţină mult timp. Mai mult chiar, scăderile s-au accentuat după ora 17.00, ajungând la minimele zilei pentru produsele menţionate.  La ora 17.30 numărul contractelor era de 4700 cu o valoare de 50 milioane de lei iar piaţa era aproape în întregime una „roşie”. Cele mai multe contracte se înregistrau pe derivatul Dow Jones şi cel pe acţiunile SIF5. Raportat la săptămâna 11-15 iulie, numărul contractelor a fost de circa 33.000 cu o valoare de 325 milioane lei, media valorică zilnică fiind de aproximativ 65 milioane. Pentru Dow Jones, numărul contractelor încheiate vineri  până ora 17.30 era de 3600, tendinţa de scădere  anticipată cu o zi înainte de „jucători” menţinându-se, după ce indicele american a închis pe minus şedinţa de pe Wall-Street de joi,  ca urmare a remarcilor preşedintelui FED, Ben Bernanke care a declarat că Banca Centrală Americană nu are în planurile sale imediate implementarea de noi stimuli pentru creşterea economică. Aceste declaraţii au diminuat speranţele privind o a treia rundă de achiziţii de obligaţiuni şi au determinat intrarea pe minus a indicelui american. Vineri, pe piaţa din SUA, a apărut însă ştirea că Citigroup Inc a reuşit să obţină profit pentru al şaselea trimestru la rând după ce pierderile din împrumuturi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/larry-page-chief-executive-al-google-google-are-10-milioane-de-utilizatori/ larry-page-chief-executive-al-google-google-are-10-milioane-de-utilizatori Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:01:21 +0300 Larry Page, Chief Executive al Google, a declarat că peste 10 milioane de oameni s-au încris pe reţeaua de socializare Google+, rivalul Facebook, informează Brand Republic. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/reading-news-as-a-competitive-sport/ reading-news-as-a-competitive-sport Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:00:28 +0300 (CNN) -- Reading news articles just became "gamified." With new features on Google News, reading news articles has turned into a game where readers are rewarded with news badges based on their reading habits. Google made the announcement Thursday on The Official Google Blog. "On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics in the last six months. Where do you stand?" Natasha Mohanty, an engineer at Google News, wrote on that site. Here's how you can find out. By signing into Google and clicking on news articles on news.google.com, Google will keep track of what you read. You earn badges by reading articles on specific topics. The more you read, the more stars appear on a badge. The stars start at the Bronze level and move up to Silver, Platinum and Ultimate. There are more than 500 badges available to suit a wide range of topics. Google's badges are private by default, meaning only you can see which awards you've won. But as soon as you are ready to start showing off how many articles you have read, you can share the badges with friends. Like with all Google products, there is easy integration with other Google features so you can easily share your badges on your new Google+ account. This hits on a wider trend of news sites and other apps -- like Foursquare, SCVNGR, Facebook and the like -- trying to turn life into a game. The Huffington Post and CNN iReport also offer badge systems for readers. A company ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-bechtel-face-100-de-km-de-autostrada-in-4-ani-vezi-unde-microsoft-renunta-la-windows-si-pregateste-o-bomba-pe-piata-sistemelor-de-operare-5-motive-pentru-care-blackberry-va-muri/ business-report-bechtel-face-100-de-km-de-autostrada-in-4-ani-vezi-unde-microsoft-renunta-la-windows-si-pregateste-o-bomba-pe-piata-sistemelor-de-operare-5-motive-pentru-care-blackberry-va-muri Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:31:56 +0300 Microsoft renunta la Windows si pregateste o bomba pe piata sistemelor de operare. Microsoft, cel mai mare producator de software din lume, va lansa un sistem de operare care va rula, atat pe PC-uri, cat si pe telefoane, tablete, televizoare si console de jocuri. Compania ia in considerare si renuntarea la denumirea Windows. Imaginati-va o lume fara Microsoft Windows. Acest lucru nu este imposibil dupa ce Andrew Lees, presedintele diviziei Windows Phone, a declarat in cadrul conferintei Worldwide Partner din Los Angeles ca, in curand, Microsoft va lansa un sistem de operare nou, care nu va avea nicio legatura cu Windows si care va rula pe diferite dispozitive precum telefoane mobile, computere, tablete de internet si televizoare. Integral in Capital. Cathedral Plaza, o batalie in numele Domnului. Al domnului ban! Povestea Cathedral Plaza e veche (de prin 1999), simpluta si tulburatoare doar prin solutia gasita. Pe scurt, cineva a dat, cineva a luat si apoi n-a mai fost multumit. A vrut mai mult, iar nemultumitului i se ia darul. Atat, scurt pe doi, iar Cathedral Plaza a devenit Satana si trebuie demolata. Dovada ca Dumnezeu da, dar nu baga in traista e faptul ca desi autorizatiile de constructie s-au dat, Willbrook se poate trezi cu imobilul daramat, desi are o oferta de 70 de milioane de euro pentru el de la Carlyle, daca rezolva problemele si mai gaseste si niste chiriasi pentru cei 12.500 mp, ocupati doar in proportie de 30% dupa spusele dezvoltatorului. Integral pe BusinessCover.ro. 5 motive pentru care BlackBerry va muri. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-influenteaza-google-memoria-umana/ cum-influenteaza-google-memoria-umana Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:01:16 +0300 Motoarele de căutare Google şi Yahoo au afectat memoria şi felul în care reţinem informaţia, scrie Daily Mail. Într-un studiu publicat în jurnalul "Science", cercetătorii au analizat modul în care internetul influenţează memoria umană. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/scapare-a-unui-site-intern-al-microsoft-tulalip-raspunsul-lui-bill-gates-la-facebook-si-google-plus/ scapare-a-unui-site-intern-al-microsoft-tulalip-raspunsul-lui-bill-gates-la-facebook-si-google-plus Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:31:12 +0300 Microsoft ar putea lansa o reţea de socializare care să concureze cu Facebook şi Google Plus. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rumors-of-an-unlocked-iphone-seem-unlikely-newsfactor/ rumors-of-an-unlocked-iphone-seem-unlikely-newsfactor Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:31:24 +0300 Apple may not be releasing a new phone this summer, but the idea of an unlocked version of the current iPhone 4 -- available for use on any wireless carrier -- is creating plenty of buzz. Chronic Wire, a self-described anonymous tech enthusiast, tweeted Monday, "Unlocked iPhones headed to Apple Stores for Wednesday: MC603 (16GB, Black) MC604 (16GB, White) MC605 (32GB, Black) MC606 (32GB, White)." That got the attention of the 9 to 5 Mac web site, which said Chronic has made correct predictions before, and the tip quickly spread through the tech media. Incompatible The rumor leaves many questions unanswered, since an unlocked iPhone, which could cost at least $599 for the basic model without a carrier subsidy, would not be able to switch from AT&T, which uses Global System for Mobile (GSM) technology to Verizon Wireless, which uses Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), or to T-Mobile (GSM) or Sprint (CDMA). There are also differences in frequency between the carriers. In any case, the ability to switch between AT&T and T-Mobile will be irrelevant if their planned merger is approved. Apple didn't respond to our e-mail request for comment as of publication time. To give customers a true choice of carriers, Apple would have to sell an iPhone with a chipset that handles both GSM and CDMA as well as unlocked versions of the current iPhone for each standard, said J.D. Power and Associates wireless analyst Kirk Parsons. While a version that uses both standards isn't available yet in the U.S., Parsons said, "I expect there will be a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cable-and-programmers-talk-mobility-at-last-reuters/ cable-and-programmers-talk-mobility-at-last-reuters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:31:42 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cable programmers and operators are putting aside usually difficult negotiations to solve their most pressing challenge this year: How to make more TV shows mobile without harming their lucrative business. This issue will top the agenda for a cable industry at this year's Cable Show, when industry executives gather this week. The industry has watched credible new rivals such as Netflix Inc, Apple Inc and Google Inc, start to offer flexible new ways for consumers to watch favorite cable shows beyond the TV set in the traditional living room. The Holy Grail for cable executives, who have previously battled to keep agreements locked within the traditional cable system, is how to ensure programing can be seen everywhere, on any device and at any time for paying customers. "The economic strains and competition we've seen in the last few years have resulted in more contentious conversations," said Denise Denson, executive vice president, content at Viacom Inc. "Technology is moving faster than ever, so it's even more important that operators and programmers work together to stay relevant with consumers." With the vast majority of programmers' profits coming from cable and satellite distributors, the programmers are being careful not to rush into new deals with the likes of Google and Microsoft Corp whose plans not only rival cable, but unbundle TV shows from traditional cable networks. This was the thinking behind TV Everywhere, a proposal led by Time Warner Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes and Comcast Corp CEO Brian Roberts in 2009. The idea is to allow cable customers ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/android-can39t-compete-with-apple-on-features-contributornetwork/ android-can39t-compete-with-apple-on-features-contributornetwork Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:01:55 +0300 When the iPhone first came out in 2007, it lacked cut-and-paste and an App Store, and cost almost $600. Today, Apple outsells every other smartphone manufacturer, and companies like Motorola race to build phones with features like 4G wireless Internet before Apple does. The smartphones made by Apple's competitors usually run Google's open-source Android operating system, which offers a "generic-brand" version of the iPhone's user experience. In some ways, Android is less polished, but it offers features that the iPhone lacks, like home screen widgets. The thing is, whenever an Android feature is actually good, and improves the user experience -- like cut-and-paste, or a pull-down notification area -- Apple builds it into the iPhone sooner or later. And when it does, it does it with class and superior attention to detail, making it work the same way for all apps unlike the Android free-for-all. With this in mind, one has to ask: Is there any point in buying an Android phone that has new, half-baked "features" the iPhone lacks, when Apple will just "do them right" later on? And are there any Android device makers that show an Apple-like attention to polish and detail? Losers of the features race Motorola and Samsung are some of the biggest Android device manufacturers, with their own lines of smartphones and tablets. But Samsung is being sued for copying Apple's designs almost exactly. And Motorola seems to think that the biggest selling point of its Android tablet, the Xoom, is that it's not an iPad. These companies take ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-buys-admeld-for-reported-400-million-pc-magazine/ google-buys-admeld-for-reported-400-million-pc-magazine Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:34:00 +0300 Google on Monday confirmed that it has purchased online ad firm AdMeld, which the search giant said will help publishers simplify the ad management process. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it is worth an estimated $400 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. "We've been investing in our publisher tools to try and improve this landscape and have made great progress, but we think we can do even better," Neal Mohan, vice president of display advertising at Google, wrote in a blog post. "Though we have no specific integration plans yet, we imagine our combined offerings can help publishers make more informed, efficient, and profitable decisions across all tiers of their inventory," AdMeld CEO Michael Barrett said in a note on the AdMeld Web site. Google described AdMeld as a "yield optimization provider." The Journal said the deal could help Google get ad space from top media companies like Thomson Reuters and News Corp., which allows AdMeld to handle the content they can't sell. With this ad space, Google could boost its DoubleClick Ad Exchange, the Journal said. Google has been building its online advertising arsenal for some time. The search giant shelled out $3.1 billion for DoubleClick in 2007; the deal gained final approval in March 2008. In November 2009, Google announced plans to acquire mobile ad firm AdMob, and that deal was finalized in May 2010. On Monday, Google announced it had sped up ad serving in DoubleClick for Advertisers. "We streamlined the process of issuing the DFA ad request and returning the ad to the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-strikes-deal-to-add-admeld-to-arsenal-ap/ google-strikes-deal-to-add-admeld-to-arsenal-ap Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:01:29 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Google has struck a deal to add another potentially valuable piece to its online advertising empire. The agreement announced Monday calls for Google Inc. to buy a 3-year-old startup called Admeld. Based in New York, Admeld specializes in technology that helps websites make more money by selecting ads most likely to generate the most revenue. Financial terms weren't disclosed. The acquisition still must be approved by government regulators who have been taking a closer look at Google's power in Internet search and online advertising. Admeld's service is focused on marketing campaigns that promote brands and typically feature imagery. The format is known as display advertising, an area where Google Inc. has been gaining market share since its $3.2 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. in 2008. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/survey-finds-app-developers-prefer-apple39s-ios-newsfactor/ survey-finds-app-developers-prefer-apple39s-ios-newsfactor Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:01:33 +0300 Piper Jaffray released a new survey of iOS developers on Monday in which 47 percent of the respondents said they are also building Android-based mobile apps. However, 100 percent of the respondents building offerings for both platforms said they prefer iOS over Android because apps for Apple's mobile platform are easier to develop and monetize. During last week's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Piper Jaffray asked Apple iOS developers to identify the other mobile platforms on which they have worked. Google's Android led the pack at 47 percent, followed by BlackBerry (36 percent) and Windows Phone 7 (13 percent). "Note that 36 percent of respondents only develop for iOS versus 30 percent in a similar survey we conducted at WWDC in 2008," observed Piper Jaffray analysts Gene Munster and Andrew Murphy. "We believe Apple's strong developer base will help it to maintain and gain share in mobile." The Top Platform App developers around the world also rank iOS as the top platform for monetization, according to a survey released last week by Vision Mobile. On average, software written for Apple's mobile platform made 3.3 times more money per app than Symbian developers, 2.7 times more than Java ME developers, 2.4 times more than BlackBerry developers, and 1.7 times more than Android developers. "The important insight here is that large device sales do not translate into higher app monetization for developers, as the case for Symbian shows," the Vision Mobile researchers observed. One reason why Apple exceeds other mobile platforms as a revenue generator is that ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-to-buy-display-ad-company-admeld-reuters/ google-to-buy-display-ad-company-admeld-reuters Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:01:16 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc plans to buy online advertising company AdMeld to grab a larger slice of the market for graphical display ads. It is the latest deal in Google's buying spree of technology and engineering talent to bolster initiatives outside its Internet search business, from social networking to mobile advertising. Google did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, although TechCrunch reported last week that Google paid roughly $400 million, citing anonymous sources. Shares of Google were down 1 percent at $503.31 in midday Nasdaq trading on Monday. New York-based AdMeld provides "yield management" technology, which allows Web publishers to instantly sell display ads, as Web surfers visit different pages on a site. Several companies offer different pieces of the puzzle that allow instant bidding for ads, including advertising exchanges such as Google's DoubleClick and Yahoo Inc's Right Media. The display advertising will eventually become a $200 billion industry, Google Vice President of Display Advertising Neal Mohan said on his blog last week. Google and AdMeld will remain independent companies while the transaction undergoes regulatory review, AdMeld said in a post about the deal on its Web site on Monday. AdMeld said it entered into the agreement with Google over the weekend. The vast majority of Google's revenue, which totaled roughly $29 billion in 2010, comes from small ads that appear alongside its search results. But the company has stepped up efforts to tap into the market for online display ads that feature images and videos. In October, Google said its display advertising business was generating revenue at an annualized ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-pulls-more-malware-infected-apps-from-android-market-pc-magazine/ google-pulls-more-malware-infected-apps-from-android-market-pc-magazine Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:01:32 +0300 Google has removed more apps from its Android Market due to malware, some of which appear to exploit the popularity of apps like Angry Birds. Google removed 10 apps from the market pending investigation after they were discovered and reported by Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor at NC State University's Department of Computer Science. "While continuing an Android-related research project after the discovery of the DroidKungFu and YZHCSMS malware, my research team also came across a new stealthy Android spyware in the Official Android Market," Jiang said in a statement. Known as Plankton, the spyware "does not attempt to root Android phones but instead is designed to be stealthy by running the payload under the radar," Jiang wrote. "In fact, Plankton is the first one that we are aware of that exploits Dalvik class loading capability to stay stealthy and dynamically extend its own functionality." There are at least 10 Plankton apps from three different developers, Jiang said. Their stealth nature has enabled them to remain undetected in the market for more than two months. On Friday, Webroot analysts Andrew Brandt and Armando Orozco took a closer look at Plankton and found that it was focused on the popular game series Angry Birds. "Some of the samples we looked at came as Android apps with names like Angry Birds Rio Unlocker v1.0, Angry Birds Multi User v1.00 or Angry Birds Cheater Trainer Helper V2.0," they wrote in a blog post. When you install the offending apps, you'll see the following message: "Welcome! Simply click on the button below to unlock ALL ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gop-debate-preview-hey-we39re-not-so-bad-the-atlantic-wire/ gop-debate-preview-hey-we39re-not-so-bad-the-atlantic-wire Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:31:22 +0300 With so many Republicans dissatisfied with the current lineup of their party's 2012 presidential candidates, the participants in Monday night's primary debate will not be showing off their special talents, but proving they can rise above their greatest weaknesses. Tim Pawlenty has to show he's not boring. Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann have to show they're not airheaded flakes. Newt Gingrich has to prove he's not a vanity candidate after he failed to convince even his own staff that he was serious about his candidacy. And Mitt Romney has to show he's not mortally wounded by health care. Related: First GOP Debate with Recognizable Candidates Will Be on June 13 Tim Pawlenty: Not That Nice Related: 15 Months from the Convention, Here's Your Republican Field The former governor has been criticized as uncharismatic, boring, Mr. Minnesota Nice. Pawlenty's been working on seeming less meek by stepping up his attacks on Mitt Romney. On Sunday, Pawlenty tied President Obama's health care overhaul to the Massachusetts law signed by Romney that inspired it--blending the two bills into a nifty portmanteau: "Obamneycare." Although "Pawlenty is Romney's most formidable competitor," Politico's Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman explain, "he is not the most eye-catching one--that distinction likely goes to Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain, two camera-ready tea party candidates beloved by the cable news audience." Pawlenty didn't shine in the first Republican debate, so "If another debate comes and goes without Pawlenty putting serious political points on the board, voters--and more importantly, donors--are going to start wondering if he really has what it takes ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/insight-got-money-the-kremlin-can-help-reuters/ insight-got-money-the-kremlin-can-help-reuters Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:31:09 +0300 MOSCOW (Reuters) – On an overcast day in May, a clutch of the world's most powerful investors gathered in a 19th-century mansion in Moscow to hear a proposition from Vladimir Putin: invest in Russia, and we will invest with you. For forty minutes at the government's Vozdvizhenka guest house, the prime minister addressed private equity and sovereign wealth funds representing a combined $2 trillion of wealth. He was pitching a plan to launch a $10 billion state-backed fund that Russia hopes can win over those foreign investors who still regard the country as a no-go zone. There was "a lot of back and forth and some tough questions," one participant said, as guests pressed Putin to convince them that the rewards of investing in Russia can outweigh the risks. Can the Kremlin turn that image around? For many potential investors Russia is synonymous with corruption, weak rule of law and political risk, its reputation hurt by events such as the jailing of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In a straw poll at a major private equity conference in Boston last week, Russia was ranked as the least attractive investment destination of the BRICs -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. Russians themselves are moving money out of the country to hedge their bets ahead of a presidential vote next March, and even President Dmitry Medvedev has called the investment climate "very bad." "I could not agree more with the folks that decided not to vote on Russia (in the straw poll)," said David Roux, co-founder of U.S. private equity fund Silver ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apnewsbreak-study-advised-us-on-libya-hacking-ap/ apnewsbreak-study-advised-us-on-libya-hacking-ap Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:31:48 +0300 LONDON – Private computer experts advised U.S. officials on how cyberattacks could damage Libya's oil and gas infrastructure and rob Moammar Gadhafi's regime of crucial oil revenue, according to a study obtained by hackers. It remains unclear who commissioned "Project Cyber Dawn" and how much of a role the U.S. government played in it, but it shows the increasing amount of work being done by private companies in exposing foreign governments' vulnerabilities to cyber attack. "For the private sector to be making recommendations ... that's a level of ambition that you would not have seen until very recently," said Eli Jellenc, a cyber security expert with VeriSign Inc. who is not linked to the study or its authors. The study outlined ways to disable the coastal refinery at Ras Lanouf using a computer virus similar to the Stuxnet worm that led to a breakdown in Iran's enrichment program late last year. It catalogued several pieces of potentially exposed computer hardware used at the refinery. The study was discussed in some of nearly 1,000 emails stolen by hacking group Lulz Security from Delaware-based Internet surveillance firm Unveillance, LLC as part of an effort to show how vulnerable data can be. Most of the emails detail the day-to-day trivia of running a small technology startup, but others concern an effort to scout out vulnerabilities in Gadhafi's electronic infrastructure. Cyberwarfare has assumed an increasingly high profile following dramatic computer attacks on Google, Inc., U.S. defense contractors and the IMF. This month, the Pentagon is expected to release policy on whether some cyber attacks ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/imf-cyber-attack-boosts-calls-for-global-action-reuters/ imf-cyber-attack-boosts-calls-for-global-action-reuters Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:31:19 +0300 LONDON (Reuters) – Governments, multinational corporations and global institutions are losing the battle against computer hackers and must combine their resources if they are to lock out cyber intruders, experts say. The International Monetary Fund has joined Sony and Google on a growing list of hacking victims but it is hard to identify the culprits who consistently manage to keep one technological step ahead of their pursuers. "This is an example of technology developing faster than the frameworks and sometimes the regulations around that," said Unilever chief executive Paul Polman on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting in Jakarta. Cyber security experts say the only way to effectively combat the menace is for the public and private sectors to join forces and combine greater regulation with international action. "Clearly we are losing the battle," said Vijay Mukhi, one of India's leading cyber security experts. "We are not doing enough... every year we hope things will change but now people like me have turned cynical. It requires co-operation on a global scale," he said. Earlier this month, Internet giant Google pointed the finger at Chinese hackers for an attempt to access the Gmail accounts of assorted rights activists, officials and others. Entertainment giant Sony suffered serious damage to its reputation after hackers accessed the details of thousands of PlayStation users, while Lockheed Martin and Citi also reported attempts to steal data. The growing complexity and seriousness of cyber attacks has begun to break down some of the stigma of being a victim, firms, government and organisations realizing they must work together. "There has ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-apple-and-android-copy-each-other-contributornetwork/ how-apple-and-android-copy-each-other-contributornetwork Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:31:15 +0300 The iPad may be a "magical, revolutionary product." But sometimes it seems like there's nothing new under the sun, whether in the Android or Apple worlds. Here are some of the most egregious examples of copycatting! Android Android device manufacturers like Samsung have long copied Apple's style, almost to a T. Witness the photos and illustrations on All Things Digital, which show Samsung devices that look nearly identical to Apple's except for the logo. Meanwhile, the company's new Galaxy Tab tablets are basically generic-brand iPads, with the biggest difference (besides their Android operating system) being that they come in three different sizes. Of course, all Android tablet makers struggle to differentiate their wares from the iPad, since they all can be described as "like an iPad, but". Even in the smartphone world, even with Android's increasing market share, the iPhone is still the benchmark. That's no accident; Android itself has always been a copycat. Before the iPhone came out, the prototype Android device aped the BlackBerry, but now they all have multitouch screens and rows of app icons. Does Android have to be this way? I don't think so. HTC uses its HTC Sense overlay to create an extremely classy experience on its Android phones, one that's in many ways improved over the original. Meanwhile, Barnes and Noble redesigned Android's interface from the ground up for its Nook series of tablets, not just to be "original" but in order to make using a Nook easy and fun. So far, its strategy seems to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/for-china-activists-hacking-attacks-a-fact-of-life-reuters/ for-china-activists-hacking-attacks-a-fact-of-life-reuters Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:31:04 +0300 LONDON (Reuters) – Even working on her laptop in Amnesty International's London headquarters or talking on her mobile phone going around the city, Corinna-Barbara Francis suspects Chinese authorities are listening in. At a time when authorities in Beijing are carrying out the most serious crackdown on dissent since Tiananmen Square, the human rights group's China researcher says she simply assumes all her electronic data is already compromised. Whether or not she is right is almost impossible to know. Beijing angrily denies any suggestions of official complicity in a string of recent high-profile computer hacks including Internet giant Google, which said it traced an attempt illicitly to access accounts of activists and others to China. "We get dozens of attempts every day -- viruses and worms -- trying to attack our systems," Francis told Reuters, saying many appear to originate in China though proving it was much harder. "I simply assume that everything is being read. I would not keep the name of a particularly sensitive contact on my laptop, send it by e-mail or discuss it by phone." Such tradecraft has long been common among activists operating in authoritarian states. The difference now, she says, is that the borderless nature of the Internet means activists assume the reach of state spies from sophisticated authoritarian states now extends into the very fabric of western nations. "Even in the UK, the phone system is not beyond the reach of the Chinese government," she said. "I might write a name down... with paper and pen but often I won't even do that." One colleague, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vips-conspiracy-theorists-descend-on-swiss-resort-ap/ vips-conspiracy-theorists-descend-on-swiss-resort-ap Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:00:26 +0300 BERN, Switzerland – A secretive gathering of senior government officials and business executives is wrapping up a weekend meeting at the Swiss resort of St. Moritz. The annual Bilderberg meeting's Web site said its annual conference ending Sunday dealt mainly with challenges for growth, security and democracy in Europe, the Middle East and China. The 130 attendees from Europe, North America and other countries — among the invitees were EU President Herman Van Rompuy, members of European royalty, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt — keep up an informal, off-the-record tradition that conspiracy theorists consider almost a shadow world government. This year's conference was held at an Alpine luxury hotel patrolled by private security guards. It drew a left-wing demonstration Saturday. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. BERN, Switzerland (AP) — An elite and secretive gathering of senior government officials and captains of industry is wrapping up a weekend confab at the chic Swiss resort of St. Moritz. The annual Bilderberg meeting's Web site said its annual conference ending Sunday dealt mainly with challenges for growth, security and democracy in Europe, the Middle East and China. The 130 attendees from Europe, North America and other countries — among the invitees were EU President Herman Van Rompuy, members of European royalty, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt — keep up an informal, off-the-record tradition that conspiracy theorists consider almost a shadow world government. This year's conference was held at ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pick-your-phone-by-your-personality-digital-trends/ pick-your-phone-by-your-personality-digital-trends Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:31:13 +0300 Android phones, Windows phones, iPhones and BlackBerrys, while seemingly very similar, actually appear to appeal to very different users. After using all four, I prefer the Windows Phone, while many of the folks I travel with use iPhones or Android phones, and a lot of the financial analysts I run into carry a BlackBerry. In looking at the strengths and weaknesses of each, I think I can define what attracts folks to each phone. These aren’t absolutes by any means, but picking a phone that matches your personality can be a quick way for new smartphone users to get up to speed on the fundamental differences between each operating system. We’ll go alphabetically. Android users Android phones tend to be the most advanced technically, but often the most raw. Most applications are free, but privacy and security aren’t really Google’s thing, since the phones are partially funded by an advertising model. Android phone users are likely the closest to technology geeks; the phones are best used by guys who like to tinker with things and folks who like a bargain. Android users want the most choice in carriers and phone designs, and don’t mind a little aggravation in exchange for having something that is different. Their personal motto is likely “viva la difference.” BlackBerry users The BlackBerry is arguably the best phone (for those who forgot what a pone is supposed to do, it is supposed to easily take and make phone calls) in its class. It does a few things really well, like PDA features, but lacks much ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pentru-ce-companie-din-it-trebuie-sa-lucrezi-ca-sa-ai-un-salariu-anual-de-peste-140000-de-dolari-lista-orientativa-a-salariilor-pe-care-le-platesc-gigantii-it-americani/ pentru-ce-companie-din-it-trebuie-sa-lucrezi-ca-sa-ai-un-salariu-anual-de-peste-140000-de-dolari-lista-orientativa-a-salariilor-pe-care-le-platesc-gigantii-it-americani Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:32:50 +0300 Rezultatele unui studiu realizat de firma americană de cercetare de piaţă Payscale arată că Google plăteşte cele mai mari salarii medii din industria IT: 141.000 dolari pe an. Astfel se confirmă că gigantul IT care deţine cel mai mare motor de căutare din lume este cel mai bun angajator. În cadrul studiului au fost analizate salariile, loialitatea, satisfacţia oferită de job, beneficiile şi bonusurile a nouă companii mari. Deşi nu s-a realizat un top, Google a excelat la fiecare categorie, scrie Business Insider. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/casey-anthony39s-trial-is-one-hot-ticket/ casey-anthony39s-trial-is-one-hot-ticket Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:02:29 +0300 Orlando, Florida (CNN) -- Casey Anthony, also known as the "tot mom," is no Lady Gaga, but her murder trial here is the hottest ticket in town. People spend the night waiting in line for one of 50 courtroom seats reserved for the public. Tempers flare and police are called. And then, once they're given a ticket, they stampede like cattle. Only in Florida, where criminal justice can be a spectator sport, are Disney World passes the back-up option. Anthony, a 25-year-old high school dropout, is accused of capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. If convicted of murder, she faces the death penalty. What's the big draw? "Lie after lie," says one trial watcher. "I can't imagine the grief that family has gone through," says another. "I'm here for Caylee," says yet another. "I'm waiting for Casey to step up and tell us what happened." If the first two weeks of the trial focused on family ties, secrets and lies, the third week was all about the forensics. The case is at its most gruesome stage as jurors and spectators hear how duct tape was placed over Caylee's nose and mouth and that animals gnawed on her tiny bones. She was wearing a T-shirt that said "Big trouble comes in small packages," and was buried in a trash bag in a lot not far from her grandparents' home. The bug expert was the top attraction on Saturday -- Day 16. It was, as one trial watcher in line observed, like "'Law & Order' meets 'CSI.'" Competition for seats ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/imf-latest-target-in-string-of-cyber-attacks-reuters/ imf-latest-target-in-string-of-cyber-attacks-reuters Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:31:13 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund is investigating a cyber attack on its computer systems, an IMF spokesman said on Saturday, the most recent incident of computer hackers breaching security at high-profile institutions. "The fund is fully functional," said IMF spokesman David Hawley. "I can confirm that we are investigating an incident. I am not in a position to elaborate further on the extent of the cybersecurity incident." The IMF, which has sensitive information on the economics of many nations, was hit during the last several months by what computer experts described as a large and sophisticated cyber attack, The New York Times reported. The newspaper said the IMF's board of directors was told on Wednesday about the attack. The incident comes when attacks on computer systems are on the rise -- especially ones targeting major companies and potentially compromising government security and customer information. Recently, there have been major attacks on defense contractor Lockheed Martin, Citigroup Inc, Sony Corp and Google . The attack on Lockheed involved compromising its "SecurID" electronic keys issued by EMC's Ltd RSA Security division. SecurIDs are widely used electronic keys to computer systems, designed to thwart hackers by requiring two passcodes: one that is fixed and another that is automatically generated every few seconds by the security system. The IMF is seeking a new head following the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn after he was charged with the sexual assault of a New York hotel maid. (Reporting by Lisa Shumaker; Editing by Peter Cooney) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-shareholder-calls-for-separate-ceo-chairman-ap/ rim-shareholder-calls-for-separate-ceo-chairman-ap Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:01:02 +0300 NEW YORK – BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. is already struggling to keep up with rivals such as Apple Inc. Now it faces another challenge: dissident shareholders who are calling for changes in how the company is run. A Canadian investment firm is calling for RIM to separate the roles of CEO and chairman, saying that's vital for the board to be able to do its job. Shareholder-rights groups often support separating the two positions. A board of directors is tasked with overseeing the CEO, which can be difficult if the CEO is also chairman of the board. The firm, Northwest & Ethical Investments, is also asking that the company require any future board chairmen to be independent from the company, which essentially means that they cannot be RIM employees. Shareholders will vote on NEI's proposal at the annual meeting July 12 in RIM's hometown of Waterloo, Ontario. RIM has an unusual leadership structure, where two executives, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, serve as both co-CEOs and co-chairmen. The company is asking shareholders to vote against NEI's proposal, saying that the board's lead independent director serves many of the functions that a chairman would. Balsillie and Lazaridis have long histories at the company. In 2009, they settled allegations with the SEC and the Ontario Securities Commission about stock options that had allegedly been backdated. As part of the settlement, Balsillie agreed to step down from the board for about a year. In March, RIM reported higher revenue and net income for the fiscal year ended Feb. 26. But in April, it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-isn39t-android-as-polished-as-the-iphone-contributornetwork/ why-isn39t-android-as-polished-as-the-iphone-contributornetwork Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:01:15 +0300 Let's get this out of the way first: Android isn't a phone but an operating system. It's a component, that manufacturers like HTC use to make smartphones. Because of that, the level of fit and finish varies. Why Isn't Android As Polished As The iPhone Is? between Android phones, from HTC's sleek and streamlined HTC Sense to Motorola's iffy-at-best MotoBLUR. If you've spent awhile using an Android phone and an iPhone, though, it's hard to deny the iPhone just looks more "done" than any given Android phone does. Not so much in hardware design, usually, but in how nice of an experience it and its apps are to use. So why is that? Different cultures I don't just mean something like "Apple's from Venus and Google's from Mars." To see why Apple and Google's products are different, you need to know why they make them. Apple makes shiny things that people want to buy; Google gives stuff away for free and then makes it up on ads. And while manufacturers like HTC are obviously in the "shiny things" business, they're still in the Android ecosystem, and Google's work really affects them. Basically, when Apple's thinking of what to do for its iPhone, its biggest question is always "How will this affect the user experience?" Meanwhile, Google's biggest question is "How will this help us sell ads?" It's not that Google doesn't care about quality, or that Apple doesn't care about ad revenue (witness iAds). It's that these things are secondary to their main purposes. How this plays out A ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/les-paul-google-doodle-gets-standalone-site-pc-magazine/ les-paul-google-doodle-gets-standalone-site-pc-magazine Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:05:38 +0300 Music fans, rejoice! The popularity of the playable Les Paul Google doodle has prompted the search engine to create a standalone site where users can play to their hearts' content. "With all the great tunes you've created, we had to give the #LesPaul doodle a permanent home. Keep on rockin!" Google tweeted Friday night. You can find the site at google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html. Play the logo just as you did on the Google.com homepage; U.S. users can record and share their masterpieces. The Thursday doodle, in honor of musician and electric guitar pioneer Les Paul, features the strings of a guitar in the shape of the Google logo. That logo is actually playable—strum it with your mouse and it plays a song. The concept is arguably now one of the search giant's most popular homepage creations. The company even left it up an additional day in the U.S. due to popular demand. Here in the PCMag offices, the newsroom was filled with the sounds of amateur musicians crafting their own masterpieces all day Thursday. We eventually asked Chris Phillips, PCMag's creative director and an actual musician, to play us a real song and he mapped out directions for using the doodle to play the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun." Other users posted their creations to Twitter and Facebook, and uploaded to YouTube in droves. We selected a few favorites, and also checked out the celebrities who tried their hand at the doodle. This is not the first doodle to get the standalone treatment. A May 2010 playable tribute to Pac-Man's 30th anniversary proved ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/20-years-later-madonna-imitating-9-year-old-steals-heart-of-internet-video-mashable/ 20-years-later-madonna-imitating-9-year-old-steals-heart-of-internet-video-mashable Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:32:48 +0300 [More from Mashable: Spotify Signs Deal With Universal Music [REPORT]] Summer is all about dancing and good times by the beach, which is why we're so happy that the above video has emerged from the mists of time: A talented child voguing to Madonna in 1991. In the video's description, Robert Jeffrey explains: "I performed to Madonna's 'Vogue' in the Summer of 1991 when my parents took me to Hampton Beach Casino in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. A business in the casino at the time gave tourists the chance to lip-synch to their favorite pop songs in front of a blue screen background, and I was lucky enough to partake that summer." [More from Mashable: 7 Les Paul Google Doodle Tunes From Mashable Readers] Now the video has gone viral, with 144,000 views on Friday alone. Can we get a revival tour, Jeffrey? This story originally published on Mashable here. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/spotify-signs-deal-with-universal-music-report-mashable/ spotify-signs-deal-with-universal-music-report-mashable Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:32:53 +0300 Back in February, Spotify was "a few weeks away" from signing a deal with Universal Music. Apparently, those "few weeks" were actually months. All Things Digital is reporting that the European streaming music service has inked a deal with UMG. That means Spotify now has deals with three of the four major labels: UMG, EMI and Sony. Warner Music Group has yet to get out a pen, but All Things D says it's close, which means that the service could finally be coming to the U.S. [More from Mashable: The Top 5 Sony Announcements at E3 [PHOTOS]] What’s the holdup? The U.S. record companies are reportedly not overly enthusiastic about Spotify’s “freemium” business model, where the company gives away ad-supported music in hopes of signing paying subscribers to its ad-free version. That premium service lets users choose and replay their music. Still, Spotify started cutting back on free music in May, requiring users to pay for deeper access, so the company is clearly open to compromise. [More from Mashable: 20 Years Later, Madonna-Imitating 9-Year-Old Steals Heart of Internet [VIDEO]] It seems rumors have been swirling about Spotify nonstop lately, with folks speculating that it would partner with Google for a cloud-based music service (it didn't) and that Facebook is interested in teaming up (it's probably not). This recent deal can't be confirmed with Spotify as the company never comments on such deals, but it doesn't seem out of the question. All four major labels recently signed licensing deals with Apple for its iTunes to the Cloud and iTunes Match services, which ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/archaeology39s-tech-revolution-since-indiana-jones-livesciencecom/ archaeology39s-tech-revolution-since-indiana-jones-livesciencecom Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:05:04 +0300 Let′s face it, Indiana Jones was a pretty lousy archaeologist. He destroyed his sites, used a bullwhip instead of a trowel and was more likely to kill his peers than co-author a paper with them. Regardless, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," which celebrates its 30th anniversary on June 12, did make studying the past cool for an entire generation of scientists. Those modern archaeologists whom "Raiders" inspired luckily learned from the mistakes of Dr. Jones, and use advanced technology such as satellite imaging, airborne laser mapping, robots and full-body medical scanners instead of a scientifically useless whip. Such innovations have allowed archaeologists to spot buried pyramids from space, create 3-D maps of ancient Mayan ruins from the air, explore the sunken wrecks of Roman ships and find evidence ofheart disease in 3,000-year-old mummies. Most of the new toolkit comes from fields such as biology, chemistry, physics or engineering, as well as commercial gadgets that include GPS, laptops and smartphones. "If we dig part of a site, we destroy it," said David Hurst Thomas, a curator in anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. "Technology lets us find out a lot more about it before we go in, like surgeons who use CT and MRI scans." Archaeologists have harnessed such tools to find ancient sites of interest more easily than ever before. They can dig with greater confidence and less collateral damage, apply the latest lab techniques to ancient human artifacts or remains, and better pinpoint when people or objects existed in time. Satellites mark the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/itunes-match-may-be-a-compromise-for-the-music-industry-and-p2p-file-sharing-digital-trends/ itunes-match-may-be-a-compromise-for-the-music-industry-and-p2p-file-sharing-digital-trends Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:33:16 +0300 Apple’s answer to music streaming is finally upon us, and now iCloud will assume the responsibility as iTunes for the Web, as well as MobileMe replacement. It’s a feature a long time in the making and one every Internet company is trying to offer, and iCloud’s familiar UI and price tag (or lack thereof) will likely give it a nice comfortable cushion to launch on. What will cost you is iTunes Match. For a $25 annual fee, iTunes Match will grab all your non-iTunes-purchased (or otherwise obtained…) music, find its information in the iTunes Store. It will pull this data, and sync it with your cloud-based music library while also converting those files to a 2456 Kpbs DRM-free AAC format, making it available on all your iOS devices. This also means you don’t have to go through the painful process of manually uploading your non-iTunes-purchased music file by file. The entire cloud-based music storage and player has gotten a lot of attention lately for its impact on record companies. Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player both struggled to find compromise here: Google has yet to get song permissions and Amazon got sued for failing to do so and using music anyway. There were reports that the music industry wanted Google to use its music player as a sort of watchdog for P2P file sharing. So at first glance, it may seem like music industry execs would be horrified that iTunes Match will convert many an illegally downloaded song and wrap it up with everything its paid-for version ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/emusic-aims-to-launch-cloud-this-year-reuters/ emusic-aims-to-launch-cloud-this-year-reuters Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:33:41 +0300 NASHVILLE (Billboard) – Subscription-based download store eMusic is planning to follow its competitors into the cloud in the second half of the year. The company is "hoping by Q4 of this year" to launch the cloud-based service, CEO Adam Klein told Billboard.biz. The service will allow its customers to stream the songs they already own to multiple devices, he said. If that model sounds familiar, it's because eMusic is taking the same approach as Apple, Amazon and Google. In the last three months, all three companies have launched cloud-based services that store users' music files and allow for playback on many Internet-connected devices. It's a model that emphasizes both ownership and access. "We think they're doing exactly the right thing," says Klein. Another approach is to give consumers access to a large collection of songs. This is the business model of Rhapsody, Radio, MOG, Napster, Spotify and Sony's Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity. And as Billboard.biz has reported, Hewlett-Packard is in negotiations with rights holders to launch this type of access-based service. While most allow consumers to purchase downloads, these are primarily streaming services that emphasize access over ownership. Both the access and ownership approaches to cloud-based services allow users to stream their music collections from a variety of Internet-connected devices. Amazon's Cloud Drive, for example, can be accessed through either the browser-based Cloud Player or its Amazon MP3 app for Android devices. Google's Music Beta similarly allows users to stream songs from a browser or Android app. Spotify, which has yet to launch in the U.S., has a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-seen-buying-admeld-investor39s-business-daily/ google-seen-buying-admeld-investor39s-business-daily Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:33:33 +0300 The search leader has bought online ad company Admeld for about $400 mil to boost its display ad business, according to published reports. Admeld helps publishers sell display ads, with advertisers bidding to reach certain Web users. The company is the latest in Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) buying spree as it tries to diversify from search ads. Its display ads generate about $2.5 bil a year, a small fraction of total revenue. Shares fell 1.5% to 509.51. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hewlett-packard-in-talks-for-building-cloud-service-reuters/ hewlett-packard-in-talks-for-building-cloud-service-reuters Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:33:54 +0300 NEW YORK (Billboard) – While the music industry focuses on Apple, Google and Amazon, Hewlett-Packard is quietly making plans-again-for its own locker-based service. Multiple sources at the major labels report that the discussions are heating up. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and technology company is engaged in conversations with the majors about building a cloud service that would eventually offer music, movies and TV shows. Those discussions began a few months ago. In April, Precentral.net reported that a marketing presentation for HP's TouchPad (due July 1) noted that the device would include HP stores for music and movies. "The TouchPad will come with a music-synching solution built in that utilizes cloud servers to synch and remotely store your music," the story said. The article also reported that marketing materials stated that the TouchPad would allow users to stream music they don't yet own. While that indicates the scope of HP's ambitions, which music industry executives confirm, it also reveals that the company might've been a bit ahead of itself in those marketing materials. Why? Because, music industry sources caution, as recently as this week, that the discussions remain in the early stages, and that HP has yet to set up parameters for what it wants to do-or even a timeline. "They're debating doing something like Qriocity for a variety of media, which can be delivered on any HP device," a major-label executive says. "We don't know how serious they are." That's because HP has been down this path before. For almost a decade, HP has been studying the music industry ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/for-music-industry-icloud-poised-to-be-revolutionary-reuters/ for-music-industry-icloud-poised-to-be-revolutionary-reuters Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:04:03 +0300 DENVER (Billboard) – Seen through the eyes of a music fan, Apple's new iCloud feature is hardly a groundbreaking digital music experience. But stared through the eyes of the music industry, it's revolutionary. The licensing deals that record labels and publishers struck with Apple to initially make music available in iCloud allow them to share in the value of an Apple product or service, beyond the mere purchase of music itself. Since the dawn of the iPod and iTunes, the music industry profited from those platforms only when someone actually bought music on iTunes. But by Apple's own admission, only 3 percent of the music stored in the average iTunes user's digital library was purchased from the Apple music store. The rest came from ripped CDs or was downloaded from peer-to-peer (P2P) services or elsewhere. As such, the industry saw only a fraction of the value in the iTunes/iPod ecosystem -- what one music executive called a "tip jar." With iCloud, the labels share in it all. Apple will store 5 GB of music bought from iTunes for free in iCloud. It also charges $25 per year to scan and match users' existing music collections for songs not purchased from the iTunes store against the iTunes library, and then let users redownload up to 25,000 tracks in 256 kbps quality to the same devices. So labels get paid both ways. Buy a song in iTunes, labels get a cut. Store a song not from iTunes in iCloud, labels get a cut too. "All of the content in Apple's iCloud is going ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google39s-guitar-logo-plays-an-encore/ google39s-guitar-logo-plays-an-encore Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:06:08 +0300 (CNN) -- Internet procrastinators got a second day to improvise virtual guitar tunes, thanks to the popularity of Google's homepage guitar logo. The "doodle," as Google refers to its one-off logo designs, featured a six-string guitar, which let visitors record 30-second songs by strumming chords with a flick of the mouse. Google posted the widget in honor of electric-guitar guru Les Paul's 96th birthday Thursday. Paul died in 2009 at age 94. "Due to popular demand, we're leaving the Les Paul doodle up in the U.S. for an extra day," Google wrote via Twitter. "Thanks for jamming with us!" Remember the interactive Pac-Man doodle from last year? It was such a hit that Google gave it a permanent site. It's unclear whether the Les Paul tribute will get the same treatment. Whether it was 30 seconds of random strumming or a complicated cover, Google users have come up with a catalog of original songs since Thursday. Here are some of our favorite compositions: One user composed a convincing rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," as well as Hans Zimmer's "Pirates of the Caribbean" theme song. Some people are just talented at plucking digital guitar strings. But perhaps the most innovative arrangement was a version of "Billie Jean" that layered sounds from three versions of the doodle, comprising the melody, bass and rhythm of the Michael Jackson hit. Many Google users chose to cover songs with iconic guitar solos, but one creative digital musician condensed Andrew Lloyd Webber's theme from "Cats" into a brief guitar melody. The main riff from classic rock band ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/no-new-39drunk-driving39-apps-for-apple-afp/ no-new-39drunk-driving39-apps-for-apple-afp Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:33:10 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Apple, in a move hailed by a group of US senators, has agreed not to allow any new iPhone applications in the App Store that identify police drunk-driving checkpoints. Senators Harry Reid, Charles Schumer, Frank Lautenberg and Tom Udall urged Apple, Blackberry maker Research In Motion and Google in March to ban smartphone applications that could help intoxicated drivers avoid police. The Canada-based RIM immediately complied but Apple and Google initially refused. Apple, however, changed its App Store guidelines this week to ban future applications that contain information on drunk-driving checkpoints not published by the police. The senators praised the move but expressed disappointment that the California gadget-maker had declined to remove existing applications from the App Store. "I commend Apple Inc for taking this important first step towards making our roads and neighborhoods safer from drunk drivers," Reid said. "However, I strongly encourage Apple to take the next responsible step of removing all applications that allow unsafe drivers to evade police checkpoints." One popular smartphone program, PhantomAlert, asks potential customers on its website: "Tired of traffic tickets? The embarrassment, the time, the points, the frustration, the money?" "You will be alerted as you approach: Railroad Crossings, Dangerous Intersections, Dangerous Curves, Speed Bumps, Speed Traps, Speed Cameras, Red Light Cameras, School Zones, DUI Checkpoints." DUI means "driving under the influence," or intoxicated. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/crowe-removes-apologizes-for-anti-circumcision-tweets-reuters/ crowe-removes-apologizes-for-anti-circumcision-tweets-reuters Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:33:45 +0300 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Russell Crowe went on an anti-circumcision tirade on Twitter late Thursday and early Friday morning, later taking down his cutting Tweets and apologizing for offending anyone. Read one: "Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that GOD requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are perfect." When a follower wrote, "There's actually a scientific reason for, u should google it," Crowe replied: "My friend, 'human' science has caused too much damage, don't be a moron." Another follower called the practice hygenic, and Crowe replied, "Hygenic? Why don't you sew up your ass then?" Writing to his "Man With An Iron Fist Director" Eli Roth, he Tweeted "many jewish friends, I love my Jewish friends, I love the apples and the honey and the funny little hats but stop cutting yr babies @eliroth" Snapped back Roth: "You didn't seem to be complaining when I was recutting you this afternoon..." But he also defended the actor, saying he was joking and he was glad to be working with him. Other posts included: - "I will always stand for the perfection of babies, i will always believe in God, not man's interpretation of what God requires." - "last of it, if u feel it is yr right 2 cut things off yr babies please unfollow and f**k off,I'll take attentive parenting over barbarism." When a followed asked if he was "comparing sexual mutilation w/ a jewish ceremonial act?!", Crowe wrote: "Can you actually read the words you just typed 'a ceremonial act', F--- that. The Mayans ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/anonymous-arrests-unlikely-to-shift-threat-landscape-newsfactor/ anonymous-arrests-unlikely-to-shift-threat-landscape-newsfactor Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:33:00 +0300 Spanish police on Friday celebrated the arrest of three men who are allegedly part of the computer hacking group that launched cyberattacks against Sony's PlayStation Network, among others. Spain's National Police said the three were among the local leadership of an international network known as Anonymous, a group of so-called hacktivists who use denial-of-service attacks to bring down web sites. Anonymous gained fame last year when it issued a hit list of web sites hostile to WikiLeaks. The group went on to attack PayPal and MasterCard, which had stopped donations to WikiLeaks after the U.S. government shut down the site. Understanding Hacktivists "The escalating number of attacks and the continuing ability of hackers to apparently be able to get into corporate and government web sites with impunity has really shaken a lot of people up," noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "That said, the efforts of groups of independents like the Anonymous group or even WikiLeaks seem to have their roots in the traditional methodology of the hackers that we remember with some fondness from the 90s and later. These are people who were either personally or politically motivated and a bit sociopathic, but their aims are somewhat beyond mere filthy lucre." The More Serious Threat Although there's plenty of attention to the arrest of the trio of Anonymous hackers, King said there's a much more formidable presence in the hacking world that's accounting for a greater number of financially damaging attacks. Specifically, he pointed to this week's attack on Citigroup and systematic lootings of intellectual property that are ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pandora-raises-ipo-price-afp/ pandora-raises-ipo-price-afp Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:02:42 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Internet radio star Pandora is turning up the volume on its initial public offering. Pandora, in a filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, set a debut price of between $10 and $12 a share, up from the previous $7 to $9 and giving the offering a maximum value of $202.6 million, up from $141 million. The Oakland, California-based music streaming service, which plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "P," also said it was raising the number of shares to be sold by one million to 14.7 million. Pandora has said it is going public in a bid to get the money it needs to grow and become profitable, and to deal with an accumulated operating deficit. Pandora's revenue has been insufficient to offset the cost of paying royalties on songs, and getting big enough to tip the balance with more paid advertising is essential, the startup indicated. In the latest filing, Pandora said it had more than 90 million registered users in April. Pandora is available for the iPhone, the Blackberry, the Palm Pre, and devices running Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating systems, but does not currently provide service outside the United States. The service is hoping to take advantage of recent investor enthusiasm for technology stocks on Wall Street. Business-oriented social network LinkedIn launched on the New York Stock Exchange on May 19 and saw its stock price more than double on the first day. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/first-chromebooks-available-for-pre-order-digital-trends/ first-chromebooks-available-for-pre-order-digital-trends Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:32:59 +0300 Electronics retailers Amazon.com and Best Buy are now taking pre-orders for the first two Chromebooks, lightweight notebook computers running Google’s cloud-dependent Chrome OS. The units, announced last month at Google IO, are made by Acer and Samsung, and represent Google’s first effort in the desktop operating system market. The notebooks rely on Internet connectivity to connect to Web-based apps and storage, and Chrome OS is based on bringing a simplified, browser-based experience to users: there’s no real way to access the file system, and right now users are limited to only a handful of apps. But Google’s hope is that by providing streamlined, simplified access to cloud-based applications and services, Chromebooks will be a hit with consumers looking for an inexpensive computing option—and the ability to access their data anywhere they can get an Internet connection. Samsung’s Series 5 Chromebook features is powered by an Intel Atom processor and sports a 12.1-inch 1,280 by 800-pixel display, 2 GB of RAM, WiFi, mini-VGA video output, an oversized trackpad, along with two USB 2.0 ports and a 4-in-1 media card reader—Samsung says the systems will get up to 8.5 hours of battery life on a single charge. Acer’s Cromia Chromebook is also built on an Intel Atom processor features an 11.6-inch display, HD webcam, Wi-Fi, two USB 2.0 ports, HDMI output a 4-in-1 media card reader, and a full-sized keyboard: the unit also promises an 8-second boot time. Both units are available with 3G options. The Acer Cromia starts at $380, and jumps to $450 for a version with ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/eu-states-agree-on-tougher-sanctions-on-cybercrime-reuters/ eu-states-agree-on-tougher-sanctions-on-cybercrime-reuters Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:33:05 +0300 BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU countries agreed on Friday on tougher sanctions against people conducting cyber attacks such as those registered in recent weeks against the French government, European institutions and Citigroup. Under the new rules, which have to be agreed by the European Parliament, hackers would face a sentence of at least five years if found guilty of causing serious damage to IT systems. Tougher penalties would also affect perpetrators of attacks through botnets -- networks of infected computers programed to send spam emails -- and target identity theft. Illegally intercepting data would become a criminal offence in the EU. The EU's 27 member states have also decided to boost their judicial and police cooperation by creating a cybercrime unit which could be attached to Europol, the European police agency. "We will be able to take steps in the future based on that broad support from member states," Hungary's Justice and Public Administration Minister Tibor Navracsics told reporters after meeting his counterparts in Luxembourg. Governments across the world are rushing to come up with cyber security strategies because of mounting concerns over criminal hacking and state-on-state electronic warfare. In February, France suffered an attack before a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Paris and EU institutions were targeted on the eve of a summit of European leaders in March. This week, 200,000 Citigroup card holders' information was accessed by hackers, after a string of companies such as Google , Sony Corp, Nintendo, Lockheed Martin were also attacked. (Reporting by Christopher Le Coq; Editing by Julien Toyer and Jon Hemming) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/motorola-photon-4g-and-triumph-hands-on-impressions-digital-trends/ motorola-photon-4g-and-triumph-hands-on-impressions-digital-trends Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:33:11 +0300 Sprint has teamed up with Motorola to boost its repertoire of phones. The Photon 4G leads the pack for Sprint’s next-generation WiMAX-enable devices, while the new Triumph gives Virgin Mobile pre-paid customers a solid Android smarphone option. At a press event in New York City today, Sprint and Motorola announced a revamped partnership that will bring 10 new devices to the Sprint and its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile brands this year. Today’s biggest announcements include the Google Android-based Motorola Photon 4G for Sprint, and the Motorola Triumph, a pre-paid option for Virgin Mobile, both of which will be available this summer. No pricing options for either device have yet been announced. Below, a hands-on look at what the Photon 4G and the Triumph have to offer. Motorola Photon 4G The first dual-core handset to launch on Sprint’s network, the Photon 4G is powered by Nvidia’s robust 1GHz Tegra 2 CPU and has 1GB of RAM – twice the memory of the similarly spec’ed Droid Bionic – to give the device the speed and power expected of next-generation “superphones.” The bright and crisp 4.3-inch qHD display doesn’t disappoint – even iPhone 4 fans would have trouble finding much to criticize here. To support the massive display, Motorola included a kickstand, which automatically sets the phone into landscape mode when it’s pried open. Photon’s 8-megapixel rear-facing camera allows for 720p HD shooting capabilities, and is a nice step-up from the Motorola Atrix 4G, which sports a 5-megapixel camera. Plus, the micro-HDMI port allows for 720p HD video output to a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/20-questions-for-warren-buffett-the-motley-fool/ 20-questions-for-warren-buffett-the-motley-fool Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:02:42 +0300 It's that time of year again: Warren Buffett is auctioning off a lunch -- with himself. The eBay auction ends this afternoon. Last year's winning bid hit $2.6 million. As of Friday morning, the top bid was $2.3 million (proceeds go to charity). Most of us don't have that kind of money. Even if we did, $2 million is a bit steep for a meal, regardless of whom it's with. But what would you ask Buffett if you had his ear for a few hours? Here are 20 things I'd want to know. 1. You've been extremely open over the years. You give interviews. You write op-eds. Your annual meetings attract tens of thousands. Yet you haven't written a book. Why? 2. It's rumored that you keep around $500 million in a personal portfolio that invests in situations too small for Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B - News) to touch. How has this portfolio done over the years? 3. Your partner, Charlie Munger, has said that if you remove just a few of Berkshire's top investments, its long-term track record is pretty average. Some have used this to claim that at least part -- maybe most -- of Berkshire's success has been a fluke. Is there any merit to that? 4. A lot of Berkshire's success has relied on the decentralization of subsidiaries. That, in turn, is dependent on your ability to find trustworthy managers. But the David Sokol ordeal shows that this isn't fail-proof. Do you worry that a manager could "slip through the cracks," so to speak, and cause irreparable ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/dell-to-launch-10-inch-android-tablet-in-china-reuters/ dell-to-launch-10-inch-android-tablet-in-china-reuters Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:30:45 +0300 SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Dell Inc has chosen to launch its new 10-inch Android tablet in China this summer, passing up on a U.S., Europe launch, as China emerges as a front line battle for tablets. The tablet named "Streak 10 Pro" will target Chinese "prosumers," a term used to describe advanced-level consumers, Amit Midha, Dell's President of Greater China and South Asia, said on a corporate blog on Thursday. Dell, which is also working on a Windows 7-based tablet for enterprise customers due later this year, will evaluate launches of the Android tablet in other regions in the second half of the year, he said. Dell's decision to launch a 10-inch tablet in China is a signal of the market's growing importance to the company. Dell's China sales grew 22 percent in the first quarter while its retail presence in China exceeds 10,000 sales points, Midha said. "In China in particular, we're currently number 2 in the Chinese PC market and we're seeing a significant increase in the number of small- and medium-business users, who are adopting mobility products as part of their growth plans," he said. Dell has chosen China to launch new products before. In 2009, Dell announced it will enter the smartphone market starting in China before moving into Brazil. By launching the Android tablet in China, Dell hopes to give more time to developers to develop applications for the device as China blocks some Google applications and the Android Market is not yet available. The tablet market is currently dominated by Apple Inc's iPads, Samsung Electronics and Motorola Mobility ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-steve-jobs39-pixar-experience-helped-lead-to-apple39s-icloud/ how-steve-jobs39-pixar-experience-helped-lead-to-apple39s-icloud Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:06:13 +0300 (CNN) -- The folks at Amazon and Google must have been wringing their hands on Monday when Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off a new service called iTunes Match. That all-important "one more thing" from Apple's software presentation is part of the iCloud Web application and storage suite. It was a coup of sorts -- and Apple's win over competitors could be attributed to Jobs' experience at Pixar Animation Studios, which he co-founded. Here's what Apple pulled off: With a free iCloud account, all songs purchased from iTunes can be accessed from any Apple gadget or computer with iTunes installed. (Amazon has done something similar with Cloud Drive.) For $25 a year, iTunes in the Cloud stores a maximum of 20,000 songs on Apple's servers, ready to access from various gizmos. And, importantly, Apple did this with the blessing of the music industry. Amazon and Google, on the other hand, couldn't get the record labels to agree to their terms. Cloud Drive and Google's Music Beta require users to upload every single track to their servers, a process that can take hours or days. Apple, the largest music retailer, somehow managed to convince the labels and publishers to go along with its plan to use a scan-and-match process. iTunes Match looks at the user's music library and grants the keys to high-quality versions of those songs. It uses a don't-ask-don't-tell policy: Napster who? How did Apple pull off something Amazon and Google couldn't, despite them launching cloud-music services first? For one, Apple has a history with the music industry as long as ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/shanda-games-says-online-game-hacked-reuters/ shanda-games-says-online-game-hacked-reuters Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:03:24 +0300 (Reuters) – Chinese online game developer Shanda Games Ltd said one of its online games was hacked earlier this month, and it had to close about 5,000 accounts that had taken advantage of a design flaw. Shanda, which became aware of the flaw in its "Legend of Immortals" online game, said it corrected the flaw within 24 hours. "Accounts using robot programs were able to exploit the flaw by repeatedly performing the same quest and obtain virtual gold coins for free for use in the game, and caused temporary inflation in the in-game economy in certain servers," the company said in a statement. Shanda is the latest in a growing list of companies that have suffered cyber attacks, including Citigroup Inc, Sony, Google Inc and Lockheed Martin. Shares of the company were trading slightly down at $6.32 on Friday morning on Nasdaq. (Reporting by A. Ananthalakshmi in Bangalore; Editing by Roshni Menon) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/when-will-china-become-a-global-superpower/ when-will-china-become-a-global-superpower Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:06:18 +0300 (CNN) -- China is now synonymous with the term "emerging" superpower -- almost every reference to the country makes some mention of its future global prowess, both economic and military. But while few question China's rise and its existing might, when will we be able to drop the "emerging" tag and simply refer to the country as a superpower -- much like the U.S. is perceived today? Already a significant regional power in Asia -- only India and Japan offer any kind of credible competition -- China is already increasing its global influence with its economic policies in Africa, Latin America and Europe, according to analysts. But many experts believe that for a country to become a true global power, it needs both unrivalled economic and military dominance. Lawrence Saez, senior lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, in London, says: "When China decides to take over Taiwan, that is when it will be a superpower. Unquestionably that will be the day." China regards Taiwan as part of its territory. It has vowed to use force against the island if it ever formally sought independence. "The tipping point is military, to have the ability to threaten your neighbors, threaten military action without the threat of challenge. China knows it would lose a war with the U.S. today," adds Saez, who thinks China will overtake the U.S. as a military superpower within the next 20 years. Alexander Neill, senior Asia research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a London-based thinktank, says: "When it can truly challenge the U.S. (militarily), ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/stock-futures-signal-lower-start-for-wall-street-reuters/ stock-futures-signal-lower-start-for-wall-street-reuters Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:32:39 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) Stock index futures pointed to a lower start for Wall Street, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.1 percent, Dow Jones industrial average futures down 0.2 percent and Nasdaq futures down 0.2 percent by 5 a.m.. U.S. shares ended higher on Thursday for the first time in over a week, though equities were off their earlier highs at the close. Some caution was likely to linger, after data showed China's export growth slowed in May, raising questions over the outlook for global growth. U.S. data scheduled for release include May's import and export prices at 8:30 a.m.. Import prices are expected to record their first monthly decline since June 2010, down 0.7 percent compared to a gain of 2.2 percent in April. Export prices are expected to show a rise of 0.3 percent, slowing from four straight months of gains above 1 percent. Other data include May's budget deficit figures at 2 p.m.. In company news, UBS AG (UBS.N) is looking at least four potential sites in Manhattan as it considers relocating its North American investment banking headquarters into the heart of New York City from suburban Connecticut, sources familiar with the bank's plans told Reuters. Google Inc (GOOG.O) has bought online advertising technology company AdMeld for $400 million, according to an influential technology blog. Morgan Stanley (MS.N) and its China partner Huaxin Securities launched their joint venture on Friday, joining several other rivals looking to cash in on the country's booming investment banking business. U.S. drugmaker Pfizer (PFE.N) won EU regulatory clearance on Friday to acquire Danish medical ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/unclear-if-casey-anthony-illness-will-delay-trial/ unclear-if-casey-anthony-illness-will-delay-trial Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:05:01 +0300 (CNN) -- It is unclear if the illness that halted Casey Anthony's murder trial will delay the trial Friday morning. Anthony murder trial ended an hour and a half early Thursday, with Orange County Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. telling members of the media in the courtroom that Anthony was ill. Jurors were not told why the trial ended early Thursday, and Perry asked them not to speculate. He said court would be in recess until Friday. After the jurors left, Perry spoke to members of the media in the courtroom, saying that Anthony was ill and that neither the prosecution nor the defense had any comment on the matter. The judge asked reporters not to question either side about it. The details of Anthony's illness were not given. During a short break before the announcement, Anthony drank a bottle of water quietly as attorneys spoke together and went back to Perry's chambers, according to In Session's Michael Christian. She was escorted out of the courtroom during the break, then brought back in, but lay her head down on her arms at the defense table. She did not stand as the jurors left the courtroom. In a statement released Thursday evening, Orange County Jail spokesman, Allen Moore said Anthony had been returned to jail and was receiving medical attention from the facility's health services provider. "No information can be released regarding her treatment or medical condition due to HIPPA and Florida Medical and Mental Health Confidentiality Laws," Moore said. For security reasons, Moore also declined to state whether Anthony would return ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-loses-us-supreme-court-case-on-patent-reuters/ microsoft-loses-us-supreme-court-case-on-patent-reuters Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:30:09 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp suffered a defeat on Thursday when the Supreme Court upheld a record $290 million jury verdict against the software giant for infringing a small Canadian company's patent. The justices unanimously agreed with a U.S. appeals court ruling that went against the world's largest software company in its legal battle with Toronto-based i4i. The high court refused to adopt Microsoft's lower standard to replace the long-standing requirement that a defendant in a patent infringement case prove by clear and convincing evidence that a plaintiff's patent is invalid. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft had argued that a lower standard of proof involving a "preponderance of the evidence" would make some "bad" patents easier to invalidate while promoting innovation and competition. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote the opinion, said the court rejected Microsoft's contention that a defendant need only persuade a jury of a patent's invalidity by a preponderance of the evidence. When Congress has prescribed the governing standard of proof, its choice generally controls, she said. The Obama administration and i4i opposed Microsoft's position and said Congress had accepted the standard in effect for the past 28 years and the Supreme Court should uphold it. The legal battle began in 2007 when i4i sued Microsoft. A federal jury awarded $290 million to i4i after finding that Microsoft, in 2003 and 2007 versions of Word, its word processing application, had infringed i4i's patent relating to text manipulation software. A U.S. appeals court upheld the award, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office upheld the validity of the i4i patent. Microsoft continued to dispute those ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-vs-federal-disaster-officials/ facebook-vs-federal-disaster-officials Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:04:57 +0300 Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- Facebook is already adept at handling public-relations blunders, but the company is beginning to focus on how it can help with real calamities. About a dozen disaster-relief workers from governments and nonprofit organizations convened this week for a five-hour meeting at Facebook's offices here in Palo Alto, California, and via teleconference from Washington. While the groups, which included members from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and California Emergency Management Agency, were grateful for the gesture, they were not above taking good-humored jabs at Facebook for its rocky relations with government. "Thank you so much for inviting us here," Kelly Huston, a Cal EMA spokesman, said near the end of the assembly. "I know your interaction with government isn't great because we're suing you all the time for privacy issues." Meanwhile, another Facebook privacy debate was stewing during the meeting when Facebook began widening the reach of its facial-recognition feature. European Union regulators will hold an inquiry about the matter, Bloomberg reports. The Tuesday event was Facebook's first noteworthy collaboration with emergency-response organizations, spokespeople said. Site administrators currently manage a page called Global Disaster Relief on Facebook. It has about 540,000 members, or less than 1% of Facebook's total user base -- but still more than the combined Facebook fans for all the groups that attended the meeting. FEMA and the American Red Cross representatives offered occasional insights from Washington. FEMA Administrator William Craig Fugate, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, met with Facebook in October but was not present at this week's meeting. "Discussions like ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-buys-admeld-in-latest-web-acquisition-report-reuters/ google-buys-admeld-in-latest-web-acquisition-report-reuters Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:02:26 +0300 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Google Inc has bought online advertising technology company AdMeld for $400 million, according to an influential technology blog. The deal, which was reported by TechCrunch citing multiple unnamed sources, would mark Google's latest effort to bolster its business in the market for graphical, display ads, where it competes with rivals including Yahoo Inc and Facebook. Four-year-old AdMeld counts Discovery Communications, FOX News, Hearst Television, and The Weather Channel among its clients, according to its website. It has raised $30 million in funding from investors including the Foundry Group, Spark Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Time Warner Investments, TechCrunch cited multiple unidentified sources as saying. Google, the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, declined to comment. Google has been on an acquisition spree, spending $1.8 billion on more than 40 companies in 2010. The vast majority of Google's revenue, which totaled roughly $29 billion in 2010, comes from small ads that appear alongside its search results. But the company has stepped up efforts to tap into the display advertising market. In October, Google said its display advertising business was generating revenue at an annualized run rate of $2.5 billion. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-is-missing-targets-for-new-models-citi-says-reuters/ rim-is-missing-targets-for-new-models-citi-says-reuters Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:02:42 +0300 TORONTO (Reuters) – Research In Motion is missing crucial targets for introducing new BlackBerry models, squandering an opening provided by Nokia's decision to abandon its own software, an analyst warned on Thursday. Citigroup, in a note downgrading RIM to "hold" from "buy", said new BlackBerry touchscreen models may miss the crucial back-to-school buying period due to production delays, while giants Apple and Google zoom ahead. "Thus far our supply chain checks show that RIM's new models have not yet been certified by major wireless carriers and are not in mass production which concerns us," analyst Jim Suva wrote to clients. Citi slashed its target price on the company's shares to $45 from $80. The stock rose 2.4 percent to $37.61 on the Nasdaq on Thursday after falling in five of the last seven sessions. It has lost a third of its value this year. RIM has shown off a more powerful touchscreen version of its enterprise workhorse, the Bold smartphone, and promised radio-enabled versions of the PlayBook tablet by the summer. But analysts have grown increasingly pessimistic on RIM's execution since the company warned that weak sales in the United States and Latin America would limit profit this quarter. The company, due to report fiscal first-quarter results on June 16, stunned investors in late April with a steep downward revision of its forecasts even as it promised a turnaround from a line-up of new BlackBerry smartphones. It expects to earn between $1.30 and $1.37 a share on revenue below $5.2 billion. "MATTER OF TIME" Many doubt the Canadian company can reach its robust ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-buys-admeld-for-400-million-techcrunch-afp/ google-buys-admeld-for-400-million-techcrunch-afp Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:04:51 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google has acquired Admeld, a New York-based company that provides an advertising platform for publishers, for around $400 million, technology blog TechCrunch said Thursday. There was no immediate reply from Google or AdMeld to an AFP request for confirmation of the TechCrunch report. AdMeld's 500 customers around the world include FOX News, Hearst Television, Discovery and The Weather Channel. Founded in 2007, AdMeld describes its mission on its website as providing publishers with "the cutting edge of advertising technology, enabling them to maximize their revenue and sell their inventory smarter and safer." Besides its headquarters in New York, the company also has offices in San Francisco, London, Berlin and Toronto. Google makes most of its money from Internet search and display advertising. The Mountain View, California-based company reported revenue of $29.3 billion last year. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/three-new-motorola-smartphones-offered-by-sprint-newsfactor/ three-new-motorola-smartphones-offered-by-sprint-newsfactor Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:32:29 +0300 Sprint Nextel said Thursday it plans to launch more than 10 new Motorola smartphones, including its new business-class XPRT that slid down the chute last Sunday at a price of $129.99. Up next are Motorola's Android-based Photon 4G and Triumph handsets, which are slated to take their inaugural bows this summer at prices to be disclosed later. The Photon 4G, which integrates several advanced multimedia capabilities, is capable of functioning as a world phone. When deployed at enterprises and government agencies, the smartphone also will offer support for critical IT policies, such as integration ease, cost of management, and security concerns, Sprint-Nextel said. The Motorola Triumph comes pre-loaded with a Virgin Mobile Live app that provides free access to Virgin Mobile's music streaming service, which also offers live video performances and special events. Like the Photon 4G and the XPRT, the Triumph will have access to Google's suite of mobile services as well as third-party apps at the Android Marketplace. Motorola Photon 4G The Photon 4G sports a one-gigahertz dual-core Tegra 2 processor from Nvidia, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of onboard memory, and an SD expansion slot capable of supporting an additional 32GB of data storage. The device also has mobile hot-spot capability for up to eight devices on Sprint's 3G or 4G networks, as well as a single hot spot capable of roaming internationally on GSM. Motorola's new smartphone also integrates dual cameras -- a front-facing eight-megapixel camera that doubles as an HD (720p) camcorder and a rear-facing VGA camera for chat sessions. Furthermore, the device ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/high-court-rulings-go-against-microsoft-big-phone-companies/ high-court-rulings-go-against-microsoft-big-phone-companies Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:05:17 +0300 Washington (CNN) -- In a pair of closely watched business technology appeals, the Supreme Court on Thursday offered separate, unanimous rulings dealing with patent infringement and telephone competition. The justices in an 8-0 decision upheld a $290 million judgment against software giant Microsoft Inc. for stepping on the patents of a small Canadian global tech firm. At issue was the standard of proof required to challenge the validity of a properly issued patent. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the current "clear and convincing" measure should be applied, instead of a "preponderance of the evidence" as Microsoft hoped the court would use. The differences may appear dense and indistinguishable to the non-legal mind, but in the often arcane, highly specialized world of patent law, interpreting such federal guidelines can be worth billions of dollars in disputes over property rights. Toronto-based i4i had sued Microsoft in 2007, saying it owned the technology behind a digital tool used in Microsoft's popular Word program. The technology in question gave Word 2003 and Word 2007 users an improved way to edit XML, which is computer code that tells the program how to interpret and display a document's contents. Lower federal courts had ruled in favor of i4i in the patent infringement case. A federal judge also issued an injunction blocking sales of specific versions of Word that had infringed i4i's patents. Sotomayor, writing for the court, said Congress clearly wanted the current standard to apply in such disputes, and that legislators, not the courts, could change things if it wanted. "Congress specified the applicable standard of proof in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-blogger-2011-hands-on-pc-magazine/ google-blogger-2011-hands-on-pc-magazine Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:32:36 +0300 Google has quietly been rolling out some upgrades to Blogger, its free, online blog-creating service. The improvements, which Google teased back in March, are significant: a new rich text editor, the ability to enable a mobile version of your blog, post-by-text functionality, and more. However, not all Blogger bloggers can see the new additions. To get them, you have to visit Blogger in Draft, a kind of open beta (though Google isn't calling it a beta) that lets you use or turn on many of the new features before they are formally introduced. Note that signing up for Blogger in Draft does not guarantee that you'll see all the improvements right away, although when I enrolled, I saw five or six changes within 24 hours. Blogger Goes Mobile The first change I noticed is that Blogger now lets you enable a mobile-optimized, or "m-dot" version, of your sites. If you activate the feature, readers who land on your blog from a smartphone browser will see a much cleaner and easier-to-read mobile-optimized version of your blog. Mobile Blogger blogs have larger text and few photos, as well as a streamlined layout. Bloggers can preview how their sites will appear with a preview button that Blogger provides ( see the slideshow ), or by capturing a QR code, which launches the preview right on their phones. The mobile-optimized version of a blog puts posts in a vertically scrolling section on the mainstay of the screen, while reserving a strip at the top for links to Blogger "Pages." The second change I saw ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-loses-supreme-court-case-on-canadian-patent-reuters/ microsoft-loses-supreme-court-case-on-canadian-patent-reuters Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:30:07 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp suffered a defeat on Thursday when the Supreme Court upheld a record $290 million jury verdict against the software giant for infringing a small Canadian company's patent. The justices unanimously agreed with a U.S. appeals court ruling that went against the world's largest software company in its legal battle with Toronto-based i4i. The high court refused to adopt Microsoft's lower standard to replace the long-standing requirement that a defendant in a patent infringement case prove by clear and convincing evidence that a plaintiff's patent is invalid. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft had argued that a lower standard of proof involving a "preponderance of the evidence" would make some "bad" patents easier to invalidate while promoting innovation and competition. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote the opinion, said the court rejected Microsoft's contention that a defendant need only persuade a jury of a patent's invalidity by a preponderance of the evidence. When Congress has prescribed the governing standard of proof, its choice generally controls, she said. The Obama administration and i4i opposed Microsoft's position and said Congress had accepted the standard in effect for the past 28 years and the Supreme Court should uphold it. The legal battle began in 2007 when i4i sued Microsoft. A federal jury awarded $290 million to i4i after finding that Microsoft, in 2003 and 2007 versions of Word, its word processing application, had infringed i4i's patent relating to text manipulation software. A U.S. appeals court upheld the award, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office upheld the validity of the i4i patent. Microsoft continued to dispute those ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/alternate-apps-echofon-vs-tweetdeck-yahoo-news/ alternate-apps-echofon-vs-tweetdeck-yahoo-news Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:02:26 +0300 Twitter is a mainstay of online social life. The streamlined service makes conversations fast and easy in 140-character sound bites, complemented with the occasional picture, YouTube link, and even the court-induced apology. Twitter's ongoing domination of the internet continues with its recent deep integration with iOS 5, announced at the recent WWDC keynote. Using Twitter on a personal computer is still a little rough. You need a web browser open and must return to that browser to check your Twitter account occasionally. Desktop Twitter clients alleviate that need by keeping an eye on your Twitter account, updating itself with new posts and even popping up new message notifications on your screen. Twitter clients offer options that aren't native to Twitter's website, like allowing you to "mute" specific followers. Echofon and TweetDeck are both enormously popular Twitter clients for Macs. (TweetDeck has a Windows version, but Echofon does not.) Echofon's service is free, although you can also buy the client for $20 to do away with ads. TweetDeck is a free service that was recently purchased by Twitter. Echofon and TweetDeck both allow you to run a desktop client to monitor your Twitter activity, but the two clients approach that task in different ways. Let's see how the Mac desktop versions of both apps stack up. Muting a friendAs your Twitter social circle grows (especially into the thousands), it can be difficult to keep up with everyone. The signal-to-noise ratio starts favoring the noise, and it's incredibly likely an annoying spammer or two has crept into your Twitter feed. You ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/in-latest-attack-hackers-steal-citibank-card-data-ap/ in-latest-attack-hackers-steal-citibank-card-data-ap Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:02:52 +0300 NEW YORK – About 200,000 Citibank credit card customers in North America have had their names, account numbers and email addresses stolen by hackers who broke into Citi's online account site. Citigroup Inc. said it discovered that account information for about 1 percent of its credit card customers had been viewed by hackers. Citi has more than 21 million credit card customers in North America, according to its 2010 annual report. The New York-based bank, which discovered the problem during routine monitoring, didn't say exactly how many accounts were breached. Citi said it was contacting those customers. The bank said hackers weren't able to gain access to social security numbers, birth dates, card expiration dates or card security codes. That kind of information often leads to identity theft, where cyber criminals empty out bank accounts and apply for multiple credit cards. That can debilitate the finances and credit of victims. Citi customers could still be vulnerable other problems. Details about their bank accounts and financial information linked to them could be acquired using the email information and account numbers hackers stole. Not having more personal information may limit what crooks can do with the information, said Susan Grant, director of consumer protection at Consumer Federation of America, a consumer advocacy group. "But any ID theft is worrisome for consumers," Grant said. She believes companies are responsible for protecting their customers' information from internal and external abuse. The Citi data breach was the latest in a series of recent high-profile data attacks against a number of major firms. --On June 1, Google ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/will-computers-replace-schoolteachers/ will-computers-replace-schoolteachers Thu, 9 Jun 2011 21:05:10 +0300 Editor's note: Gregory Ferenstein is an author and educator. As an author, his works on technology, education, and politics have appeared on CNN, The Huffington Post, and in The Washington Post. As an educator, he designs communication curricula for college students, and he also holds a master's degree in mathematical behavioral sciences. In his free time, he practices capoeira, an acrobatic Brazilian martial art. (CNN) -- Cash-strapped school districts, from Florida to Washington, have discovered that minimally supervised students hunched over laptops can outperform their lectured counterparts for a fraction of the cost. A broader review of research by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009 discovered that "students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction." As long as schools measure performance simply by rote memorization on multiple-choice tests, no teacher can compete with instant access to the world's information. Unless schools change, more and more teachers will find themselves replaced by computers. Traditional large-class lectures deliver the same material at the same speed to 30 different young minds. With Internet-based instruction, the pace of learning can be perfectly tailored to students; they can instantly explore points of confusion, then return to the primary material without interrupting anyone else. No more teaching to mediocrity and no more ignoring the least advantaged or the gifted. Since online teachers are unencumbered by much of the disciplinary and bureaucratic nonsense of brick-and-mortar schools, they can devote far more time to actual instruction. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ipv6-test-went-well-but-some-businesses-are-stalling-newsfactor/ ipv6-test-went-well-but-some-businesses-are-stalling-newsfactor Thu, 9 Jun 2011 21:32:37 +0300 The Internet didn't fall apart on Wednesday, World IPv6 Day. But it remains to be seen if businesses got the message that they need to get ready to transition to the new protocol from the current IPv4. World IPv6 Day, organized by the Internet Society, was the first global, real-world test of IPv6. More than 225 organizations participated, including Google, Facebook and Yahoo. Participants tested the technology for a full 24 hours. 'Great Results' On the Google corporate blog, network engineer and "IPv6 Samurai" Lorenzo Colitti wrote late Wednesday that "the test flight was a success." He noted that 65 percent "more IPv6 traffic than usual" was noted, although the actual volume wasn't given. Additionally, there were "no significant issues" and IPv6 access didn't have to be disabled for any networks or services. Facebook engineer Donn Lee wrote on that company's blog that Facebook "successfully enabled IPv6 on our site for 24 hours, with great results," and more than one million users accessed the social-networking giant using the new protocol. Lee also noted that there was no increase in the number of users seeking help from the site's help center. There had been some concern that a tiny fraction of users would experience slow page loads. Based on the results, Lee said Facebook will leave its developer site dual-stacked so it supports both IPv4 and IPv6, and the company will continue to adapt its entire code base and tools to support IPv6. Arbor Networks, which monitors Internet traffic, reported that, while there were no problems and IPv6 traffic doubled, it had expected ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/where-are-all-the-blackberry-fans-pc-magazine/ where-are-all-the-blackberry-fans-pc-magazine Thu, 9 Jun 2011 21:02:27 +0300 Watching the mobile OS fan assault on Will Fenton's admittedly flamebaiting iOS 5 versus the world column can be oddly heartening, for a fan of wireless competition. Among the 221 current comments, I found passionate Android partisans, iOS fans, Windows Phone lovers, and even a few Symbian dead-enders, which is amazing considering that even Nokia has given up on Symbian. The Windows Phone fans are impressive, as most carrier stores would apparently rather sell you toe fungus than a Windows Phone. It says a lot about Windows Phone that among the relatively few people who manage to successfully buy one, all appear to love them. And I'm pretty sure that sometime next year, those Windows Phone fans and Nokia/Symbian fans will crossbreed and evolve into some sort of drug-resistant super-fan. But there's one thing missing: I couldn't find any BlackBerry fans. This is a huge problem for RIM, which is losing market share every quarter at this point. The problem is only going to get worse if the company can't muster even a weak cheering section for its products. RIM has relied on IT departments to buy its products for a long time, but with the ongoing consumerization of corporate devices, it has to muster at least some basic level of consumer engagement to succeed against Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Our iOS story is a great litmus test for fandom because it frames the entire smartphone world in terms of 13 new iOS features. This was on purpose: the story was connected to the WWDC news, and we were ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bugless-software-key-to-security-expert-tells-nato-afp/ bugless-software-key-to-security-expert-tells-nato-afp Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:02:54 +0300 TALLINN (AFP) – Bugless software is key to cyber security and global vendors should pay hackers who have detected program bugs and so helped pre-empt attacks, a top IT expert told a NATO cyber security meeting here Thursday. "Software vulnerabilities enable breaches. If we want to make cyber space safer, we need to find a way to force vendors to produce more secure software," Charlie Miller told some of the world's top IT security experts attending NATO's third annual cyber defence conference. Renowned in IT circles for having detected bugs in Google's Android software and being the first to find a critical bug in the MacBook Air, Miller has also worked as computer security specialist at the US National Security Agency. He charges that the reluctance of software vendors to pay hackers for weeding out program bugs is a factor contributing to online security breaches. "Vendors don't like to pay for (the detection of) bugs because of many reasons, among other things they're afraid it will encourage people with good IT skills to find bugs, or it may make competitor's software look more secure," he said, noting that companies like Mozilla and Google have paid up to 3,000 dollars (2,053 euros) for information on software flaws. "There are some unused solutions we can consider. Vendors could step up and pay those who find bugs -- major vendors can cooperate to pay into a fund that pays for bugs and governments too can encourage the vendors to pay for (the detection of) bugs," he insisted. NATO announced plans this week at its ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hp39s-touchpad-will-debut-july-1-for-500-reuters/ hp39s-touchpad-will-debut-july-1-for-500-reuters Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:32:53 +0300 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hewlett Packard Co will begin selling its Touchpad on July 1 in the United States for $499.99, debuting the first tablet computer powered by Palm's operating software. Jumping into the tablet computer craze triggered by Apple Inc's iPad, HP said on Thursday it start taking orders on June 19 in North America and Europe. The Wi-Fi version of the gadget hits store shelves July 1 in the United States, followed by Britain, Ireland, France and Germany a few days after. Canada gets the tablet, run on Palm's WebOS operating system, in mid-July, followed by Italy, Spain, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore later in 2011. HP bought Palm last summer for $1.2 billion, hoping to combine its WebOS software with a plethora of devices from smartphones to printers, gambling that there is room for yet another mobile software platform. HP faces an uphill battle in a mobile market already dominated by Apple and devices based on Google Inc's Android. (Reporting by Edwin Chan; Editing by Derek Caney) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/a-college-education-is-your-best-bet/ a-college-education-is-your-best-bet Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:34:32 +0300 Editor's note: Joseph E. Aoun is president of Northeastern University in Boston. Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Investor Peter Thiel has generated attention by making some provocative claims about America's colleges and universities. Thiel has labeled U.S. higher education "a bubble in the classic sense," and believes that college degrees are "overvalued." Recently, he awarded 24 talented undergraduates $100,000 each to drop out of college and pursue their entrepreneurial ideas. His rationale is that colleges and universities don't do a good job promoting innovation -- and that college holds some people back from accomplishing what they're ready to do. Dale Stephens, who won a Thiel Fellowship, recently wrote a column for CNN.com that expresses this point of view. As many students struggle with college costs and a depressed job market, Thiel's and Stephens' statements have resonated in some quarters. Tuition at public colleges, where 80% of undergraduates go to school, is rising in many states. Federal budget cuts are threatening recent increases in college aid. The first years out of college can be difficult for some graduates, when their salaries are lower and their student loan debt is high. But it simply isn't true that a college education is overvalued -- or that colleges and universities inhibit innovation. Let's consider this latter claim. No reasonable observer of higher education would conclude that colleges discourage innovation. The number of world-changing inventions and discoveries made at American universities is too long to list, but they include the development of the World Wide Web, genetically altered foods, life-saving cancer and AIDS drugs, and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/i39m-an-entrepreneur-college-was-invaluable/ i39m-an-entrepreneur-college-was-invaluable Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:34:38 +0300 Editor's note: Brian Forde is a college grad who started his first company when he was 17 and his second, a phone company in Nicaragua, at 25. He is now pursuing an MBA at London Business School while starting a venture to lower recidivism by providing small business loans to people who were formerly incarcerated. London, England (CNN) -- In the tech industry, college dropouts are legendary for eschewing education and founding billion-dollar companies. Not-as-famous but just-as-important are the college graduates that critically support these visionary founders. Outside of the tech industry, names like Sheryl Sandberg, Tim Cook, Eric Schmidt and Steve Ballmer may be much less known, but all are college graduates who arguably built Facebook, Apple, Google and Microsoft, respectively, into the companies they are today. A new fellowship started by Peter Thiel rewards an elite group of young people for dropping out of college with a $100,000 fellowship each. One of them, Dale Stephens, wrote a CNN.com column calling college a waste of time for a young entrepreneur. Reviewing the list of fellows, you quickly realize these are some of the smartest and most accomplished young people in the world; however, their ability to create companies that become world-changing corporations without the help of a college graduate remains to be seen. While starting a company is exciting, the endless challenges of day-to-day operations are not as glamorous. I became intimately familiar with this while starting Llamadas, S.A., a company I co-founded in Nicaragua after finishing the Peace Corps. Starting a phone company at the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/smartphone-deliveries-seen-up-55-percent-in-2011-idc-reuters/ smartphone-deliveries-seen-up-55-percent-in-2011-idc-reuters Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:02:16 +0300 LONDON (Reuters) – Deliveries of smartphones like Apple's iPhone are expected to increase 55 percent this year, four times as fast as the wider phone market, IT research firm IDC said. IDC said Thursday growth would be fueled by lower prices, better features and cheaper data plans, with growth particularly pronounced in emerging regions of Asia and Latin America where adoption was still in its early days. "Mobile phone users around the world are turning in their 'talk-and-text' devices for smartphones as these devices allow users to perform daily tasks like shopping and banking from anywhere," said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. IDC expected Google's Android smartphone operating system, which passed Nokia's Symbian as the leading operating system worldwide at the end of last year, to grow to more than 40 percent of the market in the second half of 2011. IDC said Symbian, being ditched by Nokia in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone software, would steadily lose share. It predicted Nokia Windows phones could capture more than 20 percent of the smartphone market in 2015, if the Nokia-Microsoft integration goes smoothly. (Reporting by Georgina Prodhan; Editing by Dan Lalor) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china39s-sina-plans-english-language-microblog-ap/ china39s-sina-plans-english-language-microblog-ap Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:00:39 +0300 BEIJING – Sina Corp., a popular Chinese Web portal, said Thursday it will launch an English-language microblog aimed at users abroad, entering a market dominated by U.S.-based Twitter. The service will be a version of Sina's Chinese-language Weibo microblog, said a company spokesman, Mao Taotao. "We're now developing an English-language microblog service, but there is no timetable to launch it," Mao said. "The service is aimed at overseas users, but we don't target users from a particular country." Reports last week that Sina was considering such a service prompted suggestions it might be a rival to Twitter. But its appeal could be hurt by Chinese Internet controls that require microblog services to delete politically sensitive material. "As a Chinese internet company, we will continue to abide by Chinese laws and regulations," said Mao, the Sina spokesman. China's top Internet companies are profitable and growing fast but are only beginning to expand abroad. The country has the world's most populous Internet market, with more than 450 million people online at the end of last year, according to the government. Beijing encourages Web use for business and education but operates an extensive filtering system to block access to material considered subversive or pornographic. Sina CEO Charles Chao told Forbes magazine in March that Weibo has at least 100 employees monitoring content 24 hours a day. Google Inc. closed its China-based search engine last year after saying it no longer wanted to abide by a government requirement to censor results. Microblog services are hugely popular in China despite extensive government efforts to control content. Sina said last ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia39s-technology-chief-39quits-over-strategy39-afp/ nokia39s-technology-chief-39quits-over-strategy39-afp Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:01:07 +0300 HELSINKI (AFP) – Nokia's head of technology has taken a leave of absence and is not coming back over disagreement over a new group strategy, Finland's leading daily Helsingin Sanomat reported on Thursday. "Two independent sources for the Helsingin Sanomat say Rich Green will be gone until the end of the year and is unlikely to return to Nokia," the paper reported. Nokia, the leading world maker of mobile phones, confirmed to AFP that Green "had taken leave to attend to a personal matter," but did not provide further details or a date for his return. The newspaper's unnamed sources said Green disagreed with a decision by Nokia to scrap plans for its Meego operating system, an open-source platform co-operation with Intel which was eventually supposed to replace the Symbian platform in Nokia smartphones. In February, chief executive Stephen Elop announced a radical restructuring of the company, which included phasing out Symbian in favour of Microsoft Phone for its smartphones, and essentially relegating Meego to an engineering side project. Green took over as chief technology officer as part of Elop's corporate shake-up, replacing Alberto Torres in February. Elop's gamble on the Microsoft platform was a dramatic move to stop the haemorrhaging of its market share at the hands of Apple and phones running Google's Android operating system. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/former-googler-current-rapper-meet-hoodie-allen-mashable/ former-googler-current-rapper-meet-hoodie-allen-mashable Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:32:27 +0300 We've all heard the time-honored tale of a Googler leaving the Googleplex to work on a startup, but Steve "Hoodie Allen" Markowitz departed for an entirely different reason: to pursue a full-time career as a rapper. Markowitz is a 21-year-old University of Pennsylvania alum (he graduated last spring) and is currently unsigned. His album Pep Rally was released free online last September. [More from Mashable: Discover & Share Video & Music Playlists With JamCloud [INVITES]] The rapper's upcoming release is Leap Year, due out this summer. Markowitz took some time to speak to Mashable via phone today about his upcoming record, his history at Google, and why an web-savvy white rapper doesn't necessarily have to go the nerdcore route. [More from Mashable: Find Out When Your Favorite Bands Are Playing While On The Go] Markowitz started at Google in April, 2010. He worked as an AdWords associate in the company's START (that stands for "Standarized AdWords Reseller Training") program. Then, he left the company in 2011 "in January or February. It feels a lot shorter than it actually is," he told us. "I was moving so fast, and even while I was at Google there was so much going on that I felt like I was doing two full-time jobs." But Markowitz said his "dream and passion" was definitely music, so when he started getting more opportunities to do live shows, he decided to leave Google, which he called a "leap of faith. But it was a lot easier because everyone at Google was so supportive of me. "I still feel very connected ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tumblr-unveils-new-dashboard-redesign-mashable/ tumblr-unveils-new-dashboard-redesign-mashable Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:32:28 +0300 Tumblr rolled out a new update to its user dashboard on Wednesday, and users are reacting with a mixture of acceptance and dramatic outrage. The changes to the dashboard are minor -- in fact, infrequent users might not even notice the changes at first glance. The big changes affect how users switch between blogs and what information is displayed in the sidebar. The default view is more minimal; only after selecting a specific blog do users see things like post numbers and user messages. [More from Mashable: Hands-On: Twitter’s New Photo-Sharing Service] Tumblr's lead designer Peter Vidani tweeted that he was "positively thrilled to launch the new Tumblr dashboard," but not all users agree. [More from Mashable: Google Maps Tells You Just How Late Your Bus Is] A search for posts tagged "tumblr dashboard" reveals that users are expressing their objections via their Tumblr accounts. Some enterprising users have already developed a Greasemonkey script for Chrome and Firefox to restore the old sidebar contents to the default sidebar. User interface changes and redesigns are usually risky moves because consumers tend to dislike change, even if the change is for the better. Facebook is infamous for making changes to its UI that users not only dislike, but actively campaign against. Even Twitter's 2010 redesign was met with resistance from some users; Twitter still gives users the option to use the old user interface, though the company says it will eventually force everyone to use the new design. Tumblr has made design changes to its dashboard in the past -- something that many of the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/someone-searched-for-39chloroform39-on-computer-in-casey-anthony39s-house/ someone-searched-for-39chloroform39-on-computer-in-casey-anthony39s-house Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:33:51 +0300 (CNN) -- The Casey Anthony trial continues Thursday, a day after prosecutors called a witness who said someone conducted keyword searches on "chloroform" using a desktop computer located in the home Anthony shared with her parents. The searches were found in a portion of the computer's hard drive that indicated they had been deleted, Detective Sandra Osborne of the Orange County Sheriff's Office testified Wednesday in Anthony's capital murder trial. However, she told jurors, deleted material remains on a computer's hard drive and can be retrieved until it is overwritten by new data. It had not been overwritten on the Anthonys' computer, she said, and "a complete Internet history" was obtained. Anthony, 25, faces seven counts in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and misleading investigators. If convicted, she could face the death penalty. The toddler's family last saw her on June 16, 2008, but no one alerted police until July 15, when the girl's maternal grandmother tracked down the suspect and demanded answers. Prosecutors allege Anthony used chloroform on her daughter and suffocated her by putting duct tape over the little girl's mouth and nose. They allege Anthony put her daughter's body in her car trunk before disposing of it. Caylee's skeletal remains were found in December 2008, less than a mile from the home of Anthony's parents. Anthony has pleaded not guilty and denied having anything to do with her daughter's death. Defense attorney Jose Baez has said that when all the facts are known, it will become clear his ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/citi-says-hackers-access-bank-card-data-reuters/ citi-says-hackers-access-bank-card-data-reuters Thu, 9 Jun 2011 08:32:19 +0300 BANGALORE (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc said computer hackers breached the bank's network and accessed data on hundreds of thousands of bank card holders in the latest of a string of cyber attacks on high-profile companies. Citigroup said about 1 percent of its card customers were affected by the breach, which a report in the Financial Times said had been discovered in May during routine monitoring. The names of customers, account numbers and contact information, including email addresses, were viewed, Citi said. However, it said other information such as birth dates, social security numbers, card expiration dates and card security codes (CVV) were not compromised. "We are contacting customers whose information was impacted. Citi has implemented enhanced procedures to prevent a recurrence of this type of event," Sean Kevelighan, a U.S.-based spokesman, said by email. Citigroup joins a growing list of companies that have suffered cyber attacks. Data storage firm EMC Ltd offered to replace millions of electronic keys after hackers used data from its RSA security division to break into the network of arms supplier and information technology provider Lockheed Martin. Electronics giant Sony has reported several attacks, including one in which hackers accessed the personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity accounts. Sony was criticized for a delay in telling account holders that their information had been stolen by hackers. Google Inc revealed a major attack on its Gmail accounts targeting, among others, senior U.S. government officials that it said appeared to originate in China. Washington has scrambled to assess if security had been compromised by the raid on Google's Gmail system, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/casey-anthony-trial-internet-searches-for-39chloroform39-take-center-stage-the-christian-science-monitor/ casey-anthony-trial-internet-searches-for-39chloroform39-take-center-stage-the-christian-science-monitor Thu, 9 Jun 2011 04:00:07 +0300 Chloroform took center stage on Wednesday at the first-degree murder trial of Casey Anthony, the Florida mother accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter. Jurors at the Orlando trial heard testimony from a computer forensics expert that he discovered Google and Wikipedia searches for “chloroform” and “How to make chloroform” on a desktop computer in the Anthony home. The computer searches were conducted at a time when both of Ms. Anthony’s parents were away at work. IN PICTURES: Photos of the Day The testimony is important because it supports the prosecution’s theory that Anthony used chloroform to subdue her daughter, Caylee, before suffocating her by wrapping the toddler’s head in duct tape. The dead child’s body was then kept for a period of time in the trunk of Ms. Anthony’s car, prosecutors allege. The Internet search is also important to the prosecution’s case because the searches were conducted in March 2008, roughly three months before Caylee went missing. Prosecutors will cite the chloroform search as evidence that Caylee’s death was premeditated. Anthony is charged with first degree murder. If convicted she could receive a death sentence. Defense lawyers maintain that Caylee died accidentally in the family swimming pool and that Casey and her father, George, tried to cover up the death by making it appear a kidnapping and murder. Caylee was missing for a month before her mother told her parents and the police. The report of her missing daughter triggered a nationwide search and hundreds of leads. Investigators quickly shifted their efforts from a missing persons case to a homicide. 'Residue of chloroform'Prosecutors are ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/casey-anthony39s-name-now-tied-to-39chloroform39-online/ casey-anthony39s-name-now-tied-to-39chloroform39-online Thu, 9 Jun 2011 03:03:38 +0300 (CNN) -- An Internet search of "how to make chloroform" -- a key issue in the Casey Anthony murder trial - brings up more than 600 results from a variety of sources, some apparently serious, many sketchy and others totally irrelevant. During testimony Wednesday from a computer analyst, prosecutors tried to establish a link between "chloroform" searches allegedly conducted on the Anthony family computer and the death of 2-year-old Caylee, Casey's daughter, months later. Asked on HLN's "Nancy Grace" whether the defense could accuse Anthony's family of conducting the potentially incriminating searches, Mark Lippman, attorney for Anthony's parents and brother, said, ''Any of those allegations that they were doing any of these searches my clients certainly refute.'' Lippman added that they have previously denied that in depositions and courtroom testimony. ''They didn't have anything to do with this,'' he said. Google searches today with phrases including the keyword chloroform bring dozens of instances of Casey Anthony's name on speculative blogs and news sites that follow the case in overwhelming detail. The first hit on Google is howtomakechloroform.com, which tells readers it ''is possible for you to make chloroform at home'' and warns in the next sentence that this chemical should be used ''as a solvent and nothing else.'' One would need several items, including a pitcher, acetone, water, ice and ''shock powder'' or calcium hypochlorite, which the site says is used for swimming pools. Casey Anthony's defense attorney, Jose Baez, said in opening statements that Caylee drowned in a pool accident at the Anthony family home. For many of the websites, it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/casey-anthony39s-computer-used-for-chloroform-search-reuters/ casey-anthony39s-computer-used-for-chloroform-search-reuters Thu, 9 Jun 2011 03:30:07 +0300 ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Someone using Casey Anthony's family computer before the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee surfed the Web for information on chloroform, neck-breaking and making weapons out of household products, a computer expert testified on Wednesday. Previous witnesses at Casey's first-degree murder trial in Orlando, Florida, have testified that they found evidence of what they considered to be a surprisingly large quantity of chloroform, as well as residue from a decomposing human body, in her car trunk. Casey, 25, is accused of killing Caylee on June 16, 2008, and dumping the child's body in woods a short walk from the Anthony home. Casey and Caylee shared the house with Casey's parents, George and Cindy Anthony. The desktop computer at their home was used to search for the keyword "chloroform" on March 17 and March 21, 2008, said Sergeant Kevin Stenger, a computer crimes specialist. Another expert, Detective Sandra Osborne, said someone then deleted the record of the search. But deleted search information remains stored in the computer in unallocated space on the hard drive, Osborne said. "We were able to recover an entire Internet history record," Osborne said. Now in its third week, the Casey Anthony trial has drawn national interest and extensive analysis on cable TV networks. Prosecution witnesses have described how the Florida mother partied and shopped after her daughter's disappearance. Caylee wasn't reported missing until July 15, 2008, when Cindy Anthony found Casey's car at an impound lot reeking of an odor she likened to death. Cindy told detectives that her daughter had rebuffed her efforts to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/netflix-foursquare-linkedin-android-apps-get-failing-marks-for-security-pc-magazine/ netflix-foursquare-linkedin-android-apps-get-failing-marks-for-security-pc-magazine Thu, 9 Jun 2011 03:01:46 +0300 Security firm ViaForensics has found that apps from firms like Foursquare, Netflix, and LinkedIn do not adequately store users' personal information. ViaForensics' appWatchdog program audits apps to make sure they securely store a person's username, password, and sensitive app data. Apps that store sensitive data insecurely get a failing grade, those that store app data in an unencrypted way get a warning, while secure apps—meaning ViaForensics was not able to obtain any user or app data—get a passing grade. A full list is available online, but in its latest round of testing, ViaForensics found three unencrypted passwords on the Android versions of Foursquare, LinkedIn, and Netflix. "With cybercrime an ever increasing threat, these findings put consumers at much greater risk for identity or financial theft," ViaForensics said in a blog post. The Android version of the Netflix app failed because it did not securely store passwords, the report said. The iPhone version of the Netflix app got a warning; it securely stored usernames and passwords, but app data storage was not as secure, ViaForensics said. "Netflix members' privacy and personal information security are a top priority for Netflix. We are making a change on the app," a Netflix spokesman said in an email. On LinkedIn, the Android and iPhone versions got a failing grade. The iPhone version securely stored passwords, but had a warning on username storage, and a fail on app data security. The Android version failed to securely store passwords or app data and got a warning on username storage. "We're using the standard Android programming practices for storing and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-assembles-group-to-plan-for-disasters/ facebook-assembles-group-to-plan-for-disasters Thu, 9 Jun 2011 01:33:46 +0300 Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- Facebook is already adept at handling public-relations blunders, but the company is beginning to focus on how it can help with real calamities. About a dozen disaster-relief workers from governments and nonprofit organizations convened this week for a five-hour meeting at Facebook's offices here in Palo Alto, California, and via teleconference from Washington. While the groups, which included members from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and California Emergency Management Agency, were grateful for the gesture, they were not above taking good-humored jabs at Facebook for its rocky relations with government. "Thank you so much for inviting us here," Kelly Huston, a Cal EMA spokesman, said near the end of the assembly. "I know your interaction with government isn't great because we're suing you all the time for privacy issues." Meanwhile, another Facebook privacy debate was stewing during the meeting when Facebook began widening the reach of its facial-recognition feature. European Union regulators will hold an inquiry about the matter, Bloomberg reports. The Tuesday event was Facebook's first noteworthy collaboration with emergency-response organizations, spokespeople said. Site administrators currently manage a page called Global Disaster Relief on Facebook. It has about 500,000 members, or less than 1% of Facebook's total user base -- but still more than the combined Facebook fans for all the groups that attended the meeting. FEMA and the American Red Cross representatives offered occasional insights from Washington. FEMA Administrator William Craig Fugate, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, met with Facebook in October but was not present at this week's meeting. "Discussions like ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/android-tablet-showdown-four-ipad-competitors-compared-contributornetwork/ android-tablet-showdown-four-ipad-competitors-compared-contributornetwork Thu, 9 Jun 2011 01:31:46 +0300 Over the last couple of years, Google's free and open-source Android operating system has let companies from HTC to Samsung build their own versions of Apple's iPhone (in essence). These Android smartphones often have features the latest iPhone lacks, like hardware keyboards or HDMI out, and are often cheaper as well. Now the same companies that make Android smartphones are building their own Android tablets. And while they can't run the iPad's 65,000 apps, they have their own apps and selling points ... and their own weaknesses. Motorola Xoom (starting at $599) The first "real" Android tablet, the Xoom debuted just a few weeks before the iPad 2's launch, running Google's "Honeycomb" tablet version of Android and sporting extremely high-end specs. These were more-or-less equaled by the iPad 2 when it came out, but it still has a sharper, widescreen display, plus expandable memory via MicroSD card. It also has a USB port and an HDMI port, for connecting outside peripherals or hooking your Xoom up to your TV. The downside? Besides the price tag, it's heavy and chunky, and has a curved back that keeps it from sitting flat on a table. Galaxy Tab 10-Inch (starting at $499) This isn't the earlier, 7-inch Galaxy Tab, which was basically an oversized Android phone with almost no tablet apps. This is Samsung's new designer tablet, that's thinner and lighter than even the iPad 2 but has almost identical specs. Its design is much classier and more minimalist than the Xoom's, and it takes many cues from the iPad -- ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-urges-code-of-conduct-for-internet-commerce-reuters/ us-urges-code-of-conduct-for-internet-commerce-reuters Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:31:41 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Companies using the Internet to do business should adhere to a code of conduct to reduce hacking and online theft, the Commerce Department said in a report issued on Wednesday. The department recommended improved methods for authenticating identity in a world where passwords are easily stolen or hacked. It also urged using the latest technology to ensure that when users type in a Wed address that they actually go to that domain rather than being hijacked. Another element of the code of conduct would be the development of incentives to encourage needed expenditures on security. For example, a company using best practices may have less legal liability in the case of a hack. With online transactions estimated at $10 trillion globally each year and growing, the threat of online theft has also grown, the Commerce Department said. "In 2010, an estimated 55,000 new viruses, worms, spyware and other threats were bombarding the Internet daily," the department said. "Our economy depends on the ability of companies to provide trusted, secure services online. As new cybersecurity threats evolve, it's critical that we develop policies that better protect businesses and their customers," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said in a statement. Consulting firm Forrester estimates that security ate up about 8 percent of North American and European corporate information technology budgets in 2007, and that figure grew to 14 percent in 2010. The report follows the release of a recent spate of highly publicized hacks and data losses. The danger from the breaches varies. One put the company's customers at risk for identity ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-europe-is-freaking-out-about-facebook-photo-recognition-the-atlantic-wire/ why-europe-is-freaking-out-about-facebook-photo-recognition-the-atlantic-wire Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:30:40 +0300 Facebook not-so-quietly opened an opt-out facial recognition product to everyone except America on Tuesday. Despite loads of misleading headlines on the topic, the feature wasn't really news in the United States, because Facebook had launched the photo-tagging feature here last December and facial recognition technology first appeared as a feature on the site in October. People tend to think facial recognition is rather creepy, so Facebook treated this product with kid gloves. The roll-out happened slowly, only 5% of American users at first and then a gradual build-up to the rest of the network. If the flurry of coverage yesterday is any indication, Facebook's stealth strategy worked at skirting around widespread outrage last year. But not this year. On Wednesday afternoon, the European Union data-protection regulators announced a probe to investigate whether the social network's new feature violates privacy rules. "Tags of people on pictures should only happen based on people’s prior consent and it can’t be activated by default," said a Luxembourg official told Businessweek, adding that the regulators intend to "clarify to Facebook that this can’t happen like this.” And that's a general complaint against Facebook, whose founder believes that the web should be social by default. In addition to the E.U. probe, officials in the United Kingdom and Ireland are looking into this practice. A Facebook spokesperson already apologized about the quiet launch. "We should have been more clear with people during the roll-out process when this became available to them," a spokesperson said. They also explained, as did some bloggers, that the feature isn't ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hacking-crisis-costs-emc-reputation-in-security-reuters/ hacking-crisis-costs-emc-reputation-in-security-reuters Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:01:28 +0300 BOSTON (Reuters) – A recent cyber breach at EMC Corp's RSA security division and a related attack at defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp have damaged RSA's once-stellar reputation, according to industry experts. That has given companies that sell alternatives to RSA's SecurIDs, such as Symantec Corp and Vasco Data Security International, more room to try to win customers from EMC. SecurIDs are widely used electronic keys to computer systems, designed to thwart hackers by requiring two passcodes: one that is fixed and another that is automatically generated every few seconds by the security system. Symantec is paying new customers $5 for every SecurID they trade in for similar technology from Symantec. RSA's reputation took an initial hit in March when it disclosed that hackers had stolen information that could be used to reduce the effectiveness of SecurID devices in keeping intruders from accessing corporate networks. That was particularly embarrassing as the hack came just a month after RSA published a paper advising companies on how to avoid the same kind of sophisticated attacks to which it fell victim. RSA's reputation took a second hit last month when hackers tried to breach defense contractor Lockheed Martin using technology stolen from RSA. "You have this established position as a security vendor. You're supposed to be protecting everybody else from the bad guys and you get hacked," said Brian Freed, an analyst with brokerage Wunderlich Securities. He said there was a general perception that RSA was "less than forthcoming" about what had happened. Lockheed Martin on June 4 disclosed the links between the attacks on its network ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/seeing-things-on-mars-a-history-of-martian-illusions-spacecom/ seeing-things-on-mars-a-history-of-martian-illusions-spacecom Wed, 8 Jun 2011 23:03:03 +0300 Humans have been seeing strange things on the surface of Mars for centuries. From the 1700s up through the present day, widespread fame has been available to anyone able to produce even the slightest bit of flimsy evidence that there's Martian life. The most recent example was this week's supposed revelation that a secret Mars base, inhabited either by humans or Martians, can be seen in a photo of the Red Planet's surface taken by an orbiting spacecraft. But scientific rigor has always stepped in to prove that these objects are not really there. In this vast and lonely universe, are Earthlings just desperate for next-door neighbors to play with? Looking back over the long history of Martian illusions (and human delusions), it certainly seems so. [7 Things that Create Great Space Hoaxes] Land and sea In 1784, Sir William Herschel, a famous British astronomer, wrote that dark areas on Mars were oceans and lighter areas were land. He speculated that Mars was inhabited by intelligent beings who "probably enjoy a situation similar to our own." Herschel's theory prevailed for a century, with other astronomers claiming that vegetation could even be observed in the lighter-colored regions taken to be land. Fortunately for Herschel, his other contributions to astronomy — which earned him the honor of being the namesake of two powerful observatories — were great enough to keep his theories on Martians near the bottom of his biography. Canali vs. canals During Mars' close approach to Earth in 1877, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli peered through his telescope and observed grooves or ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-htc-flyer-tablet-mates-with-slippery-pen-ap/ review-htc-flyer-tablet-mates-with-slippery-pen-ap Wed, 8 Jun 2011 23:02:00 +0300 NEW YORK – Is it better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all? That's the question posed by a new tablet computer that takes aim at one of the deficiencies of the iPad: that it's difficult to write on it with a stylus or pen. The HTC Flyer is a $500 tablet with a 7-inch screen. At a glance, it's not much different from the other tablets that are scrambling to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPad. The iPad and all its copycats are designed to sense the touch of a finger. The screen layer that does this looks for big, blunt, electrically conductive objects such as fingers. It doesn't sense small, sharp ones like pens. That's why third-party styluses for the iPad are blunt rubbery sticks. They're essentially imitation fingers. They're not very good for drawing, but some people find them better than nothing. The Flyer has the same finger-sensing screen layer. But it backs this up with a second one, which looks for the movement of a specially designed, battery-powered pen. The pen moves fluidly over the screen, with a relatively sharp (but non-scratchy) point. The pen even senses how hard it's being pressed on the screen. The tablet responds by making the line thicker or thinner. The pen makes the Flyer a great notepad and a decent sketchpad — at least one that's better than the iPad. The Flyer includes a note-taking application that's compatible with the Evernote online storage service. You can jot off a note and send it by email. The recipient will ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/survey-finds-more-mobile-developers-prefer-android-digital-trends/ survey-finds-more-mobile-developers-prefer-android-digital-trends Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:31:46 +0300 A new survey from Vision Mobile and Bluevia finds that Android is the most popular mobile platform amongst developers, with 67 percent of mobile developers indicating they’re developing for Android in 2011—that’s an 8 percent improvement over 2010. However, Apple’s iOS was in a solid second place with 59 percent of mobile developers saying they’re targeting the platform—and that’s up 9 percent from last year. However, the real surprise in the survey might just be the number-three spot: apps developed using HTML and browser technologies specifically aimed at mobile devices. In 2010, 40 percent of mobile developers said they were making mobile Web apps; for 2011, that number has shot up to 56 percent. Java ME managed a fourth-place finish with 46 percent (down four percent from 2010), and RIM’s BlackBerry platform finished fifth with 45 percent of developers saying they’re targeting it this year—and that’s an increase of five percent over 2010. Symbian and Windows Phone took sixth and seventh place, with 38 percent and 36 percent of developers aiming at the platforms this year—both those figures represent net declines, with Symbian off 8 percent from last year. Interesting, Flash and Flash Lite took eighth place with a 34 percent share, but that’s a big increase from 22 percent last year—even though Apple’s iOS famously eschews Adobe Flash, platforms like Android are trying to make bank on supporting the platform. The study found developers experiment, supporting an average of 3.2 mobile platforms at the same time. According to Vision Mobile and Bluevia, Android’s popularity rests on it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/developer-interest-in-windows-phone-7-tops-ios-newsfactor/ developer-interest-in-windows-phone-7-tops-ios-newsfactor Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:31:47 +0300 A new global survey of mobile-app developers underscores a major shift in their outlook, with interest in building apps for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 (32 percent) now second only to Google's Android OS (35 percent). By contrast, Apple's iOS ranked third at 27 percent, according to Vision Mobile's latest survey of 850 developers worldwide. More developers are planning to invest in Phone 7 because Microsoft is offering best-in-class XNA and Silverlight developer tools and encouraging an influx of PC and Xbox developers. However, Microsoft has "a challenging year ahead" as it begins leveraging Nokia's mobile brand to compete more robustly with Apple and Google, the report's authors noted. Microsoft's "very strong developer tooling is a key enabler" for developers wishing to build and test their new apps long before Nokia's first Phone 7 handsets hit the market, noted Al Hilwa, director of applications development software at IDC. "We have seen Windows Phone pull ahead of competitors in developer appeal, helped by the Nokia deal," Hilwa said. 'The King of Developer Mindshare' Still, Android is a formidable global competitor because it is the only mobile platform adopted by developers across Europe, North America, and Asia, according to Vision Mobile's new report. By contrast, developer interest in Apple's iOS is lagging in Asia, due to the relatively low penetration of Apple devices in the region. Across mobile platforms, Android is not "just the king of developer mindshare -- it's also the easiest platform for developers to experiment with," the report's authors observed. It places fewer restrictions than Apple on "deep" APIs ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ebay-seeks-acquisitions-to-speed-impulse-buys-reuters/ ebay-seeks-acquisitions-to-speed-impulse-buys-reuters Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:01:53 +0300 LONDON (Reuters) – EBay is hunting for acquisitions to speed up its development of image recognition and augmented reality features as the online retailer and auctioneer seeks to capitalize on the potential of mobile phones to help consumers make impulse purchases. Image recognition, which rival Amazon already has, would allow users to photograph an object with their phone, send the image to eBay, find a match in the online store and buy it within seconds -- before losing interest. Steve Yankovich, head of eBay mobile, told Reuters his division had the company's full support to spend money on innovative technology, as the fastest growing part of eBay which is helping to renew the 15-year-old company's image. Augmented reality features could allow users to see themselves in items of clothing they might want to buy, picture a car they like in different colors, or see what kind of light a lamp would shed in their living room. "The company is really behind using mobile as an innovation platform to try new ways to engage the user ... and it's also a place where they see investing in technology as the right thing to do," Yankovich said in an interview in London on Wednesday. "I'm looking for companies that do interesting things with image recognition and also augmented reality," he said, adding that he hoped to have image recognition and more augmented reality features available this year. EBay, which says it is bigger than Amazon in mobile commerce, expects to more than double its mobile gross merchandise volume this year to $4 billion. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ipv6-day-is-a-warning-to-those-who-need-to-change-newsfactor/ ipv6-day-is-a-warning-to-those-who-need-to-change-newsfactor Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:01:55 +0300 Wednesday is World IPv6 Day. But the occasion is not a celebration -- it's a warning, the first global real-world test of the new Internet protocol, and a wake-up call to everyone who needs to make the transition from the current IPv4. The trial was organized by the Internet Society. Participants include more than 225 organizations, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Akamai and Limelight Networks. 'Get Ready' The participants agreed to test IPv6 on their services for a full 24 hours. Other organizations and web sites can join the effort by following instructions on the Internet Society web site. The American Registry for Internet Numbers, or ARIN, has said that all Internet service providers must offer only IPv6 by January 2012. It expects to run out of IPv4 addresses by this fall. "You have to get ready and do it now," said Laura DiDio, an analyst with the Information Technology Intelligence Corp. She noted that her company's web site is making the transition, and the first step a business needs to do is "put together a migration strategy." DiDio said most enterprises are probably well underway in making the transition, but web sites and smaller businesses are likely lagging. She pointed out that IPv6 isn't backward compatible with IPv4, and security issues will need to be addressed. Steps include providers making IPv6 connectivity available to all users, web sites offering their wares over IPv6, software updates for older operating systems, and firmware updates by home gateway manufacturers. On Feb. 3, the end for IPv4 was announced. In a public ceremony, the last ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/timeline-a-look-back-at-amateur-astronomy-contributornetwork/ timeline-a-look-back-at-amateur-astronomy-contributornetwork Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:03:06 +0300 Amateur astronomer David Martines recently observed what appeared to be a structure on the surface of Mars. He claims that it is evidence of life on the planet. The object appears to be a cylindrical capsule that Martines estimates as being 700 ft. long and 150 ft. wide. While NASA claims the image is a glitch in the digital imaging and not proof of Martian life, Martines isn't buying it. He has named the object "Bio Station Alpha" and published the coordinates if you would like to see for yourself: 71 49'19.73'³N 29 33'06.53'³W are the Martian coordinates to get you there. Many amateur astronomers have made profound discoveries in space, but Martines is unique in that he found the object while looking at Google Earth's Mars viewer. Looking back, here are some landmark moments throughout history for amateur astronomers. 1913: Russell W. Porter constructs his first telescope Porter was an engineer and artist who is widely regarded as one of the founders of amateur astronomy. Along with his colleagues of the "Springfield Telescope Makers," Porter experimented in a local basement and disseminated his findings through every possible means. The plans for Porter's first telescope were published in the May 1916 issue of popular astronomy. There were several articles in scientific magazines published regarding Porter, complete with detailed telescope plans and information. The majority of that information was condensed into "Amateur Telescope Making" volumes 1-3, which is regarded as the equivalent of the Bible for amateur telescope making. Porter was also an Arctic explorer and architect. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/touchscreen-steering-wheel-helps-drivers-keep-their-eyes-on-the-road-yahoo-news/ touchscreen-steering-wheel-helps-drivers-keep-their-eyes-on-the-road-yahoo-news Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:32:00 +0300 Researchers from the University of Stuttgart, University of Duisburg-Essen, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence created a prototype steering wheel that lets you operate your car with gestures, almost as if you were driving using an iPad. The steering wheel uses thick acrylic with infrared LEDs that detect your gestures on the surface. The wheel does more than just steer; your gestures operate other car controls, like turning on the radio. The idea is to improve automotive safety by reducing the time a driver is distracted when driving. Drivers must look away from the road to operate controls for windshield wipers, stereo systems, and other functions. Texting while driving has already proven to be a significant danger to motorists, simply because it's such a huge distraction from actually driving. If texting is bad news for drivers, then so is doing things like changing the radio station or operating a GPS. Studies with the prototype wheel have already proven to substantially reduce the time a driver isn't watching the road, by rerouting 20 different operations from around the dashboard directly to the gesture-based steering wheel. This prototype steering wheel isn't the only step forward in automotive safety in recent news. A new Ford smart car monitors your allergies and blood sugar levels while you drive. Ferrari has developed biometric safety aids to reduce risks from motorist fatigue. We can't forget Google's self-driving cars, which we must assume will also be responsible, careful motorists. (Source) Post by Michael Gray More from Tecca: Obama administration goes green with electric cars Solar-powered train tunnel takes passengers ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/chrome-12-gets-malicious-download-warnings-tracking-controls-pc-magazine/ chrome-12-gets-malicious-download-warnings-tracking-controls-pc-magazine Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:01:40 +0300 Google this week released a stable version of its Chrome browser that incorporates warnings about malicious downloads, better control over how you're tracked online, and improved graphics capabilities. Chrome users will get the latest version of Chrome 12 as an automatic download in the coming days. What does it include? First up, Google has enhanced its "Safe Browsing" mode to provide warnings about malicious downloads into the Chrome browser. If you try to download something suspicious, Chrome will display a warning ("This file appears to be malicious. Are you sure you want to continue?") with the option to Discard or Save. To determine if a download is questionable, Google will display the warning for any download URL that appears on the latest list of malicious Web sites published by the Safe Browsing API. The feature was first tested earlier this year with a small subset of users on the Chrome development release channel. Another feature making the leap from the dev channel to a stable version is easier management of local shared objects (LSOs), or "Flash cookies." Last month, Adobe released Flash Player 10.3, which includes enhanced privacy controls for how your activity is tracked online via the major browsers. "Cookies" are little bits of data collected about your Internet activity. They can be useful—like remembering passwords and settings on sites that you surf to frequently—but there are also concerns about targeted advertising and how much data is really collected. Web cookies can be deleted, but management of cookies inside products like Flash are a bit more complex. With Flash ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/test-of-new-generation-of-internet-addresses-underway-afp/ test-of-new-generation-of-internet-addresses-underway-afp Wed, 8 Jun 2011 20:02:02 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – A worldwide test of the next generation of Internet addresses was underway on Wednesday to replace the dwindling reservoir of numbers in the original system. Hundreds of companies, organizations and institutions around the world are taking part in "World IPv6 Day," including Internet giants such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! IPv6 is the next-generation of unique identifying numbers for computers and other gadgets connecting to the Internet and is designed to replace the original addressing system, IPv4, which is nearing exhaustion. IPv6 provides more than four billion times more addresses than IPv4 -- more addresses, for example, than there are grains of sand on Earth. Web users, for the most part, will be oblivious to the switch, which began at 0000 GMT Wednesday and is to last for 24 hours, since complex IP numbers will still appear as words and domains, such as google.com. Google, which is enabling IPv6 on Google Search, Gmail, YouTube and other services for 24 hours, said "the vast majority (99.95 percent) of people will be able to access services without interruption." "Either they'll connect over IPv6, or their systems will successfully fall back to IPv4," Google network engineer Lorenzo Colitti said in a blog post. Colitti estimated that 0.05 percent of systems may fail to fall back to IPv4, making Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Bing and other participating websites "slow or unresponsive." Facebook network engineer Donn Lee said World IPv6 Day "will enable the industry to gain insights about potential IPv6 issues, find solutions, and accelerate global adoption of IPv6." Lee estimated that 99.97 percent of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-buys-social-gaming-company-scoreloop-reuters/ rim-buys-social-gaming-company-scoreloop-reuters Wed, 8 Jun 2011 20:02:06 +0300 TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion bought social gaming company Scoreloop to help expand its Messenger application, challenged by this week's launch of a similar instant messaging offering from Apple. Munich-based Scoreloop adds social elements, such as interactive play and social network integration, to existing mobile games. It can also enable in-app purchases and virtual currencies to help developers make money. "As part of RIM, we'll be in the unique position to integrate deeply into BlackBerry platforms to take mobile gaming to the next level together," Marc Gumpinger, Scoreloop's chief executive, said on the company's website. Scoreloop, headquartered in Munich, Germany, will continue to support Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 and Samsung's bada, Gumpinder said. The company, which said in January it was adding one million users a week, did not support the BlackBerry platform prior to the acquisition. Financial terms were not disclosed. RIM said Scoreloop will help it "provide tools that will further enable our developer community to take gaming to a new level of social integration on the BlackBerry platform." RIM has sought to extend the usefulness of BlackBerry Messenger, popularly known as BBM, by allowing independent developers to integrate it into their applications. But RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky said RIM had executed slowly. While RIM has long talked about using its network infrastructure as a platform for services, Apple's iCloud -- which will synchronize media, content, documents, and user information from a massive data center in North Carolina -- has started to deliver some of these services ahead of RIM. BBM allows ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-to-stop-messaging-the-wrong-person/ how-to-stop-messaging-the-wrong-person Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:33:44 +0300 (CNN) -- It's happened to all of us. You're going about your business, using multiple keyboards to tap out missives of variable sum and substance, and one to ten seconds after hitting send ... BAM! The sounds around you drop to a static buzz. Your stomach plummets an inch or two south. A cold feeling fills your torso and a firecracker of horror explodes somewhere inside your rib cage. Looking at the "recipient" field of your irretrievably hurled message, you have but one thought in your cranium: "OH, S---!" You're not alone. In an AOL survey, 32% of respondents said they had forwarded an e-mail to the wrong recipient -- and if we had to wager a guess, we're assuming another 65% lied and the remaining 3% are living out their lives in rocky crevices, shunning both human contact and technology and emerging only occasionally from the shadows to take AOL questionnaires. You see, switching up sendees is a pretty understandable error. The reply button is so darn close to the forward one, and what's more, when you're itching to spread the word about the latest harebrained move of Ida the Office Idiot, Ida's name just might pour from your trembling fingertips into the "To:" field. Nowadays, e-mail isn't the only medium for majorly screwing up message-receivers. In a window awash with Gchat exchanges, it's all too easy to type a quick response into the wrong blinking convo. And, as Rep. Anthony Weiner showed us, and as Mashable reported, the difference between an @reply and direct message is ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-au-aparut-doua-penisuri-uriase-pe-google-maps/ cum-au-aparut-doua-penisuri-uriase-pe-google-maps Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:34:11 +0300 O farsă făcută în 2009 de mai mulţi elevi ai unui liceu din Noua Zeelandă a ieşit acum la iveală, cu ajutorul Google Maps, scrie Gawker.com. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/39brains-collide39-during-hackathon-for-climate-change-disaster-relief/ 39brains-collide39-during-hackathon-for-climate-change-disaster-relief Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:04:24 +0300 (CNN) -- What was the best moment of Willow Brugh's weekend? "Someone stood up on a chair (and) asked if anyone had Arduino skills," she said, in reference to the programming platform. "And someone jogged over to them with a huge grin on their face. The joy of sharing." It wasn't a traditional weekend, of course. Brugh was one of the planners of the Seattle Random Hacks of Kindness event, one of about a dozen such "hackathons" held last weekend around the world. About 1,500 self-proclaimed hackers and technology enthusiasts attended. It was a weekend of synthesis brought about by what Toronto organizer Heather Leson called "brains colliding." The RHoK events bring together disaster relief and climate change organizations and a variety of programmers and developers to see if they can generate new solutions to old problems -- in the space of a single weekend. The Random Hacks of Kindness umbrella organization was founded in 2009 by Google, Yahoo!, the World Bank, NASA, and Microsoft. This weekend was its third international event, and saw teams competing locally in places as far-flung as Bangalore, India and Buenos Aires, Argentina. World Bank Digital Strategist and RHoK Nairobi organizer Will Pate was proud to point out that almost every single person at RHoK Nairobi stayed the whole 36 hours, eating and sleeping at the hackathon, to get their projects done. "What was really exciting was seeing a group of young people who are very talented just dive right in and be so dedicated that they stayed overnight." You might not think even the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/first-look-at-apple39s-spaceship-shaped-campus-design-the-atlantic-wire/ first-look-at-apple39s-spaceship-shaped-campus-design-the-atlantic-wire Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:31:47 +0300 You'd be forgiven for wondering if Apple's new Cupertino, California campus might one day lift off and fly to another planet. Steve Jobs presented the new design to the city council last night and called the plan "a shot at building the best office building in the world." The flying saucer-shaped construction will consolidate about 12,000 Apple employees currently scattered around town in various rented offices into one building. With four stories, its own green "energy center" to power the facility, a hidden underground parking lot, "not a single piece of straight glass" and 120 landscaped acres to give it that country feel, the new campus sounds impressive. "It's a little like a spaceship landed," Jobs said. Jobs did sound a little bit threatening. "Apple is growing like a weed, and as you know, we've always been in Cupertino," he told the council. "We'd like to continue to stay here and pay taxes, because if we can't, we have to go someplace like Mountain View." When a city councillor prodded Jobs about offering up WiFi to Cupertino as Google has done for Mountain View, the Apple CEO sounded willing to bargain. "I'm a simpleton, I've always had this view that we pay taxes, and the city should do those things," Jobs said. "Now if we could get out of paying taxes, I'd be glad to put up WiFi." We're going to hazard a translation here, in case anyone on the city council missed it: the guy in the black turtleneck would like lower taxes, please. No taxes ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-many-ways-in-which-jill-abramson-is-awesome-the-atlantic-wire/ the-many-ways-in-which-jill-abramson-is-awesome-the-atlantic-wire Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:01:59 +0300 A pair of profiles on Jill Abramson, the rising executive editor of The New York Times, cultivate diligently the one qualifier reporters like to use to separate her from her predecessor. She's hip. And we're not talking Greenwich Village hip or even SoHo hip. Think Tribeca hip--that's where Abramson spends her Manhattan minutes--or even Williamsburg hip--she has a tattoo! Abramson also loves dogs, goes to indie rock shows and reads The Huffington Post on her iPad. "It's really jazzy," she told The Guardian. The Guardian profile and its religious imagery-wrapped dopplegänger in The New York Observer are both worth reading if you're interested in Abramson. Bombastic at times about the top job at The Times, each focuses less on the paper of record and more on the first woman who will run it, again, mostly on how she's a rogue compared to outgoing executive editor Bill Keller. Here are some choice quotes, tag-teamed between the two papers' perspectives. First, The Guardian expresses to its British readers the importance of Ambramson's new job: The executive editor of the New York Times is about as close as it gets in America to royalty, discounting the president and Lady Gaga. Even in this fragmented era of Twitter, Google News and the blogosphere, the newspaper's chief still has the power to direct the national conversation, to move markets, unseat politicians, sanction wars and create Hollywood movie stars. The New York Observer, footnoting Abramson's comparing her climbing of The Times masthead to the ascent of Valhalla: In Norse mythology, admission to Odin’s golden palace required a mortal to perform feats of strength and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fbi-director-says-to-boost-focus-on-cyber-threats-reuters/ fbi-director-says-to-boost-focus-on-cyber-threats-reuters Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:02:03 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI plans to sharpen its focus on the increased threat of cyber attacks over the next two years, FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Wednesday, in the wake of a recent attack on Google's email system. "We will increasingly put emphasis on addressing cyber threats in all of the variations," Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was considering an extension of his 10-year term by two years. (Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky and James Vicini) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-google-cloud-can-help-curb-online-piracy-us-reuters/ apple-google-cloud-can-help-curb-online-piracy-us-reuters Wed, 8 Jun 2011 17:32:16 +0300 BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Services developed by Apple Inc and Google for people to store photos, music and data online may do more to combat online piracy than regulation can, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. Victoria Espinel, the coordinator of U.S. intellectual property enforcement, said corporate innovation was often more effective than law enforcement or other rules, which are sometimes applied inappropriately. "The U.S. government doesn't need to pick winners and losers and the last thing we should think about doing is messing up the Internet with inappropriate regulation," she told the World Copyright Summit in Brussels. "In order for the Internet to be as productive and compelling as possible, we need to have active engagement from companies that interact with and benefit from Internet commerce," she said. Amazon, Google and Apple have announced music and other services that are downloadable from the 'cloud' -- a form of computing where data and software are stored on servers which users can access with smartphones or PCs via the Internet. Such innovations give those companies an advantage in developing more secure systems. "If it is possible to construct it so that it cannot be compromised, it may have the effect of reducing piracy by giving value to consumers -- the ability to own forever and access almost anywhere -- that cannot be obtained with illegal copies," Espinel said. "The flexibility of the cloud may help spur the development of compelling legal alternatives." Apple on Monday unveiled remote computing services, giving it a lead over rivals Google and Amazon, which recently moved into music storage and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-google-si-yahoo-testeaza-astazi-ipv6-protocolul-care-va-permite-gazduirea-unui-numar-aproape-nelimitat-de-ip-uri/ facebook-google-si-yahoo-testeaza-astazi-ipv6-protocolul-care-va-permite-gazduirea-unui-numar-aproape-nelimitat-de-ip-uri Wed, 8 Jun 2011 16:34:38 +0300 Google, Yahoo, Facebook şi Microsoft Bing sunt câţiva dintre giganţii web-ului care testează astăzi, 8 iunie, noul protocol - IPv6, care va putea suporta un număr aproape nelimitat de IP-uri. Acesta va fi implementat gradual şi îl va înlocui pe cel actual, IPv4, care permite crearea a maxim 4.3 miliarde de IP-uri, o cifră de care ne apropiem cu viteză, scrie BBC. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tencent-invests-in-china-internet-startup-fund-reuters/ tencent-invests-in-china-internet-startup-fund-reuters Wed, 8 Jun 2011 13:01:45 +0300 SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings, China's most valuable Internet company, said on Wednesday it has invested into a fund that will support early-stage Chinese Internet firms. Tencent, which runs China's largest instant-messaging platform and is the country's largest operator of online games, will invest in a yuan fund started by Innovation Works, an incubation fund founded by Google China's former head Kai-Fu Lee. The yuan fund aims to have a total capital commitment of 700 million yuan ($108 million) to support the companies under incubation at Innovation Works and other Internet start-ups. "Tencent and Innovation Works will collaborate to provide an open and supportive environment for Internet startups to foster growth and creative development," Martin Lau, president of Tencent, said in a statement. Since its establishment in September 2009, Innovation Works has incubated 35 projects, with more than 200 million yuan in investments in total. ($1 = 6.482 yuan) (Reporting by Melanie Lee; Editing by Jacqueline Wong) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/interviu-video-dan-bulucea-seful-google-romania-in-tara-sunt-cel-putin-7-8-milioane-de-utilizatori-de-internet-iar-in-doar-cativa-ani-numarul-se-va-dubla/ interviu-video-dan-bulucea-seful-google-romania-in-tara-sunt-cel-putin-7-8-milioane-de-utilizatori-de-internet-iar-in-doar-cativa-ani-numarul-se-va-dubla Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:34:54 +0300 ​In Romania, cel putin 7-8 milioane de oameni folosesc internetul, iar la cresterea anuala a penetrarii de aproape zece puncte procentuale, numarul total se va dubla in doar cativa ani, a spus intr-un interviu pentru HotNews.ro, seful Google Romania, Dan Bulucea. El a spus ca raman valabile planurile ca biroul local sa ajunga la sapte angajati si a explicat faptul ca existenta acestui birou va face ca unele produse Google sa ajunga mai repede in tara, cum s-a intamplat cu Street View. Seful Google a mai spus ca sistemul Wallet de plati cu telefonul mobil ar putea fi lansat si in Romania, iar in ceea ce priveste lansarea laptop-urilor cu Chrome OS nu s-a stabilit nimic pentru tara noastra.Cateva din cele mai interesante idei din interviu:- In multe tari internetul are o pondere mai mare in PIB decat sectoare precum agricultura si energia.- Pana in 2015 ponderea internetului in PIB se va dubla, iar acest lucru ar putea fi valabil si pentru Romania.- Sunt cel putin 7 - 8 milioane de utilizatori de internet in tara, iar numarul se va dubla in cativa ani.- Internetul s-a transformat: in trecut era important cat de repede se incarca o pagina, acum conteaza cat de bine poti urmari un film.- Tabletele au prins atat de bine datorita faptului ca interactiunea cu informatia prin intermediul lor este mult mai naturala, mult mai intuitiva.-Desi sunt scumpe, tabletele au o adoptie foarte larga si rapida, la fel cum s-a intamplat si cu telefoanele inteligente.- Raman in picioare planurile Google Romania de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-apps-not-apple-are-killing-blackberry-mashable/ why-apps-not-apple-are-killing-blackberry-mashable Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:32:08 +0300 Apple just announced free cloud storage and a slew of cool new features for iOS 5. Google announced a tap and pay system for Android phones earlier this week. And what has RIM, the third major smartphone player, done for us lately? Well, there's BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). The company has focused its commercials, display advertising and legal efforts on the feature that provides limitless instant chat between its customers. [More from Mashable: The 4 Biggest Stories in Tech, Social Media & Business This Morning] This feature lost some of its residual glitz, however, after group messaging apps emerged, enabling BBM-like capabilities between different platforms. When Apple announced that it would be including iMessage -- BBM for Apple products, essentially -- in its iOS 5, any residual glitz BBM may have retained was washed away. The fact that BBM has some competition only adds to RIM's woes. According to data from Nielsen, the BlackBerry OS market share has been in steady decline compared to iOS and Android since June 2010, before the first notable group messaging app launched (GroupMe in August 2010). [More from Mashable: Apple Blesses Twitter, Makes It the Social Network on iOS Devices] How to explain BlackBerry's decline? Part of it has to do with how far behind the OS is falling in the app game. About a year ago, Apple had up to 20 times the number of app downloads as RIM. At that point, RIM still had more market share than either Apple or Android. BlackBerry apps are typically the last version that companies like Shazam, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pawlenty39s-economic-plan-seeks-5-pct-annual-growth-ap/ pawlenty39s-economic-plan-seeks-5-pct-annual-growth-ap Wed, 8 Jun 2011 09:01:25 +0300 CHICAGO – Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty pitched an economic plan Tuesday that includes deep cuts in personal and business taxes to spur the struggling U.S. economy but would add to deficits in the short term in the hope that badly needed jobs would follow. The former Minnesota governor's plan aims for a bullish 5 percent annual growth that would balance the federal budget while forgoing trillions of dollars in tax revenue. Pawlenty's pitch assumes the benefits of his plan would kick in and eventually make up for its initial costs. His own team acknowledged the assumptions were aggressive. One critic called it "patently ridiculous." "Growing at 5 percent a year rather than the current level of 1.8 percent would net us millions of new jobs, trillions of dollars in new wealth, put us on a path to saving our entitlement programs," Pawlenty said in his first detailed speech on economic policy since he formally declared his White House ambitions a little over two weeks ago. The economy averaged 4.9 percent growth between 1983 and 1987, and grew at a 4.7 percent rate between 1996 and 1999. A sustained annual growth of 5 percent for a decade would be unprecedented in modern times. "It's patently ridiculous," said Michael Ettlinger of the liberal Center for American Progress. "It's not worth serious discussion. ... No one serious thinks that's possible," The Washington-based think tank projected Pawlenty's tax plan would cost $7.8 billion over a decade. Pawlenty said his plan would translate to $3.8 trillion in new tax revenue that would reduce the deficit by ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vidyo-rolls-out-low-cost-video-conferencing-reuters/ vidyo-rolls-out-low-cost-video-conferencing-reuters Wed, 8 Jun 2011 08:01:30 +0300 TALLINN (Reuters) – Start-up Vidyo unveiled a low-cost video-conferencing product on Wednesday that could intensify competition and hurt margins for Cisco Systems Inc and Polycom Inc. Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Ofer Shapiro told Reuters Vidyo, which has raised $74 million from investors, including Menlo Ventures and Rho Ventures, hopes to go public well before 2015. New Jersey-based Vidyo, whose software platform is used by Google Inc, Hitachi Ltd and Ricoh Co Ltd, claims it cuts the cost of video-conferencing dramatically. Vidyo said its systems incorporating up to nine screens would cost $44,000, compared with about $300,000 to $500,000 for three to four screens from other vendors. Such systems also need costly, dedicated network technology. Shapiro said he hoped lower prices would attract a wider range of customers. Research firm Ovum forecast last month that the market for high-end video-conferencing will grow an average of 19 percent each year through 2016, when it will hit $1.1 billion. "Cost has been the single biggest barrier to the adoption of tele-presence (video-conferencing)," Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala said. Shapiro said in an interview from New Jersey via Vidyo's own conferencing system: "The market will expand. We are still going to make tons of margins on those prices." (Editing by Andre Grenon) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-lets-users-opt-out-of-facial-recognition/ facebook-lets-users-opt-out-of-facial-recognition Wed, 8 Jun 2011 07:03:51 +0300 (CNN) -- Facebook's computer systems will soon be able to recognize familiar faces. Facebook is making changes to the process for tagging friends in photos uploaded to the social network, the company announced on Tuesday. Starting in a few weeks, the system will scan all images posted to Facebook and suggest the names of people who appear in the frame. Last year, Facebook began rolling the facial-recognition feature out to a test group. Facebook's more than 500 million users have been automatically included in the database, but the company is allowing each person to choose whether to be identified by toggling a pane in the account's privacy settings. The tool would still scan that person's face and figure out who it is, but it won't display that information. People can still manually tag friends. French TV, radio programs slapped with social media restrictions The news sparked a small brushfire of media hostility. Bloggers characterized the tool -- and Facebook's decision not to ask before including everyone -- as unsettling while others urged readers to opt out. Google recently decided not to release an application that would let someone snap a picture of a person's face using a smartphone in order to find out who the subject is, Eric Schmidt, the search giant's executive chairman and former CEO, said at a conference last week. Schmidt believed it to be the first time Google engineers had completed a project and decided to shutter it for privacy reasons, he said. The work on Google's facial-recognition technology has not gone to waste. It's used to preserve ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/icloud-to-music-industry39s-rescue/ icloud-to-music-industry39s-rescue Wed, 8 Jun 2011 06:03:30 +0300 (Rolling Stone) -- Apple chief executive Steve Jobs' announcement today at the Worldwide Developers Conference that Apple's new iCloud service will allow music fans to reproduce their entire digital collections on locker-style servers accessible via 10 devices -- including iPhones, iPads and computers -- may not save the ravaged record industry, but it could provide a crucial new revenue stream while allowing consumers to easily consolidate their music libraries in the cloud. "Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy," Jobs said in his keynote speech today at the WWDC in San Francisco today. "We have a great solution for this problem. We are going to demote the PC to just be a device. We are going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud." Rumored for weeks, iCloud will be free for up to 5 gigabytes of music downloaded via iTunes, Jobs announced. The service will scan and match users' current music collections for music carried by the iTunes store, and then make it available to all of the users' devices by sending the songs' metadata to the cloud. The new iTunes iMatch service will cost $25 a year, with unlimited storage, for users to copy digital music ripped from CDs or downloaded illegally. (The free version is available immediately, while iMatch will roll out in coming months, most likely with a new version of Apple's operating system in the fall.) The service will also allow storage of movies, photos and other data files, replacing Apple's MobileMe, in an ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pawlenty39s-economic-plan-aims-for-5-pct-growth-ap/ pawlenty39s-economic-plan-aims-for-5-pct-growth-ap Wed, 8 Jun 2011 03:31:34 +0300 CHICAGO – Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty pitched an economic plan Tuesday that includes deep cuts in personal and business taxes to spur the struggling U.S. economy but would add to deficits in the short term in the hope that badly needed jobs would follow. The former Minnesota governor's plan aims for a bullish 5 percent annual growth that would balance the federal budget while forgoing trillions of dollars in tax revenue. Pawlenty's pitch assumes the benefits of his plan would kick in and eventually make up for its initial costs. His own team acknowledged the assumptions were aggressive. One critic called it "patently ridiculous." "Growing at 5 percent a year rather than the current level of 1.8 percent would net us millions of new jobs, trillions of dollars in new wealth, put us on a path to saving our entitlement programs," Pawlenty said in his first detailed speech on economic policy since he formally declared his White House ambitions a little over two weeks ago. The economy averaged 4.9 percent growth between 1983 and 1987, and grew at a 4.7 percent rate between 1996 and 1999. A sustained annual growth of 5 percent for a decade would be unprecedented in modern times. "It's patently ridiculous," said Michael Ettlinger of the liberal Center for American Progress. "It's not worth serious discussion. ... No one serious thinks that's possible," The Washington-based think tank projected Pawlenty's tax plan would cost $7.8 billion over a decade. Pawlenty said his plan would translate to $3.8 trillion in new tax revenue that would reduce the deficit by ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/only-19-percent-of-your-itunes-library-matters-pc-magazine/ only-19-percent-of-your-itunes-library-matters-pc-magazine Wed, 8 Jun 2011 03:01:34 +0300 How much of your iTunes library do you listen to on a regular basis? According to a report from Music WithMe, an app from Parkvu, most people only listen to about 19 percent of their music. Available for Android only, Music WithMe enables the user to sync his phone with an iTunes library and select the songs, albums, or playlists he wants on his phone. The study, first reported by TechRepublic, was released on the heels of Google Music Beta and the Amazon Cloud Drive. The average iTunes library, according to Music WithMe, has about 5,409 songs, which means that only 1,214 get played. The app's site offers a nifty pie chart with the tagline, "Sure you need all your music in the cloud?" The idea is that Music WithMe sidesteps uploading the whole library to the cloud. The app functions over Wi-Fi or cellular networks, and it requires you to download a "helper app" that aggregates your iTunes library. There is direct Facebook integration, too. In fact, you have to sign in with your Facebook account, which could raise the privacy concerns of some. The main stipulation is that it cannot sync DRM-protected songs. Music WithMe has been around since November of last year. What makes this app interesting is that it seems like a fusion of the Amazon/Google approach and Apple's iCloud. The major difference between Music WithMe and iCloud is that the former does not have an 18 million song library, and it does not require you to upload your entire library to access it. You can ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/web-companies-test-internet39s-readiness-for-future-reuters/ web-companies-test-internet39s-readiness-for-future-reuters Wed, 8 Jun 2011 02:31:31 +0300 LONDON (Reuters) – Web companies including Google, Facebook and Akamai are joining forces on Wednesday to test the Internet's readiness for a future in which billions more people and devices will be connected. The pool of Internet addresses used for most traffic today is near exhaustion, but adopting IPv6 -- a new Internet protocol with 4 billion times as many addresses -- has been slow despite the fact that it is more than a decade old. Publishers and Internet service providers have been waiting for the other to make the first move, and workarounds including translation services and address-sharing have become common. But the prospect of large numbers of modern IPv6 networks coming online -- especially in the developing world where systems based on the previous protocol, IPv4, are not widespread -- is beginning to push organisations into action. "What's at stake is the future scalability and utility of the Internet," says Matthew Ford, technology program manager of the Internet Society, a non-profit group dedicated to the open development of the Internet, which is organizing World IPv6 Day. "IPv6 is fundamentally about allowing the Internet to scale to meet the expectations and demands of a global population of 7 billion, coupled with increased expectations of how many devices are expected to be able to connect to the Internet," he says. IPv4's specifications were drawn up in 1981, when the population of the world was 4.5 billion and the personal computer age was just dawning with the launch of the IBM PC. It allowed for 4.3 billion IP addresses. Today, more than 2 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/should-android-apps-list-minimum-requirements/ should-android-apps-list-minimum-requirements Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:03:57 +0300 Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- Given the stunning diversity of Android handsets, it's not surprising that not all Android apps run well on all Android devices. But so far, information about which hardware or version of the Android operating system is required to support specific apps isn't consistently available. Poorly performing apps can drain your battery and cause other functional problems -- and I've seen this happen on my Android phone. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha recently blamed apps for causing performance problems that led to 70% of all Motorola Android device returns, according to PC World. He did not offer proof for this claim, but he noted that while Google removes malware from the Android market, it does not test or label apps for performance -- specifically, power consumption and CPU use. Jha suggested Motorola's Motoblur app -- originally a social networking hub for Motorola Android devices, but which also collects performance data from phones -- might soon be able to warn Motorola phone users of poorly performing apps. (This might present some privacy and security concerns.) But for users of other types of Android phones, there are a variety of apps to help you diagnose problems or improve performance, such as Spare Parts (free, no root required) or Droid Overclock ($1.50, rooted phones only). Still, diagnosing and fixing Android performance problems gets rather geeky, probably more geeky than typical ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/39bio-station-alpha39-discovered-on-mars-by-david-martines-contributornetwork/ 39bio-station-alpha39-discovered-on-mars-by-david-martines-contributornetwork Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:33:08 +0300 David Martines has accomplished quite a feat. Not only has he discovered what he claims to be an alien space station on Mars, but he also has a Youtube video that is about to go viral, documenting his rare find. The video can be seen here. David Martines' commentary to the video posted speculates that this could be an alien base of some sort, that is either currently inhabited, or was inhabited at one point in time. Martines' estimates that this "Bio Station Alpha" - as he calls it - is over 700 feet long by 150 feet wide, and appearing to be cylindrical shaped. Since posting his video on YouTube, David Martines has received well over 750,000 views, and is headed to top 1 million, easily garnering "viral" status. David Martines made this epic discovery of Bio Station Alpha after downloading a flyby of Mars from Google Earth's Mars explorer. David also thinks that Bio Station Alpha could easily be a "biological containment" or even a "glorified garage." He maintains that this structure must have been placed on Mars by intelligent life forms. Many skeptics are immediately saying that this is just a glitch in the imaging software, and must be further scrutinized at a higher resolution. In the meantime, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab will be investigating David Martines' claim that Bio Station Alpha is really an alien base on Mars. Sources: Martines, David. Bio Station Alpha on Mars. Youtube. FoxNews.com. Armchair Astronomer Finds 'Evidence' of Life on Mars. FoxNews. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-ios-5-lion-magical-innovation-or-blatant-copying-pc-magazine/ apple-ios-5-lion-magical-innovation-or-blatant-copying-pc-magazine Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:31:57 +0300 As Apple rolled out a preview of iOS 5 and iCloud and gave a more detailed rundown of Lion OS X yesterday, there were a couple of raised eyebrows in the blogosphere from those who thought Apple was borrowing heavily from existing technologies. Everyone from Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president for Microsoft's Windows Phone, to Walt Mosspuppet had thoughts on where Apple got its ideas for its latest innovations. Notification center? Check out an Android phone. Split keyboard? Perhaps you saw Microsoft's Windows 8 preview. Reading List? How about Instapaper? As PCMag's software analyst Michael Muchmore pointed out, Apple's does offer a variety of true innovations, like Launchpad, Mission Control, and AirDrop (as well as, you know, the iPhone). And to be fair, a number of popular and innovative technologies certainly are improvements on existing tech. But there are a few things from Apple's keynote that might not be as "magical" as Steve Jobs would have you believe. Let's take a look at some of the innovations we might have seen before. Google Notification Center in iOS 5 will combine all notifications, divided by apps, in one place—just swipe down from the top to reveal them. That includes missed calls, mail notifications, sports scores, Facebook updates, and more. The idea is to not have notifications interrupt your iOS activity, Apple said. At the moment, they pop up in the middle of the screen. Anyone with an Android phone, however, already receives message notifications in this way. One announcement that got a lot of attention from WWDC attendees was the addition ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hands-on-icloud39s-itunes-in-the-cloud-pc-magazine/ hands-on-icloud39s-itunes-in-the-cloud-pc-magazine Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:32:10 +0300 Apple won't turn on its full iCloud online service till the fall, but there's already one piece of the puzzle in place: iTunes in the Cloud. Well, most of it, anyway: the iTunes Match service, which lets users upload music not purchased through iTunes, won't be available until the release of iOS 5 and the rest of iCloud. What's in operation now works on AT&T iPhones and other iOS 4.3 devices—iPads, iPod touches as well as the AT&T iPhone 4 and 3GS. On the desktop (both Mac and Windows), the new iTunes 10.3, available as of last night, includes what it calls iTunes in the Cloud Beta. iTunes in the Cloud on iOS Soon after the WWDC address by CEO Steve Jobs, the change was slipstreamed into the iTunes store and iBook Store on iOS 4.3 devices: Without updating or installing anything, a new "Purchased" button will appear at the bottom of your iOS device's iTunes and iBooks app—unless you have a Verizon iPhone—that'll come later. Tapping on this brings up a page where you can see either "All" purchased music or "Not on this phone" or "Not on this iPad." The latter are the tunes you've bought on other devices. To the right of each song in the list, you'll see a corresponding little cloud icon. Tapping on this will download the song to the current device. As you might expect, on the iPad, the layout is more spacious, with a sidebar showing the performer and a list of their songs on the right. All ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pawlenty-obama-satisfied-with-2nd-rate-us-economy-ap/ pawlenty-obama-satisfied-with-2nd-rate-us-economy-ap Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:01:11 +0300 CHICAGO – Republican Tim Pawlenty says President Barack Obama is satisfied with a second-rate American economy "produced by his third-rate policies." The former Minnesota governor is in Obama's hometown of Chicago on Tuesday proposing an economic policy that would cut taxes on business by more than half and simplify the tax code to just three tiers. Pawlenty also is proposing what he is calling "The Google Test." If Americans can find a service on the Internet from a private company, then the government probably shouldn't be providing it too. Pawlenty's economic speech is his first as a declared presidential candidate. He says Obama has discouraged innovation and that regulations have weighed down an economic recovery. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tethering-apps-blocked-by-verizon-free-press-says-newsfactor/ tethering-apps-blocked-by-verizon-free-press-says-newsfactor Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:02:03 +0300 Free Press has submitted a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission based on recent press reports saying Google has been blocking Verizon Wireless subscribers from downloading free or low-cost tethering applications from its Android Market at Verizon's request. The media-policy watchdog charged that the nation's largest wireless carrier is attempting to monetize a "service consumers could otherwise either obtain for free or obtain from another source at lower cost." Mobile tethering apps transform smartphones into wireless hot spots that can connect multiple Wi-Fi-enabled devices -- such as a laptop or a tablet -- to a handset's broadband connection. By preventing customers from downloading tethering apps, Free Press believes Verizon is restricting not only the availability of apps, but also limiting the use of tethered devices. "Verizon's conduct is bad for the public and bad for innovation," said Free Press Policy Counsel Aparna Sridhar. "It also appears to be illegal under the FCC's rules that govern Verizon's LTE network." Roadblocks To Control When Verizon purchased the spectrum licenses associated with its LTE network, it agreed that it would not "deny, limit or restrict" users from accessing the applications and devices of their choosing, Sridhar explained. Having lost the policy battle over the FCC's adoption of basic openness protections back in 2007, "Verizon has adopted a new regulatory strategy: Simply ignore the rules on the books," Sridhar said. "The commission must move quickly to investigate and stop these harmful practices." As an example, Free Press said if a Verizon customer purchases an HTC Thunderbolt smartphone to use on ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sony-ps3-boss-39no-turning-back39-despite-hacks-ap/ sony-ps3-boss-39no-turning-back39-despite-hacks-ap Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:32:15 +0300 LOS ANGELES – The head of the Sony Corp. unit that makes the PlayStation 3 game console says there's no going back on a push to offer always-connected play despite a series of hacking attacks that downed its network and will cost the Japanese company around $173 million in special costs. Kazuo Hirai, group chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., told The Associated Press that connectivity is central to the PlayStation experience. His comments, in an interview late Monday, came after he introduced Sony's latest handheld gaming device, the PlayStation Vita, which can use cellphone and Wi-Fi coverage and allows players to compete directly with PlayStation 3 users at home. Sony also plans to bring PlayStation games to smartphones that run on Google Inc.'s Android operating system. "There's no turning back on the use of networks in the interactive experience that we want to bring to our customers," he said. "Just like you can't imagine having a PC that's not connected, I really can't imagine a console that is not able to connect to the networks and do online game play." Sony has estimated that a series of hacks will cost it 14 billion yen ($173 million), racked up to pay for increased customer support, freebie packages to welcome back customers, legal costs, lower sales and measures to beef up security. The biggest breach occurred in mid-April, when hackers compromised the security of 100 million credit card-backed accounts on the PlayStation Network. Sony shut down the network while it rebuilt the infrastructure, and began restoring service last month. On ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/group-files-fcc-complaint-over-verizon-tethering-tactics-pc-magazine/ group-files-fcc-complaint-over-verizon-tethering-tactics-pc-magazine Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:01:58 +0300 Consumer group Free Press on Monday filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against Verizon Wireless for allegedly requesting that Google block tethering apps in the Android Market. Verizon has denied any wrongdoing. According to Free Press, blocking such apps would violate the terms and conditions of Verizon's FCC license for its LTE network. In purchasing spectrum in the 700 MHz band, Verizon must not "deny, limit, or restrict" the ability of customers to use apps or devices of their choosing. "Users pay through the nose for Verizon's LTE service, and having done so, they should be able to use their connections as they see fit," Free Press policy counsel Aparna Sridhar said in a statement. "Instead, Verizon's approach is to sell you broadband but then put up roadblocks to control your use of it." Verizon denied blocking the apps. "Google manages the apps available in its Android Market. Verizon Wireless does not block applications available to its customers through the Android Market," a spokesman said in a statement. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the search giant told Fierce Wireless in March that it was making an app called Wireless Tether unavailable for download at the request of wireless carriers. News about carriers possibly blocking tethering apps made the rounds in late April after DroidLife found that it could not access tethering apps in the Android Market from its devices—AT&T and Verizon. The blog was able to locate the apps in the browser-based version of the market, however. As DroidLife pointed out, "we've ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-buys-mobile-social-game-developer-afp/ rim-buys-mobile-social-game-developer-afp Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:31:40 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion announced Tuesday it has purchased Scoreloop, a Germany-based company which makes a toolkit for developers to add social features to mobile games. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "We look forward to working with the team at Scoreloop to provide tools that will further enable our developer community to take gaming to a new level of social integration on the BlackBerry platform," RIM said in a statement. Scoreloop chief executive Marc Gumpinger said the Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM has the "ambition to build the best platform for mobile games. So we've joined forces to help make this a reality." Scoreloop provides software developers with toolkits to add social elements to mobile games and ways to generate revenue such as in-application purchases and virtual currency. Scoreloop, which was founded in 2008 and has its headquarters in Munich, works on multiple platforms including Apple's iOS, Google's Android and Windows Phone 7. Gumpinger said on the Scoreloop website that the company will "continue our cross platform approach, but you'll see that our BlackBerry solution will be unparalleled." http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-apple-a-prezentat-serviciul-icloud-intram-in-era-post-pc/ video-apple-a-prezentat-serviciul-icloud-intram-in-era-post-pc Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:35:42 +0300 ​Steve Jobs a revenit din concediul medical in care a intrat in ianuarie pentru a prezenta in San Francisco mai multe noutati, printre care si serviciul iCloud prin care fisierele utilizatorilor pot fi pastrate pe serverele Apple iar acestia le pot accesa usor de oriunde, fie de pe iPhone, iPad, iPod sau alte terminale produse de companie. Apple spune ca prin iCloud intram in era post-PC in care sincronizarea dintre mai multe tipuri de terminale se face automat si datele sunt pe internet, in "norul informatic" (in the cloud). Companii precum Google, Amazon si Microsoft au promovat masiv cloud - computingul, iar Apple spera sa le prinda din urma, ajutata si de marketing-ul eficace."iCloud stocheaza toate datele voastre in norul nformatic si le trimite imediat pe toate terminalele voastre", a explicat Steve Jobs care a tinut o prezentare in stilu-i plin de viata. El a admis ca e enervant sa trebuiasca sa sincronizezi cu PC-ul diverse terminale pentru a transfera fisiere pe ele si a adaugat ca iCloud este solutia fiindca daca utilizatorul cumpara o melodie de pe iTunes de exemplu, ea va fi incarcata automata "in the cloud" si utilizatorul o va putea accesa prin intermediul internet-ului si de pe iPhone si de pe iPad sau iPod, fara a fi nevoie sa sincronizeze separat aceste aparate.Jobs spune ca iCloud era necesar fiindca PC-ul nu mai este centrul "vietii digitale" a utilizatorului, PC-ul scade in rang, devine un simplu device. El a mai adaugat ca iCloud "nu este doar un hard-disc din cer" ci se ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china39s-ominous-google-ultimatum-the-week/ china39s-ominous-google-ultimatum-the-week Tue, 7 Jun 2011 18:32:58 +0300 New York – China issues a dark warning to Google after accusations that Chinese hackers tried to crack U.S. government Gmail accounts. Should Google be worried? Last week, Google accused Chinese hackers of trying to break into the Gmail accounts of top U.S. government officials, Chinese human rights activists, and journalists, among others. On Monday, China hit back hard, with a front page editorial in the official People's Daily newspaper warning that Google should be wary of "playing the role of a tool for political contention," because "when the international winds shift direction, it may become sacrificed to politics and will be spurned by the marketplace." Should Google take this threat seriously? (Watch a report about the ongoing battle.) This will hurt Google's business: "Google has had a rocky relationship with China since January 2010," when it got in a fight over Chinese censorship, says Sean Ludwig in VentureBeat. But this new salvo puts Google in an even more "precarious position." Despite the "back-and-forth bickering," Google would still "surely like to have a hand in China's quickly growing market." Clearly, those lucrative opportunities are at risk."China warns Google after hacking accusations" Someone's got to stand up to China: "It would be simply stupid to prod the Chinese government if you have hopes of doing business there," says Larry Dignan in ZDNet. Indeed, Hotmail and Yahoo! were hacked, too, and said nothing. But "Google's business in China is toast — or getting there," so it will probably ignore the criticism and continue to call out China for its cyber-belligerence. At least ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-icloud-could-save-the-music-industry/ how-icloud-could-save-the-music-industry Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:33:48 +0300 (Rolling Stone) -- Apple chief executive Steve Jobs' announcement today at the Worldwide Developers Conference that Apple's new iCloud service will allow music fans to reproduce their entire digital collections on locker-style servers accessible via 10 devices -- including iPhones, iPads and computers -- may not save the ravaged record industry, but it could provide a crucial new revenue stream while allowing consumers to easily consolidate their music libraries in the cloud. "Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy," Jobs said in his keynote speech today at the WWDC in San Francisco today. "We have a great solution for this problem. We are going to demote the PC to just be a device. We are going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud." Rumored for weeks, iCloud will be free for up to 5 gigabytes of music downloaded via iTunes, Jobs announced. The service will scan and match users' current music collections for music carried by the iTunes store, and then make it available to all of the users' devices by sending the songs' metadata to the cloud. The new iTunes iMatch service will cost $25 a year, with unlimited storage, for users to copy digital music ripped from CDs or downloaded illegally. (The free version is available immediately, while iMatch will roll out in coming months, most likely with a new version of Apple's operating system in the fall.) The service will also allow storage of movies, photos and other data files, replacing Apple's MobileMe, in an ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pawlenty-to-blast-obama-class-warfare-reuters/ pawlenty-to-blast-obama-class-warfare-reuters Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:31:39 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty will unveil an ambitious plan on Tuesday to ignite the economy while accusing President Barack Obama of championing "class warfare." In excerpts of a speech he is to give in Chicago later in the day, Pawlenty said he would slash taxes for businesses and individuals, cut government spending and eliminate burdensome regulations. The former Minnesota governor is viewed by political insiders as a potential front-runner in the Republican race to challenge Obama in 2012 despite his underdog status in the polls. The economy, job growth and the federal deficit are expected to be the prime domestic issues of next year's presidential campaign. Obama is particularly vulnerable on economic growth. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows public disapproval of his performance on the economy at a new high of 59 percent. "Let's start with a big positive goal," Pawlenty was to say in the speech. "Let's grow the economy by 5 percent instead of the anemic 2 percent envisioned currently." He blamed Obama for weighing Americans down with "big government and heavy-handed regulations." "Regrettably, President Obama is a champion practitioner of class warfare. Elected with a call for unity and hope, he has spent three years dividing our nation, fanning the flames of class envy and resentment to deflect attention from his own failures and the economic hardship they have visited on America," Pawlenty said. Pawlenty, 50, a popular two-term governor from a Democratic-leaning swing state, attracted national attention by balancing the Minnesota budget without raising taxes. On Tuesday, he pledged to tackle America's economic and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-apple39s-icloud-could-help-save-the-music-industry/ how-apple39s-icloud-could-help-save-the-music-industry Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:03:23 +0300 (Rolling Stone) -- Apple chief executive Steve Jobs' announcement today at the Worldwide Developers Conference that Apple's new iCloud service will allow music fans to reproduce their entire digital collections on locker-style servers accessible via 10 devices -- including iPhones, iPads and computers -- may not save the ravaged record industry, but it could provide a crucial new revenue stream while allowing consumers to easily consolidate their music libraries in the cloud. "Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy," Jobs said in his keynote speech today at the WWDC in San Francisco today. "We have a great solution for this problem. We are going to demote the PC to just be a device. We are going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud." Rumored for weeks, iCloud will be free for up to 5 gigabytes of music downloaded via iTunes, Jobs announced. The service will scan and match users' current music collections for music carried by the iTunes store, and then make it available to all of the users' devices by sending the songs' metadata to the cloud. The new iTunes iMatch service will cost $25 a year, with unlimited storage, for users to copy digital music ripped from CDs or downloaded illegally. (The free version is available immediately, while iMatch will roll out in coming months, most likely with a new version of Apple's operating system in the fall.) The service will also allow storage of movies, photos and other data files, replacing Apple's MobileMe, in an ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what-makes-apple39s-icloud-different-from-google-and-amazon/ what-makes-apple39s-icloud-different-from-google-and-amazon Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:33:33 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- Consumer technology giants are battling to provide the place where you store your files, and Apple is not about to be left out. Capping a slew of software announcements on Monday, Apple unveiled iCloud. The free service lets users synchronize documents, photos and applications between Apple devices over the Internet. Music purchased through the iTunes Store can be downloaded from any device connected to your account, and for an annual fee, tracks bought from other stores, ripped from CDs or procured through other means can be synchronized. When iCloud drops this fall, Apple will join Amazon.com and Google, two major players that have already begun rolling out storage services. For music, Apple has the incumbent's advantage. ITunes is the world's most popular jukebox software, highest-volume music retailer and already has cozy ties to the record industry. That relationship enabled Apple to secure the deals that competitors are still negotiating for. Those agreements resulted in iTunes Match, which was Apple CEO Steve Jobs' signature "one more thing" to end his presentation on Monday. ("It's a small thing," he said.) ITunes Match will allow people to pay $25 per year to sync as many as 25,000 songs not purchased through the iTunes Store between their computers and gadgets. "It takes minutes, not weeks," Jobs said. The weeks-long process Jobs is referring to is the offerings from Amazon and Google. Because they haven't secured rights with the record labels, they took an alternate route with their services. Amazon's Cloud Drive and Google's Music Beta require users to upload their entire libraries to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what-makes-apple39s-icloud-different/ what-makes-apple39s-icloud-different Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:33:29 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- Consumer technology giants are battling to provide the place where you store your files, and Apple is not about to be left out. Capping a slew of software announcements on Monday, Apple unveiled iCloud. The free service lets users synchronize documents, photos and applications between Apple devices over the Internet. Music purchased through the iTunes Store can be downloaded from any device connected to your account, and for an annual fee, tracks bought from other stores, ripped from CDs or procured through other means can be synchronized. When iCloud drops this fall, Apple will join Amazon.com and Google, two major players that have already begun rolling out storage services. For music, Apple has the incumbent's advantage. ITunes is the world's most popular jukebox software, highest-volume music retailer and already has cozy ties to the record industry. That relationship enabled Apple to secure the deals that competitors are still negotiating for. Those agreements resulted in iTunes Match, which was Apple CEO Steve Jobs' signature "one more thing" to end his presentation on Monday. ("It's a small thing," he said.) ITunes Match will allow people to pay $25 per year to sync as many as 25,000 songs not purchased through the iTunes Store between their computers and gadgets. "It takes minutes, not weeks," Jobs said. The weeks-long process Jobs is referring to is the offerings from Amazon and Google. Because they haven't secured rights with the record labels, they took an alternate route with their services. Amazon's Cloud Drive and Google's Music Beta require users to upload their entire libraries to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-takes-a-giant-leap-into-the-39icloud39-afp/ apple-takes-a-giant-leap-into-the-39icloud39-afp Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:01:51 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has interrupted his medical leave to unveil a free service called iCloud that stores music, photos and other content on the Web and shares it across multiple devices. "We're going to move the digital hub to the cloud," the 56-year-old Jobs told software developers at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Jobs and other top Apple executives also gave developers a preview of the next generation of Lion, the software that powers Macintosh computers, and iOS 5, the latest mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. But the highlight of the event was Apple's long-awaited iCloud service, which eliminates the need to hook up a cable to transfer files between Apple devices. "Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy," Jobs said to cheers from the audience of more than 5,000 software developers. "We think the solution is our next big insight. "iCloud stores your content in the cloud and automatically pushes it to all your devices," he said. Apple said iCloud wirelessly synchronizes mail, contacts, calendars, photos, applications, e-books, music and other files across devices. Apple's "iTunes in the Cloud" shares music bought through iTunes across Apple devices while a Photo Stream service does the same with pictures. For music not bought through iTunes, Apple is offering a service called "iTunes Match" for $24.99 a year that matches music ripped from CDs in a subscriber's personal music collection and makes it available online. "Chances are awfully good that we've got the songs in the store ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pawlenty-proposes-three-tier-income-tax-system-ap/ pawlenty-proposes-three-tier-income-tax-system-ap Tue, 7 Jun 2011 07:31:01 +0300 CHICAGO – Republican Tim Pawlenty was set to propose an economic policy Tuesday that would simplify individual tax rates to just three options and cut taxes on business by more than half as he offered himself as a replacement to Barack Obama in the Democratic president's hometown. The former Minnesota governor also was to propose that any services available privately, such as the postal services or mortgages, should not something government handles. He said he would require a vote in Congress to extend any regulation or he would cancel it. And he said he would eliminate taxes on investments and inheritances. "But our policies can't just be about simply cutting rates. They must also promote freedom and free markets," Pawlenty said in excerpts provided ahead of the morning speech at the University of Chicago. Pawlenty's speech, his first as a declared presidential candidate, also kept an eye on presidential politics and blamed Obama for an anemic economy. He said Americans are ready to innovate and create jobs, but "they have been discouraged and weighed down by President Obama's big government and heavy-handed regulations." In a speech expected to be heavy on specifics, Pawlenty was ready to propose a three-tier income tax system: • The estimated 45 percent of U.S. households that did not pay income taxes in 2010 would see no change in their tax rates. • Individuals would pay 10 percent tax on the first $50,000 of income. Couples earning $100,000 would also pay that rate. • "Everything above that would be taxed at 25 percent," Pawlenty said. He also wanted to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/xbox-360-with-kinect-shows-off-new-tricks-at-e3-afp/ xbox-360-with-kinect-shows-off-new-tricks-at-e3-afp Tue, 7 Jun 2011 07:31:56 +0300 LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Microsoft added YouTube, voice commands, television shows and more to its Xbox 360 with Kinect as the hot-selling videogame console matures into an entertainment center for all. Studios joined Microsoft on the eve of a premier Electronics Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles to unveil blockbusters such as "Mass Effect 3" that let players use body motion or voice to execute tactics once the exclusive duty of toggles or buttons in controllers. "Kinect is a natural way to converse with characters," said BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka, whose studio is behind hit videogame franchise "Mass Effect." "In a game that already reacts to every decision you make, you will feel even more connected." Microsoft was intent on broadening the array of Kinect titles to appeal to the traditional "hard core gamers" devoted to shooter games as well as the "casual" audience happy with virtual darts or bowling. Microsoft ramped up voice capabilities in Kinect to allow Xbox users not only to give commands to in-game characters but to speak Bing searches for games, movies, television shows, music and other entertainment content. "This is an incredible time of growth and innovation for our business leveraging technologies that see us, hear us and connect us all together," said Microsoft president of the Interactive Entertainment Business Don Mattrick. "This year by bringing together the power of Kinect for Xbox 360 and the intelligence of Bing, we are transforming how people enjoy entertainment." Microsoft has sold more than 10 million of the gesture-sensing Kinect accessories for the Xbox 360 consoles worldwide since they hit the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/can-google-wallet-reinvent-the-way-we-pay-for-things-yahoo-news/ can-google-wallet-reinvent-the-way-we-pay-for-things-yahoo-news Tue, 7 Jun 2011 06:01:29 +0300 Last week's unveiling of Google's mobile payment app, Google Wallet, heralds a radical revamping of commerce and currency. Google Wallet, rolled out first in New York and San Francisco, uses near field communication (NFC) technology that allows two-way communication between a smartphone and payment terminal, all with a tap. Google's payment vision is seductive: to create an "open commerce ecosystem" and change the future of commerce. Will Google Wallet reinvent the way we pay for things? In his excellent piece The Future of Money, Wired's Daniel Roth argues convincingly that PayPal and TwitPay opened up vendor payment and money transfers, previously the domain of large financial institutions, to the everyman. Roth credits these emerging alternative payment systems with the 2009 decline in U.S. consumer credit card debt. Whether Google Wallet will continue this trend largely depends on consumer confidence in financial data security during payment processing and its ability to overcome consumer jitters about new technology. Can I use Google Wallet?For this first phase of Google Wallet, only consumers with Samsung's highly rated Nexus S 4G will be able to launch the app, but in the future, Google hopes to roll it out for more Android phones. Allaying security concernsSmartphones as payment devices require a paradigm shift. Can these battery-hogging, frequently unreliable devices be counted on to transmit financial data and do it securely? Google wisely touts security measures such as multilayer data encryption between Google Wallet and MasterCard PayPass, required PIN entry at each purchase, and the separate lock screen available on Android Phones. The Google Wallet FAQ section reflects general consumer concern about phone batteries ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rsa-security-offers-to-replace-securid-tokens-wsj-afp/ rsa-security-offers-to-replace-securid-tokens-wsj-afp Tue, 7 Jun 2011 06:01:49 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – US computer security titan RSA Security is offering to replace the SecurID tokens used by millions of corporate workers to securely log on to their computers, The Wall Street Journal reported. RSA Security chairman Art Coviello told the newspaper in an interview that the company, which was the target of a sophisticated hacking attack in March, was ready to replace the tokens for "virtually every customer we have." The Journal also said that RSA's parent company, EMC Corp., had acknowledged in a letter to customers on Monday that intruders had breached its security systems at defense contractor Lockheed Martin using data stolen from RSA. SecurID tokens, which involve constantly changing passwords, are used by thousands of companies to allow employees to securely log on to computers or sensitive software systems. Coviello did not provide details of the Lockheed incident but the Journal said intruders did not take any Lockheed customer or employee data. "Their modus operandi led us to believe this perpetrator was likely to attack defense secrets and related intellectual property," Coviello said. "We believe and still believe that the customers are protected," he said, but as a precaution RSA will offer to replace nearly all of the millions of tokens used by government agencies and businesses. "I'm not suggesting we won't see some other attacks in the interim given the scale of the Lockheed attack, but it is the only confirmed attack we have using the (stolen) information," he said. A Lockheed spokeswoman told the Journal that the defense contractor would be replacing all of its SecurID tokens. Lockheed ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-takes-a-giant-leap-into-the-39icloud39-cloud-afp/ apple-takes-a-giant-leap-into-the-39icloud39-cloud-afp Tue, 7 Jun 2011 06:31:50 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has interrupted his medical leave to unveil a free service called iCloud that stores music, photos and other content on the Web and shares it across multiple devices. "We're going to move the digital hub to the cloud," the 56-year-old Jobs told software developers at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Jobs and other top Apple executives also gave developers a preview of the next generation of Lion, the software that powers Macintosh computers, and iOS 5, the latest mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. But the highlight of the event was Apple's long-awaited iCloud service, which eliminates the need to hook up a cable to transfer files between Apple devices. "Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy," Jobs said to cheers from the audience of more than 5,000 software developers. "We think the solution is our next big insight. "iCloud stores your content in the cloud and automatically pushes it to all your devices," he said. Apple said iCloud wirelessly synchronizes mail, contacts, calendars, photos, applications, e-books, music and other files across devices. Apple's "iTunes in the Cloud" shares music bought through iTunes across Apple devices while a Photo Stream service does the same with pictures. For music not bought through iTunes, Apple is offering a service called "iTunes Match" for $24.99 a year that matches music ripped from CDs in a subscriber's personal music collection and makes it available online. "Chances are awfully good that we've got the songs in the store ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analysis-nimble-asian-rivals-raid-nokia39s-emerging-markets-turf-reuters/ analysis-nimble-asian-rivals-raid-nokia39s-emerging-markets-turf-reuters Tue, 7 Jun 2011 06:00:26 +0300 NEW DELHI/HELSINKI (Reuters) – From New Delhi to Shanghai to Johannesburg, a flood of cheap handsets from the likes of China's ZTE and India's Micromax is destroying Nokia's top position in emerging markets. Compounding the woes for the Finnish phone maker, Asian handset manufacturers are increasingly turning to Google's free Android software, which is popular with operators and consumers in cut-rate markets. Nokia is already under pressure in the high-margin smartphone sector as Apple, Blackberry maker Research In Motion and Google seize market share, leaving the basic cellphone business as Nokia's most valuable part. That is now under threat. "Three years ago Nokia's position in emerging markets looked impenetrable, but low-cost chipsets and growing scale has helped a number of Asian manufacturers to price aggressively and seize market share," said CCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber in London. "The 'lean mean phone-making machine' that used to dominate the sub $50 space has come under huge pressure from agile rivals." Last week, Nokia abandoned hope of meeting key targets just weeks after setting them, blaming difficult conditions in China and Europe. Its shares slumped 18 percent in one session on skepticism about its strategy to team up with Microsoft for Windows Phone software in the smartphone war. The battle for the cheap phone market could be even tougher. Nokia has been able to rely on its brand and distribution chain across emerging markets, home to 1.7 billion mobile phone subscribers. But ZTE and larger Chinese rival Huawei Technologies, which have traditionally been in the network equipment business, are aggressively muscling in on mobile devices. ZTE expects ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-jobs-makes-big-push-into-an-everyday-cloud-reuters/ apple39s-jobs-makes-big-push-into-an-everyday-cloud-reuters Tue, 7 Jun 2011 04:32:59 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs unveiled services for people to store more of their photos, music and other data online, giving the iPad and iPhone maker the lead in a fast-expanding new consumer market. Jobs entered to a standing ovation from more than 5,000 Apple faithful at its Worldwide Developers' Conference on Monday and showed off Apple products meant to help customers keep their iPhones, iPads and computers in sync. The Silicon Valley icon and pancreatic cancer survivor -- animated but again looking very thin -- unveiled remote computing services that for now at least push Apple ahead of rivals Google and Amazon.com, which recently launched their own moves into music storage and streaming. Jobs, whose decision to headline the event assuaged some concerns on Wall Street about his health, didn't say a word about his condition but strode briskly onstage after James Brown's soul classic "I Got You (I Feel Good)" blasted over the sound system. "We're going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud," Jobs said. "Everything happens automatically and there's nothing new to learn. It just all works." In cloud computing, data and software are stored on servers, and devices like smartphones or PCs access them through the Internet. With its knack for designing easy-to-use gadgets, Apple hopes to make cloud computing -- right now a term tossed about mostly by corporate IT departments and Silicon Valley geeks -- an everyday convenience for many people. As more and more people use smartphones and tablets with limited storage, demand ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/corrected-hackers-claim-to-have-hit-sony-again-reuters/ corrected-hackers-claim-to-have-hit-sony-again-reuters Tue, 7 Jun 2011 04:00:39 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers calling themselves Lulz Security said on Monday that they had broken into Sony Corp computer systems again, and posted the results on the Internet. The group, which has claimed credit for a prior attack on Sony's systems, posted what appeared to be Sony BMG network maps from a New York city office and what they said was 54 megabytes of Sony developer source code. "We're not commenting on this issue," said Sony Music spokeswoman Liz Young. Last week, the group said it had broken into Sony's computer network and accessed information on more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the company's systems. In that attack, the group of hackers, who have managed to keep themselves anonymous, published names, birth dates, street addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony. On April 26, Sony warned that hackers had stolen personal information from 77 million user accounts of its video game online network. On April 19, Sony pulled the plug on its PlayStation Network after discovering the breach. On May 2, Sony revealed that hackers had stolen data another 25 million users of its PC games system. Last week, Lulz Security claimed credit for an attack on an Atlanta office of InfraGard, an outreach center used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to liaise with private business. InfraGard and the FBI ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/still-frail-jobs-appears-to-hail-apple39s-latest-ap/ still-frail-jobs-appears-to-hail-apple39s-latest-ap Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:31:53 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave Monday to show off Apple Inc.'s latest innovations and sustain the hope that he eventually will return to dream up more ways to reshape technology. The highlight, as usual, came at the end of Jobs' presentation. He was onstage for less than 30 minutes during a nearly two-hour event that primarily featured his subordinates. Ever the showman, the Apple CEO announced that the company had struck licensing agreements with all the major recording labels on a new music synching system. It will allow people to put all the songs they have ever bought from the company's iTunes store on up to 10 devices. All future iTunes purchases also will be automatically sent to all the devices, too. None of the transfers will require devices to be plugged into a single computer. It will automatically happen over wireless connections. "Keeping all those devices in sync is driving us crazy," Jobs said. Jobs' keynote address at a conference for application developers marked his first onstage appearance since he unveiled the second version of Apple's tablet computer, the iPad, three months ago. It comes five months after Jobs went on his third medical leave of absence in the past seven years to deal with an unspecified medical issue. He has previously survived pancreatic cancer and undergone a liver transplant. Unlike during a six-month leave in 2009, Jobs, 56, hasn't said when he is coming back to work. The uncertainty made his every appearance even more of a spectacle because people don't know if it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-cloud-music-could-finally-make-piracy-pay-ap/ apple39s-cloud-music-could-finally-make-piracy-pay-ap Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:01:32 +0300 LOS ANGELES – Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs on Monday introduced more than just a cloud storage system for songs that fans buy legitimately through iTunes. He unveiled a system that might finally get music lovers to pay for the songs they got through less-than-proper means. Aside from offering to freely distribute new and old iTunes purchases on all of a user's devices, the Apple impresario unveiled "iTunes Match," a $25-a-year service starting this fall that will scan users' devices and hard drives for music acquired in other ways, store it on distant computer servers and allow them to access it anywhere. The service acknowledges a well-known fact — that most music on iPods, iPhones and iPads was ripped or swapped. Apple reached a deal that gives recording companies more than 70 percent of the new fees, addressing a dark secret that has crippled the music industry, and provides them with some economic payback. Where Apple is able to identify and match songs from its 18 million-song database, it will transfer them into the user's iCloud, a storage area housed on servers, including those at a massive new data center in North Carolina. "The chances are awfully good that we've got the songs in our store that you've ripped," Jobs said. Where songs can't be identified — say of bootlegged concert recordings — users can manually upload them to the cloud and gain the same access. Jobs called it "an industry-leading offer" compared with similar song-uploading storage services recently introduced by Amazon.com Inc. and Google Inc. The limit of "iTunes Match" ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-goes-after-rim39s-bbm-with-imessage-pc-magazine/ apple-goes-after-rim39s-bbm-with-imessage-pc-magazine Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:01:42 +0300 Among the various iOS 5 features Apple chief Steve Jobs unveiled today at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was iMessage, a messaging option for iOS devices reminiscent of RIM's BlackBerry Messenger. Apple said iMessage "brings the functionality of iPhone messaging to all of your iOS devices―iPhone, iPad and iPod touch." It is built into the Messages app, and allows users to send messages, photos, videos, or contact information to other iOS 5 users via Wi-Fi or 3G. Like BBM, however, iMessage will include delivery and read receipts, and typing indication, so you know if the person has received your message and if they are typing back. Apple's iMessage will also have secure end-to-end encryption. RIM did not respond to a request for comment about iMessage. The provider has been battling against iOS and Android in recent years for smartphone dominance. Last week, comScore found that the continued popularity of the iPhone and Android-based devices helped Apple and Google maintain their lead over RIM in the first three months of the year, with iPhones snapping up 26 percent of the U.S. market. In March, there were reports that RIM was planning on porting BBM to both the Android OS and eventually the Apple iOS platform, but it has not yet made any announcements. At last year's DevCon, RIM announced the launch of the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform, a means of connecting the company's BBM messenger application to other apps. Apple will release iOS 5 in the fall. Also today, the company used WWDC to announce its iCloud service and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-icloud-vs-amazon-cloud-player-vs-google-music-beta-pc-magazine/ apple-icloud-vs-amazon-cloud-player-vs-google-music-beta-pc-magazine Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:02:05 +0300 The biggest player in digital music has finally vaporized its content. Starting this fall, you'll be able to stream your digital music library over the Internet, rather than having to download it to your devices and store it on them. We've already seen Amazon and Google's attempts at a Web-based streaming music service, with the former's Cloud Player and the latter's Google Music Beta, but with iTunes' dominance in digital music, Apple's iCloud could eclipse both of them. Apple's offering differs from those of Amazon and Google in some big ways, though. Here's a rundown of the three services' differences and similarities. A central difference of Apple's iCloud versus the others is that it's not just for music: It takes over all the former MobileMe's functions—email, contacts, calendar—along with backing up and syncing iOS device photos, app data, and iWork documents. Thus ends the stormy story of the MobileMe service, which even Steve Jobs noted at WWDC was "not our finest hour." This comparison, though will concern itself primarily with the music aspect of iCloud, iTunes in the Cloud. This piece is available as a beta by downloading iTunes 10.3. A huge difference of iCloud's music capabilities is that you can't play songs from within a Web browser (at least as far as we have seen so far) as you can with both Amazon and Google's offerings. You'll either need an iOS device or iTunes running on a computer. True, this does include Windows PCs running iTunes, but forget any non-Apple tablets or phones. This ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what-makes-apple39s-icloud-different-from-google-and-amazon-services/ what-makes-apple39s-icloud-different-from-google-and-amazon-services Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:03:48 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- Consumer technology giants are battling to provide the place where you store your files, and Apple is not about to be left out. Capping a slew of software announcements on Monday, Apple unveiled iCloud. The free service lets users synchronize documents, photos and applications between Apple devices over the Internet. Music purchased through the iTunes Store can be downloaded from any device connected to your account, and for an annual fee, tracks bought from other stores, ripped from CDs or procured through other means can be synchronized. When iCloud drops this fall, Apple will join Amazon.com and Google, two major players that have already begun rolling out storage services. For music, Apple has the incumbent's advantage. ITunes is the world's most popular jukebox software, highest-volume music retailer and already has cozy ties to the record industry. That relationship enabled Apple to secure the deals that competitors are still negotiating for. Those agreements resulted in iTunes Match, which was Apple CEO Steve Jobs' signature "one more thing" to end his presentation on Monday. ("It's a small thing," he said.) ITunes Match will allow people to pay $25 per year to sync as many as 25,000 songs not purchased through the iTunes Store between their computers and gadgets. "It takes minutes, not weeks," Jobs said. The weeks-long process Jobs is referring to is the offerings from Amazon and Google. Because they haven't secured rights with the record labels, they took an alternate route with their services. Amazon's Cloud Drive and Google's Music Beta require users to upload their entire libraries to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-ios-5-everything-you-need-to-know-digital-trends/ apple-ios-5-everything-you-need-to-know-digital-trends Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:31:51 +0300 WWDC kicked off this morning and among the announcements, Apple introduced iOS 5. The new operating system is due for the iPad, iPhone 3GS and 4, as well as third- and fourth-generation iPod Touch this fall. iOS 5 addresses old customer complaints while also bringing some innovative surprises to the table, chief among which is its new Twitter integration. But the upgrade isn’t all play and no work: Notifications, Mail, and Safari are just a sampling of Apple’s built-in apps that got a retouch. Here’s everything you need to know about iOS 5. Notifications A questionable “leak” this morning revealed a new look for the iOS notifications. The image showed off a bar atop the phone’s home screen that read “2 new mentions,” tying in the possibility of Twitter integration. While both upgrades turned out to be true, the notifications update is likely the most necessary and heralded of iOS 5. The pop-up alerts that took over your display and rolled one notification in after another has been a common gripe among iPhone users, and Apple has taken notice. Now your notifications are cleanly, clearly, and discreetly collected in the Notification Center. By swiping from the top to the bottom of your device, you can pull up the Notification Center and access any alerts. An “X” icon lets you dismiss them. The biggest improvement may be in how you view notifications when the screen is locked: They are displayed in a list and by “type,” meaning each has an icon for the function they are notifying you ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/jobs-takes-leave-from-leave-for-apple-event-ap/ jobs-takes-leave-from-leave-for-apple-event-ap Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:02:01 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave Monday to show off the company's latest innovations and sustain the hope that he eventually will return to dream up more ways to reshape technology. The highlight, as usual, came at the end of Jobs' presentation. He was on stage for less than 30 minutes during a nearly two-hour event that primarily featured his subordinates. Ever the showman, Job announced that Apple had struck licensing agreements with all the major recording labels on a new music synching system. It will allow people to put all the songs they have ever bought from the company's iTunes store on up to 10 devices. All future iTunes purchases also will be automatically sent to all the devices, too. None of the transfers will require devices to be plugged into a single computer. It will automatically happen over wireless connections. "Keeping all those devices in sync is driving us crazy," Jobs said. Jobs' keynote address at a conference for application developers marked his first on-stage appearance since he unveiled the latest version of Apple's tablet computer, the iPad, three months ago. It comes five months after Jobs went on his third medical leave of absence in the past seven years to deal with an unspecified medical issue. He has previously survived pancreatic cancer and undergone a liver transplant. Unlike a six-month leave in 2009, Jobs, 56, hasn't said when he is coming back to work. The uncertainty make his every appearance even more of a spectacle because people don't know if it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-wwdc-unveils-ios-icloud-the-daily-beast/ apple-wwdc-unveils-ios-icloud-the-daily-beast Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:02:02 +0300 NEW YORK – CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a groundbreaking new cloud service today, spelling the end of traditional computers as we know them. Dan Lyons on the brilliant new gambit. The world of personal computing is about to make a huge evolutionary leap, with Apple paving the way for a business model in which desktop, and laptop computers start to resemble mobile devices like iPhones and iPads, and the cloud (a bunch of Internet servers) becomes the center of the action, letting you fetch your data from any device. â€¨  That’s the takeaway from Monday’s Apple event in San Francisco, where Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the model we’ve been using, where a home computer serves as a hub for your digital life, just doesn’t work anymore, now that everyone is using smartphones, tablet computers, notebooks, and desktop machines.  â€¨  “Keeping all these devices in sync is driving us crazy,” Jobs said. To fix the problem, Jobs said Apple will “demote the PC and the Mac,” and “move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud.” â€¨  In the new world according to Apple, the glue holding everything together will be iCloud, which will automatically keep all of your devices in sync. Add a new contact, or create a new event on your calendar, and same thing—it gets pushed to all your devices. Create a new document in Pages, Apple’s word-processing program, and it automatically gets stored up on iCloud, and is pushed down to any of your other devices that run Pages.  In the new ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/android-leads-as-us-consumers-switch-to-smartphones-newsfactor/ android-leads-as-us-consumers-switch-to-smartphones-newsfactor Tue, 7 Jun 2011 01:31:50 +0300 According to a new survey by comScore, the number of U.S. smartphone users averaged 74.6 million from February through April -- a 13 percent rise from the previous three months. The web-metrics firm also reported that 234 million Americans over the age of 12 were using mobile devices. U.S. carriers AT&T and T-Mobile are hoping to drive smartphone demand even higher with new smartphones that carry post-rebate prices in the $70 to $80 range. However, industry analysts said all U.S. carriers still need to do more to encourage consumers to switch from standard cell phones to smartphones. "Introductory limited-data plans of $10 to $15 a month will expand the market greatly for these devices, and in many cases consumers will upgrade to higher-priced data plans over time once they get hooked on these services," said Hugues de la Vergne, a principal research analyst at Gartner. Android Popularity Rises A survey by Gartner in December showed that U.S. consumers are more likely to buy a smartphone this year than PCs, mobile phones, e-readers, media tablets, and gaming products. Gartner expects U.S. smartphone sales this year to total 95 million -- up from 67 million in 2010. "As vendors delivering Android-based devices continue to fight for market share, prices will decrease to further benefit consumers," said Roberta Cozza, a principal analyst at Gartner. In comScore's latest survey, Google's Android operating system led the smartphone segment with a 36.4 market share -- up 5.2 percentage points from the firm's previous three-month study. Gartner expects Android to become the most ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/8-technologies-apple-challenged-or-eliminated-livesciencecom/ 8-technologies-apple-challenged-or-eliminated-livesciencecom Tue, 7 Jun 2011 01:32:02 +0300 Apple announced a dizzying amount of new software updates and services for its computer and mobile devices today at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Many of the new features challenge existing services from other companies and, in a few cases, could kill off entire classes of technologies entirely. Here are some things that Apple targeted today: MobileMe Apple CEO Steve Jobs today announced that the company's much maligned MobileMe service, which stored and synced users' contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and other content, is no more. Taking its place will be iCloud, which will do all the things that MobileMe did and more, including syncing documents and apps. Optical drives Apple's decision to release the new version of its desktop operating system, Lion, exclusively on its Mac App Store is the final nail in the coffin for optical drives, at least for Macs. The majority of Mac users will no longer have any need for a CD/DVD reader on their computers. As long as you have an Internet connection, you can now download software for your computer, and even update your computer's operating system, over the air, or OTA. Eliminating optical drives will also pave the way for slimmer portable computers, so don't be surprised if the next Macbook Pro models follow in the footsteps of the Macbook Air and come without the CD/DVD SuperDrive. Dropbox, Sugarsync, etc. iCloud will come with 5 GB of free storage for users to store content such as pictures, documents and music on Apple's servers. Like the cloud storage services Dropbox and Sugarsync, iCloud will ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-unveils-39icloud39-storage/ apple-unveils-39icloud39-storage Tue, 7 Jun 2011 01:03:23 +0300 San Francisco (CNN) -- Apple's Steve Jobs on Monday announced a new service called "iCloud," which lets Apple product owners store documents and music on the Internet instead of on their own computer hard drives or mobile phones. iCloud expands on the trend of cloud computing, which refers to the idea that computer users are storing more of their information "in the cloud" of the Internet rather than on their own storage drives. All of a person's Apple devices -- iPhone, iPads and Mac computers -- sync wirelessly with Apple's iCloud, giving users access to their documents, photos, apps, calendars and e-mails from any location, not just on a specific gadget. "We think this is going to be pretty big," said Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, who has been on medical leave since January. But the service does have some limits. iCloud stores photos for up to 30 days, and mobile devices store the most recent 1,000 photos. Users can store only 5 gigabytes of documents, which is more than some competitors allow. And in order to sync music that wasn't purchased from Apple's iTunes store, users must pay Apple a fee of $25 per year. All iCloud services except that music add-on are free, Jobs said. "This is the first time we've seen this in the music industry," he said. Consumers can use the iTunes portion of iCloud now, but only if they have iOS version 4.3. The rest of the features will be available to everyone in the fall. The service replaces an old Apple product called MobileMe, which cost ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-fbi-is-losing-the-war-on-cybercrime-the-atlantic-wire/ the-fbi-is-losing-the-war-on-cybercrime-the-atlantic-wire Tue, 7 Jun 2011 00:31:45 +0300 One in four hackers in the U.S. is an FBI informant, the UK Guardian reported today. They must be doing a pretty bad job, because cybercrime seems to be spiking like crazy, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation itself has even been targeted. Today, the new hacking collective Lulz Security released what it said was the source code for the Sony Computer Entertainment Development Network (its fifth hack of Sony). Late on Friday the group, which gained fame by defacing PBS and exposing Sony user data last week, successfully broke into the Web site of InfraGard, a private group affiliated with the FBI. Then there was the massive Google hack from China last week that exposed government workers' e-mail addresses. But the so-called LulzSec is one of the most vocal hacking organizations right now. After announcing #fuckFBIFriday on their Twitter feed, the hackers reportedly exposed about 180 sets of InfraGard log-ins, pointing out that "all of them are affiliated with the FBI in some way," and posted a Youtube video of a Russian hacker to the site, which is still down. In its own announcement that it had hacked InfraGard, LulzSec accused one FBI affiliate, Karim Hijazi, of trying to hire its members to launch botnet attacks against other "whitehat" hackers (hackers that work on the side of law enforcement).  we contacted Karim and told him what we did. After a few discussions, he offered to pay us to eliminate his competitors through illegal hacking means in return for our silence. Karim, a member of an FBI-related website, was willing to give ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hackers-claim-to-have-hit-sony-again-reuters/ hackers-claim-to-have-hit-sony-again-reuters Tue, 7 Jun 2011 00:31:46 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers calling themselves Lulz Security said on Monday that they had broken into Sony Corp computer systems again, and posted the results on the Internet. The group, which has claimed credit for a prior attack on Sony's systems, posted what appeared to be Sony BMG network maps from a New York city office and what they said was 54 megabytes of Sony developer source code. "We are looking into these claims," Jim Kennedy, a spokesman for Sony Pictures Entertainment, said in an email. Last week, the group said it had broken into Sony's computer network and accessed information on more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the company's systems. In that attack, the group of hackers, who have managed to keep themselves anonymous, published names, birth dates, street addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony. On April 26, Sony warned that hackers had stolen personal information from 77 million user accounts of its video game online network. On April 19, Sony pulled the plug on its PlayStation Network after discovering the breach. On May 2, Sony revealed that hackers had stolen data another 25 million users of its PC games system. Last week, Lulz Security claimed credit for an attack on an Atlanta office of InfraGard, an outreach center used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to liaise with private business. InfraGard and the FBI did not respond to requests for comment. Lulz Security has claimed responsibility for defacing the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service network websites, and for ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-safe-is-amazon39s-position-in-cloud-computing-the-motley-fool/ how-safe-is-amazon39s-position-in-cloud-computing-the-motley-fool Mon, 6 Jun 2011 23:31:38 +0300 The cloud underpins the Internet like Atlas holding up the sky. However, recent outages have caused Atlas to shrug. Amazon's (Nasdaq: AMZN - News) Elastic Compute Cloud is going through some growing pains, causing headaches for some of the popular start-ups that are using its cloud resources. Amazon's EC2 is among the most talked about cloud resource in the current computing world. So what might it mean for Amazon when, in the cutthroat world of cloud computing, its own resources hit a snag? How should investors react across the industry in general? Here's the storyOne of the more recent notable problems occurred at Amazon's Northern Virginia data center where a network glitch took down the EC2 that is used by sites including Reddit, Quora, and Foursquare. The crash might force a lot of these potential stars of the Internet to reconsider what has been a cheaper and superior offering to getting operations running. Or will they? Since its inception in 2006, Elastic Compute Cloud has done well and added some impressive clients to its roster, such as Netflix. Fortunately, Netflix was not affected by the snag, but will Amazon give way to the other big players of the cloud computing world? Here is the lowdown. An introduction to the cloudWhat makes Amazon hot stuff in cloud computing are some of the facilities it provides. Most talked about among these is its database Web service SimpleDB and content delivery service CloudFront. Amazon stands strong in the cloud-computing world because of the head start it has had. Starting in 2006, it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-jobs-takes-stage-to-talk-icloud-reuters/ apple39s-jobs-takes-stage-to-talk-icloud-reuters Mon, 6 Jun 2011 23:31:55 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs on Monday unveiled the iCloud, a music-streaming and online data storage service that can be accessed on devices from the iPad to the iPhone. A still thin-looking Jobs walked out to a standing ovation from the more than 5,000 Apple faithful at its Worldwide Developers' Conference in downtown San Francisco's Moscone Center, making opening comments for just a few minutes before ceding the stage to marketing chief Phil Schiller. Jobs, whose decision to headline the event assuaged some concerns on Wall Street about his health, strode onstage after James Brown's seminal soul classic "I Got You (I Feel Good)" blasted over the sound system. The Silicon Valley icon emerged from medical leave to launch an Internet-based service for consumers called the iCloud, which lets users play their music and get access to their data from any Apple device -- a crucial capability for users increasingly accustomed to performing tasks on the move. In cloud computing, data and software are stored on servers and devices get access to them through the Internet. Analysts say the iCloud could create a new model for media consumption -- bringing the cloud, which corporations are already familiar with, to many consumer devices. In an event that held few surprises, Jobs said the iCloud beta version will be available Monday for free. And from the fall, users can pay $24.99 a year to have their song libraries available on iTunes for playback on any Apple gadget. The feature, which Jobs introduced with his customary "one more thing" phrase ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-pc-free-ios-5-coming-this-fall-pc-magazine/ apple39s-pc-free-ios-5-coming-this-fall-pc-magazine Mon, 6 Jun 2011 23:32:08 +0300 Apple on Monday showed off a revamped version of its mobile operating system, iOS 5, which will ship to customers this fall and support the same devices as the last update. Developers will get to check out iOS 5 today. It adds more than 500 new features, 10 of which Apple discussed during a Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote, including a notification center and the option to go PC-free. First up, Apple has added a notification center to iOS 5, which combines all notifications, divided by apps, in one place - just swipe down from the top to reveal them. That includes missed calls, mail notifications, sports scores, Facebook updates, and more. The idea is to not have notifications interuppt your iOS activity. A text message you receive while playing a game appears at the top, but doesn't interrupt the game, and then disappears. Tired of hooking up your iPhone to a computer? With iOS 5, you'll see a welcome screen rather than an icon urging you to hook up the device to a computer. You can set it up without a PC and updates will be delivered over the air. To that end, you won't have to go back to a computer to create calendars; just create or delete from the iPhone. "If you want to cut the cord, you can," said Scott Forstall, Apple's senior vice president of iPhone Software. Apple also unveiled iMessage, a messaging solution that will sync across iOS devices. Users can access delivery receipts, optional read receipts, and typing notifications so you know when ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-lion-os-x-coming-to-mac-app-store-in-july-pc-magazine/ apple39s-lion-os-x-coming-to-mac-app-store-in-july-pc-magazine Mon, 6 Jun 2011 23:32:10 +0300 Apple announced Monday that the next version of its operating system, dubbed Lion OS X, will be available in July for $29, exclusively in the Mac App Store. The $29 price tag is down from $129. Developers will get an early version today, Apple announced at during a Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote today. Lion includes 250 new features, but CEO Steve Jobs singled out 10 for today's keynote, the most interesting of which focused on saving and sharing documents. Resume brings your apps back to how you left them when you restart your Mac or quit and relaunch an app. But for that one time you forget to save, Autosave will save everything in the background. If you zoom in on the title bar of your document, the title bar is now a menu. You can also revert to the last option, as well as lock your document so nothing will ever change it. To that end, Versions will save all versions of a document, much like Google Docs. A menu option allows you to browse all versions, like Time Machine, with a time scale. They're all live, you can switch between them, and even cut and paste between them. With those docs secure, why not share them? Enter AirDrop. For as long as we've had computers, we've wanted to share them, Schiller said. AirDrop is a peer-to-peer, Wi-Fi protocol. Open a window near people running AirDop and drag the document to the other user. A dialog pops up asking the other person if she wants to download, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/did-an-amateur-astronomer-spot-a-secret-mars-base-spacecom/ did-an-amateur-astronomer-spot-a-secret-mars-base-spacecom Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:33:03 +0300 A self-described "armchair astronaut" claims to have identified a human (or alien) base on Mars. David Martines noticed a mysterious rectangular structure that appears to be on the Red Planet's surface while trolling the planetary surface using Google Mars, a new map program created from compiled satellite images of the planet. "This is a video of something I discovered on Google Mars quite by accident," said Martines, the armchair astronaut, in a now-viral YouTube video. "I call it Bio Station Alpha, because I'm just assuming that something lives in it or has lived in it." He zooms in the surface anomaly — a long, pixelated, white object — and lists the coordinates as 49'19.73"N 29 33'06.53"W. "It's over 700 feet long and 150 feet wide. It looks like it's a cylinder or made up of cylinders," he says. [Watch the video] Has Martines really found evidence of alien life, or a secret space base, as he and some media sources are claiming? No, say experts: "Bio Station Alpha" is simply a glitch in the image caused by cosmic energy interfering with the camera. "It looks like a linear streak artifact produced by a cosmic ray," said Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona and the director of the Planetary Imaging Research Laboratory. McEwen is the principal investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), a powerful telescope currently orbiting Mars. Cosmic rays are extremely energetic particles emitted by the sun and other stars. For the most part, the Earth's protective magnetosphere blocks them ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/with-no-new-iphone-apple-rocks-music-industry-with-icloud-yahoo-news/ with-no-new-iphone-apple-rocks-music-industry-with-icloud-yahoo-news Mon, 6 Jun 2011 23:01:32 +0300 By Phil Hornshaw For the first time since 2006, Apple did not show off a new iPhone to open the company's annual Worldwide Developer's Conference. Instead, Steve Jobs today officially unveiled Apple's iCloud music and media storage service as well as new operating software for Macs and mobile devices. "We're going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud," said Jobs. "This is the first time we've seen this in the music industry... I buy a song, it goes everywhere." While these updates don't offer any revolutionary improvements, the many enhancements and tweaks will surely be welcomed by Apple fans. Jobs went on medical leave in January, but made a public appearance in March to announce the iPad 2. He appeared visibly thinner than during his last public presentation three months ago. Since Apple announced last week that it would be presenting iCloud  - a free service available available today for iPhone 4 owners - and iOS 5 (available this fall) at the WWDC, industry pundits correctly predicted that a new iPhone would not released until at least later this year. Today's iCloud announcement is more about keeping Apple competitive with its ongoing rival, Google, and a new big player in the mobile scene: online retailer Amazon. Google last month debuted Google Music at its I/O Developer's Conference, while Amazon's Cloud Player was introduced in March. The introduction of iOS 5 for iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices suggests that Apple could be unveiling a new smartphone as soon as the fall. Mac OS X Lion ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-reveals-icloud-syncing-service-for-music-photos-apps-and-more-yahoo-news/ apple-reveals-icloud-syncing-service-for-music-photos-apps-and-more-yahoo-news Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:31:46 +0300 Today at its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple revealed details about iCloud, a cloud storage and syncing service with close ties to iTunes. iCloud serves as a kind of virtual locker, syncing all things iOS across your Apple gadgets. While Apple recently confirmed the name of its forthcoming cloud storage service, the most valuable brand on the planet had kept most of the details about iCloud under wraps until this morning's event. Today, Apple announced that it will do away with its MobileMe service as it stands, instead opting to integrate existing features like calendar, contact and mail syncing into iCloud at no cost. Beyond rolling MobileMe's core features up under the new iCloud banner, the service will allow for app and data syncing across devices for contacts, apps, and photos. The photo syncing feature will automatically store your last 1000 photos on Apple's servers for 30 days. Of course, the real meat of the announcement is how iCloud will integrate with iTunes. Now, through iCloud, you'll be able to access any music you've previously purchased on iTunes. New downloads can automatically be pushed to each iOS device, since keeping your selection in sync is clearly the ultimate goal. Apple is also offering the ability to sync your non-iTunes music into iCloud for a fee of $25 a year through a service called iTunes Match, or you can keep your entire iTunes collection synced for free. Apple's iCloud service will compete directly with 2 huge players in the cloud music scene, Amazon Cloud Player — which launched first back ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/amphibious-ice-cream-truck-brings-cool-summertime-treats-to-boaters-and-landlubbers-alike-yahoo-news/ amphibious-ice-cream-truck-brings-cool-summertime-treats-to-boaters-and-landlubbers-alike-yahoo-news Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:01:30 +0300 Any boater who spends time on a river or lake in the hot sun will tell you that it gets pretty warm out there, even on top of all that nice, cool water. So, given that we've got electric vehicles and texting vehicles and even vehicles that drive themselves, is it any surprise that someone has created an amphibious ice cream truck to serve parched boaters? Britain's Cadbury ice cream maker has done just that. Commissioned in honor of Britain's National Ice Cream Week, the HMS Flake 99 goes where no ice cream truck has gone before, clocking a top speed of 5 knots on water. Successful sea trials in Blackpool would have made Captain Jack Sparrow jealous (and hungry!) and the craft sailed its maiden voyage on the Thames last week. Offering tasty frozen treats to landlubbers and pirates alike is British comedian David Mounfield, whose enthusiastic support of his ice cream dream finally brings cool creamy goodness to boaters and landlubbers alike. (Source) Post by Katherine Gray More from Tecca: Flying cars could be in our future Google's self-driving cars could show up in the next lane sooner than you think China to build the world's biggest mega-city out of 9 existing cities http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/steve-jobs-kicks-off-apple-event-afp/ steve-jobs-kicks-off-apple-event-afp Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:01:35 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Apple chief executive Steve Jobs kicked off an annual conference for software developers on Monday during which the gadget-maker is expected to unveil an online music service called iCloud. Jobs, who has been on medical leave since January with an undisclosed ailment, took the stage to a standing ovation shortly after the music sound system at San Francisco's Moscone Center blared out the James Brown hit "I Feel Good." "Thank you, that always helps," Jobs told the crowd of several thousand software developers attending the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). "We've got an awesome morning here today," said Jobs, who was dressed in his trademark black pullover and blue jeans. "We're going to talk about Lion, iOS 5, and some interesting cloud stuff." Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor who underwent a liver transplant two years ago, appeared thin but relatively healthy in his first public appearance since March, when he unveiled the iPad 2. Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller took the stage from Jobs to demonstrate features in the next generation of Lion, the software that powers Macintosh computers. One feature called "air drop" allows Macintosh users to exchange files with other nearby Mac users through a peer-to-peer Wifi-based network. Lion will be available as a download in July for $29.99, considerably cheaper than the $129 charged for previous upgrades. Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iPhone software, appeared on stage to announce details of iOS 5, the next version of the mobile operating system for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Forstall said Apple has ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gop-legislation-calls-for-reducing-federal-workforce-by-10-percent-daily-caller/ gop-legislation-calls-for-reducing-federal-workforce-by-10-percent-daily-caller Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:31:15 +0300 Republicans are introducing legislation that calls for reducing the federal workforce by 10 percent over the next four years. The Reducing the Size of the Federal Government Through Attrition Act of 2011 would require that only one new federal employee can be hired for every three federal employees that retire. The bill is sponsored by California Rep. Darrell Issa, Florida Rep. Dennis Ross and Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, all Republicans. A copy of the bill’s text can read here. A news release from Issa’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee said the proposal has been estimated to save $127.5 billion over ten years. The bill draws on recommendations from the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Issa said the federal work force was decreased by 381,000 from 1994 to 2000, but has reversed course and increased in the years after. “This bill will help us reverse the growth curve,” he said. Read more stories from The Daily CallerHuntsman scores former Mitch Daniels supportersGOP legislation calls for reducing federal workforce by 10 percent#Weinergate: More come forward with lewd Weiner communicationsSantorum kicks off his campaign with an attack on ObamaDid you find this post via Google? PLANETKILLER!! http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sprint-will-offer-3d-phone-tablet-from-booming-htc-newsfactor/ sprint-will-offer-3d-phone-tablet-from-booming-htc-newsfactor Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:31:37 +0300 Sprint Nextel is poised to release a new glasses-free 3D smartphone and a web tablet running Android manufactured by Taiwan-based HTC, the wireless carrier said Monday. Sprint's announcement is merely the latest sign that HTC has become one of the world's top performers in the smartphone market, analysts said. HTC shipped 9.3 million mobile communications devices in the first quarter -- up 175.7 percent from one year earlier, noted Roberta Cozza, a principal analyst at Gartner. "They are becoming an important vendor for the carriers," Cozza said in a telephone interview Monday. "HTC has managed more than anyone else to create offerings that really stand out (because of extra software) they put on top of Android." Glasses-Free 3D Based on Google's Android 2.3 platform, Gingerbread, the HTC EVO 3D sports a 4.3-inch display, a 1.2-GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor and dual five-megapixel cameras. The smartphone promises to take the mobile multimedia experience to a new level by giving consumers the ability to capture, share and view glasses-free 3D video at 4G speeds. Gartner believes 3D support will eventually become a requirement for all high-end smartphones and tablets. At its present stage of development, however, it's unclear whether today's fledgling glasses-free 3D will gain popularity right away. "I think manufacturers are trying to find whatever they can in order to stand out from the crowd -- particularly the Android OEMs," Cozza said. "You also have to consider what type of 3D content is really available. There are three or four 3D games on the new LG 3D device." The technology should eventually ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-office-365-launching-june-28-pc-magazine/ microsoft-office-365-launching-june-28-pc-magazine Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:01:52 +0300 Microsoft will unveil Office 365 on June 28, the company confirmed Friday. "June 28th is the date for General Availability of Office 365! > 100,000 real customers on beta...Partners, are you ready???" Jon Roskill, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group, said via Twitter. Microsoft also sent out invitations to a press-only Office 365 event, which will take place on June 28 in New York City. Steve Ballmer will be there to discuss the "latest about Office 365," according to the invite. Office 365 is a cloud-based, monthly-subscription solution that comes in two versions, one for small businesses and one for enterprises. The small business edition is geared towards organizations that have fewer than 25 employees. At $6 a month per user, this version will offer Office Web Apps, Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online, Lync Online, and an external Web site for the subscribers. The enterprise edition has a spate of offerings. The monthly subscription rate ranges from $2 to $24 per user. Subscribers will have access to Microsoft Office Professional Plus desktop software, email, voicemail, instant messaging, extranets, Web portals, enterprise social networking, and voice, video, and Web conferencing. Microsoft began beta testing Office 365 in October 2010 with a number of organizations. In April 2011, the beta was opened to the general public. Around this time, Microsoft also unveiled an app store to accompany Office 365. The initial offering had 100 apps and 400 professional services from more than 16,000 Microsoft cloud partners. It seems that Office 365 is Microsoft's attempt to go head-to-head with Google ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-jobs-on-medical-leave-appears-on-stage-ap/ apple39s-jobs-on-medical-leave-appears-on-stage-ap Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:01:56 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Apple CEO Steve Jobs appeared on stage to standing ovation Monday, where he was expected to announce a new service called iCloud. Jobs, on a break from a medical leave he started in January, looked thin as he came out in his signature outfit of mock turtleneck and blue jeans. One audience member shouted out, "we love you." James Brown's "I Feel Good" played over the loudspeakers just before he appeared. Apple Inc. released few other details before Monday's event. He made a public appearance in March to announce a new iPad. ICloud will apparently allow customers to store their music online. The company has been in talks with the major recording companies to make this possible. ICloud could give users a wide array of music for their iPhones, iPads and Wi-Fi-capable iPods, without having to connect them to their home PCs to transfer songs. Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. have launched similar services. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/live-from-apple39s-wwdc-keynote-pc-magazine/ live-from-apple39s-wwdc-keynote-pc-magazine Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:02:02 +0300 This we know for sure: Sometime after 10 a.m. Pacific Time today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will tell the world about the next version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 5, its next-generation software for laptops and desktops, OS X Lion, and something called "iCloud." We know this because Apple uncharacteristically said so itself, almost a week ago. PCMag will be there, covering every second with our liveblog below. What we don't know is all the details on any of those systems. Up until Apple's announcement, the very existence of iCloud was unclear, the subject of much rumor and speculation. Apple had bought the domain icloud.com, created a massive data center in rural North Carolina, and probably was talking to all the major music labels, but very little was confirmed. Still, with Amazon and Google rolling out ambitious consumer cloud-music services as well, it's a sure bet that Apple—owner of the largest online music store in the world—will be getting in the space, too. At the same time, iOS (currently at version 4.3.3) is due for another major update, and Apple has certainly been working on iOS 5 for a while. Again, not much is known, though a revamp of the notification system that irritates iPhone and iPad owners the world over will probably be one of the chief upgrades. Will there also be some surprises? Of course, though whether or not Apple, say, replaces Google Maps with a different system isn't clear. And OS X Lion? This one we know the most about, since Apple gave the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/jobs-briefly-emerges-from-leave-for-apple-event-ap/ jobs-briefly-emerges-from-leave-for-apple-event-ap Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:02:16 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Apple CEO Steve Jobs briefly emerged from a medical leave Monday as the company announced new software that makes Mac computers behave more like mobile devices. He received a standing ovation as he appeared at Apple Inc.'s annual developers' conference, his second major public appearance since he went on medical leave in January for unspecified reasons and duration. James Brown's "I Feel Good" played over the loudspeakers just before he walked on stage, looking thin, in his signature outfit of mock turtleneck and blue jeans. One audience member shouted out, "we love you." Jobs unveiled an operating system update for Mac computers called Lion. With it, Apple is expanding the ways finger-touches can be used to control the software. For instance, with the swipe of the fingers over the Mac trackpad, the user can switch from one program to another. In another nod to bringing the computer closer to the iPhone and iPad, Apple is adapting more of its programs to run in a special full-screen mode, in addition to the traditional "window" mode. Lion will be available to consumers next month for $30. A preview version was made available Monday to software developers. Apple also unveiled updates to its software for iPhones and iPads. It will present notifications of new emails, missed calls and other events in a more intelligent fashion, reminiscent of the way Google Inc.'s Android smartphone software already does. The software will present all pending notifications in a list, accessible with the swipe of a finger. The new mobile software, iOS 5, will have a newsstand ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/santorum-kicks-off-his-speech-with-an-attack-on-obama-daily-caller/ santorum-kicks-off-his-speech-with-an-attack-on-obama-daily-caller Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:31:05 +0300 Former Senator Rick Santorum officially kicked off his presidential campaign today with a speech attacking President Barack Obama for not recognizing America’s greatness. Hitting on the disappointing unemployment rate released Friday and high gas prices, Santorum denounced Obama. “He’s not just devalued our currency, he’s devalued our culture,” Santorum said, pointing to the Obama administration’s decision not to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act and saying that his administration supported “federal funding of abortions.” Santorum said that there is “a group of people led by president Obama who believes that Americas greatness is in government and not it’s people,” a statement met with boos in the crowd. The “lynchpin” of that idea, he said “is Obamacare.” It “does something that no other entitlement has ever done…it makes you buy something.” Santorum said that the purpose of new healthcare law was to “create dependency.” (Santorum officially announces campaign for president) “Every single American now will be hooked to the government with an IV,” he said. “And they will come to you every time they want to do more and say, ‘you want that IV, you want that healthcare?’” as a way to get more power. “Why do you think they cared so much about passing this bill?” Santorum asked. “Power,” he answered. “They knew they would get you.” Santorum said this was the reason why Obama had pushed so hard to pass this bill, despite polls showing that it was unpopular, and the fact that it contributed to the Democrats losing seats in the midterm elections. “They want to hook you, they don’t want to free ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/chromebook-vs-netbook-vs-laptop-which-one-is-right-for-you-yahoo-news/ chromebook-vs-netbook-vs-laptop-which-one-is-right-for-you-yahoo-news Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:31:40 +0300 With portable computing options taking on a life of their own, consumers have some hard choices to make when it comes to buying a new notebook. Traditionally grouped together as notebooks are 2 subcategories most people are already familiar with, laptops and netbooks. Recently, however, Google threw another competitor into the marketplace with the addition of the Chromebook. So which one is right for you? Let's take a look at the pros and cons to help you make your decision. What is a Chromebook?Named for its operating system, Google Chrome OS, the Chromebook is the latest portable computer in the notebook realm to hit the market. Soon to be offered by Acer and Samsung, the Chromebook integrates seamlessly with everything Google, from Gmail to Google Docs. Storage is in the cloud, so you'll never lose a file again. Major selling points for the Chromebook are its 8-second boot time and instant resume from standby. Combine that with a lengthy 8-hour battery life, and you can understand why some think the Chromebook can compete with tablets currently on the market. The Chromebook also comes with a solid state disk drive, so there are no moving parts inside, which means less of an opportunity for the disk drive to crash. Connectivity with a Chromebook is a breeze. Built-in wifi is easily configured for your home network or public access points on the fly. If you're willing to pay the additional cost, Chromebooks are also available with 3G access to Verizon's network. They come with a paltry 100MB per month of data access, but this ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/steve-jobs-takes-stage-at-apple39s-icloud-event-reuters/ steve-jobs-takes-stage-at-apple39s-icloud-event-reuters Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:32:06 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs strode back into the spotlight on Monday to unveil the iCloud, a music-streaming service that the company hopes will power its next stage of growth and popularize Web-based consumer services. Jobs' decision to appear such events often is news in itself, and appearing on Monday likely will hearten investors worried about his health after the pancreatic cancer survivor went on his third medical leave in January for an undisclosed condition. A slim-looking Jobs received a standing ovation from the more than 5,000 Apple faithful at its Worldwide Developers' Conference in downtown San Francisco, making a few comments before ceding the stage to marketing chief Phil Schiller. Apple shares were up 0.3 percent at $344.41 following the latest appearance by Jobs at San Francisco's Moscone center. The CEO emerged from medical leave to unveil a new Internet-based service for consumers called the iCloud, which lets users play their music and access their data from any Apple device -- a crucial capability for users increasingly accustomed to performing a variety of tasks on the move. Its expansion into cloud computing -- providing services from the Web -- comes as the company strives to stay a step ahead of rivals such as Google Inc and Amazon.com in the mobile and online content business. Apple, legendary for keeping its agenda under wraps, has been unusually open about what it plans to show at its annual developers' conference, a five-day extravaganza for developers who rely on Apple for much of their livelihood. Live Blog of the event: http://link.reuters.com/buz89r (Reporting ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-paper-blasts-google-over-hacking-claims-afp/ china-paper-blasts-google-over-hacking-claims-afp Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:01:37 +0300 BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese state media hit out at Google Monday, warning it against becoming a political tool after the Internet giant said it had been hit by a cyberspying campaign that originated in China. "Google should not become too involved in an international political struggle nor act as a tool in a political game," the People's Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece, said in an editorial in its overseas version. "Once the international wind changes direction, it may sacrificed for politics, and could be abandoned by the market," it said, without elaborating. Google said last week it had been hit by a cyberspying campaign targeting Gmail accounts of senior US officials, journalists and activists, which appeared to have come from Jinan, capital of the eastern province of Shandong. The company did not specifically point the finger at Chinese authorities, but China's foreign ministry said Thursday it was "unacceptable" to blame Beijing, raising the prospect of fresh tensions with the United States. Google security team engineering director Eric Grosse said in a blog post that the US-based Internet giant had "uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing." Those affected included senior US government officials, Chinese political activists, military personnel, journalists and officials in several Asian countries, mainly South Korea, he said. The "phishing" ruse used to trick Gmail users into revealing account names and passwords reportedly involved sending booby-trapped messages that appeared to come from legitimate associates, friends or organisations. This is the second time that Google has reported a China-based cyberattack. Early last year, a similar incident prompted the company ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/comscore-finds-blackberry-taking-a-beating-digital-trends/ comscore-finds-blackberry-taking-a-beating-digital-trends Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:01:41 +0300 Although some market watchers are publishing numbers that Google’s Android mobile operating system may have plateaued in terms of marketshare, research firm Comscore finds that Android did very well for itself in the three months ending April 2011, with an overall 5.2 increase in its share to a total of 36.4 percent. Apple also did well for itself, pushing its share of the smartphone market up 1.23 percent to an even 26 percent for the three-month period. And those gains came at the expense of everyone else, with RIM in particularly taking a hard blow with a 4.7 percent decline—sinking to 25.7 percent—over the same three-month period. Microsoft and HP/Palm also saw net declines in share, to 6.7 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively. Overall, Comscore finds that some 74.6 million people in the United States owned smartphones during the three months ending April 2011, an increase of some 13 percent from the three-month period ending in January 2011. Overall for the same period, some 234 million Americans aged 13 or over owned used sort of mobile device. Text messaging remains far and away the dominant form of non-voice use for a mobile phone, with 68.8 percent of subscribers reporting the sent text messages to another phone during the three-month period. Some 39.1 percent of mobile users reported using a Web browser during the same period, more than a third (37.8 percent) downloaded apps, and 28 percent accesses a social networking service of blog. Interestingly, only 26.2 percent reported playing games, and only 18 percent reported listening to music. Comscore ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-are-cei-mai-tineri-si-multumiti-angajati-dintre-marile-companii-it-din-sua/ facebook-are-cei-mai-tineri-si-multumiti-angajati-dintre-marile-companii-it-din-sua Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:04:15 +0300 Facebook are cei mai tineri şi mai mulţumiţi angajaţi, în rândul marilor companii americane din sectorul tehnologiei, potrivit unui studiu efectuat de compania de cercetare a pieţei PayScale din Seattle, transmite Bloomberg. Angajaţii Facebook au cea mai redusă vârstă medie, de 26 de ani, precum şi cea mai mare pondere a femeilor, de 33%, între cele nouă mari companii incluse în cercetare. Cei mai în vârstă angajaţi, cu o medie de 44 de ani, lucrează la IBM şi Hewlett-Packard. Îndrăzneala reţelei de socializare Facebook, condusă de Mark Zuckerberg, în vârstă de 27 de ani, s-a extins şi în privinţa politicilor de personal, iar angajaţii nu sunt judecaţi după vechimea în industria de profil. "Nu credem că trebuie să ai prea mare experienţă pentru a face diferenţa. Uitaţi-vă la mine. Am început în timpul colegiului", afirmă Zuckerberg pe pagina de recrutare a companiei. PayScale a colectat date de la angajaţi ai Amazon, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel şi Microsoft. Rezultatele nu sunt verificate de companii şi nu reprezintă date ştiinţifice, întrucât informaţiile au fost furnizate de angajaţi. Salariul mediu al unui debutant la Apple este de 43.100 de dolari pe an, excluzând angajaţii magazinelor, potrivit sondajului, ceea ce plasează compania la coada listei. Cel mai mare salariu mediu pentru un debutant este la Microsoft, de 86.900 de dolari pe an. Diferenţa poate apărea din mixul de slujbe de la fiecare companie, iar datele nu includ şi opţiunile de achiziţie de acţiuni. La Facebook, angajaţii primesc la angajare circa 59.100 de dolari, cu 49% mai mult decât media naţională. Salariile mari duc la un grad mare de mulţumire, dar şi la un nivel ridicat de stres, potrivit autorilor sudiului. Pe site-ul companiei, Zuckerberg cere angajaţilor ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-un-astronom-amator-sustine-ca-a-descoperit-dovada-existentei-vietii-pe-marte/ video-un-astronom-amator-sustine-ca-a-descoperit-dovada-existentei-vietii-pe-marte Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:04:32 +0300 Agentia spatiala americana (NASA) investigheza in prezent afirmatia unui astronom amator care sustine ca a descoperit dovada existentei vietii pe Marte, transmite FoxNews. David Martines a incarcat un video pe YouTube in care apare imaginea unui obiect alb, cilindric aflat pe suprafata Planetei Rosii.Martines a folosit optiunea Mars explorer a aplicatiei Google Earth pentru a studia suprafata Planetei Marte. El sustine ca a descoperit un obiect alb, cilindric, ce ar avea circa 215 metri lungime si 45 de metri latime. Astronomul a denumit obiectul "Bio Station Alpha, deoarece presupun ca ceva locuieste sau a locuit in el".Inregistrarea a fost postata pe site-ul YouTube in 28 mai si a fost vizualizata pana in prezent de aproape 800.000 de ori.Un purtator de cuvant de la Jet Propulsion Lab al NASA a declarat ca agentia investigheaza afirmatiile lui Martines, speculand insa ca "Bio Station Alpha" ar fi doar o distorsiune a imaginii digitale sau o "trasatura neobisnuita" a suprafetei planetei, si nu o baza martiana.Martines afirma insa ca obiectul descoperit de el e "neobisnuit": "Ar putea fi o centrala electrica sau un container biologic - sper ca nu este o arma".Martines cauta in prezent ajutor pentru gasirea unei imagini cu rezolutii mai bune, el afirmand ca oricine are programul Google Earth poate vedea obiectul respectiv.Scepticii au realizat deja primele parodii ale "descoperirii" lui Martines, una dintre ele fiind prezentata pe YouTube sub numele de Ski Station Beta. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-are-cei-mai-tineri-si-multumiti-angajati-in-randul-marilor-companii-it-din-sua/ facebook-are-cei-mai-tineri-si-multumiti-angajati-in-randul-marilor-companii-it-din-sua Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:34:22 +0300 Facebook are cei mai tineri şi mai mulţumiţi angajaţi, în rândul marilor companii americane din sectorul tehnologiei, potrivit unui studiu efectuat de compania de cercetare a pieţei PayScale din Seattle, transmite Bloomberg. Angajaţii Facebook au cea mai redusă vârstă medie, de 26 de ani, precum şi cea mai mare pondere a femeilor, de 33%, între cele nouă mari companii incluse în cercetare. Cei mai în vârstă angajaţi, cu o medie de 44 de ani, lucrează la IBM şi Hewlett-Packard. Reţeaua de socializare Facebook, condusă de Mark Zuckerberg, în vârstă de 27 de ani, a depăşit tehnologii consacrate, precum motoarele de căutare şi portalurile web. Spiritul îndrăzneţ al companiei s-a extins şi în privinţa politicilor de personal, iar angajaţii nu sunt judecaţi după vechimea în industria de profil. "Nu credem că trebuie să ai prea mare experienţă pentru a face o diferenţă. Uitaţi-vă la mine. Am început în timpul colegiului", afirmă Zuckerberg pe pagina de recrutare a companiei. PayScale a colectat date de la angajaţi ai Amazon, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel şi Microsoft. Rezultatele nu sunt verificate de companii şi nu reprezintă date ştiinţifice, întrucât informaţiile au fost furnizate de angajaţi. Salariul mediu al unui debutant la Apple este de 43.100 de dolari pe an, excluzând angajaţii magazinelor, potrivit sondajului, ceea ce plasează compania la coada listei. Cel mai mare salariu mediu pentru un debutant este la Microsoft, de 86.900 de dolari pe an. Chiar şi aşa, în ambele cazuri salariile sunt cu 15% peste ceea ce primesc angajaţii în alte părţi, a declarat Al Lee, director la PayScale. Diferenţa poate apărea din mixul de slujbe de la fiecare companie, iar datele nu includ şi opţiunile de achiziţie de acţiuni. Apple ar putea avea ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analysis-soaring-ipos-raise-specter-of-new-bubble-reuters/ analysis-soaring-ipos-raise-specter-of-new-bubble-reuters Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:01:36 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – The frothy market for Internet IPOs is raising the specter of a bubble, underscoring how little has changed despite lawsuits and investigations in the wake of the 1990s dot-com craze. In the past five weeks, investors clamoring for newly public Internet companies have driven up shares of career networking site LinkedIn Corp and two search engines, Russia's Yandex NV and China's Renren Inc. Renren has since fallen below its offering price. And on Thursday, online coupon website Groupon Inc filed papers with regulators to press on with its highly anticipated initial public offering. Investors are still awaiting announcements from Facebook and Twitter. The last stampede into Internet stocks ended with billions of dollars of losses. After eight years of litigation, underwriters including Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc, Credit Suisse Group AG and Goldman Sachs Group Inc reached a $586 million settlement in 2009 to resolve hundreds of investor lawsuits. Critics at the time said the underwriters rigged the market against mom-and-pop investors to drum up fees and curry favor with corporate insiders. The banks denied wrongdoing. Plaintiffs' lawyers in the last round of litigation are paying close attention to the new wave of IPOs. "We are watching very carefully to make sure the shenanigans of the dot-com bubble are not repeated a decade later, and that new tricks are not invented to cause the same implosion," said Stanley Bernstein, a partner at Bernstein Liebhard and lead lawyer for investors in the IPO settlement. The judge in that case awarded $170.1 million of fees to the plaintiffs' law ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-magic-act-with-ios-5-and-icloud-the-daily-beast/ apple39s-magic-act-with-ios-5-and-icloud-the-daily-beast Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:01:49 +0300 NEW YORK – Geeks lined up before dawn today to see Steve Jobs roll out new operating system software and a cloud storage service. But as Dan Lyons points out, Jobs is just catching up with Google. For Apple fanboys, Christmas comes several times a year. Today is one of those days, with Steve Jobs hosting a keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to roll out new operating system software and iCloud, a new cloud storage service. As always the geeks this morning started lining up early outside the event in San Francisco, forming a two-block trail by 4:15 a.m.—about six hours before the actual starting time. This weird urge to form queues overcomes Apple fanatics whenever it introduces a new product or holds some kind of event where Steve Jobs will speak. Depending on your point of view it is either (a) marvelous—which means you must be an Apple shareholder, or (b) deeply troubling and ultimately depressing, a sad statement about how empty and meaningless our lives have become and a reason to go read Viktor Frankl, take pills, or both. But I digress. What is the big deal today? The big deal is that Apple will introduce a new version of the iOS operating system that runs on iPhones and iPads; the new version is called iOS 5 and supposedly will have Twitter built right into it. There will also be a new cloud storage system, called iCloud, which will let you store music on Apple’s Internet servers and fetch it from any device you happen to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what-techno-goodies-to-expect-from-steve-jobs-today-the-atlantic-wire/ what-techno-goodies-to-expect-from-steve-jobs-today-the-atlantic-wire Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:31:54 +0300 The geek event of the summer is upon us. After months of speculation, Steve Jobs will vindicate and dispel an assortment of rumors surrounding Apple's new line of hardware, software and cloud computing technology at his World Wide Developers Conference keynote speech at 10 a.m. PST. Here are the leading expectations for what he'll unveil at the Moscone West center in San Francisco, alongside a range of wishful thinking for the company's software and product lines. iCloud The most anticipated service of the day is Apple's iCloud service. "The new service will reportedly scan your hard drive and then automatically let you start streaming your music with no physical uploading required by you," reports Ian Paul at PC World. "What's not clear is whether automatic music streaming will extend to your entire collection or just your music purchases." The Wall Street Journal reported last week that all four music labels have signed on to iCloud, which will inevitably give the service more features than Google's Music Beta or Amazon's Cloud Drive, which never won consent. Apple insider John Gruber says the iCloud may be incorporated into iTunes. "Syncing data between devices tends to work best when there’s a canonical store," he writes. "With iPhones, iPods, and iPads, the central store for almost all data stored on the devices is iTunes running on your Mac or PC. With iCloud, that should shift to the cloud." It's possible that the service will be free for a trial period. The Los Angeles Times says when the trial period is over, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-jobs-expected-to-announce-music-service-ap/ apple39s-jobs-expected-to-announce-music-service-ap Mon, 6 Jun 2011 17:32:04 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Apple CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to take a break from medical leave Monday to announce a new service called iCloud. Apple has released few other details, but iCloud will apparently allow customers to store their music online. The company has been in talks with all four major recording companies to make this possible. ICloud could give users a wide array of music for their iPhones, iPads and Wi-Fi-capable iPods, without having to connect them to their home PCs to transfer songs. Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. have recently launched similar services. Jobs went on medical leave in January. He made a public appearance in March to announce a new iPad. Monday's event in San Francisco is part of Apple Inc.'s annual developers' conference. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-accuses-google-of-political-games39-ap/ china-accuses-google-of-political-games39-ap Mon, 6 Jun 2011 17:30:27 +0300 BEIJING – The Chinese Communist Party's main newspaper lashed out at Google on Monday, saying its latest complaints of computer hacking traced to China were politically motivated and warning its business might suffer. "Google's accusations against China are fictitious and have ulterior motives and sinister intentions," the People's Daily said in its foreign edition. The newspaper accused Google Inc. of trying to fan disputes between Beijing and Washington and hamper cooperation in fighting cybercrime. Google said last week it had traced hacking attacks against the email accounts of several hundred people, including U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists, to the eastern Chinese city of Jinan. Beijing denied responsibility for the attacks. "Google should not be drawn into international political conflicts and serve as a tool for political games, because one fears that if international political winds shift it might be sacrificed and suffer in the marketplace," the editorial said. Google's relations with Beijing have been chilly since the company, based in Mountain View, California, closed its China search engine last year following a public dispute over censorship that angered Communist leaders. The company was allowed to keep a network of advertising sales offices in China. But without a local online presence, its share of the Chinese search market has plunged to 19.2 percent from 35.6 percent in the final quarter of 2009, according to Analysys International, a Beijing research firm. The FBI has said it is investigating the latest allegations of hacking from China and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called them "very serious." Jinan is the site of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/interviu-de-angajare-topul-intrebarilor-imposibile-care-ti-se-pun-daca-vrei-sa-te-angajezi-la-google-facebook-sau-goldman-sachs/ interviu-de-angajare-topul-intrebarilor-imposibile-care-ti-se-pun-daca-vrei-sa-te-angajezi-la-google-facebook-sau-goldman-sachs Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:03:52 +0300 O comunitate online de job-uri a realizat câteva întrebări pe care s-ar putea să le primeşti în cazul în care ajungi la un interviu pentru un post la Google, Goldman Sachs sau Facebook, relatează Business Insider. Întrebările au fost făcute cu ajutorul ponturilor pe care portalul web Glassdoor.com le-a primit de la oamenii care au participat la astfel de interviuri. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sighisoara-are-nevoie-de-ajutorul-nostru/ sighisoara-are-nevoie-de-ajutorul-nostru Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:34:21 +0300 "Oricine cunoaste cate ceva despre Romania, stie ca Sighisoara este cu adevarat deosebita. Ghidurile turistice o descriu ca fiind singura cetate medievala locuita din Europa, iar orasul vechi este unul dintre acele locuri care trebuie vazute in Romania. Si, cu toate astea, de vreo cinci ani am evitat sa vizitez Sighisoara. Din mai multe motive: m-am cam lecuit dupa ce am participat la un asa numit "Festival Medieval" (o combinatie grotesca de kitsch si heavy metal); iar sa ajungi cu masina din Bucuresti dureaza vreo cinci ore, si nici trenul nu se prea grabeste", scrie Rupert Wolfe Murray, editor freelance, care traieste si lucreaza in Bucuresti."Dar iata ca m-am convertit. Am vizitat Sighisoara de curand si am fost incantat de orasul vechi, de cetate, de fortareata medievala cocotata pe un mic deal deasupra orasului nou (care, ca majoritatea oraselor romanesti, este mai degraba urat). Ce m-a impresionat cu adevarat a fost calitatea lucrarilor de restaurare. Toate cladirile par sa fi fost restaurate folosind materiale originale - un lucru cu adevarat neobisnuit intr-o tara in care proprietarii de cladiri vechi isi cumpara vopseaua de la supermarket si distrug astfel mosteniri de secole (asta ca sa nu mai vorbim despre boala cu acoperisurile albastre, termopanele de plastic, balustradele de inox, faianta de baie pusa pe exterior si firmele kitsch). In cetate au grija ca inclusiv firmele magazinelor sa fie de bun gust; este pentru prima data cand observ acest lucru in Romania. Locul a fost transformat si reabilitat, cumva asemanator cu ce s-a intamplat in Londra cu ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-spera-sa-revolutioneze-modul-in-care-oameni-asculta-muzica-prin-lansarea-serviciului-icloud/ apple-spera-sa-revolutioneze-modul-in-care-oameni-asculta-muzica-prin-lansarea-serviciului-icloud Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:34:07 +0300 ​Steve Jobs va reveni deseara in atentia publicului dupa cateva luni de absenta si va prezenta mai multe noutati Apple, inclusiv serviciul iCloud prin care utilizatorii iTunes vor putea asculta de oriunde melodii pe care le detin, fara a mai fi nevoie sa le descarce pe dispozitiv. Toata industria vorbeste despre "cloud computing" si e constienta ca tot mai putine aplicatii vor exista pe calculatoruyl personal, ci ele vor fi "in the cloud", adica vor putea fi accesate pe internet. Apple a ramas in urma la capitolul "cloud", insa anuntul din aceasta seara poate fi marele pas de recuperare.O buna parte dintre aplicatiile intens folosite sunt integral pe internet, cum ar fi Facebook, Twitter sau e-mail-ul, insa potentialul maxim al cloud-computing-ului nu a fost inca atins. Sunt servicii prin care pot fi ascultate melodii pe internet fara sa le descarci si pot fi vizionate filme, insa Apple nu a mers foarte departe in acest segment.Prin serviciul iCloud pe care Steve Jobs il va prezenta deseara, utilizatorii iTunes vor putea asculta de oriunde medlodiile pe care le-au cumparat deja, fara a mai fi nevoie sa le descarce pe iPod, iPhone sau iPad, iar un lucru esential tine de faptul ca Apple a "batut palma" cu cele mai mari patru case de discuri din SUA pentru aceste facilitati.Google, Amazon, Facebook si multe alte companii au promovat intens informatia din "cloud", iar domeniul are in mod cert perspective optimiste, mai ales ca utilizatorii ar vrea sa poata accesa orice document, clip audio sau video de pe orice tip ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/stock-index-futures-signal-mixed-open-reuters/ stock-index-futures-signal-mixed-open-reuters Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:31:19 +0300 LONDON (Reuters) – Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the Dow Jones down 0.1 percent, the Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.1 percent and the S&P 500 futures down 0.1 percent. Wall Street closed out a fifth week of losses with more selling on Friday after an anemic jobs report strengthened the case that the economy was slowing. (.DJI) The Conference Board will release at 1400 GMT (9 a.m. ET)its employment trend index for May. In the previous report, the index read 100.5. Apple (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Steve Jobs returns on Monday to the stage at San Francisco's Moscone center to take the wraps off what investors hope will be the next source of growth for the world's most valuable technology company. Google (GOOG.O) has become a "political tool" vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the U.S. internet search group's statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business. Several leading drugmakers are cutting their prices on potentially life-saving vaccines for people in developing countries in an effort to sustain supplies via the GAVI international vaccine alliance. The price cuts, offered by both generic and branded drugmakers including Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ.N), Merck & Co (MRK.N), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L), Crucell and Sanofi-Aventis' (SASY.PA) Sanofi Pasteur, should help the alliance narrow a $3.7 billion funding gap for its commitments up until 2015. Tesoro Corp (TSO.N) will stay focused on the U.S. West coast for acquisitions as the refining industry in the world's top oil consumer undergoes ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-hidden-cost-of-cybercrime/ the-hidden-cost-of-cybercrime Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:33:12 +0300 (CNN) -- A few years ago a disgruntled employee for a large multinational automotive firm left the company -- but when he walked out the door, he also walked out with plans for a new car model under development on a cheap USB drive. When the plans were leaked, the cost to the company was an estimated $1 billion in lost sales and increased research and development costs, according to a security expert who worked on the case. "The information ended up being published, which saw sales plummet for the existing model as customers decided to wait for the new model," said the expert, who asked not to be named due to confidentiality agreements with the automaker. Yet that theft will never showed up in criminal statistics, nor will the cost be listed in public ledgers as cost due to "cybercrime." Murky by nature, cybercrime losses are difficult to categorize. That helps keep them hidden from the public eye by companies leery of publicizing breaches in corporate security. The cost of cybercrime has come into focus due to a recent spate of high profile computer crimes: a hacker attack on Sony in May took its PlayStation Network down for 23 days after confidential information on tens of millions of network subscribers was breached; the company estimated the cost of that attack will total $171 million. The aerospace and defense titan Lockheed Martin announced it had "a significant and tenacious attack" on May 21 using data stolen from security token maker RSA, which was hacked itself in March. Google last ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analysis-the-hidden-cost-of-cybercrime/ analysis-the-hidden-cost-of-cybercrime Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:04:11 +0300 (CNN) -- A few years ago a disgruntled employee for a large multinational automotive firm left the company -- but when he walked out the door, he also walked out with plans for a new car model under development on a cheap USB drive. When the plans were leaked, the cost to the company was an estimated $1 billion in lost sales and increased research and development costs, according to a security expert who worked on the case. "The information ended up being published, which saw sales plummet for the existing model as customers decided to wait for the new model," said the expert, who asked not to be named due to confidentiality agreements with the automaker. Yet that theft will never showed up in criminal statistics, nor will the cost be listed in public ledgers as cost due to "cybercrime." Murky by nature, cybercrime losses are difficult to categorize. That helps keep them hidden from the public eye by companies leery of publicizing breaches in corporate security. The cost of cybercrime has come into focus due to a recent spate of high profile computer crimes: a hacker attack on Sony in May took its PlayStation Network down for 23 days after confidential information on tens of millions of network subscribers was breached; the company estimated the cost of that attack will total $171 million. The aerospace and defense titan Lockheed Martin announced it had "a significant and tenacious attack" on May 21 using data stolen from security token maker RSA, which was hacked itself in March. Google last ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-paper-warns-google-may-pay-price-for-hacking-claims-reuters/ china-paper-warns-google-may-pay-price-for-hacking-claims-reuters Mon, 6 Jun 2011 07:00:33 +0300 BEIJING (Reuters) – Google has become a "political tool" vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the U.S. Internet giant's statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business. The tough warning appeared in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, the leading newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, indicating that political tensions between the United States and China over Internet security could linger. Last week, Google said it had broken up an effort to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including U.S. government officials, Chinese human rights advocates and journalists. It said the attacks appeared to come from China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry rejected those accusations, and the party newspaper warned Google against playing a risky political game. By saying that Chinese human rights activists were among the targets of the hacking, Google was "deliberately pandering to negative Western perceptions of China, and strongly hinting that the hacking attacks were the work of the Chinese government," the People's Daily overseas edition, a small offshoot of the main domestic paper, said in a front-page commentary. "Google's accusations aimed at China are spurious, have ulterior motives, and bear malign intentions," said the commentary, written by an editor at the paper. "Google should not become overly embroiled in international political struggle, playing the role of a tool for political contention," the paper added. "For when the international winds shift direction, it may become sacrificed to politics and will be spurned by the marketplace," it said, without specifying how Google's business could be ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-multimedia-ipad-2-vs-galaxy-tab-101v-razboiul-tabletelor-continua/ review-multimedia-ipad-2-vs-galaxy-tab-101v-razboiul-tabletelor-continua Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:03:51 +0300 Odata cu lansarea versiunii 3.0 a sistemului de operare Android, Google a atacat in forta un segment de piata dominat autoritar pana acum de catre Apple iPad. StyleReport.ro a comparat una dintre primele tablete care folosesc noul sistem de operare, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v, cu cea de-a doua generatie de iPad, iar rezultatele au fost surprinzatoare pentru ambele aparate. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-to-buy-companies-that-are-spending-cash-ap/ why-to-buy-companies-that-are-spending-cash-ap Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:01:07 +0300 NEW YORK – It's not easy being the most optimistic guy in the room. Most companies are hoarding cash after two-plus years of cost-cutting. The members of the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index are sitting on a record $960 billion in cash on their balance sheets. All told, companies now have more than 10 percent more cash than the previous peak in 2004. While the days of mass layoffs and eking out another year from ever-older computers might be largely over, few companies are expanding. But there are exceptions, those companies that are bold — or some might say, crazy — enough to invest for the next boom while others remain cautious. Caterpillar Inc., Union Pacific Corp., and Google Inc. have each announced major plans to hire new workers or build new factories. Despite recent signs that the economy is slowing, none of them have said that they intend to back off. So should investors make a bet on a company that's expanding when others are still playing defense? A handful of academics, analysts and fund managers say yes. They say that despite the gloomy reports, companies that are hoarding cash will be left behind when the economy hits its next major growth stage. These companies won't have the people or projects in place to cash in on new business opportunities. "If you're not using your cash, you're going to be less competitive in the future," says Eric Marshall, the director of research at Hodges Capital, an investment advisory firm in Dallas that has $800 million in assets under management. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-jobs-to-take-the-stage-as-icloud-hype-grows-reuters/ apple39s-jobs-to-take-the-stage-as-icloud-hype-grows-reuters Sun, 5 Jun 2011 22:31:43 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs returns on Monday to the stage at San Francisco's Moscone center to take the wraps off what investors hope will be the next source of growth for the world's most valuable technology company. Jobs, who has been on medical leave for months and last took the stage in March to present the iPad 2, will unveil the iCloud, a Web-based service that lets consumers stream music they bought to any Apple device, pitting it against rivals Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc. That expansion into cloud computing is seen as crucial if the company is to stay competitive with increasingly popular open-sourced software, such as Google's Android operating system, according to analysts and investors. The iCloud has the potential to make Apple's iTunes even more powerful, making it tougher for rivals to keep up, Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu said. "It looks like Apple will likely offer some base service for free," Wu said. "Competitors, including RIM, Google, Amazon and Microsoft already have a hard time competing with iTunes as it is, but we believe will likely find it even tougher with iCloud enhancements." The Moscone center in San Francisco -- ground zero in the launch of several iconic Apple gadgets such as the iPad -- was a hive of activity this week as workers put the finishing touches on banners featuring a giant Apple logo. Apple has been busy wrapping up negotiations with major record labels to secure licenses for its iCloud service, which is also expected to include a revamped ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/iphones-are-macs-android-is-a-pc-contributornetwork/ iphones-are-macs-android-is-a-pc-contributornetwork Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:01:30 +0300 Android isn't a smartphone like the iPhone is. You can't just go to the store and ask for an "Android." What Android is, is an operating system that Google made, which manufacturers like Motorola and HTC can use to make smartphones and tablets. It's like the Windows of the smartphone world, except that it's made by Google instead of Microsoft. By that comparison, then, the iPhone is like a Mac. And if you know anything about Macs versus PCs, you know what all that implies. Are you a Mac person or a PC person? If you already know the answer to that question, you already have an idea of which kind of phone you would like ... an iPhone made by Apple, or an Android phone made by any of a number of manufacturers. If you don't know, how can you tell? You might be a Mac/iPhone if ... ... you like the idea of a smartphone that doesn't just "Just Work," but works beautifully and leaves you feeling excited that you get to use it. This is an extremely subjective thing, and it sounds stupid to people who don't get it. The only way to find out if you're one of these people is by playing with an iPhone in person. The iPhone has a somewhat wider appeal than its "artsy, creative" counterpart the Mac, however. Because unlike in the Mac/PC world -- where Macs have a handful of polished apps, while PCs have a whole slew of them plus nearly all the good games -- the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/un-american-sustine-ca-a-descoperit-cu-google-earth-o-structura-misterioasa-pe-marte/ un-american-sustine-ca-a-descoperit-cu-google-earth-o-structura-misterioasa-pe-marte Sun, 5 Jun 2011 12:03:43 +0300 Un american pasionat de astronomie susţine că a găsit o structură misterioasă pe Marte cu ajutorul imaginilor Google Earth, potrivit publicaţiei britanice The Daily Mail. David Martines îşi prezintă descoperirea într-un film postat pe YouTube în care povesteşte cum a găsit întâmplător pata albă de pe suprafaţa planetei, despre care el spune că ar fi un indiciu al existenţei unei civilizaţii. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/care-este-secretul-co-fondatorilor-google-apple-si-microsoft-cinci-parteneriate-de-business-de-succes/ care-este-secretul-co-fondatorilor-google-apple-si-microsoft-cinci-parteneriate-de-business-de-succes Sun, 5 Jun 2011 12:03:48 +0300 Nu toţi antreprenorii se asociază pentru a pune pe picioare afaceri, dar multe dintre companiile de succes, printre care Google, Apple sau Microsoft, au fost dezvoltate în parteneriate care s-au dovedit mai mult decât productive, scrie Business Insider. Cum şi-au găsit aceşti oameni partenerii de afaceri şi, mai ales, care au fost calităţile care, combinate, au condus la descoperirea reţetei succesului? Nu este o surpriză că partenerii de afaceri să fi fost iniţial prieteni vechi, colegi de şcoală sau rude. Unii dintre ei au rupt relaţiile de la început, alţii se înteleg bine şi după ani de zile de colaborare, în care au construit adevărate imperii financiare. Ce au avut în comun aceşti parteneri de afaceri? Şi-au recunoscut propriile limite şi au descoperit calităţile pe care le aveau potenţialii lor parteneri. Datorită acestor combinaţii s-au născut unele dintre cele mai de succes afaceri ale epocii. Citeşte mai multe despre secretele fondatorilor marilor companii pe www.incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-denies-hacking-charges-backs-cyber-talks-afp/ china-denies-hacking-charges-backs-cyber-talks-afp Sun, 5 Jun 2011 11:00:28 +0300 SINGAPORE (AFP) – China's defence minister on Sunday denied that Beijing was behind Internet attacks on foreign targets and echoed US-British calls for international talks to toughen up cyber-security. "It is hard to attribute the real source of attacks and we need to work together to make sure that this security problem won't be a problem," Defence Minister Liang Guanglie told a security forum in Singapore. "Actually in China we have also suffered quite a wide range and frequency of cyber-attacks," he said. "The Chinese government attaches importance also to cyber-security and stands firmly against all kinds of cyber-crimes," he said. China has been accused by the United States, Canada and other nations of spearheading online attacks on government agencies as well as companies, although the Beijing government has always denied this. Last week, Internet giant Google said a cyber-spying campaign originating in China had targeted Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists. The United States said Friday it had highlighted Google's concerns with Beijing, but the Chinese government has described any suggestion that it was behind the attack as "unacceptable". Chinese hackers have also been accused of attacking sites critical of Beijing, with a US lawmaker in April urging Washington to protect a popular activist site after it was hit by hackers apparently upset at a petition to free detained artist Ai Weiwei. "It is important for everyone to obey or follow laws and regulations in terms of cyber-security," said Liang, who joined calls for global coordination to deal with the issue. Addressing the same forum in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/syrian-internet-restored-dramatic-footage-emerges-video-mashable/ syrian-internet-restored-dramatic-footage-emerges-video-mashable Sun, 5 Jun 2011 10:32:01 +0300 [More from Mashable: 6 New Apps For Getting More Out of Foursquare] Internet intelligence firm Renesys reports that Syrian Internet services are now operational again. But these dramatic clips of Syrians rising up against their government, shot on June 2, were allegedly sent out of the country via satellite phone. [More from Mashable: Social Media-Using Guys Are Lovin’ The Fast Food [INFOGRAPHIC]] Warning: some of these chaotic scenes from YouTube's Citizentube channel are violent and might be disturbing to sensitive viewers. According to Renesys, seven of the country's 40 networks returned at 1900 UTC (3 p.m. Friday EDT), with the rest coming back early Saturday morning, "shortly after 04:00 UTC" (Midnight EDT). Now, Google Transparency Report shows Syrian Internet traffic has resumed levels that are roughly the same as they were before the initial shutdown occurred at 3:35 UTC on Friday (11 p.m. Thursday EDT). This story originally published on Mashable here. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-poised-to-introduce-icloud-afp/ apple-poised-to-introduce-icloud-afp Sun, 5 Jun 2011 10:32:14 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is taking a break from medical leave on Monday to preside over the opening of the company's annual conference for software developers. In a break from Apple's usual practice of shrouding its events in an air of mystery, the California gadget-maker this time revealed ahead of time what it plans to announce at the event in San Francisco. Sort of. In a press release, Apple said Jobs and other executives will unveil the next generation of Lion, the software that powers Macintosh computers, and iOS 5, the next version of the mobile operating system for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. And one more thing: iCloud. Apple described the previously unknown iCloud as its "upcoming cloud services offering" but provided no further details of what awaits at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference. "iCloud was almost a throwaway line in the press release," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst for technology research company Gartner. "But that's getting the most scrutiny because we don't know anything about it." According to multiple reports, iCloud would allow for streaming of music hosted on Apple servers in the Internet "cloud" to various devices -- from computers to smartphones to touchscreen tablets. The New York Times reported on Friday that Apple has nearly completed talks with the major music publishers over the new cloud music service after sealing deals with the four major record labels. The Los Angeles Times said iCloud will initially be offered for free to iTunes users, allowing them to listen to music hosted on Apple servers on a Web ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china39s-growth-and-weakness-on-show-at-it-fair-afp/ china39s-growth-and-weakness-on-show-at-it-fair-afp Sun, 5 Jun 2011 10:00:51 +0300 TAIPEI (AFP) – More Chinese companies than ever took part in Asia's largest IT fair, which ended this weekend in Taipei, but their growing numbers could not disguise their lingering weaknesses, observers said. China has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to innovation, not least when compared with the host of the five-day Computex fair, the small but savvy island of Taiwan, which punches above its weight in technology. "There's no denying the Chinese have carved out niches in some items, like computer casing and power systems," said Chang Li, deputy secretary general of the Taipei Computer Association, the co-organiser of Computex. "But generally speaking, Taiwan companies are still ahead in all the PC-related fields." With more than 1,800 exhibitors present at Computex, it was easy to lose sight of the roughly 220 Chinese companies at the sprawling event. And while the mainland presence was up from just 100 enterprises last year, most occupied small booths, squeezed in between much larger and better-known multinational brands. Sandget Digital Technology Co., from Shenzhen in southern China, did attract attention with a new seven-inch touchscreen tablet that operates on Google's Android open-source platform. "Even Samsung and Acer sent people to our booth to have a look at our tablets," said Lily Lee, a sales manager with the company. But the product would never have made it this far without the close cooperation of more experienced companies from other countries, she said. Sandget's tablet, known as Joydroid in China, featured a screen supplied by South Korea's LG Corp., and the design of the entire ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-says-will-not-threaten-anyone-with-modern-military-reuters/ china-says-will-not-threaten-anyone-with-modern-military-reuters Sun, 5 Jun 2011 09:30:24 +0300 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China's defense minister sought to reassure Asia Pacific neighbors on Sunday that his country's growing economic and military power was not a threat, as long-running maritime disputes in the region flare up again. General Liang Guanglie told the annual Shangri-La security conference in Singapore that the modernization of the People's Liberation Army was in line with the country's economic growth and to meet its security requirements. "We do not intend to threaten any country with the modernization of our military force. I know many people tend to believe that with the wealth of China's economy, China will be a military threat," he said, speaking dressed in full military uniform. "I would like to say that it is not our option. We didn't seek to, we are not seeking to and we will not seek hegemony and we will not threaten any country." China will beef up its military budget by 12.7 percent this year, the government announced in March, a return to double-digit spending increases that stirred unease in the region as well as in the United States which has long had a strong presence in the Asia-Pacific region. China's growing military influence has coincided with a more assertive diplomatic tone, evident in rows with Japan and Southeast Asia over disputed islands, and in rows with Washington over trade, the yuan currency and this week over cyber-security after Google said email accounts had been hacked in an attack that appeared to originate from China. But Liang said the situation in the South China Sea where a territorial dispute ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/defence-minister-denies-china-behind-cyber-attacks-afp/ defence-minister-denies-china-behind-cyber-attacks-afp Sun, 5 Jun 2011 08:31:54 +0300 SINGAPORE (AFP) – China's defence minister denied that Beijing was behind cyber attacks on foreign targets and said the country was also a victim of Internet hackers. "It is hard to attribute the real source of attacks and we need to work together to make sure that this security problem won't be a problem," Defence Minister Liang Guanglie on Sunday told a security forum in Singapore. "Actually in China we also suffered quite a wide range (of) and frequent cyber attacks," he said through a translator. "The Chinese government attaches importance also on cyber security and stands firmly against all kinds of cyber crimes," he said. "It is important for everyone to obey or follow laws and regulations in terms of cyber security," said Liang, who joined calls for global coordination to deal with cyber security. The United States and Britain called Saturday for international cooperation against threats to cyber security following a fresh spate of attacks on government and corporate targets. A few days before, Internet giant Google said a cyber spying campaign originating in China had targeted Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists. China said Thursday it was "unacceptable" to blame it for operation. US aerospace giant Boeing said Friday on the sidelines of the Singapore conference that it was under "continuous" cyber attack but there had been no breach of its databases. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-va-renunta-la-suportul-pentru-browserele-vechi-cum-te-afecteaza-masura/ google-va-renunta-la-suportul-pentru-browserele-vechi-cum-te-afecteaza-masura Sat, 4 Jun 2011 19:03:39 +0300 Google a anunţat vineri că utilizatorii care folosesc Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 3.5 sau Safari 3 ar putea avea probleme în folosirea unor servicii precum cel de e-mail, Google Talk, Docs sau Calendar deoarece compania renunţă să mai ofere suport pentru aceste browsere învechite, relatează BBC. Măsura e menită să descurajeze folosirea browserelor vechi care nu sunt suficient de sofisticare pentru a face faţă tehnologiilor web moderne (HTML5). http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-britain-urge-cooperation-on-cyber-threats-afp/ us-britain-urge-cooperation-on-cyber-threats-afp Sat, 4 Jun 2011 13:31:48 +0300 SINGAPORE (AFP) – The United States and Britain called Saturday for international cooperation against threats to cyber security following a fresh spate of attacks on government and corporate targets. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and British Defence Secretary Liam Fox underscored the urgency of the problem at an Asia-Pacific security forum in Singapore also attended by their Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie. China denies being the source of attacks on US security systems and the two western officials deliberately avoided singling out Beijing. Liang is scheduled to address the Singapore conference on Sunday. Gates said "we take the cyber threat very seriously and we see it from a variety of sources, not just one or another country." Fox said London will host an international conference on the "war of the invisible enemy" later this year. "The effect on the economies of this region of a well-planned and well-resourced cyber attack on transnational commercial networks and institutions would be catastrophic, and would impact on us all," he said. "Cyber attacks are already happening in large numbers and on a regular basis ... which is why we want to convene a proper international conference to see how we can deal with it." The London talks will include discussions on a potential legal framework, Fox said. Just days before the Singapore forum, Internet giant Google said a cyber spying campaign originating in China had targeted Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists. China said Thursday it was "unacceptable" to blame it for the incidents. Gates said "serious international tensions" could be avoided if there ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mai-multe-servicii-de-mesagerie-electronica-vizate-de-atacuri-similare-celor-lansate-asupra-gmail/ mai-multe-servicii-de-mesagerie-electronica-vizate-de-atacuri-similare-celor-lansate-asupra-gmail Sat, 4 Jun 2011 11:04:17 +0300 Compania de securitate informatică Trend Micro a avertizat vineri că grupuri de hackeri au încercat să acceseze ilegal şi serviciile de mesagerie electronică de la Microsoft şi Yahoo, în afara celor de la Google. Agenţii federali anchetează deja o campanie de spionaj care a vizat serviciul de mesagerie Gmail de la Google, însă Trend Micro susţine că şi serviciile Hotmail (Microsoft) şi Yahoo! sunt vizate în egală măsură. "Deşi atacurile par să fi fost lansate separat, ele prezintă similitudini importante", a afirmat Nart Villeneuve, expert la Trend Micro. Google a anunţat miercuri că mai multe conturi Gmail ale unor oficiali americani, disidenţi chinezi, comandanţi militari şi ziarişti au fost atacate, cel mai probabil din China. În afara supravegherii conturilor de email, autorii atacurilor par să încerce să verifice şi computerele vizate, pentru a stabili ce tipuri de programe folosesc. "Odată ce hackerii ştiu ce programe sunt instalate pe computer, inclusiv ce protecţie antivirus foloseşte acesta, pot declanşa un atac precis asupra oricărui software vulnerabil", a adăugat Villeneuve, apreciind că "astfel de atacuri au şanse reale de succes". Conform Wall Street Journal, adresele personale ale mai multor membri ai administraţiei americane, inclusiv ale unor membri ai personalului Casei Albe, au fost vizate de atacuri. Secretarul de Stat american, Hillary Clinton, a avertizat joi că guvernul de la Washington tratează cu seriozitate acuzaţiile formulate de Google, pe care le consideră "foarte grave", însă autorităţile chineze au negat orice responsabilitate pentru atacurile informatice. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/3-tips-for-better-mobile-seo-mashable/ 3-tips-for-better-mobile-seo-mashable Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:31:36 +0300 Jason Taylor is the vice president of platform strategy at Usablenet. Usablenet’s platform powers the mobile sites of 20% of the Fortune 1000, including Estée Lauder, Hilton, Delta, Victoria’s Secret, FedEx, ASOS and others. Follow @Usablenet on Twitter. Google’s Eric Schmidt recently noted that mobile search is growing much faster than desktop search. As mobile increasingly becomes a primary gateway to the Internet, it is crucial for companies to incorporate forward-thinking SEO practices into their mobile strategies to ensure their mobile sites are easily detected by search engines and found by consumers. [More from Mashable: Why Fashion Photographers Are Flocking to Instagram] More than 60% of consumers search for brands from mobile devices before purchasing, and another 49% of mobile searchers made a mobile purchase in the past six months. Businesses must view mobile as a significant piece of their overall marketing campaigns that can drive substantial traffic and increase revenue. Here are some high level SEO strategies that brands can implement into their overall mobile efforts to ensure they are getting maximum visibility. [More from Mashable: Google Search Becomes More Image-Friendly] 1. Develop a Device Agnostic Approach Search engines incorporate various criteria in mobile browsers to determine page rank. These factors include overall site performance, usability, download speed and screen rendering. A fully optimized mobile site that extends all functionality and key content from a website will rank higher in search results than a website that has simply been reformatted for a smaller screen. For example, simply transcoding a webpage through the use of a cookie-cutter template will strip it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rumor-roundup-all-about-apple39s-icloud-streaming-service-mashable/ rumor-roundup-all-about-apple39s-icloud-streaming-service-mashable Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:32:01 +0300 The launch of Apple's much anticipated streaming music service is rapidly approaching. There have been a lot of rumors flying around about iCloud -- as it could be named -- so we thought it would be prudent to gather them all together. The cloud-based music race has been accelerating in the last few months, with Amazon releasing its Cloud Player and Google coming out with Google Music. Neither service launched with the support of the major music labels -- although Google reportedly tried to woo them -- so both products came out of the oven a bit half-baked. They're basically lockers that require users to upload their music collections in order to access them across devices. [More from Mashable: Google Acquires Social Data Startup PostRank] Consequently, many have been looking toward Apple to come out with a slicker, more robust offering that would allow users to listen to music anywhere and everywhere with ease. We have yet to get any straight news from Apple on such a product, but we have rumors aplenty. Check up our roundup below and give us your thoughts on what you think will be revealed come June 6. [More from Mashable: Did Tennessee Just Make It Illegal To Share Your Netflix Account?] Who Is On Board? Apple has reportedly signed deals with all four major labels: Universal Music Group, Sony/ATV, Warner Music Group, EMI and their publishing units, according to the New York Post. What Do They Get? Apple will be paying the labels between $100 million and $150 million in advance, the Post says. Each label will ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-says-worried-by-cyber-attacks-committed-to-asia-reuters/ us-says-worried-by-cyber-attacks-committed-to-asia-reuters Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:30:25 +0300 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United States is seriously concerned about cyber-attacks and is prepared to use force against those it considers an act of war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said at a security meeting in Asia on Saturday. He also assured Asian allies that the United States would protect sea lanes and maintain a robust military presence in the region despite a severe budget crunch and the protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "We take the cyber threat very seriously and we see it from a variety of sources, not just one or another country," Gates said, an apparent reference to reports that several of the attacks may have originated in China. "What would constitute an act of war by cyber that would require some kind of response, either in kind or kinetically?" he said. "We could avoid some serious international tensions in the future if we could establish some rules of the road as early as possible to let people know what kinds of acts are acceptable, what kinds of acts are not and what kinds of acts may in fact be acts of war." Earlier this week, Google said it had disrupted a campaign aimed at stealing passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists. It was the latest in a series of cyber attacks that have also targeted defense contractor Lockheed Martin and Sony Corp. Google said the latest breach appeared to originate in China but neither the company nor the U.S. government has said the Chinese government was ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-calls-for-talks-on-cyber-threats-afp/ us-calls-for-talks-on-cyber-threats-afp Sat, 4 Jun 2011 08:31:54 +0300 SINGAPORE (AFP) – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for a comprehensive international dialogue on cyber attacks to prevent incidents from escalating dangerously out of control. "We take the cyber threat very seriously and we see it from a variety of sources, not just one or another country," he told a security conference in Singapore on Saturday, also attended by his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie. Chinese hackers have been blamed for cyber attacks on US targets, a charge Beijing denies, but Gates stopped short of naming any country when asked about the issue at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue. Just days before, Internet giant Google said a cyber spying campaign originating in China had targeted Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists. "I think we could avoid some serious international tensions in the future if we could establish some rules of the road as early as possible that let people know what kinds of acts are acceptable, what kinds of acts are not, and what kinds of acts may in fact be an act of war," Gates said. Gates said the United States was under cyber attack "all the time." "There is no question that our defence systems are under attack all the time, fairly routinely in fact, and we've taken a number of steps to try and protect ourselves," he added. On the sidelines of the conference, US aerospace giant Boeing said it was also under "continuous" cyber attack but there has been no breach of its databases. The admission by Dennis Muilenburg, chief executive of Boeing ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-says-can-use-force-to-respond-to-cyber-attacks-reuters/ us-says-can-use-force-to-respond-to-cyber-attacks-reuters Sat, 4 Jun 2011 08:00:39 +0300 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. defence systems are constantly under attack in cyberspace and the Pentagon is working to identify hackers who will be responded to in kind or with traditional offensive action, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Saturday. Gates was speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an Asian security meeting, days after Google said it had disrupted a campaign aimed at stealing passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists. It was the latest in a series of cyber attacks that have also targeted defence contractor Lockheed Martin and Sony Corp. Google said the latest breach appeared to originate in China but neither the company nor the U.S. government has said the Chinese government was responsible. But the U.S. State Department has asked Beijing to investigate. "We take the cyber threat very seriously and we see it from a variety of sources, not just one or another country," Gates said. "One of the problems of cyber attacks is that attributability is a problem at some times. It's hard to know or takes a lot of time to figure out where an attack came from." Gates said the Pentagon was examining threats from cyber-space in the context of defence responsibilities. "There is no question that our defence systems are under attack all the time," he said. "What does constitute an offensive act by ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gates-sees-wider-us-military-presence-in-asia-ap/ gates-sees-wider-us-military-presence-in-asia-ap Sat, 4 Jun 2011 05:00:33 +0300 SINGAPORE – In a parting pitch to Asian allies, retiring U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Pentagon is considering steps to widen its military presence across the Pacific Rim. He said budget woes won't interfere. "America is, as the expression goes, putting `our money where our mouth is' with respect to this part of the world - and will continue to do so," he told Asia's premier security conference, known as the Shangri-La Dialogue, on Saturday. On his final overseas trip before stepping down June 30 — and his seventh to Asia in the last 18 months — Gates insisted that Americans' war weariness and debt worries should not be seen as setting the stage for a shrinking of U.S. commitments in Asia. On the leading sources of U.S. security concerns in Asia — North Korea and China — he made only brief mention. But he did highlight a Pentagon commitment to developing ways of countering "anti-access" technologies of the kind that the U.S. says China is working on — advanced anti-ship missiles, for example, that could make it harder for U.S. aircraft carriers and other warships to operate in Asia seas. On Friday evening, Gates met with his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Liang Guanglie. Gates told Liang that he believes the military-to-military relationship is "on a positive trajectory," after a series of setbacks in recent years. .Liang said he agreed that defense ties are getting better and that they deserve still more attention. The main elements of friction remain, however. China still claims control of waters the U.S. considers international. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-to-get-started-with-your-kindle-yahoo-news/ how-to-get-started-with-your-kindle-yahoo-news Sat, 4 Jun 2011 04:32:02 +0300 The Amazon Kindle is one of the most popular e-readers on the market. Marketing boasts of its usability both indoors and out, courtesy of the E Ink technology. Combined with a long battery charge life, the Kindle's the top choice for many reading enthusiasts on the go. If you're new to the Kindle, getting up and running with your favorite reading material is easy. Ready, set, goOut of the box, the Kindle needs to be charged fully before its first use. It comes with two options for charging: a micro-USB cable for charging via your computer's USB port, and a 120-volt AC power adapter that attaches to your USB cord and plugs right into the wall. Charging to a full charge takes 4 to 6 hours via computer, less with an AC connection. Some laptops and older computers may not provide enough power to the USB port to charge your Kindle. In that case, you'll need to plug it into a wall outlet using the AC adapter. Once your Kindle is fully charged, the LED light near the micro-USB port will change from yellow to green. Registration, password, and paymentYour Kindle needs to be registered with Amazon before you can take full advantage of its features and make purchases from the Kindle Store. Registration is quick and easy. First, you'll need to make sure you're connected to Whispernet, Amazon's free service that connects either via wifi or 3G (depending which model Kindle you have). If you're connecting via wifi, you may need to enter the password for the local ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-secures-licensing-deals-ahead-of-icloud-unveiling-reuters/ apple-secures-licensing-deals-ahead-of-icloud-unveiling-reuters Sat, 4 Jun 2011 04:01:49 +0300 NEW YORK (Billboard) – Just days ahead of its planned unveiling of its iCloud service, Apple has succeeded in securing licensing deals from all four major labels and music publishers. In fact, it's probably done more: By agreeing to pay major publishers a 12 percent cut of iCloud revenue, it may have set a new, higher digital payment standard for publishers, whose share of revenue from a digital service is typically about 10 percent or less. Apple CEO Steve Jobs and other senior executives will provide details about the iCloud service during a June 6 keynote presentation at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Universal Music Group was the final major label to come to terms for the iCloud service, according to sources familiar with the situation. Apple has agreed to pay major labels approximately 58 percent of revenue, leaving Apple with about 30 percent. While sources say Universal and Sony Music Entertainment were asking for 60 percent of revenue, they now suggest that a last-minute compromise was reached to accommodate the 12 percent royalty rate being paid to publishers. Apple has yet to reach deals with independent publishers and labels. Sources say that it will offer indie publishers the same 12 percent rate it is paying major publishers. However, Apple began negotiations with independent labels by offering them only a 53 percent revenue cut. Some indie-label executives say they're pushing back on Apple to get a higher cut. Meanwhile, Google is still negotiating with the major labels and publishers for its Music Beta cloud service, which it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-beefs-up-social-presence-with-postrank-buy-pc-magazine/ google-beefs-up-social-presence-with-postrank-buy-pc-magazine Sat, 4 Jun 2011 03:01:27 +0300 Google has acquired PostRank, a Web company that measures the effects of social networking on online content. The announcement was made on PostRank's blog. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal appears to be an indication of the effects of social media on Google's long-term strategy, if not its immediate business. PostRank (a play on Google's own PageRank term) measures how many comments, bookmarks, tweets, and other social interactions a given piece of content generates, exactly the type of analytics a Web giant needs as it slowly grows its own social strategy. So far, Google seems to be orienting itself around +1 icon and social search, as it slowly evolves a presence in social networking. We know that making sense of social engagement data is important for online businesses, which is why we have worked hard to monitor where and when content generates meaningful interactions across the web," PostRank's Ilya Grigorik wrote in a blog post. "Indeed, conversations online are an important signal for advertisers, publishers, developers and consumers—but today's tools only skim the surface of what we think is possible. "We are extremely excited to join Google," Grigorik added. "We believe there is simply no better company on the web today that both understands the value of the engagement data we have been focusing on, and has the platform and reach to bring its benefits to the untold millions of daily, active Internet users." http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sorry-rim-smartphones-users-snap-up-iphones-android-devices-pc-magazine/ sorry-rim-smartphones-users-snap-up-iphones-android-devices-pc-magazine Sat, 4 Jun 2011 03:01:32 +0300 The continued popularity of the iPhone and Android-based devices helped Apple and Google maintain their lead over RIM in the first three months of the year, with Android smartphones snapping up 36.4 percent of the U.S. market. Of the 74.6 million people in the U.S. with smartphones, 26 percent had iPhones, up about 1.3 percent during the last three months of 2010, according to data from comScore. Android's tally, meanwhile, was a 5.2 percent jump from last year. RIM did not fare as well, losing about 4.7 percent market share to land at 25.7 percent. Microsoft also saw a decline, dropping 1.3 percent to 6.7 percent, while Palm rounded out the top five with a slight dip to 2.6 percent. Overall, the number of people with smartphones was up 13 percent. On the handset front, Samsung was the top U.S. manufacturer with 24.5 percent, though that was a slight 0.4 percent drop from last year. LG came in at number two with 20.9 percent, a 0.1 percent increase, while Motorola was at number three with 15.6 percent, a 0.9 percent drop. Apple and RIM rounded out the top five, with Cupertino nabbing 8.3 percent of the market, a 1.3 percent jump; RIM dropped 0.4 percent. What are people doing with these phones? According to comScore, one of the most popular activities is text messaging. About 68.8 percent of people use their mobile phones to text, up 0.7 percent. The activity that saw the biggest increase, however, was accessing social-networking sites or blogs; about 28 percent of mobile users did so, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/phone-7-developers-limited-to-20-apps-per-day-newsfactor/ phone-7-developers-limited-to-20-apps-per-day-newsfactor Sat, 4 Jun 2011 00:31:37 +0300 Microsoft is restricting the certification of new mobile apps for Windows Phone Marketplace to no more than 20 a day per developer. The move is the latest sign that Microsoft's mobile-app strategy continues to be about positioning the marketplace as a source of high-quality mobile software. Microsoft's aim is to maintain a balance between choice and customer experience by enabling customers to see a broader and more representative assortment of new Windows Phone 7 apps, noted Windows Phone blogger Todd Brix on Thursday. "In recent weeks a handful of companies have individually published hundreds of apps in a matter of a few days," Brix wrote. "While these apps meet our certification requirements and give consumers a wider selection of content, we're also finding that publishing them in bulk degrades our customers' experience." A Consistent Strategy Microsoft recently began culling some of the mobile apps that large development companies have delivered to Windows Phone Marketplace because the software giant believes they need further work. Brix noted that the removed apps can be resubmitted once their content has been fully refined. "Microsoft is doing the right thing grooming the app portfolio," said Al Hilwa, director of applications development software at IDC. "They absolutely need to reduce duplicative apps [given that] the quality of the store is a key value to the user." Microsoft is also betting that the vast majority of Phone 7 developers will appreciate not having their offerings becoming lost in the deluge that a few big developers have been unleashing on a daily basis. And unlike its ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-should-you-buy-android-instead-of-an-iphone-contributornetwork/ why-should-you-buy-android-instead-of-an-iphone-contributornetwork Sat, 4 Jun 2011 00:01:30 +0300 COMMENTARY | The iPhone offers the slickest, shiniest, most elegant experience available on a smartphone, sort of like how Macs stand at the head of the PC world. On top of that, there are more and better apps available for iPhones (although Android phones have more free apps). So why would you even consider an Android phone? Well, here's what Android smartphones have going for them that iPhones lack: The best Google apps Since Android is made by Google, the Google apps for Android tend to be a step ahead of where they are on the iPhone. Google Translate got real-time voice translation on Android before it came to the iPhone, while Google Maps for Android has had turn-by-turn navigation for a long time. And the Gmail app for Android lets you do basically everything the Gmail website does. Choice of wireless carriers For years, the iPhone was only available on AT&T's wireless network here in the States. It finally arrived on Verizon's network this year, but it's still unavailable on Sprint or T-Mobile, or any of the contract-free wireless carriers like Virgin Mobile or MetroPCS. If you're choosing your network before you choose your phone, then you probably won't even consider the "iPhone versus Android" struggle. If you're looking at getting an iPhone, though, it's worth noting what you give up; not only do you have to sign a contract, you also pay an extremely high monthly rate for data compared to some contract-free plans. For $25, Virgin Mobile offers unlimited data and texts plus 300 minutes a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analysis-can-naming-shaming-curb-cyber-attacks-from-china-reuters/ analysis-can-naming-shaming-curb-cyber-attacks-from-china-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:30:30 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Targets of pervasive Chinese cyber attacks hope the latest breach of Google email will spark a robust U.S. response but Washington may find it hard to pin precise blame on China and cannot go too far against a key economic and diplomatic partner. An aggressive stance is the only thing that forced China to budge on problems like counterfeiting or trade barriers, proponents say. Skeptics worry about adding another contentious issue to fraught ties with a major U.S. creditor and say a smoking gun is hard to put in Beijing's hand. Google Inc said on Wednesday it disrupted a "phishing" campaign aimed at stealing passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists. Without saying the Chinese government was behind the breaches, Google said the attack appeared to originate in Jinan, a city linked to previous cyber attacks, drawing an angry denial from China's foreign ministry. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Friday the United States has asked Beijing to investigate Google's latest allegations. He declined to say whether Washington believes Beijing may have had a hand in the alleged hacking attack. U.S. agencies and organizations who work on China said the Google attack is just one example of a pervasive challenge. The working assumption at one U.S. government economic agency was that "the Chinese can pretty much hack anyone they want any time they want," said a government aide, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the issue. A business lobby official, who said his group's ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/who39s-a-bigger-danger-to-cloud-innovation-hackers-or-the-government-the-atlantic-wire/ who39s-a-bigger-danger-to-cloud-innovation-hackers-or-the-government-the-atlantic-wire Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:31:37 +0300 The recent phishing attack from China on Gmail targeted influential journalists, senior military personel and government officials in the White House. Along with the hack on Sony's Playstation network--a 44-day affair that cost the company an estimated $171 million--the recent rash of internet security breaches has many wondering whether America is prepared to take the big leap into cloud computing. Reuters reports that the confidence of computer industry leaders is shaken in such a way that may lead to slower adoption of cloud features due to a need for more expensive, more secure technology security. The Security Issues One of the major impediments to quicker adoption of cloud services is the lack of an open standard for companies building in that space. Dell, IBM, Cisco, Hewlett Packard and others are working together to simplify the infrastructure so that applications can work seamlessly across platforms, but the more open they make the standards, the more susceptible the cloud becomes to hackers. "We'd like to provide more capability to control the workload running on our processors, but the more we do that the more we invite malicious codes in," an AMD corporate vice president told Reuters. Apple, of course, enjoys the luxury of building everything with proprietary technology and doesn't need to participate in the collective effort. It goes without saying that it would be bad news if hackers broke into iCloud, due to be announced on Monday. Apple reportedly paid between $100 and $150 million just to convince the big four record labels to participate in the service. Google ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/senate-regularly-thwarts-cyber-attacks-official-reuters/ senate-regularly-thwarts-cyber-attacks-official-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:01:04 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate weathers tens of thousands of attempted computer hackings each month but does not appear to have been touched by any incidents aimed at private Gmail accounts, an official said on Friday. Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer, who oversees cyber security for 100 senators and thousands of their staff, said in an interview that firewalls and other security measures have prevented would-be hackers from breaching the Senate computer system through individual computers. "It is a never-ending battle because we know that our adversaries are constantly -- by the tens of thousands of times -- trying to break through our firewalls. And they have not been successful," he told Reuters. Gainer spoke days after Google Inc said it had disrupted a campaign originating from China aimed at stealing passwords of hundreds of Google Gmail account holders, including senior government officials, Chinese activists and journalists. The news sent officials scrambling to determine if security had been compromised. The State Department on Friday asked Beijing to investigate the allegations. "I am not aware of any action like that on the Senate side," Gainer said. "But in this business, in this game, that wouldn't surprise me one iota." Like the House of Representatives, the Senate exercises broad oversight of executive branch agencies and departments that provide lawmakers with highly sensitive information involving military and clandestine espionage operations, industry, trade and advanced technology. That makes the Senate's computer system a prime target for hackers, who could try to access official files through the private email accounts of individual lawmakers or staff members. Gainer ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cyberattacks-also-targeted-gmail-rivals-trend-micro-afp/ cyberattacks-also-targeted-gmail-rivals-trend-micro-afp Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:01:41 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Internet security firm Trend Micro warned on Friday that cyber attackers have attempted to infiltrate Web-based email services run by Microsoft and Yahoo! as well as Google. As US federal agents investigated a Gmail spying campaign uncovered by Google, Trend Micro said that Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail have been similarly targeted. "There has been a variety of recent attacks on popular Webmail platforms," Trend Micro senior threat researcher Nart Villeneuve said in an online post. "In addition to Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail have also been targeted. While the attacks appear to have been separately conducted, these have some significant similarities," Villeneuve said. Google said Wednesday that a cyber spying campaign originating in China had targeted Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists, Chinese political activists, and officials in several Asian countries, mainly in South Korea. "We recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," Google security team engineering director Eric Grosse said in a blog post. "The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users' emails, with the perpetrators apparently using stolen passwords," he said. The campaign appeared to originate in Jinan, capital of the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, Grosse said, and targeted the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users of Google's free Web-based email service. Attacks on Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail also appeared aimed at being able to secretly read messages and possibly find ways into other people's accounts, according to Trend Micro. Along with monitoring accounts, attackers appeared intent on mining computers to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/syrian-networks-cut-off-from-internet-monitor-afp/ syrian-networks-cut-off-from-internet-monitor-afp Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:31:22 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Two-thirds of the networks in protest-wracked Syria were cut off from the Internet on Friday, an Internet monitoring firm said. James Cowie of Renesys, a New Hampshire-based company that monitors Internet routing data in real-time, said in a blog post that beginning at 0335 GMT the routes to 40 of 59 networks became unreachable over the course of half an hour. "The networks that are not reachable include, substantially, all of the prefixes reserved for SyriaTel's 3G mobile data networks, and smaller downstream ISPs (Internet Service Providers) including Sawa, INET, and Runnet," he said. Cowie said the network prefixes that remain reachable include those belonging to the Syrian government "although many government websites are slow to respond or down." "The Oil Ministry is up, for example, and Syrian Telecom's official page, but the Ministry of Education is down, as is the Damascus city government page, and the Syrian Customs website," he said. A website maintained by Google, meanwhile, that monitors traffic to its popular services around the world showed traffic levels in Syria well below normal. Cowie said the Internet in Syria basically depends on one domestic provider, state-owned SyriaTel, but "we don't know yet how the outage was coordinated, or what specific regions or cities may be affected more than others." In Syria, residents said the Internet was down in Damascus and the coastal city of Latakia on Friday. According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Syrian security forces shot dead at least 34 demonstrators in the city of Hama on Friday as they dispersed an anti-regime ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/free-icloud-may-cost-apple-more-than-100-million-newsfactor/ free-icloud-may-cost-apple-more-than-100-million-newsfactor Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:01:20 +0300 With Apple's formal announcement of its upcoming cloud-based music service scheduled for Monday, new details are emerging. Apple is reportedly paying more than $100 million to the major record labels, and will initially offer its iCloud service free to iTunes customers. According to news sources, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has completed a licensing deal with Universal Music. Earlier reports indicated that Apple had already made legal arrangements with the three other big record labels -- EMI Music, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment. Agreements have also been reported with several of the leading music publishers. $25 Annual Charge? In order to obtain those deals, Apple has reportedly spent between $100 million and $150 million in advance payments, according to the New York Post. The Post cited three unnamed sources, and said the payments were between $25 million and $50 million for each label. These contracts with the big four music labels give Apple a leg up on Amazon.com and Google, both of which recently unwrapped cloud-based music services. Amazon's Cloud Player and Cloud Drive launched in March, and Google's Music Beta was unveiled earlier this month. Both of those services are essentially storage vaults that require users to upload their music collections to the cloud. Since Apple has licensing deals with the labels, which Google and Amazon do not, the music industry is expected to favor iCloud. The deals are expected to push Google toward releasing its cloud service from beta as early as September. There are also reports that the Apple service will initially be free to customers who ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hackers-gather-around-the-globe-to-fight-climate-change/ hackers-gather-around-the-globe-to-fight-climate-change Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:03:15 +0300 (CNN) -- When you hear the word hacker, you probably don't picture someone dedicated to solving the problems of global development. But this weekend, self-proclaimed hackers around the world will gather at "hackathon" events to tackle disaster-risk management and climate change. The occasion is the third annual Random Hacks of Kindness global conference, which seeks to leverage Internet data to address world problems. Gatherings will be held in cities around the globe, from Atlanta to California's Silicon Valley and from Basel, Switzerland, to Bogota, Colombia. The conference is the result of a 2009 collaboration by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World Bank, which founded Random Hacks of Kindness. (Both the organization and the events it organizes are known as RHoK.) The group solicits "problem definitions" from organizations in the field of disaster preparedness, relief and climate change and puts them before "tech-savvy do-gooders," according to Elizabeth Sabet, RHoK's global operational lead. It's this synthesis between subject-matter experts and computer hackers that makes RHoK effective, its leaders said. "Technical solutions created only by technical people are often too cumbersome for the field," said Philadelphia organizer Mike Brennan. "Solutions created by field experts alone often lack the technical and scientific basis for an effective solution. RHoK is looking to address these weaknesses directly." Sabet is also quick to point out that "hacking" doesn't always mean what some people might think. "RHoK celebrates hacking in its most positive context -- using minimal resources and maximum brainpower to create outside-the-box solutions -- 'hacks' -- in response to interesting problems," she said. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-shares-continue-slide-after-outlook-downgrade-afp/ nokia-shares-continue-slide-after-outlook-downgrade-afp Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:00:38 +0300 HELSINKI (AFP) – The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia saw its share price slump again Friday, three days after it dramatically downgraded its second quarter outlook and said it could no longer provide a full-year forecast. Slightly before 2 pm (1100 GMT) Friday, the mobile phone giant's share price had dropped 4.50 percent to 4.50 euros on a Helsinki stock exchange down 1.68 percent. Following Tuesday's announcement, the company's shares had closed down a whopping 17.5 percent, and they continued to slide Wednesday, although a rumour that Microsoft had agreed to buy the Finnish company appeared to have softened the blow, and the shares ended down 0.76 percent. The continued slide Friday, after trading stopped Thursday for a public holiday, was not unexpected, Pohjola Bank analyst Hannu Rauhala told AFP. "It's quite normal that the share price continues to go down a couple of days" after a profit warning, he said. The ongoing drop, which has left Nokia's share price at the lowest level since early 1998, before it became the market leader, followed its announcement its second quarter sales would be far worse than previously expected and that it could no longer give a full-year forecast. Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop, who joined the company from Microsoft last year, said Tuesday the Finnish company's sharp outlook downgrade was part of a rocky transition period as it phases out its Symbian smartphone platform in favour of a tie-in with Microsoft Phone. The mobile phone maker said it hopes to regain lost ground when it starts shipping its first Microsoft handsets at ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cyberattacks-on-gmail-hotmail-yahoo-show-data-threat-newsfactor/ cyberattacks-on-gmail-hotmail-yahoo-show-data-threat-newsfactor Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:01:44 +0300 Although the government's e-mail reportedly wasn't compromised in the Gmail hack, federal agencies are nonetheless taking special interest in the cyberattack. China has been accused of hosting hackers who accessed hundreds of Google Gmail accounts, but is aggressively denying the charges. Now security researchers are weighing in. "If your organization has any electronically stored information that could be of value to someone or some other organization, then you should assume that an attempt to access it will be made through some type of cyberattack or social-engineering attempt," said Mike Paquette, chief strategy officer for Top Layer Security. "E-mail accounts of government officials or political figures clearly fall into this category." Similar attacks have been reported by users of Microsoft's Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. Highly Targeted Attacks He said phishing attacks are becoming more targeted, and are using more target-relevant context to lure recipients into providing information. However, he noted, motivations for phishing attacks continue to include theft, fraud and other attempts at illicit financial gain as well as political activism. "Phishing attacks are requiring less user intervention," Paquette said. "In fact, today many of these attacks are no longer directly asking users to provide sensitive information, but instead rely on tempting the user to click on a hyperlink, launching their web browser to a malicious web site that will remotely exploit their computer, depositing malware that will simply steal the sensitive information and exfiltrate it." He explained that these newer "tempt-to-click" e-mails use many of the social-engineering techniques of phishing or spear phishing, but silently steal keystrokes, files, cookies or ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-raises-google-hack-allegation-with-china-reuters/ us-raises-google-hack-allegation-with-china-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 19:31:38 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has asked Beijing to investigate Google's latest allegation of a major hacking attack that the Internet giant says originated in China, the State Department said on Friday. "We did raise our concerns with the Chinese about the allegations and asked them to take a look into them," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. Toner declined to provide details on what was conveyed to the Chinese, or whether the U.S. government believes Beijing may have had a hand in the alleged hacking attack. He said investigations of the case prevent him from saying more about Google's allegations. "We take them seriously and expressed that concern to the Chinese," Toner said. Google said this week it had detected and disrupted a campaign aimed at stealing passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders including senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists, and journalists. Toner repeated that the State Department had no evidence its employees had been targeted in the case, which the Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining along with Google. Neither Google nor the U.S. government has said that China was behind the attacks, which the Internet company merely said appeared to originate in China. But the incident looks likely to fuel tensions between the United States and China over cybersecurity and espionage, areas that are considered potential flashpoints. China, for its part, has denied any role and called Google's allegations unacceptable. Beijing, often blamed for cyber attacks that have a murky provenance, says it is being unfairly accused by countries that are simply unhappy with China's swift economic, military ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pandora-stock-to-debut-at-7-to-9-per-share-afp/ pandora-stock-to-debut-at-7-to-9-per-share-afp Fri, 3 Jun 2011 19:31:41 +0300 OAKLAND, California (AFP) – Pandora set a debut price for its initial offering of stock that could raise more than $141 million for the leading US Internet radio service. The startup filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday indicating that its stock would be launched at from $7 to $9 per share, giving the offering a maximum value of slightly more than $141.6 million. A mid-range price would value the offering at closer to $100 million, the figure Pandora said it was aiming to raise when it first filed plans with the SEC to go public in February. Pandora indicated that it is going public in a bid to get the money it needs to grow and become profitable, and to deal with an accumulated operating deficit. "A key element of our strategy is to aggressively increase the number of listeners and listener hours to increase our market penetration," Pandora said in its original SEC filing. "However, as our number of listener hours increases, the royalties we pay for content acquisition also increase," the filing noted. Pandora's revenue has not been enough to offset the cost of paying royalties on songs, and getting big enough to tip the balance with more paid advertising is essential, the startup indicated. The Oakland, California-based firm released internal financial figures that revealed the company finished last year with a net loss of $16.7 million. The bulk of Pandora's revenue comes from advertising, while about 14 percent of the money it takes in comes from subscriptions, according to the filing. Pandora reported having 80 million ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-fronting-100-million-to-launch-icloud-digital-trends/ apple-fronting-100-million-to-launch-icloud-digital-trends Fri, 3 Jun 2011 19:32:02 +0300 Apple wants to launch its cloud music storage service and the labels aren’t going to get in its way. The NY Post reports that the Cupurtino company will pay somewhere between $25 and $50 million, in advance, to each of the four major music labels. Doing the math, that means somewhere between $100 and $200 million dollars to get the service off its feet. CEO Steve Jobs is expected to unveil the service this coming Monday at WWDC, along with a new version of iOS and Mac OS X. One source has told the paper that the service is expected to be free at first, but Apple is considering a $25 per year charge. If that happens, Apple will take a 30 percent cut, music publishers will take 12 percent, and the remaining 58 percent will go to labels to divide among their artists. While we don’t precisely know what features iCloud will have, many speculate that instead of having to upload your entire music collection to the cloud, like you must with Amazon Cloud Player and Google Music, Apple will employ a music matching service that makes a copy of your iTunes library onto its servers. If done properly, reports PC Mag, the service could be a way for individuals with sketchy music collections to come clean and start fresh on the cloud. If you’d like to brush up on the competition before Apple’s iCloud launches, check out our impressions of Google Music and the Amazon Cloud Player. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nou-atac-informatic-in-retelele-sony-hackerii-au-accesat-datele-a-peste-un-milion-de-clienti/ nou-atac-informatic-in-retelele-sony-hackerii-au-accesat-datele-a-peste-un-milion-de-clienti Fri, 3 Jun 2011 19:03:40 +0300 Reţelele Sony au fost atacate din nou de hackeri, care au accesat informaţii referitoare la peste un milion de clienţi, pentru a demonstra vulnerabilitatea sistemelor informatice ale grupului japonez. LulzSec, un grup de hackeri care a revendicat şi atacuri asupra postului american de televiziune PBS şi Fox.com, a anunţat că a spart serverele care asigură funcţionarea site-urilor Sony Pictures Entertainment. Grupul a publicat numele, datele de naştere, adresele, adresele de email, numerele de telefon şi parolele a mii de persoane care au participat la concursuri promovate de Sony. "Printr-un singur atac am accesat totul. De ce acordaţi atâta încredere într-o companie care îşi permite să fie atât de deschisă atacurilor?", se arată într-un comunicat al hackerilor. Încălcarea securităţii informatice a Sony este cel mai recent atac informatic împotriva unei mari companii. Între grupurile care au mai fost victime ale unor astfel de atacuri se află Lockheed Martin şi Google. Anunţul LulzSec vine după ce Sony a încercat să convingă congresmenii americani, într-o audiere la Washington, că grupul face eforturi să îşi protejeze reţelele online, care în aprilie au suferit cea mai gravă breşă de securitate din istorie, prin compromiterea datelor a 100 de milioane de clienţi. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-army-testing-iphones-androids-for-combat-digital-trends/ us-army-testing-iphones-androids-for-combat-digital-trends Fri, 3 Jun 2011 18:31:52 +0300 Apple often likes to call their products things like “magical” and “revolutionary.” But “deadly” could soon be added to the list. According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States Army will soon begin field testing Apple’s iPhone and iPad, as well smartphones and tablets based on Google’s Android operating system to see whether they can withstand the pressures of combat. Armed with a variety of battle-centric apps, the same devices we use to find a restaurant or play Angry Birds could be used for everything from expediting medical treatment for wounded soldiers to helping track down the enemy. One app, for starters, would allow an injured soldier to relay his exact location on the battlefield, name, type of injury and other crucial information to medical personnel. The Army plans to begin speed testing such an app to see whether it actually reduces the time needed to treat a downed man, or merely clogs the system. An app called “SoldierEyes” (not available in the App Store, just FYI), a navigation tool, allows soldiers to use the phone’s camera to survey his or her surroundings with “augmented reality” to calculate the direction and distance to their objectives. And other apps give soldiers mobile biometrics tools for identifying particular enemies. While smartphones have become a must-have device for many civilians, the Army is taking a conservative approach towards their adoption for combat purposes. “We want to give people the right phones for the right reasons, not just give them another shiny thing to hang on their equipment carriers,” Michael McCarthy, one of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/am-i-a-music-pirate-i-don39t-know-pc-magazine/ am-i-a-music-pirate-i-don39t-know-pc-magazine Fri, 3 Jun 2011 18:01:46 +0300 Am I a music pirate? I don't know. And I'm not sure I want to. Next week, Apple is expected to announce iCloud, which will most likely be a cloud service to host music, and probably photos, documents, and video as well. A recent report by BusinessWeek suggests that Apple's iCloud will feature a "scan and sync" technology that will scan a user's MP3 library - and, instead of uploading the files to the cloud, will simply match those files to Apple's own library. Apple can keep a single, high-quality copy of a file in the cloud, and eliminate the need to keep multiple copies of the same song on its servers, each with slightly different variations on the title or bitrate. What this means, of course, is that users who may have ripped their own CDs, or those of their friends, or their friends' friends, won't have to worry about the RIAA sniffing about their music collection. The thinking is that iCloud will be a subscription service, and that a lifetime of pirated music hosted on iCloud for a lifetime will eventually make back those licensing fees. Phew. Think about it. I don't lurk on Limewire (or the alternatives) or BitTorrent, downloading music. If anything, I'll listen to my local radio station, KFOG, or troll the blues and U.K. hits on Slacker. Rarely do I feel the need to listen to a particular song right now. My last music purchase was the 99-cent Lady Gaga promotion at Amazon to gain access to the expanded ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-china-say-military-ties-on-positive-path-afp/ us-china-say-military-ties-on-positive-path-afp Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:30:30 +0300 SINGAPORE (AFP) – US and Chinese defence chiefs said Friday military relations between the two countries had made some tentative progress despite friction over Taiwan and other issues. At the start of a meeting in Singapore, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told his Chinese counterpart, Defence Minister Liang Guanglie, that military ties had improved after a series of setbacks. "As I leave office at the end of this month, I do so believing our military relationship is on a more positive trajectory," said Gates, who is wrapping up his tenure at the Pentagon after more than four years. US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao agree that security ties represent an "underdeveloped" aspect of relations but "in recent months our two countries have made some progress towards rectifying this imbalance by jointly identifying areas of cooperation," Gates said. Gates called for both countries to work together on areas of common interest, including countering piracy, disaster relief efforts and diplomacy towards North Korea. Sitting across a table from the Pentagon chief and flanked by senior officers, Liang said there had been "some progress" in recent months and praised efforts by both countries to lay the groundwork for better security ties. Before Liang finished his opening remarks, reporters were escorted out of the room. The talks lasted nearly an hour, instead of the 30 minutes scheduled, and were "productive" and "cordial", Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters afterwards. The conciliatory tone follows tentative signs that tensions between the two nations' militaries have eased, with a top Chinese general touring US bases last ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-china-hold-cordial-talks-at-asian-security-meeting-reuters/ us-china-hold-cordial-talks-at-asian-security-meeting-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:00:39 +0300 SINGAPORE, Jun (Reuters) – The defense ministers of the United States and China held talks in Singapore on Friday which aides described as cordial, as Malaysia's prime minister called for the region to avoid taking sides and slipping into another version of the Cold War. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said it was "critically important" for the U.S. and Chinese militaries to maintain a dialogue about issues of disagreement as they work to develop military ties that both sides agree have improved this year. Gates' remarks came at the outset of a nearly hour-long meeting with Chinese Defense Minister General Liang Guanglie at the annual Shangri-La Security Dialogue, a session aides said later was both "productive" and "very cordial." "Overall the meeting focused far more on areas of agreement than disagreement," Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said. "Of course there were areas of disagreement raised, but they were really acknowledged and sort of moved on from. And far more time was spent on things we collectively believe need to be done moving forward and focusing on them." Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak later inaugurated the meeting, calling for a new look at global strategic relationships. "Today, China is our partner. The US is also our partner," he said. "It is not about taking sides. We must replace the old bilateralism of the Cold War not with a new bilateralism but with a multilateralism that can rise to the task ahead." U.S.-China military ties have been gradually warming this year but are still fragile after nearly a year's break over a $6.4 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/adobe-ceo-android-tablets-will-beat-ipads-digital-trends/ adobe-ceo-android-tablets-will-beat-ipads-digital-trends Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:01:51 +0300 During his interview at the D9 Conference on Thursday, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen downplayed the rift between his company and Apple, but may have sowed the seeds of another. According to Narayen, tablets running Google’s Android mobile operating system will surpass Apple’s iPad line, just as Android smartphones have overtaken the iPhone. “What you saw with smartphones hitting an inflection point with Android, you’ll see it again with tablets,” Narayen said. He nudged aside notions that Apple’s iPad is an unbeatable force of technology. As more tablets are released, a wide range of devices will emerge, ones designed more more specific tasks. He added that both HP and Research In Motion — whose tablets both run Adobe Flash, which does not run on Apple iPhone or iPad lines — will begin to find success in their tablet endeavors, at least in the enterprise market, despite their slow starts. “The excitement around the Android tablet I think is incredible. There will be another 20 tablets that will come by the end of the year that will push the industry in different directions,†Of course, Narayen couldn’t escape the evening without some healthy prodding by All Things Digital‘s Walter Mossberg about the rift between Apple and Adobe, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ assertion that Flash is a dead technology. “What’s the deal with you and Steve Jobs?” Mossberg asked. “There are a lot of misperceptions out there,” said Narayen. “When [the Adobe-Apple spat] first broke, people talked about the fact that they thought it was a technology issue, and I think it’s become ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analysts-cut-rim-price-targets-as-competition-intensifies-reuters/ analysts-cut-rim-price-targets-as-competition-intensifies-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:31:39 +0300 (Reuters) – At least two brokerages cut price targets on Research In Motion as they expect rival Apple's iCloud service and concerns over its inability to tackle competition from iPhone and Google's Android-based smartphones to hurt the BlackBerry maker. Shares of the iconic Canadian company, which has long dominated the corporate smartphone market but whose hand has been weakened since Apple and Google launched an onslaught on the red-hot sector, have lost more than 38 percent in value since February. UBS lowered its price target on the stock citing concerns over increasing competition and uncertainty over timings of RIM's product launches. The brokerage, which cut its price target to $45 from $60, said it believed the current management structure of co-Chairmen, who are also co-chief executives, and one of whom is now chief marketing officer is not optimal. Sterne Agee, which cut its price target on the stock to $44 from $52, said the launch of iCloud, Apple's online music and storage service, could result in some collateral damage as some aspects of the service are more attractive than RIM's own push network technology. And if Apple decides to offer some base services for free, it could lead to revenue and gross-margin erosions for RIM, the brokerage said in a note to clients. Shares of RIM which fell to a two-year low of $40.01 on Wednesday on Nasdaq, fell 48 cents to $39.95 in pre-market trade on Friday. (Reporting by Siddharth Cavale in Bangalore; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/college-is-a-waste-of-time/ college-is-a-waste-of-time Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:33:36 +0300 Editor's note: Dale J. Stephens is a 19-year-old entrepreneur leading UnCollege, a social movement supporting self-directed higher education and building RadMatter, a platform to demonstrate talent. He is among the first recipients of the Thiel Fellowship, an initiative by venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel that gives 20 entrepreneurs under 20 years old $100,000 to fund their projects. (CNN) -- I have been awarded a golden ticket to the heart of Silicon Valley: the Thiel Fellowship. The catch? For two years, I cannot be enrolled as a full-time student at an academic institution. For me, that's not an issue; I believe higher education is broken. I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us. Failure is punished instead of seen as a learning opportunity. We think of college as a stepping-stone to success rather than a means to gain knowledge. College fails to empower us with the skills necessary to become productive members of today's global entrepreneurial economy. College is expensive. The College Board Policy Center found that the cost of public university tuition is about 3.6 times higher today than it was 30 years ago, adjusted for inflation. In the book "Academically Adrift," sociology professors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa say that 36% of college graduates showed no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning or writing after four years of college. Student loan debt in the United ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gmail-hacking-a-sign-of-cyberattack-threat/ gmail-hacking-a-sign-of-cyberattack-threat Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:03:29 +0300 Editor's note: Amitai Etzioni is a sociologist and professor of international relations at George Washington University and the author of several books, including "Security First" and "New Common Ground." He was a senior adviser to the Carter administration and has taught at Columbia and Harvard universities and the University of California, Berkeley. Washington (CNN) -- On Wednesday, Google announced that hundreds of users of its Gmail service -- including high-ranking U.S. and South Korean officials, journalists and Chinese political activists -- had been targeted by hackers who sought to steal their passwords and monitor their e-mails. Google concluded the attack came from a provincial capital in eastern China, which is also the location of a technical reconnaissance center for the Chinese military. China denied it was involved in the attacks, saying, "The claim that China supports hacking is completely created out of nothing, and is out of ulterior motives." Nevertheless, American officials have said that in recent years, China has waged an aggressive cyberoffensive against the United States. According to the 2007 report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, China has made cyberespionage a military priority and "is actively engaging in cyber-reconnaissance by probing the computer networks of U.S. government agencies as well as private companies." China is believed to have penetrated more than 30 major American companies. Cyberattacks believed to have originated in China breached the security of top-secret plans for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, although the Chinese government denied the report. According to a report of a House of Representatives ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/does-technology-have-to-look-good/ does-technology-have-to-look-good Fri, 3 Jun 2011 14:33:16 +0300 Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) -- How do computer companies make their products stand out from the crowd? At Computex, Asia's largest computer technology fair, many manufacturers seem to consider attractive showgirls the best way to get even the most prosaic processor noticed. But past the distractions of big smiles and skimpy outfits, there's often not much to distinguish one piece of tech from another, no matter how sleek or shiny. "I see hundreds of products," says Swiss designer Peter Wirz, "but they all look the same." Wirz's Swiss brand consultancy, Process, has a studio in Taipei. Two of the world's biggest PC makers, Acer and Asus, also herald from Taiwan, as do countless companies that produce components and peripheries that are exported across the world. Asia's tech companies take on Apple's iPad While Apple has demonstarted how powerful good design can be for a company's fortunes, appreciation of product design and its ability to shape a brand is generally lacking among most of Asia's technology companies, Wirz believes. Among Taiwan's ICT companies only around 1-2% of budgets are spent on design. "Many focus on trying to maximize the diversity of products to make a brand, but (they) don't think about the small things that are important at the front end," he says. Wirz highlights the redesign of Acer's company logo this year after a management change to illustrate the lack of foresight typical of Asian computer companies' top brass. "Now it looks like a candy bar (logo), not a technology company that is trying to position itself as a premium product," he says. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hacker-attacks-threaten-to-dampen-cloud-computing39s-prospects-reuters/ hacker-attacks-threaten-to-dampen-cloud-computing39s-prospects-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:01:37 +0300 TAIPEI (Reuters) – The recent high-profile hacking of Google's Gmail service and Sony's Playstation gaming network is threatening to slow the take-off of the next big thing in the computing space - the cloud. Computer companies will need to collaborate to work on addressing security issues to boost confidence in cloud computing, where data and software is stored on servers and accessed via the Internet, especially in the corporate space where the potential market size is much larger than the retail space. "Many enterprises have reservations about the security of cloud computing because of the multi-tenant architecture and the fact that cloud providers are 'big targets'," said Steve Hodgkinson, IT research director at UK-based research firm Ovum. "The reality, however, is that the leading cloud providers have a very strong incentive to invest in the latest security technologies and processes -- and will arguably be more secure than most enterprises themselves." Security is a hot issue in the computing world. Hackers broke into Sony's networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers, the latest of several security breaches. The breaches were the latest attacks on high-profile firms, including defense contractor Lockheed Martin and Google, which pointed the blame at China. Concerns over security could slow the growth of the market for cloud computing, which is expected to reach $3.2 billion this year in Asia alone from $1.87 billion last year, while the global market could reach $55 billion in 2014, according to estimates by technology research firm IDC. FRAGMENTED MARKET Analysts and industry experts believe hardware-based security provides a higher ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-calls-us-culprit-in-global-39internet-war39-ap/ china-calls-us-culprit-in-global-39internet-war39-ap Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:30:41 +0300 BEIJING – The Chinese military accused the U.S. on Friday of launching a global "Internet war" to bring down Arab and other governments, turning the tables on allegations of major online attacks on Western targets originating in China. The accusations Friday by Chinese military academy scholars, and their urging of tougher policing of the Internet, followed allegations this week that computer hackers in China had compromised the personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including government officials, military personnel and political activists. Google traced the origin of the attacks to the city of Jinan that is home to a military vocational school whose computers were linked to a more sophisticated assault on Google's systems 17 months ago. China has denied responsibility for the two attacks. Writing in the Communist Party-controlled China Youth Daily newspaper, the scholars did not mention Google's claims, but said recent computer attacks and incidents employing the Internet to promote regime change in Arab nations appeared to have originated with the U.S. government. "Of late, an Internet tornado has swept across the world ... massively impacting and shocking the globe. Behind all this lies the shadow of America," said the article, signed by Ye Zheng and Zhao Baoxian, identified as scholars with the Academy of Military Sciences. "Faced with this warmup for an Internet war, every nation and military can't be passive but is making preparations to fight the Internet war," it said. While nuclear war was a strategy of the industrial era, Internet war is a product of the information age, the article said. Such conflicts stand ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gates-hopes-to-improve-us-china-relations-ap/ gates-hopes-to-improve-us-china-relations-ap Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:30:30 +0300 SINGAPORE – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who has watched sharp ups-and-downs in U.S.-China military relations over the past four years, is hoping to add momentum to a recent improving trend before he leaves office at the end of June. Gates was meeting one-on-one Friday in Singapore with his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Liang Guanglie, on the opening day of the Shangri-La Dialogue, the pre-eminent annual Asian security conference where he will deliver a policy speech Saturday. In what Gates and others see as an encouraging sign, China for the first time chose to send its defense minister to the conference, now in its 10th year. Guanglie is scheduled to deliver a keynote address on Sunday, one day after Gates departs. A central theme of Gates' message in Singapore is that Asian nations should not believe that impending U.S. defense budget cuts will lead to a smaller U.S. military presence in Asia. U.S. officials are concerned that some in the region could tilt toward China if they believe they are being abandoned by the U.S. or perceive less-sturdy assurances of American support in the long run. The main U.S. military presence in Asia is in Japan and South Korea, but Washington also has close military ties to the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan and Singapore. The Pentagon is in the midst of an internal review of its force alignment in the region, with the outcome expected to call for a wider range of military exchanges, exercises and ship, aircraft and troop rotations in Southeast Asia. How that is achieved will depend to a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hackers-attack-another-sony-network-post-data-reuters/ hackers-attack-another-sony-network-post-data-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:30:32 +0300 BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hackers broke into Sony Corp's computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the electronic giant's systems in the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in the company. LulzSec, a group that claims attacks on U.S. PBS television and Fox.com, said it broke into servers that run Sony Pictures Entertainment websites. It published the names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of thousands of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony. "From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING," the hacking group said in a statement. "Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?" The security breach is the latest attack against high-profile firms, including defence contractor Lockheed Martin and Google Inc. LulzSec's claims came as Sony executives were trying to reassure U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on data security in Washington about their efforts to safeguard the company's computer networks, which suffered the biggest security breach in history in April. Sony has been under fire since hackers accessed personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity accounts, 90 percent of which are users in North America or Europe. Sony said at the time that credit card information may have been stolen, sparking lawsuits and casting a shadow over its plans to combine content and hardware products via online ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cyber-attacks-constant-australia-says-afp/ cyber-attacks-constant-australia-says-afp Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:31:27 +0300 SYDNEY (AFP) – Australia's attorney-general said cyber attacks had become so frequent that government and private networks were under "continuous threat", testing online security defences. But Robert McClelland on Friday declined to single out China, at the centre of hacking allegations from Internet giant Google, saying the "Australian government's position is not to identify a source of suspected espionage." "The reality is espionage can be unquestionably undertaken by other countries, by organised criminals, or indeed by business competitors," he said. McClelland said it was "unquestionably" in Australia's interest to stay ahead of the evolving, and mounting, cyber threats, as he announced a white paper on the future of Australia's Internet security to be published in 2012. "Security agencies are finding malicious activity is increasing to a point where systems in both government and the private sector are under continuous threat," he said in a speech to business leaders on cyber crime. "The cyber threat to Australia is real, evolving and continuing to test our defences." Foreign intelligence agencies, criminal organisations and commercial competitors were all to blame, with electronic spying cheap and low risk but with huge potential gains, he added. Authorities estimate cyber crime worldwide to be worth several times more than the illegal drugs racket. Woodside Petroleum's chief Don Voelte on Monday said the energy giant had suffered attacks from "everywhere", including eastern Europe, Russia and China, with Shell Australia also admitting cyber assaults. The computers of Australia's prime minister, foreign and defence ministers were all suspected of being hacked in March, with China under suspicion. Beijing has dismissed the allegations as "groundless ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-pla-officers-call-internet-key-battleground-reuters/ china-pla-officers-call-internet-key-battleground-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 08:01:15 +0300 BEIJING, Jun (Reuters) – China must make mastering cyber-warfare a military priority as the Internet becomes the crucial battleground for opinion and intelligence, two military officers said on Friday, two days after Google revealed hacking attacks that it said came from China. The essay by strategists from the People's Liberation Army's Academy of Military Sciences did not mention Google's statement that hackers apparently based in China had tried to steal into the Gmail accounts of hundreds of users, among them U.S. officials, Chinese rights activists and foreign reporters. Google said on Wednesday that the attacks appeared to come from Jinan, capital of China's eastern Shandong province, home to a signals intelligence unit of the People's Liberation Army. The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday dismissed Google's statement as groundless and motivated by "ulterior motives." The essay by two PLA scholars, Senior Colonel Ye Zheng and his colleague Zhao Baoxian, in the China Youth Daily nonetheless stressed that Beijing is focused on honing its cyber-warfare skills, and sees an unfettered Internet as a threat to its Communist Party-run state. "Just as nuclear warfare was the strategic war of the industrial era, cyber-warfare has become the strategic war of the information era, and this has become a form of battle that is massively destructive and concerns the life and death of nations," they wrote in the Party-run paper. The Chinese military has been conducting simulated cyber battles pitting the "blue army" against "red teams" using virus and mass spam attacks, the PLA newspaper Liberation Army Daily said last month. Last year, contention over Internet policy ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hackers-attack-another-sony-network-and-post-data-reuters/ hackers-attack-another-sony-network-and-post-data-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 07:01:22 +0300 BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hackers broke into Sony Corp's computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the electronic giant's systems in the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in the company. LulzSec, a group that claims attacks on U.S. PBS television and Fox.com, said it broke into servers that run Sony Pictures Entertainment websites. It published the names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of thousands of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony. "From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING," the hacking group said in a statement. "Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?" The security breach is the latest attack against high-profile firms, including defense contractor Lockheed Martin and Google Inc. LulzSec's claims came as Sony executives were trying to reassure U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on data security in Washington about their efforts to safeguard the company's computer networks, which suffered the biggest security breach in history in April. Sony has been under fire since hackers accessed personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity accounts, 90 percent of which are users in North America or Europe. Sony said at the time that credit card information may have been stolen, sparking lawsuits and casting a shadow over its plans to combine content and hardware products via online services. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the April attack. Sony said it was investigating the breach claimed by LulzSec and declined to elaborate. Sony shares ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-icloud-logo-revealed-hint-it39s-shaped-like-one-of-those-things-in-the-sky-digital-trends/ apple39s-icloud-logo-revealed-hint-it39s-shaped-like-one-of-those-things-in-the-sky-digital-trends Fri, 3 Jun 2011 06:31:27 +0300 When a company called Apple uses an apple as its logo, it won’t come as too much of a surprise that the logo for its forthcoming iCloud music service is of – you guessed it – a cloud. The cloud in question has been spotted at San Francisco’s Moscone Center West, where the final preparations are being made for the Cupertino company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The gathering kicks off on Monday and runs for the whole week. Apple Insider has had its face pressed up against the window of the building and in the process spotted a large banner in the lobby. On the banner are three logos – one for the forthcoming Lion operating system for Mac PCs, another for the latest version of its mobile operating system – iOS 5, and one for its cloud-based music offering – iCloud. As for the cloud, well, it looks a bit on the cumulus nimbus side, and consists of a simple black outline on a silver background. It’s nice to be able to finally put a face to a name. After months of speculation, Apple finally confirmed the name of its new cloud-based service on Tuesday, together with news that Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave since January, will be making an appearance at next week’s conference, possibly to deliver the keynote address. Earlier today it was reported that Apple had signed a deal with the last of the four major music companies, Universal Music, giving the green light for the launch of iCloud next ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-real-deal-groupon-files-for-public-offering-reuters/ the-real-deal-groupon-files-for-public-offering-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 05:01:14 +0300 NEW YORK/PALOS VERDES, California (Reuters) – Daily deals site Groupon Inc filed for an initial public offering, hoping to capitalize on the biggest investor stampede into Web start-ups since the dotcom bubble burst a decade ago. The company filed on Thursday to raise up to $750 million in its IPO, an offering that has been speculated about for months and that will be watched as a barometer of whether Internet valuations have become too rich. In April, a source told Reuters that Groupon could raise as much as $1 billion in an IPO that could value it at $15 billion to $20 billion. Thursday's filing did not specify the number of shares to be sold in the IPO, the price range, or the exchange, though it did say the shares would trade under the symbol "GRPN." It also said the $750 million figure is preliminary and may change. Other Web companies including LinkedIn Corp and China's Renren Inc have had strong IPO premieres, and anticipation is building toward a fever pitch for potential offerings by Facebook and Twitter. Pandora, a Web radio company, raised its IPO size to up to $141.6 million on Thursday -- 40 percent more than estimates. Some doubt whether the buzz surrounding the new Web generation is justified, warning that the hype is reminiscent of the atmosphere prior to the dotcom bust in 2001. Groupon has also been called into question by critics who say its business -- essentially a coupon service -- can be easily replicated both by startups and existing Web powerhouses. Google has already ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-devoted-to-search-and-staying-nimble-ceo-afp/ google-devoted-to-search-and-staying-nimble-ceo-afp Fri, 3 Jun 2011 04:31:26 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google executives assured investors that the Internet giant remained devoted to search and advertising while embracing risky new projects that could lead to big payoffs. "We don't want to choke innovation," Google co-founder and chief executive Larry Page said at an annual meeting of stockholders at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Thursday. "We have a few things that may be speculative or risky and you hope you are building a billion dollar business," he continued. "But we spend the vast majority of our resources on search and advertising, where we make most of our money." Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt hosted the shareholder meeting where Page shared thoughts on the company and fielded questions in a rare break from his pattern of avoiding speaking in public forums. "Outside the company, people are more interested in what is the latest crazy thing Google did," Page said, illustrating his comment with a picture of him, Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin in a prototype self-driving car. "We have tremendous ambition," he continued. "Keep in mind we are not betting the farm on those kinds of things." Page assured stockholders that while the company was aggressively hiring and encouraging innovation it remained committed to frugal spending ways learned when it was a startup in a garage more than a decade ago. Executives sidestepped a question about whether Google planned a stock split, saying only that the notion has been discussed. Page took over for Schmidt as Google chief executive early this year and reorganized the management to focus on products ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fbi-to-probe-google-attack-investor39s-business-daily/ fbi-to-probe-google-attack-investor39s-business-daily Fri, 3 Jun 2011 04:31:28 +0300 Sec'y of State Hillary Clinton said the gov't is concerned about the disclosure that hackers tried to access Gmail accounts of senior U.S. officials. She said Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) alerted the State Dept. before its public announcement Wed. The search leader has said it believes the attack originated from China and also sought to hack into accounts belonging to journalists and Chinese activists. The FBI will conduct an investigation. It rose 0.5% to 528.06. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/page-makes-ceo-debut-at-google-stockholder-meeting-ap/ page-makes-ceo-debut-at-google-stockholder-meeting-ap Fri, 3 Jun 2011 04:01:30 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – It was hard to tell at Google Inc.'s annual meeting Thursday that the Internet search leader had a new CEO in co-founder Larry Page, who took the job from Eric Schmidt two months ago. Both men gave short speeches and took questions from shareholders at the event at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. That was a departure for Page, who has been an aloof figure through most of Google's 13-year history and has said little publicly since becoming CEO April 4. Little else seemed to change from Google's previous six stockholder meetings, with Schmidt doing much of the talking as usual. After spending the past decade as Google's CEO, Schmidt is now the company's executive chairman. Most of the key issues facing the company were only addressed briefly, and there were few new insights. One hot topic remains Google's prickly relationship with China. Last year Google stopped censoring search results in China and moved its search engine from the mainland to Hong Kong, which isn't subject to Beijing's censorship rules. That move was prompted by a China-based hacking attack against Google. This week Google disclosed another hacking attack, also apparently coming from China, that targeted senior U.S. government officials' personal Gmail accounts. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the allegations "very serious" and said the FBI is investigating. She added that no official government email accounts were compromised. Addressing the latest attack, Page would only say that Google discovered the attack with the help of security features in "the cloud," which is technical jargon for services delivered ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/39this-guy-has-my-macbook-spyware-leads-to-arrest/ 39this-guy-has-my-macbook-spyware-leads-to-arrest Fri, 3 Jun 2011 04:02:28 +0300 (CNN) -- When Joshua Kaufman returned home March 21 to find his Oakland, California, apartment burglarized, he probably never imagined he'd see his stolen MacBook laptop again. But technology came to the rescue. A trail of digital clues, including photos recorded by the camera on Kaufman's stolen laptop and posted by him on the Internet, helped police crack the case, ending a 10-week saga that became a Web sensation. On Wednesday, Kaufman got his computer back. "It was a relief that all my effort paid off," the digital designer told CNN Thursday. "I was excited that it worked." It all started after Kaufman discovered the burglary and filed a report with the Oakland police. Then he began to gather information about his stolen MacBook using theft-tracking software called Hidden, which uses the laptop's webcam and other tools to surreptitiously capture photos and screen shots of the computer in use. What he discovered was startling: Photos of an unidentified man using his computer. One grainy image even showed the man asleep on his couch, Kaufman's laptop beside his head. Over the ensuing weeks the security software showed Kaufman some 500 images taken from his computer. Screen shots also revealed someone deleting Kaufman's Apple account and logging into Google. "I was amazed and impressed that it (the software) was working. I never really tested it out, so I didn't know if it was going to work or not," Kaufman said. At the same time, he said, "I was thinking, 'This sucks. Someone has my computer and is viewing my stuff, and there's nothing ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/groupon-files-for-ipo-seeks-to-raise-750-million-afp/ groupon-files-for-ipo-seeks-to-raise-750-million-afp Fri, 3 Jun 2011 03:31:25 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Groupon announced plans Thursday to go public to raise as much as $750 million but the mixed financial picture painted in the filing by the online daily deals sensation could temper investor enthusiasm. Groupon, in the filing for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), did not provide the number of shares being offered or a date for the listing on Wall Street. The Chicago-based Groupon, which reportedly turned down a $6 billion takeover offer from Google last year, said that it plans to trade under the ticker symbol "GRPN" but did not say on which exchange. Groupon, which has enjoyed phenomenal growth selling discount coupons online since it was founded in November 2008, reported a net loss of $102.7 million for the first quarter of 2011 on revenue of $644.7 million. Groupon lost $456.32 million last year on revenue of $713.4 million and spent $179.9 million on online marketing in the first quarter of 2011. While analysts were impressed by the revenue growth they expressed concerns about the money Groupon is spending and competition from rivals such as Living Social and Facebook and Google, which are also offering online local deals. Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru said the revenue numbers reported by Groupon were "lower than everybody had speculated" and questioned how much of the company's growth had been "bought." "It's hardly been what you would characterize as organic growth," she said. "They've spent a lot of money on getting the business to this size." Recalling that Groupon recently raised nearly a billion dollars ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-devoted-to-search-and-staying-nimble-page-afp/ google-devoted-to-search-and-staying-nimble-page-afp Fri, 3 Jun 2011 03:31:49 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google executives on Thursday assured investors that the Internet giant remained devoted to search and advertising while embracing risky new projects that could lead to big payoffs. "We don't want to choke innovation," Google co-founder and chief executive Larry Page said at an annual meeting of stockholders at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California. "We have a few things that may be speculative or risky and you hope you are building a billion dollar business," he continued. "But we spend the vast majority of our resources on search and advertising, where we make most of our money." Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt hosted the shareholder meeting where Page shared thoughts on the company and fielded questions in a rare break from his pattern of avoiding speaking in public forums. "Outside the company, people are more interested in what is the latest crazy thing Google did," Page said, illustrating his comment with a picture of him, Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin in a prototype self-driving car. "We have tremendous ambition," he continued. "Keep in mind we are not betting the farm on those kinds of things." Page assured stockholders that while the company was aggressively hiring and encouraging innovation it remained committed to frugal spending ways learned when it was a startup in a garage more than a decade ago. Executives sidestepped a question about whether Google planned a stock split, saying only that the notion has been discussed. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cybercrime-bad-guys-are-winning/ cybercrime-bad-guys-are-winning Fri, 3 Jun 2011 03:33:00 +0300 (CNN) -- In the cyber war being fought across international boundaries, the recent Gmail hack of top U.S. and South Korean officials makes one thing clear, analysts say: the bad guys are winning. "The short answer is our side is losing," says Thomas Parenty, a computer security specialist and former employee at the U.S. National Security Agency. "Defense is much more difficult than offense (against cyber attack); to defend against attack, you need to block all ways in; in offense, you only need one way in." On Wednesday Google announced that hundreds of Gmail accounts were compromised in a "spear-phishing" assault -- targeted attacks that duped victims into revealing their Gmail passwords through e-mails that pose as people or companies known to end user. Attackers secretly reset settings to copy and forward all e-mails. "The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users' emails," wrote Eric Grosse, engineering director of Google's security team, on the company blog. The attack comes days after a spate of high-profile cyber attacks. Lockheed Martin announced on Saturday a "significant and tenacious attack" on its information systems network, and Sony's temporary shutdown of its online gaming network after hackers had stolen personal information for as many as 77 million accounts. The level of sophistication of attacks shows the growing difficulty in guarding against cyber criminals. "I long for the days of the Melissa and 'I love you' computer viruses," says Parenty, referring e-mail viruses that circulated the globe in 1999 and 2000, respectively. "In the olden days -- some ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hot-deal-groupon-files-for-highly-anticipated-ipo-ap/ hot-deal-groupon-files-for-highly-anticipated-ipo-ap Fri, 3 Jun 2011 03:01:11 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Online coupon seller Groupon Inc. is dangling its most tantalizing deal yet — an initial public offering of stock. The prospect is likely to intensify a debate about whether an investment bubble is forming around promising but still unproven Internet companies. Groupon took the first step toward selling its stock on Wall Street by filing its IPO papers Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The much-anticipated filing comes just two weeks after LinkedIn Corp., a popular Internet service for professional networking, saw its shares double in their first day of trading. That surge evoked memories of the early stages of the dot-com boom in the 1990s. Groupon, based in Chicago, offers its subscribers the chance to purchase daily discounts targeted to their city and preferences. For example, a subscriber might pay $20 for a $40 gift certificate to a spa, restaurant, car wash or yoga studio. The initial price of Groupon's shares and the number of shares won't be set until the company gets closer to going public. That process typically takes three to four months. The shares probably won't be cheap, based on the confidence that Groupon showed last year when it rejected a $6 billion takeover offer from Internet search leader Google Inc. Groupon said in its filing it hopes to raise up to $750 million in the IPO, but that figure often changes as investment bankers get a better idea of the demand for the stock. The banks handling Groupon's IPO are Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. A wide variety of Internet ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/windows-8-will-work-with-existing-pcs-pc-magazine/ windows-8-will-work-with-existing-pcs-pc-magazine Fri, 3 Jun 2011 03:01:23 +0300 Microsoft says Windows 7 users won't need bigger and better hardware to run the freshly unveiled Windows 8. The PC system requirements will be the same if not less than what's needed to run Windows 7, although the new operating system definitely appears tailored for the touch-screen interfaces of tablets. Speaking at a press event at Computex in Taiwan yesterday, Microsoft's Michael Angiulo said, "Windows 8 will be able to run on a wide range of machines because it will have the same system requirements or lower" as Windows 7. Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky reiterated the approach at the All Things D conference in California. While current PC owners won't need to upgrade, Windows 8 appears to be heavily skewed toward tablets and their touch screens. As evident in PCMag's walk-through of Windows 8 , the interface borrows from Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS for smartphones, with tiles and apps optimized for touch. If you're using a regular desktop or laptop, however, you'll still be able to navigate with a mouse and arrow keys rather than swipes and pinches. In addition to having the same requirements as Windows 7, Windows 8 will run legacy Windows 7 applications. Clearly, Microsoft has learned the lessons of the troubled life of Windows Vista, which was had compatibility issues with existing systems when it was released. Many businesses never upgraded to Vista because of its troubles, preferring to stick with Windows XP. By ensuring that current PCs will run Windows 8, it should speed adoption of the new OS when it's ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/toshiba39s-thrive-tablet-to-go-on-sale-in-july-reuters/ toshiba39s-thrive-tablet-to-go-on-sale-in-july-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 03:01:28 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp is the latest company to jump into the rapidly growing tablet market with a 10-inch device called Thrive, priced slightly lower than Apple Inc's dominant iPad 2. The Toshiba tablet goes on sale in the United States on July 10th. Other companies, including Research in Motion Ltd and Hewlett-Packard Co, are also entering the market. Toshiba's Thrive, a wifi-only device with the base model starting at $429, is primarily aimed at consumers who use tablets at home, said Jeff Barney, general manager of digital products for Toshiba America. The devices -- which run on Google Inc's Honeycomb version of the Android platform -- can be pre-ordered starting June 13 at retailers such as Best Buy Co Inc, Amazon.com Inc and other electronic retailers. Global tablet sales are expected to explode to more than 50 million in 2011. Apple, which sold nearly 15 million iPads in nine months of 2010, is expected to continue to dominate the market in the near term. And as in the smartphone market, Apple's chief rival is expected to be Android platform, which is free to license and is being used on a number of tablets. Barney said that, while Apple does have the best-selling product in the space, there is plenty of demand for other models. "In the smartphone arena somehow the Android handsets have found a way to compete," he said. "There is a market out there of folks who want to buy non-Apple products." Thrive, which has a removable battery, plays high-definition videos and is designed for Web browsing, games ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mcafee-malware-skyrockets-in-first-quarter-pc-magazine/ mcafee-malware-skyrockets-in-first-quarter-pc-magazine Fri, 3 Jun 2011 03:01:32 +0300 Malware is apparently the new spam. McAfee tracked more than six million unique malware samples in the first quarter, making it the most active quarter for malware ever. "It's been a busy start to 2011 for cybercriminals," Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs, said in a statement. February was the most active malware month with 2.75 million samples, McAfee said. The company also tracked more than 350,000 fake anti-virus software samples in March 2011, its highest levels in more than a year. Spam, however, was at its lowest levels since 2007, thanks in part to the demise of the Rustock botnet. "Even though this past quarter once again showed that spam has slowed, it doesn't mean that cybercriminals aren't actively pursuing alternate avenues," Weafer continued. "We're seeing a lot of emerging threats, such as Android malware and new botnets attempting to take over where Rustock left off, that will have a significant impact on the activity we see quarter after quarter." Symbian is still the most popular OS for mobile malware, but Android is making gains to come in at number two. Part of the problem, McAfee said, is that Google allows side-loading of Android apps and does not have a centralized place where it checks apps for suspicious behavior. Google this week removed more than two dozen apps from the Android Market due to malware. Mobile security firm NetQuin also identified malware on at least 20 Android apps that auto-dialed phones to incur high user fees. On the spam front, McAfee tracked 1.5 trillion messages per day, but ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/39this-guy-has-my-macbook39-blog-tweets-help-recover-stolen-computer/ 39this-guy-has-my-macbook39-blog-tweets-help-recover-stolen-computer Fri, 3 Jun 2011 03:02:47 +0300 (CNN) -- When Joshua Kaufman returned home March 21 to find his Oakland, California, apartment burglarized, he probably never imagined he'd see his stolen MacBook laptop again. But technology came to the rescue. A trail of digital clues, including photos recorded by the camera on Kaufman's stolen laptop and posted by him on the Internet, helped police crack the case, ending a 10-week saga that became a Web sensation. On Wednesday, Kaufman got his computer back. "It was a relief that all my effort paid off," the digital designer told CNN Thursday. "I was excited that it worked." It all started after Kaufman discovered the burglary and filed a report with the Oakland police. Then he began to gather information about his stolen MacBook using theft-tracking software called Hidden, which uses the laptop's webcam and other tools to surreptitiously capture photos and screen shots of the computer in use. What he discovered was startling: Photos of an unidentified man using his computer. One grainy image even showed the man asleep on his couch, Kaufman's laptop beside his head. Screen shots also revealed someone deleting Kaufman's Apple account and logging into Google. "I was amazed and impressed that it (the software) was working. I never really tested it out, so I didn't know if it was going to work or not," Kaufman said. At the same time, he said, "I was thinking, 'This sucks. Someone has my computer and is viewing my stuff, and there's nothing I can do about it.' " Kaufman went to an Oakland police investigator with the information, but ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/t-mobile-will-offer-low-cost-samsung-smartphones-newsfactor/ t-mobile-will-offer-low-cost-samsung-smartphones-newsfactor Fri, 3 Jun 2011 01:31:14 +0300 T-Mobile is rolling out two new Android-powered Samsung smartphones, the Exhibit 4G and the Gravity SMART, with post-rebate prices of less than $100 with a new two-year contract. While AT&T previewed a $70 Android-based Crossover smartphone on Tuesday, that offering is from Pantech -- a brand name unfamiliar to many U.S. consumers. So T-Mobile will soon have two products that specifically target customers looking for rich connectivity and unique entertainment experiences at affordable prices. The wireless carrier also recently introduced new voice, text and data plans that let price-conscious consumers realize further savings, noted T-Mobile Senior Vice President Andrew Sherrard. "T-Mobile is continuing to help families easily make the move to smartphones with these new Android-powered handsets, together with data plans as low as $10 per month, all running on America's largest 4G network," Sherrard said. The Samsung Smartphones The Exhibit 4G integrates a one-gigahertz processor, a three-megapixel camera with flash and a camcorder, a front-facing camera for video chats, and a Wi-Fi radio. Powered by Google's Android 2.3, Gingerbread, the Exhibit is primarily aimed at consumers looking to access free entertainment programs from broadcasters such as ABC News Now, FOX Sports, PBS Kids, and Azteca America via T-Mobile TV as well as premium TV content and games. The Gravity SMART is the latest addition to Samsung's Gravity portfolio of devices featuring social-networking and premium-messaging options. Powered by Android 2.2, Froyo, the smartphone has a spacious slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a three-megapixel camera with LED flash, digital zoom, and a camcorder. Sporting a full web browser, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-under-suspicion-in-us-for-lockheed-hacking-reuters/ china-under-suspicion-in-us-for-lockheed-hacking-reuters Fri, 3 Jun 2011 01:00:26 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Suspicion that some individual or entity in China was behind a recent cyber attack on Lockheed Martin is growing among experts and agencies looking into the incident. "It's unclear at this point precisely who conducted the attacks, but given past history with these sorts of things, there's a strong tendency to look east. The Far East, in fact, and a country that not so long ago hosted the Olympics," said one U.S. official who asked for anonymity, but was reluctant to point the finger at China by name. Official and private U.S. cyber-security told Reuters that forensic tracing of attacks like the one that caused Lockheed temporarily to instruct employees to curb remote access to company networks was notoriously difficult, and that clever hackers usually lay elaborate false trails to cover their tracks. But a U.S. official familiar with progress on the investigation said there was increasing suspicion the Lockheed hack originated with "someone in China." Likewise, Google said on Wednesday that it had reason to believe that a hacker attack targeting some of its Gmail account holders appeared to originate in China. The Chinese government rejected Google's allegations, saying that accusations that China fomented hacking "have ulterior motives" and that it was "unacceptable" for the company to blame Beijing. On Thursday, Wang Baodong, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said he had nothing to add on the issue beyond "authoritative" denial issued earlier in the day by the Foreign Ministry in Beijing. Lockheed said in a press statement that on May 21, the company detected what ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hp-wants-to-license-webos-to-39special39-partners-newsfactor/ hp-wants-to-license-webos-to-39special39-partners-newsfactor Fri, 3 Jun 2011 00:31:21 +0300 As Hewlett-Packard works to capitalize on its inherited webOS by installing it on more products, the technology giant will also seek out select hardware partners to license the operating system. Two company executives indicated Wednesday that they believe webOS, which became HP's property when it bought the foundering Palm last year, can still generate interest in a PC market dominated by Microsoft's Windows and a mobile market dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS. Outstanding System "I happen to believe that webOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system," HP CEO Leo Apotheker said Wednesday at The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. "It's not correct to believe that it should only be on HP devices. There are all kinds of other people who want to make whatever kind of hardware they make and would like to connect them to the Internet. We'll make it available to enterprises and to SMBs. It will run on lots of HP devices." Apotheker's comments about webOS, published in an online transcript by the Journal, came in a discussion with the paper's Walt Mossberg and in response to questions from an audience member. The CEO, who took charge of HP last September, said he regretted the company did not try to market webOS sooner, saying, "It would have made life easier." Speaking on the same day at a different conference, the top HP executive in charge of webOS, Jon Rubinstein, said "HP is more than willing to partner with one or two special companies," but ruled out making it open ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-does-what-google-couldn39t-cuts-deal-with-four-major-labels-the-atlantic-wire/ apple-does-what-google-couldn39t-cuts-deal-with-four-major-labels-the-atlantic-wire Fri, 3 Jun 2011 00:31:33 +0300 A week before the debut of its new cloud music service, Apple has struck a deal with Universal Music Group, the last holdout of the four major U.S. record companies. With EMI, Warner Music and Sony already in its pocket, Apple will have achieved what cloud service competitors Amazon and Google couldn't: authorized use of copyrighted music. CNET's Greg Sandoval has some details of how the revenue from iCloud song sales will be divided: "The labels will get 58 percent, and publishers will receive 12 percent. Apple will take 30 percent." Besides freedom from immediate litigation, the advantage Apple gets with approval from record labels is more features for its customers. Unlike Amazon's Cloud Drive or Google's Music Beta "Apple will be able to scan customers' digital music libraries in iTunes and quickly mirror their collections on its own servers ... If the sound quality of a particular song on a user's hard drive isn't good enough, Apple will be able to replace it with a higher-quality version," explains Business Week. That high quality streaming will be available across PCs, iPhones and iPads. Still, though Apple's reported features clearly outshine Amazon and Google's cloud services, what may keep it from dominating is its price. When iCloud launches on June 6 at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, the service will be free, reports The Los Angeles Times. That will give it a clear advantage over Google and Amazon's free(ish) services. However, this will likely just be a trial period. "The company plans to eventually charge ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-39macdefender39-patch-defeated-resurrected-pc-magazine/ apple-39macdefender39-patch-defeated-resurrected-pc-magazine Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:31:32 +0300 ZDnet aptly calls it a new game of "whack-a-mole." Ars Technica calls it a game of "cat and mouse." We'll just call it a Winston Churchill moment for for Mac security, or "the beginning of the end." Mac OS X users, beware. Eight hours after Apple released a long-atwaited security patch to detect a month-old "MAC Defender" Trojan horse, authors of the malware released a new variant on Wednesday called "Mdinstall.pkg" or MAC Guard, which bypasses the signatures Apple added to the patch. But overnight Wednesday, an Italian blog, Spider-Mac, discovered that Apple had quietly added a couple variations of MAC Defender, including MAC Guard, to its OS X fix. The signatures now include automatic detection of "OSX.MacDefender.A," "OSX.MacDefender.B," and "OSX.MacDefender.C." First detected by Intego in early May, MacDefender cleverly poses as an anti-malware program that actually infects Macs through poisoned image searches on sites like Google. Once it enters the computer, it takes over the desktop and is difficult to remove as it attaches itself to the launch menu and has no dock icon. It took Apple an entire month to update its security patch circa 2009. If a factor in your Apple purchasing decision is the belief that its products are less prone to viruses and malware than PCs, maybe it's time to think again. The MacDefender-class Trojan horse is similar to rogue anti-virus scareware that has plagued PC users for years. For more, see "Antivirus for Mac: It's Time. Additional reporting by Damon Poeter. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/search-giants-make-websites-easier-to-find-afp/ search-giants-make-websites-easier-to-find-afp Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:31:40 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google, Bing and Yahoo are working together to enable websites to tag content in a way that lets search engines better categorize and prioritize the information in results. The Internet rivals launched a schema.org initiative to promote a common format to "markup" Web pages with data detailing for search engines exactly what sites contain. A variety of options are available to website makers when it comes to marking up pages, and the search engines believe a common standard will mean less work for publishers and more accuracy in ranking results. "We want to continue making the open Web richer and more useful," Google fellow Ramanathan Guha said in a blog post. "We know that it takes time and effort for webmasters to add this markup to their pages, and adding markup is much harder if every search engine asks for data in a different way." The schema.org website was intended as a "one-stop shop" for website makers when it comes to creating the data tags to describe content to search engines. "We want to enable publishers to give us hints about what things they are describing on their sites," Bing partner program manager Steve Macbeth said in an online post. "We at Bing see this as a major step forward for the Web, simplification for webmasters and richer more informative search results for consumers." http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-microsoft-yahoo-standardize-common-web-tags-pc-magazine/ google-microsoft-yahoo-standardize-common-web-tags-pc-magazine Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:31:41 +0300 It's rare when Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo agree - but agree they have, on a standardized list of schemas, HTML code that will allow Webmasters to design Web sites that can be optimized and more easily found on the top search engines. The three Web giants on Thursday launched Schema.org, a collection of schemas, or HTML tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. "Many sites are generated from structured data, which is often stored in databases," according to Schema.org. "When this data is formatted into HTML, it becomes very difficult to recover the original structured data. Many applications, especially search engines, can benefit greatly from direct access to this structured data. On-page markup enables search engines to understand the information on web pages and provide richer search results in order to make it easier for users to find relevant information on the web. Markup can also enable new tools and applications that make use of the structure. "A shared markup vocabulary makes easier for webmasters to decide on a markup schema and get the maximum benefit for their efforts," the site said. Schemas are listed either by type, listed in a hierarchy. Types include creative works, such as books, movies, or audio recordings; places, such as a local business or restaurant; persons; reviews; or products. Over 100 categories are listed. In this way, for example, a search engine can know, without having to guess, that "Casablanca" referred to the movie, and not the city. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-weighs-security-after-serious-google-allegation-reuters/ us-weighs-security-after-serious-google-allegation-reuters Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:30:40 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington scrambled on Thursday to assess whether security had been compromised after Google Inc revealed a major hacker attack targeting U.S. officials that the Internet giant pegged to China. "These allegations are very serious," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. "We take them seriously; we're looking into them," Clinton told reporters a day after the Internet giant said it had disrupted a campaign aimed at stealing passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists. Google's announcement fuels debate in Washington over China's intentions in cyberspace, which the United States has identified as a potential flashpoint for future conflict. Blackberry maker Research In Motion and Microsoft Corp. could get a boost from the Google hacking incident. The companies have been fending off competitive challenges from Google's Android software and cloud computing services, as the corporate sector and the federal government explore whether Google is a secure alternative for email. Neither Google nor the U.S. government has said the Chinese government was behind the attacks, and the U.S. State Department said it had not raised the issue with Beijing. Google only said the attack appeared to originate in China. Beijing nevertheless reacted angrily to Google's charge, saying it was "unacceptable" to blame Beijing and allegations that China supports hacking "have ulterior motives". Clinton said Google told the State Department before ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-apps-ditching-older-browsers-digital-trends/ google-apps-ditching-older-browsers-digital-trends Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:31:25 +0300 Google Apps has been leveraging nascent HTML5 capabilities to add bonus functionality to Gmail and Google Apps for a while now, but now the company is going to start requiring “modern” browsers with reasonably full HTML5 capabilities for its Google Apps products. As of August 1, Google Docs will support only the current and the most recent prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. Among the browsers being left in the dust: Firefox 3.5, Safari 3, and Internet Explorer 7. “For Web applications to spring even farther ahead of traditional software, our teams need to make use of new capabilities available in modern browsers,” wrote Google VP of engineering Venkat Panchapakesan. “These new browsers are more than just a modern convenience, they are a necessity for what the future holds.” Google is not saying it will be blocking older browsers outright; instead, the company warns that older browsers may start having trouble with features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, and Google Sites; eventually, the services may stop working in older browsers entirely. The new requirements don’t (yet) shut out users running Microsoft’s venerable Windows XP operating system: IE8 supports XP, as does Firefox 3.6. However, as Google moves forward and drops support for the most recent major versions of browsers—particularly as IE and Firefox convert to more-frequent release schedules—Windows XP users are likely to be left out in the cold—so are users of older PowerPC-based Macintosh systems. Google, of course, would be pleased if everyone using older browsers would give its own ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/world-ipv6-day-will-test-new-internet-protocol-newsfactor/ world-ipv6-day-will-test-new-internet-protocol-newsfactor Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:01:32 +0300 Mark your calendars: Wednesday, June 8, is World IPv6 Day. On that date, the Internet Society will oversee the first global trial for the new Internet protocol. The society said it will be joined by a variety of web sites and Internet service providers, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Akamai and Limelight Networks. In all, more than 225 organizations will use IPv6 on their main services for a full 24 hours to test the technology and motivate other organizations to prepare for the handoff from the current IPv4, which is rapidly running out of addresses. 'An Important Step' Leslie Daigle, chief Internet technology officer for the society, said the test flight is "an important step toward ensuring the global Internet can continue to grow and evolve so that it can connect billions of new users and devices." The goals of the test drive include exposing potential issues, but doing so under controlled conditions. The society estimates 99.95 percent of users will experience no problems connecting to the web on World IPv6 Day. Businesses and Internet providers are encouraged to review their plans for the transition. Steps include providers making IPv6 connectivity available to all users, web sites offering their wares over IPv6, software updates for older operating systems, and firmware updates by home gateway manufacturers. An open-source IPv6 test-drive site, created by Jason Fesler, is available at test-ipv6.com, with summary results about the visitor's readiness. On Feb. 3, the end for IPv4 was announced. In a public ceremony, the last blocks of addresses based on the current Internet Protocol were assigned to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-calls-google-china-allegation-very-serious-reuters/ us-calls-google-china-allegation-very-serious-reuters Thu, 2 Jun 2011 21:31:31 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington scrambled on Thursday to assess whether security had been compromised after Google Inc revealed a major hacker attack targeting U.S. officials that the Internet giant pegged to China. "These allegations are very serious," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. "We take them seriously; we're looking into them," Clinton told reporters a day after the Internet giant said it had disrupted a campaign aimed at stealing passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists. Google's announcement fuels debate in Washington over China's intentions in cyberspace, which the United States has identified as a potential flashpoint for future conflict. Neither Google nor the U.S. government has said the Chinese government was behind the attacks. Google only said the attack appeared to originate in China. Beijing nevertheless reacted angrily to Google's charge, saying it was "unacceptable" to blame Beijing and allegations that China supports hacking were unfounded "and have ulterior motives". Clinton said Google told the State Department before it made its public announcement on Wednesday, and that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating, with Google. U.S. officials, speaking on background, said they had no indication of any security breach, noting government employees were directed not to use private accounts to discuss sensitive issues. Some agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, block employees from accessing personal accounts. Also, the White House said it had no reason to believe official government emails were hacked in the Google incident. Still, the government will check whether senior officials' private accounts were targeted, said ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/samsung-galaxy-tab-101-comes-to-the-us-digital-trends/ samsung-galaxy-tab-101-comes-to-the-us-digital-trends Thu, 2 Jun 2011 21:31:35 +0300 Samsung has finally announced official U.S. availability dates for its Honeycomb-toting Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet: the device will go on sale June 8 exclusively at Best Buy’s Union Square location in New York City, with nationwide availability to follow at a broad selection of retailers on June 17. The tablets will sport Android 3.1 “Honeycomb” and Wi-Fi connectivity; a 16 GB version will be available for $499, while a 32 GB version will run $599. Customers who aren’t in New York will be able to place pre-orders for the device online or at other Best Buy locations beginning June 8. “Ensuring that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 launched with Android 3.1 Honeycomb was part of our constant commitment to meeting the needs of our customers,” said Samsung Mobile president and CEO Dale Sohn, in a statement. “We’re going to make the Galaxy Tab 10.1 even more powerful, entertaining and secure through a series of upgrades coming to this device.” Samsung claims the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the “thinnest mobile tablet currently available in the world,” with a total depth of just 8.6 millimeters. The tablet sports a 10.1-inch 1,280 by 800-pixel display, 1 GHz Nvidia Tegra dual-core processor, Wi-Fi connectivity (sorry, no 3G or 4G options available), and up to 9 hours of battery life. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 also sports a three megapixel rear camera for photos or video, and a 2 megapixel front-facing camera for video chat. Sprint will also be offering the Wi-Fi version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 starting “mid-summer.” One of Samsung main touts for ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gov39t-says-no-official-email-hacked-fbi-on-case-ap/ gov39t-says-no-official-email-hacked-fbi-on-case-ap Thu, 2 Jun 2011 21:31:45 +0300 WASHINGTON – The FBI is investigating allegations that computer hackers in China broke into Google's email system, but no official government email accounts have been compromised, the Obama administration said Thursday. "These allegations are very serious," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters. "We take them seriously. We are looking into them." She had no comment on reports of China's involvement. Google said Wednesday that personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists, had been exposed. Google traced the origin of the attacks to Jinan, China, the home city of a military vocational school whose computers were linked to a more sophisticated assault on Google's systems 17 months ago. The two attacks are not believed to be linked. White House spokesman Jay Carney said the Obama administration doesn't restrict government employees from using personal Gmail accounts, but does direct workers to use government email for official business. He had no comment on who in the administration may have been affected by the hacking. Clinton said attacks such as the one alleged by Google were a prime reason the State Department has for the first time created a cyber-security coordinator. "We know this is going to be a continuing problem and therefore we want to be as prepared as possible to deal with these matters when they do come to our attention," she said. The Pentagon said Thursday it had little information since the reported breaches involved personal accounts rather than government email. And since the accounts were not official, the U.S. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-denies-role-in-latest-google-attack-digital-trends/ china-denies-role-in-latest-google-attack-digital-trends Thu, 2 Jun 2011 21:01:46 +0300 A spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, Hong Lei, has strongly denied that the Chinese government had any role in the latest round of cyberattacks against Google services in China. Speaking with reporters, Hong indicated hacking and security breaches are a global problem and China was a key player in worldwide efforts to combat backers and online criminals. “Allegations that the Chinese government supports hacking activities are completely unfounded and made with ulterior motives,” Hong said, according to the Associated Press. Hong did not offer any information as to whether China intended to investigate the latest incident. Yesterday Google claimed attackers based in China have been responsible for phishing attacks that targeted U.S. government officials, military personnel, journalists, and Chinese human rights activists. The incident is the second time Google has claimed to have been subjected to cyberattacks from China: the first incident was in January 2010 and became a major diplomatic issue between the United States and China. The attack also targeted Chinese human rights activists, and eventually caused Google to relocate many of its operations to Hong Kong. Documents published by Wikileaks claimed a member of China’s politburo ordered the attacks. Although Google has not accused the Chinese government or any individuals of orchestrating the attack, Google claims to have traced some of the IP addresses used in the phishing attack to Jinan, China, the location of a military vocational school that was also alleged to have been involved in January 2010. The most recent attack on Google’s systems appears to have been a more-or-less conventional phishing attack ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-pulls-malware-infected-apps-from-android-market-pc-magazine/ google-pulls-malware-infected-apps-from-android-market-pc-magazine Thu, 2 Jun 2011 21:01:47 +0300 Google has removed more than two dozen apps from the Android Market due to malware, according to mobile security firm Lookout. "This weekend, multiple applications available in the official Android Market were found to contain malware that can compromise a significant amount of personal data," Lookout said in a blog post. "Likely created by the same developers who brought DroidDream to market back in March, 26 applications were found to be infected with a stripped down version of DroidDream we're calling 'Droid Dream Light' (DDLight)." Google has removed the apps while it investigates, according to Lookout, though Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter. In early March, Google remotely deleted a series of applications from users' phones due to malware known as DroidDream and released a security update to rectify the problem. Lookout identified this most recent malware thanks to a tip from a developer who noticed that modified versions of his and other apps were being distributed in the Android Market. "Our security team confirmed that there was malicious code grafted into these apps and identified markers associating this code with previously analyzed DroidDream samples," Lookout said. "We discovered 24 additional apps repackaged and redistributed with the malicious payload across a total of 5 different developer accounts." Lookout said "Droid Dream Light" could affect between 30,000 and 120,000 users. Affected applications include those from Magic Photo Studio, Mango Studio, E.T. Tean, BeeGoo, DroidPlus, and GluMobi. A full list of apps is available on Lookout's blog. Lookout warned users to only download apps from trusted sources ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gmail-attack-the-bad-guys-are-winning/ gmail-attack-the-bad-guys-are-winning Thu, 2 Jun 2011 20:32:59 +0300 (CNN) -- In the cyber war being fought across international boundaries, the recent Gmail hack of top U.S. and South Korean officials makes one thing clear, analysts say: the bad guys are winning. "The short answer is our side is losing," says Thomas Parenty, a computer security specialist and former employee at the U.S. National Security Agency. "Defense is much more difficult than offense (against cyber attack); to defend against attack, you need to block all ways in; in offense, you only need one way in." On Wednesday Google announced that hundreds of Gmail accounts were compromised in a "spear-phishing" assault -- targeted attacks that duped victims into revealing their Gmail passwords through e-mails that pose as people or companies known to end user. Attackers secretly reset settings to copy and forward all e-mails. "The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users' emails," wrote Eric Grosse, engineering director of Google's security team, on the company blog. The attack comes days after a spate of high-profile cyber attacks. Lockheed Martin announced on Saturday a "significant and tenacious attack" on its information systems network, and Sony's temporary shutdown of its online gaming network after hackers had stolen personal information for as many as 77 million accounts. The level of sophistication of attacks shows the growing difficulty in guarding against cyber criminals. "I long for the days of the Melissa and 'I love you' computer viruses," says Parenty, referring e-mail viruses that circulated the globe in 1999 and 2000, respectively. "In the olden days -- some ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/clinton-fbi-to-probe-china-email-hacking-charges-ap/ clinton-fbi-to-probe-china-email-hacking-charges-ap Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:00:27 +0300 WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that Google's allegations of Chinese hacking of its email system are "very serious" and will be investigated by the FBI. Clinton told reporters on Thursday that the Obama administration was disturbed by the charges, which the Internet company says include breaches of email accounts belonging to senior U.S. officials. Google said Wednesday that personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists, had been exposed. Google traced the origin of the attacks to the home city of a military vocational school in China whose computers were linked to an assault 17 months ago on Google's systems. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-icloud-triumph-the-daily-beast/ apple39s-icloud-triumph-the-daily-beast Thu, 2 Jun 2011 18:01:30 +0300 NEW YORK – Apple’s new online service, iCloud, is destined to beat Google and Amazon, Dan Lyons says, by offering users access to all their files from any device with the ease we’ve come to expect from Steve Jobs.  Amazon and Google both rolled out cloud music services recently, and now everyone is buzzing because Apple says it will introduce its own cloud service, iCloud, at a conference for developers next week, and that Steve Jobs himself will be on stage to show it off. â€¨  Not much is known about iCloud, but as always happens with any new Apple product, there’s been plenty of speculation about how Apple might leapfrog the competition. â€¨  I have no inside knowledge, but I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that Apple will be the first company to deliver a cloud service that is easy to understand and easy to use. â€¨  This is a risky bet, especially because Apple’s original cloud service, MobileMe, has never lived up to its promise and has been a consistent disappointment. It’s so bad, in fact, that as Fortune recently reported, in 2008 Jobs dressed down his developers and told them they had “tarnished Apple’s reputation” by shipping a lousy product. â€¨  Nevertheless, I am betting that Apple sees iCloud as a chance to redeem itself, and that this time Apple will get things right—or at least, not as wrong. â€¨  The big opportunity here is to provide one place in cyberspace where people can keep all of their stuff—music, movies, home videos, photos, files.   Whatever the price, the much ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/us-investigating-google-claim-of-china-hacking-ap/ us-investigating-google-claim-of-china-hacking-ap Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:31:34 +0300 LONDON – Authorities in the United States are investigating a Google claim that hackers in China stole email details of senior U.S. government officials — an issue that illustrates the problem of attribution in cyberspace, the coordinator for cyber issues at the U.S. State Department said Thursday. Google disclosed Wednesday that personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists, had been breached. The company said it traced the origin of the attacks to Jinan, China, the home city of a military vocational school whose computers were linked to an assault 17 months ago on Google's systems. China has said it does not support hacking. "The issue of attribution and knowing whether a state or non-state actors are involved is a huge problem in cybersecurity," Christopher Painter, coordinator for cyber issues for the State Department, told The Associated Press on the sidelines of a cybersecurity conference in London. He declined further comment on the Google claim. Yuan Xu of the Internet Society of China, an industry group, defended her country's actions against phishing — the type of attack that Google says was used against its users. Phishing fools users into giving their personal details to rogue websites. She declined to comment on the specifics of the Google case, saying she didn't know enough about it, but noted that the CNCERT — one of China's Internet watchdogs — regularly shares the addresses of suspected phishing websites with its international partners. Yuan said that, on Internet security issues, companies in China and the United ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ahead-of-the-bell-google-shareholders-to-meet-ap/ ahead-of-the-bell-google-shareholders-to-meet-ap Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:31:32 +0300 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google Inc. will hold its first shareholders meeting since co-founder Larry Page took over as the Internet search leader's CEO. Thursday afternoon's meeting at Google's Mountain View, Calif. headquarters is being held nearly two months after Page reclaimed the CEO job that he once held from Eric Schmidt. Schmidt, 56, had been Google's CEO for a decade before the recent shake-up. He is now Google's executive chairman. One thing hasn't changed Page, an aloof figure through most of Google's 13-year history, has continued to shun the spotlight so far as CEO. Page, 38, spoke briefly in mid-April when he popped in to a conference call held to discuss Google's first-quarter earnings. After applauding the results, Page departed without offering any insights into his management strategy. Most of Google's previous six annual shareholder meetings have included appearances by Page. He has joined in some on the question-and-answer sessions although Schmidt has traditionally done most of the talking. That's a role Schmidt may still fill as the head of Google's board of directors. Shareholders could have a lot on their minds. Google is facing a growing competitive threat from Facebook's tools for connecting people together online and intensifying government scrutiny of Google's business practices and privacy policies. Some investors may wonder why Google's stock price has dropped by 16 percent since the company's Jan. 20 announcement about Page taking over as CEO. The technology-driven Nasdaq composite index has edged up by 2 percent during the same time. Another potentially hot topic cropped up Wednesday when Google said computer hackers in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-google-da-vina-pe-china-pentru-atacurile-informatice-asupra-e-mail-urilor-unor-persoane-de-rang-inalt-tara-asiatica-neaga-hotarat/ video-google-da-vina-pe-china-pentru-atacurile-informatice-asupra-e-mail-urilor-unor-persoane-de-rang-inalt-tara-asiatica-neaga-hotarat Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:03:26 +0300 China caracterizeaza ca fiind inacceptabile acuzatiile Google care a declarat recent ca hackeri chinezi au obtinut parolele de Gmail ale unor inalti oficiali din SUA si Coreea de Sud, noteaza The Guardian. China neaga orice implicare, spune ca acuzatiile sunt inacceptabile si adauga ca America are motive ascunse pentru a veni cu astfel de acuzatii.Oficiali Google au declarat ca, desi nu e 100% sigur, atacurile informatice prin care au fost furate detaliile de acces la Gmail ale unor inalti oficiali guvernamentali din SUA si Coreea de Sud si-au avut originea in provincia chineza Shandong.Nu e prima data cand presa internationala scrie despre universitatea tehnica din Jinan, capitala provinciei Shandong, ca despre un loc unde studentii de elita sunt incurajati sa-si dezvolte capacitatile de a pune la punct atacuri informatice. Diverse companii producatoare de solutii de securitate au vaertizat ca in China sunt puse la punct atacuri tot mai complexe menite sa destabilizeze sisteme complexe ale unor state.China neaga, prin intermediul unui purtator de cuvant de la ministerul de externe, orice implicare in astfel de atacuri. "Atacurile informatice sunt o problema internationala iar China este si ea o victima", a spus purtatorul de cuvant Hong Lei. El considera ca acuzatiile sunt fabricate si au motive ascunse in spatele lor.Si conducatorii universitatii din Jinan au respins acuzatiile ca ar manageria o "fabrica de hackeri" iar alti experti chinezi in securitate IT atentioneaza ca astfel de acuzatii trebuie facute cu grija fiindca si China este si va fi o victima a atacurilor informatice. In plus, spun ei, unele ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-powers-up-39139-offers-in-facebook-groupon-fight-pc-magazine/ google-powers-up-39139-offers-in-facebook-groupon-fight-pc-magazine Thu, 2 Jun 2011 14:31:09 +0300 On Wednesday, Google pushed through its first offer in Google Offers. Separately, the Web firm added a "+1" sharing button for Web sites. In April, Google revealed that it would launch Google Offers to users in Portland, New York, and San Francisco to sign up for upcoming deals that are half off or more. The company's first offer launched from Floyd's Coffee Shop in Portland, reportedly $3 for $10 worth of goodies. Next up in Portland? Le Bistro Montage, Powell's Books and Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade. "We hope to bring Google Offers to other cities soon, with New York City and the San Francisco Bay area as our next stops," Google said in a blog post. Google Offers is, essentially, Google's response to Groupon, which the company reportedly tried to purchase for $6 billion before talks fell apart in December. Meanwhile, the "+1" button has been seen as a Google answer to the nearly ubiquitous Facebook "Like" button, which ties a Web site back to the Facebook social graph. "Since we started rolling out the +1 button in March, you've been able to recommend content to your friends and contacts directly from Google search results and ads," Google said in a blog post. "But sometimes you want to +1 a page while you're on it. After all, how do you know you want to suggest that recipe for chocolate flan if you haven't tried it out yet?" Where Google can make the +1 button, work, however, is in social search: "The next time your connections ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/al-qaeda-a-planuit-sa-l-asasineze-pe-seful-lockheed-martin/ al-qaeda-a-planuit-sa-l-asasineze-pe-seful-lockheed-martin Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:33:56 +0300 O ramura pakistaneza a retelei Al-Qaeda a planuit sa-l asasineze pe seful grupului Lockheed Martin, unul dintre cei mai importanti contractori americani din domeniul defensiv, a declarat David Coleman Headley, un autoproclamat terorist, citat de AFP. Headley a facut aceste afirmatii in timpul procesului prietenului sau, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, judecat intr-un tribunal din Chicago sub acuzatia de terorism.Headley a spus ca asasinatul ar fi fost o razbunare pentru dronele produse de Lockheed Martin si folosite de armata americana.Dupa arestarea sa in 2009, in Chicago, Headley a pledat vinovat la 12 acuzatii de terorism, unele dintre acestea vizand atacul din Mumbai, din 2008.In prezent, el depune marturie impotriva lui Rana, pentru a evita pedeapsa cu moartea si extradarea in India, Pakistan sau Danemarca.Headley a spus ca, in mod secret, el a folosit computerul lui Rana pentru a se documenta in legatura cu un plan de asasinare a directorului executiv de la  Lockheed Martin. El a adaugat ca cercetarile lui au fost "mai aprofundate decat o simpla cautare pe Google de cateva ori".Headley a afirmat ca a colaborat la acest complot impreuna cu Ilyas Kashmiri, comandantul organizatiei teroriste pakistanez Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI), membru important al Al-Qaeda.Un purtator de cuvant al Lockheed Martin a refuzat sa comenteze daca grupul american stia de complot si daca a luat masuri suplimentare pentru a-l proteja pe Robert Stevens, directorul sau executiv din 2004.Compania a precizat ca prioritatea sa o reprezinta "siguranta si securitatea fiecarui angajat Lockheed Martin".Rana este acuzat ca i-a oferit adapost lui Headley si a actionat ca mesager, procurorii ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gmail-attack-shows-growing-cybercrime-sophistication/ gmail-attack-shows-growing-cybercrime-sophistication Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:02:54 +0300 CNN -- In the cyber war being fought across international boundaries, the recent Gmail hack of top U.S. and South Korean officials makes one thing clear, analysts say: the bad guys are winning. "The short answer is our side is losing," says Thomas Parenty, a computer security specialist and former programmer for the U.S. National Security Agency. "Defense is much more difficult than offense (against cyber attack); to defend against attack, you need to block all ways in; in offense, you only need one way in." On Wednesday Google announced that hundreds of Gmail accounts were compromised in a "spear-phishing" assault -- targeted attacks that duped victims into revealing their Gmail passwords through e-mails that pose as people or companies known to end user. Attackers secretly reset settings to copy and forward all e-mails. "The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users' emails," wrote Eric Grosse, engineering director of Google's security team, on the company blog. The attack comes days after a spate of high-profile cyber attacks. Lockheed Martin announced on Saturday a "significant and tenacious attack" on its information systems network, and Sony's temporary shutdown of its online gaming network after hackers had stolen personal information for as many as 77 million accounts. The level of sophistication of attacks shows the growing difficulty in guarding against cyber criminals. "I long for the days of the Melissa and 'I love you' computer viruses," says Parenty, referring e-mail viruses that circulated the globe in 1999 and 2000, respectively. "In the olden days -- some ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gmail-atacat-de-hackerii-chinezi/ gmail-atacat-de-hackerii-chinezi Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:03:14 +0300 Compania Google a anunţat că hackerii chinezi au reuşit să spargă câteva sute de adrese de Gmail, aparţinând unor oficiali americani, militari din armata SUA şi chiar jurnalişti. Cel mai probabil, hackerii doreau să supravegheze atât mailurile trimise cât şi pe cele primite de către persoane cu acces la informaţii sensibile, anunţă BBC. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-says-it39s-not-behind-google-email-hacking-ap/ china-says-it39s-not-behind-google-email-hacking-ap Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:30:37 +0300 BEIJING – China says it does not support hacking and is part of global efforts to combat the problem a day after Google disclosed some of its email users suffered hacking attacks that orginated within the country. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters Thursday that China is firmly opposed to activities that sabotage Internet and computer security, including hacking. Google disclosed Wednesday that personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists, had been breached. Hong said China was working to crack down on the hacking problem, but he didn't respond when asked whether it would investigate this specific incident. He said allegations that the Google hack attacks were state-supported were unfounded and made with ulterior motives. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/angry-china-rejects-blame-for-gmail-attack-afp/ angry-china-rejects-blame-for-gmail-attack-afp Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:00:35 +0300 BEIJING (AFP) – China said Thursday it was "unacceptable" to blame it for a cyberspying campaign which Google said had targeted the Gmail accounts of senior US officials, journalists and Chinese activists. The comments marked the latest salvo in a battle between the Chinese government and Google dating back to last year when the US Internet giant revealed it had been the victim of a separate China-based cyberattack. "To put all of the blame on China is unacceptable," foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters. "The so-called statement that the Chinese government supports hacking attacks is a total fabrication... It has ulterior motives." Google said Wednesday it was hit by a cyberspying campaign that appeared to have originated in Jinan, capital of the eastern Chinese province of Shandong. The company did not specifically point the finger of blame at Chinese authorities. "We recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," Google security team engineering director Eric Grosse said in a blog post. "The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users' emails, with the perpetrators apparently using stolen passwords to change peoples' forwarding and delegation settings," he said. Those affected included senior US government officials, Chinese political activists, military personnel, journalists and officials in several Asian countries, mainly South Korea, Grosse said. "Google detected and has disrupted this campaign to take users' passwords and monitor their emails," he said. "We have notified victims and secured their accounts," he added. "In addition, we have notified relevant government authorities." The "phishing" ruse used to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/digital-factbook-hypeactive-piata-totala-de-digital-din-romania-36-38-milioane-euro-in-2010-50-de-milioane-euro-in-2011/ digital-factbook-hypeactive-piata-totala-de-digital-din-romania-36-38-milioane-euro-in-2010-50-de-milioane-euro-in-2011 Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:03:40 +0300 Valoarea totala a pietei de digital marketing din Romania s-a ridicat, anul trecut, la 36-38 milioane de euro, estimeaza HyperActive, agentia de digital a grupului de comunicare Lowe. Aceasta ia in calcul, in evaluarea sa, cheltuielile media totale din 2010, inclusiv prin Google, Yahoo! sau Facebook, comisioanele platite agentiilor de digital, precum si bugetele investite in mobile marketing. HyperActive a lansat, joi, studiul Digital FactBook, in care estimeaza ca in 2011 piata de profil ar putea creste pana la 50 milioane euro. Luni, IAB Romania si PwC Romania estimau, in ultimul lor studiu privind piata de publicitate online, ca anul trecut aceasta a atins valoarea de 20,4 milioane euro, ce nu include, insa, decat partial bugetele alocate campaniilor prin Google sau Facebook. Estimarile HyperActive pentru piata de digital in 2010: cheltuielile media totale, inclusiv cheltuielile media de tip performance (Google, Yahoo!, Facebook) - 24-25 milioane euro (cu 36% mai mult fata de 2009). Alex Visa, HyperActive: Raportul nostru a fost realizat inainte de aparitia studiului IAB Romania, luand in considerare acele date probabil cheltuielile media totale, in 2010, se ridica la 26-27 milioane euro comisioanele platite agentiilor de digital locale (strategie, creatie, design, productie, social media, analytics etc) - 9-10 milioane euro bugete de mobile marketing - 2,5-3 milioane euro Raportul HyperActive estimeaza ca in 2011 cheltuielile de publicitate in medii digitale vor putea sa depaseasca in valoare toate celelalte medii cu exceptia TV si sa isi revendice 11% din totalul bugetelor de publicitate.Studiul Digital FactBook apreciaza ca anul 2010 a fost un an ce a impulsionat piata de digital, in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fostul-sef-al-google-admite-ca-a-dat-o-in-bara-pentru-ca-nu-a-lansat-acum-cativa-ani-un-concurent-pentru-facebook/ fostul-sef-al-google-admite-ca-a-dat-o-in-bara-pentru-ca-nu-a-lansat-acum-cativa-ani-un-concurent-pentru-facebook Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:03:48 +0300 Eric Schmidt, omul care a condus Google in ultimul deceniu, spune ca a gresit pentru ca nu a luat in serios Facebook acum cativa ani si nu s-a gandit inca de atunci sa construiasca un competitor, noteaza The Register. Schmidt spune ca Facebook a refuzat de mai multe ori oferte de parteneriat venite de la Google insa adauga ca admira multe lucruri facute de Facebook care a reusit sa incurajeze atat de multi aomeni sa foloseasca adevarate identitate online."Stiam ca trebuia sa fac ceva, insa nu am facut-o, iar ca CEO trebuie sa-mi asum responsabiliatea, am dat-o in bara", a admis Schmidt la conferinta All Things Digital din California. Acum patru ani Facebook avea doar 20 de milioane de utilziatori (fata de 700 milioane in prezent) dar Google nu a inceput atunci sa construiasca o retea sociala rivala."Industria ca intreg ar beneficia daca ar exista o alternativa la Facebook", a mai spus fostul sef al Google care a admis ca a incercat in trecut sa incheie un parteneriat cu Facebook pe partea de cautare, insa a fost refuzat. Pe de alta parte, Microsoft a incheiat un parteneriat cu Facebook si detine si actiuni la compania lui Zuckerberg.Google isi da seama ca acum este greu sa lanseze un concurent viabil pentru Facebook care a ajuns la atat de multe sute de milioane de utilizatori, astfel ca este de inteles atitudinea lui Schmdit. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/studiul-roads-piata-romaneasca-de-publicitate-online-a-atins-20-de-milioane-de-euro-in-2010/ studiul-roads-piata-romaneasca-de-publicitate-online-a-atins-20-de-milioane-de-euro-in-2010 Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:04:04 +0300 Valoarea pietei de publicitate online in Romania a atins anul trecut 86,05 milioane de RON (20,4 milioane euro, la un curs mediu anual de 4,2099 RON/euro), potrivit ultimei editii a Romanian Online Advertising Study, realizat de IAB Romania si PwC Romania. ROADS arata ca veniturile lunare din ultimele trei luni ale lui 2010 au depasit pragul de 8 milioane de lei/luna si au reprezentat aproape 60% din totalul veniturilor inregistrate in semestrul al doilea (43,99 milioane RON).In prima jumatate a anului trecut, piata de publicitate se ridicase la 42,05 milioane RON (circa 10 milioane de euro), cu 65% mai mult decat primul trimestru al anului 2009.In 2009, piata de publicitate online din Romania s-a ridicat la 65,19 milioane RON (15,4 milioane euro, la un curs mediu anual de 4,23 RON/euro). Studiul citat analizeaza investitiile in publicitatea online in functie de formatele folosite si categoriile de advertiseri care au apelat la publicitate pe Internet. La studiu au participat 18 companii - publisheri online, regii de publicitate si agentii interactive, reprezentand circa 1150 de website-uri din Romania. Studiul nu ia in calcul valoarea totala a publicitatii pe Google sau Facebook, ci doar bugetele administrate de companiile participante la studiu. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/actiunile-nokia-continua-sa-scada-dupa-degringolada-de-marti/ actiunile-nokia-continua-sa-scada-dupa-degringolada-de-marti Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:04:29 +0300 Actiunile numarului unu mondial pe piata telefoanelor mobile, finlandezii de la Nokia, si-au continuat deprecierea puternica miercuri, dupa ce au pierdut peste 17% in ziua precedenta, in urma unui avertisment legat de rezultatele financiare care a ingrijorat investitorii, relateaza AFP.La sfarsitul diminetii, titlurile Nokia scadeau cu 7,6%, la 4,39 euro pe Bursa din Helsinki, atingand cel mai scazut nivel din ianuarie 1998.Marti, actiunile gigantului finlandez au fost practic masacrate dupa ce Nokia a anuntat ca rezultatele pentru trimestrul II vor fi "substantial" inferioare previziunilor initiale si ca nu mai este in masura sa ofere o previziune anuala: cotatia a scazut cu 17,53% intr-o singura sedinta.Valul vestilor proaste a continuat miercuri. Banca Goldman Sachs si cabinetul Bernstein Research au redus recomandarile pentru actiunile Nokia, Bernstein modificand previziunea cursului de la 5,50 euro la 3,00 euro, potrivit Dow Jones Newswires.Prinsa pe picior gresit de avansul luat de americanii de la Apple si Google in domeniul telefoniei mobile de varf, Nokia a trecut prin numeroase dificultati in ultimii doi ani: concedieri, un declin rapid al cotei de piata si rezultate mediocre.Pentru a-si reveni din acest déclin, Nokia a anuntat in februarie o alianta cu Microsoft, dar primul telefon comun nu va vedea lumina zilei inainte de finele acestui an si perioada de tranzitie ingrijoreaza expertii.Nokia urmeaza sa publice rezultatele aferente trimestrului II in 21 iulie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-fotogalerie-asus-padfone-telefonul-care-se-transforma-in-tableta/ video-fotogalerie-asus-padfone-telefonul-care-se-transforma-in-tableta Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:04:46 +0300 Asus a prezentat la targul Computex de la Taipei un nou concept care permite utilizatorului sa transforme un telefon intr-o tableta: Padfone. Noul produs va fi format din doua parti, un telefon inteligent bazat pe Google Android si un doc-tableta, fara componente active dincolo de un display tactil de inalta rezolutie si cateva porturi suplimentare. Citeste si comenteaza pe StyleReport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/what39s-at-stake-in-google39s-plan-to-digitize-all-the-world39s-books-the-christian-science-monitor/ what39s-at-stake-in-google39s-plan-to-digitize-all-the-world39s-books-the-christian-science-monitor Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:30:07 +0300 Los Angeles – Google's long-running effort to digitize the world’s books was back in court Wednesday, as a judge met with the Internet giant and its class-action foes in the publishing world over a scheme that could shape the future of publishing in the Internet era. Earlier this year, Google thought it had struck a deal with the Authors' Guild and a coalition of publishers over how it would proceed with its plan, which it began in 2002 and publishers had challenged in court in three years later. But in March, both Circuit Judge Denny Chin and the antitrust arm of the US Department of Justice rejected the deal, saying it would give Google a virtual monopoly in many aspects of online publishing. At stake are the rules that will govern the nascent online publishing industry and how it might evolve. Critics want some assurance that Google Books won't put authors out of business by making everything available online for free. Some authors and publishers, by contrast, see Google Books as an invaluable – and potentially profitable – way to keep obscure and out-of-print books vital and available. RECOMMENDED: The top 10 books of all time For Judge Chin and the Justice Department regulators, however, Google's bid to scan, post, and profit from millions of out-of-print books with unclear copyright claims – so called "unclaimed" or "orphan" books – runs the risk of running roughshod over an industry that is only now beginning to find its feet. As Chin put it in March: The deal ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/stock-futures-inch-up-chain-store-sales-eyed-reuters/ stock-futures-inch-up-chain-store-sales-eyed-reuters Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:01:04 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open on Wall Street on Thursday following the previous session's sharp losses, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.05 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.09 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.13 percent at 3:45 a.m. EDT. Investors awaited U.S. weekly jobless claims, due at 8:30 a.m. EDT, factory orders at 10 a.m. EDT as well as chain store sales for last month. Sales from retailers are expected to show how higher gasoline prices have crimped consumer demand for summer clothing and other discretionary items. The high unemployment rate means the Fed's ultra-easy money policies remain the right course of action, top Federal Reserve officials said on Wednesday. High unemployment is not a "quickly resolvable problem," but April's job gains show that the economic recovery is on a firmer footing, Cleveland Fed President Sandra Pianalto said. The dollar stuck near a one-month low against a basket of currencies and hovered near a record low versus the Swiss franc on Thursday, after more weak U.S. data suggested that the U.S. economy's soft patch may become protracted. Suspected Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google (GOOG.O) email account holders, including those of senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists, the Internet company said. China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday said it "cannot accept" accusations that hackers likely based in China tried to break into hundreds of Google mail accounts. Private equity firm Gores Group is in talks to buy more than half of bankrupt bookseller Borders ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-a-prezentat-o-versiune-a-noului-sistem-de-operare-windows-vezi-ce-noutati-aduce-sistemul/ microsoft-a-prezentat-o-versiune-a-noului-sistem-de-operare-windows-vezi-ce-noutati-aduce-sistemul Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:03:20 +0300 Microsoft a prezentat joi, în Statele Unite şi Taiwan, o versiune a următorului sistem de operare pregătit de companie, cu numele de cod Windows 8, iar unii producători de PC-uri se plâng deja de restricţiile impuse de companie pe gradul de implicare a terţilor în dezvoltarea produsului. Microsoft, cel mai mare dezvoltator de software din lume, ar trebui să lanseze noul sistem pe piaţă în următoarele 18 luni. Principalele noutăţi aduse de următorul Windows sunt accentul pus pe funcţiile touchscreen şi optimizarea pentru computere tabletă, Microsoft încercând să prindă din urmă Apple pe această piaţă aflată într-o expansiune explozivă. Gigantul software a indicat însă producătorilor de chip-uri care vor să folosească Windows 8 pentru tablete că trebuie să lucreze cu un singur producător de PC-uri, pentru a accelera procesul de distribuţie, potrivit informaţiilor publicate de Bloomberg şi Dow Jones. Unii producători de PC-uri s-au plâns că ar putea "rămâne pe dinafară" pe piaţa tabletelor cu noul sistem de operare Microsoft. Microsoft a prezentat softul în demonstraţii la conferinţele Computex, din Taipei, şi D9, din Palos Verdes, California. Pagina de start a Windows 8 este similară cu interfaţa Windows Phone 7, sistemul de operare pentru smartphone-uri, cu plăci cu conţinut live care pot fi manipulate prin atingerea ecranului. Compania promite că sistemul va fi compatibil cu o gamă largă de computere şi gadget-uri, de la PC-uri tradiţionale la laptop-uri şi tablete, primind comenzi atât prin touchscreen cât şi prin tastatură şi mouse. Producătorul american de chip-uri Qualcomm a anunţat joi că va colabora cu Microsoft la dezvoltarea noii versiuni de Windows pentru gama de procesoare Snapdragon, folosite la smartphone-uri şi tablete. Unii distribuitori taiwanezi de computere sunt îngrijoraţi că restricţiile pe care se zvoneşte ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/conturile-gmail-ale-unor-oficiali-americani-piratate-printr-un-atac-informatic-provenind-din-china/ conturile-gmail-ale-unor-oficiali-americani-piratate-printr-un-atac-informatic-provenind-din-china Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:03:30 +0300 Conturile serviciului de mesagerie Gmail ale unor oficiali americani, disidenţi chinezi, lideri militari şi jurnalişti au fost piratate, au anunţat, miercuri, reprezentanţii grupului Google, însă, potrivit Casei Albe, niciun înalt oficial american nu a fost vizat de acest atac informatic. "Am descoperit recent o campanie ce avea scopul de a colecta parolele, probabil prin tehnica «phishing»", a declarat Eric Grosse, un director de la Google, într-un comunicat postat pe internet. Această acţiune de pirataj informatic pare că a fost iniţiată din Jinan, un oraş din estul Chinei. "Phishing"-ul este o formă de pirataj informatic ce are scopul de a-i convinge pe internauţi să comunice date confidenţiale. "Obiectivul acestei manevre pare să fie supravegherea conţinutului conturilor acestor utilizatori", a adăugat Eric Grosse. Această tentativă de piratare a afectat sute de conturi de pe Gmail, inclusiv cele ale unor oficiali guvernamentali americani, jurnalişti, disidenţi chinezi, conducători militari şi ale altor lideri din mai multe ţări asiatice, în special din Coreea de Sud. "Analizăm informaţiile apărute şi încercăm să punem lucrurile cap la cap", a declarat un funcţionar din administraţia de la Casa Albă, sub protecţia anonimatului. "Nu avem niciun motiv să credem că un cont al unui oficial din guvernul american a fost piratat", a precizat aceeaşi sursă. Grupul Google, al cărui sediu general se află în California, a precizat că sistemele informatice şi serverele sale nu au fost piratate. "Google a identificat această campanie şi a oprit-o. Le-am informat pe victime şi le-am protejat conturile. Am informat, de asemenea, autorităţile guvernamentale vizate", a precizat Eric Grosse. Pentru moment, specialiştii nu au putut să stabilească o legătură între acest atac informatic şi cel produs anul trecut asupra grupului Google, provenind tot din China. Google a avut parte ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-a-prezentat-joi-o-versiune-a-noului-sistem-de-operare-windows-care-sunt-noutatile/ microsoft-a-prezentat-joi-o-versiune-a-noului-sistem-de-operare-windows-care-sunt-noutatile Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:13 +0300 Microsoft a prezentat joi, în Statele Unite şi Taiwan, o versiune a următorului sistem de operare pregătit de companie, cu numele de cod Windows 8, iar unii producători de PC-uri se plâng deja de restricţiile impuse de companie pe gradul de implicare a terţilor în dezvoltarea produsului. Microsoft, cel mai mare dezvoltator de software din lume, ar trebui să lanseze noul sistem pe piaţă în următoarele 18 luni, notează Reuters. Principalele noutăţi aduse de următorul Windows sunt accentul pus pe funcţiile touchscreen şi optimizarea pentru computere tabletă, Microsoft încercând să prindă din urmă Apple pe această piaţă aflată într-o expansiune explozivă. Gigantul software a indicat însă producătorilor de chip-uri care vor să folosească Windows 8 pentru tablete că trebuie să lucreze cu un singur producător de PC-uri, pentru a accelera procesul de distribuţie, potrivit informaţiilor publicate de Bloomberg şi Dow Jones. Unii producători de PC-uri s-au plâns că ar putea "rămâne pe dinafară" pe piaţa tabletelor cu noul sistem de operare Microsoft. Microsoft a prezentat softul în demonstraţii la conferinţele Computex, din Taipei, şi D9, din Palos Verdes, California. Pagina de start a Windows 8 este similară cu interfaţa Windows Phone 7, sistemul de operare pentru smartphone-uri, cu plăci cu conţinut live care pot fi manipulate prin atingerea ecranului. Compania promite că sistemul va fi compatibil cu o gamă largă de computere şi gadget-uri, de la PC-uri tradiţionale la laptop-uri şi tablete, primind comenzi atât prin touchscreen cât şi prin tastatură şi mouse. Producătorul american de chip-uri Qualcomm a anunţat joi că va colabora cu Microsoft la dezvoltarea noii versiuni de Windows pentru gama de procesoare Snapdragon, folosite la smartphone-uri şi tablete. Unii distribuitori taiwanezi de computere sunt îngrijoraţi că restricţiile pe care se zvoneşte că ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-denies-role-in-attack-on-google39s-gmail-afp/ china-denies-role-in-attack-on-google39s-gmail-afp Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:00:27 +0300 BEIJING (AFP) – China said Thursday it was "unacceptable" to accuse it of playing a role in a cyberspying campaign Google said had targeted Gmail accounts of senior US officials, journalists and Chinese activists. "To put all of the blame on China is unacceptable," foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters. "The so-called statement that the Chinese government supports hacking attacks is a total fabrication... It has ulterior motives." Google said Wednesday that a cyberspying campaign appeared to have originated in Jinan, in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong. The company did not specifically point the finger of blame at Chinese authorities. "We recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," Google security team engineering director Eric Grosse said in a blog post. "The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users' emails, with the perpetrators apparently using stolen passwords to change peoples' forwarding and delegation settings," he said. Those affected included senior US government officials, Chinese political activists, military personnel, journalists and officials in several Asian countries, predominately South Korea, Grosse said. "Google detected and has disrupted this campaign to take users' passwords and monitor their emails," Grosse said. "We have notified victims and secured their accounts," he continued. "In addition, we have notified relevant government authorities." The "phishing" ruse used to trick Gmail users into revealing account names and passwords reportedly involved sending booby-trapped messages that appeared to come from legitimate associates, friends or organisations. Google said the California-based firm's systems and servers were not attacked. There was no indication whether the Gmail ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/chinese-hackers-targeted-us-officials-in-gmail-phishing-attack-mashable/ chinese-hackers-targeted-us-officials-in-gmail-phishing-attack-mashable Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:31:18 +0300 Google has revealed that U.S. government officials and Chinese activists were the targets of a recent Gmail phishing attack that originated from China. "Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," Google engineering director Eric Grosse said on the company's blog. "This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists." [More from Mashable: Google’s +1 Button Challenges Facebook’s Like Across the Web] Google said that the attack was focused on monitoring the content of the targeted users by secretly forwarding emails from compromised accounts. The attack is reminiscent of last year's famous Google security breach instigated by Chinese hackers. "Google detected and has disrupted this campaign to take users’ passwords and monitor their emails," Grosse added. "We have notified victims and secured their accounts." The search giant is now encouraging users to activate a two-step verification process to prevent unauthorized access from new computers. [More from Mashable: Google’s Schmidt Takes Subtle Shots At Microsoft, Apple, Facebook] This is at least the second attack targeting Google accounts by Chinese hackers. The first time it occurred, Google nearly pulled out of China and caused a firestorm of controversy by refusing to censor its search engine. This time, Google tried to bury the lede and not turn this into another Google ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/esquire-challenges-ipad-owners-to-the-hardest-puzzle-ever-mashable/ esquire-challenges-ipad-owners-to-the-hardest-puzzle-ever-mashable Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:31:28 +0300 [More from Mashable: Fox News Launches Its iPad App [EXCLUSIVE]] Esquire has released an iPad app the publication is calling "the hardest puzzle ever." It is certainly very difficult. The game [iTunes link] combines Rubik's Cube-style puzzles with riddles -- including those with and without Google-able answers -- of scaling difficulty. After successfully completing each level, users can opt to print out and assemble 3D trophies, a clever addition. [More from Mashable: Men’s & Women’s Health Launch Search for Most Attractive Bodies on Facebook] The app is one of several that Esquire's editors have been developing for the device, enabling them to push further beyond the traditional magazine format. Although Esquire is indisputably one of the best magazines on the iPad, it is still largely a translation of its print counterpart. "We had the opportunity to create something native to the iPad, not just a translation," Deputy Editor Peter Griffin noted in an interview with Mashable. "[The app] carries not just the name and the brand but also a sensibility unique to this device." Although the app utilizes the iPad's touchscreen very well, it fails to take advantage of the device in one respect: Internet connectivity and, in particular, opportunities for social interaction. While users can opt to tell their friends when they complete a new level -- designed to create a sense of competition between players -- they can't actually play against against each other in the way that they can with iPad games like Scrabble [iTunes link]. Furthermore, users cannot opt to create multiple games, which will inevitably disappoint those ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-shows-off-new-windows-8-operating-system-reuters/ microsoft-shows-off-new-windows-8-operating-system-reuters Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:31:11 +0300 TAIPEI/PALOS VERDES, California (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp showed off a version of its next operating system at technology conferences in the United States and Taipei, as some PC makers grumbled over restrictions on their involvement in the development of the system. The world's largest software company is expected to launch the new system, code-named Windows 8 and highlighting touchscreen features optimized for tablet computers, in the next 18 months, as it races to catch up with Apple Inc. But Microsoft has told chipmakers who want to use the system for tablets to work with only one manufacturer to speed up the delivery, Bloomberg and Dow Jones news reported, sparking worries among some PC vendors that they will be left out. In demonstrations at the D9 conference in Palos Verdes, California, and the Computex show in Taipei, Microsoft executives showed a starting page that resembles Microsoft's latest phone software, with live 'tiles' manipulated by pressing and swiping the screen. The demonstration shows Microsoft is making progress toward the new operating system, which it promises will run on a range of hardware devices from traditional PCs to laptops and tablets, using both touchscreen and mouse and keyboard commands. The company said in Palos Verdes that it was "not out of the game" in tablets, a view backed by some in the industry. "The fact that it's a year or two years after the iPad doesn't really matter. There is already a lot of built-in infrastructure," Adrian Crisan, Sony's director of engineering for VAIO and Mobile of America, told reporters in Taipei on Thursday. "Today ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hp-ceo-says-open-to-licensing-webos-software-reuters/ hp-ceo-says-open-to-licensing-webos-software-reuters Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:01:20 +0300 PALOS VERDES, Calif./SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co sees the WebOS software it acquired from Palm running devices besides its own and is open to licensing the operating system, Chief Executive Leo Apotheker said. "I happen to believe that WebOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system," said Apotheker, who was speaking at the D9 conference organized by the blog AllThingsD. "It's not correct to believe that it should only be on HP devices." Asked if HP would consider licensing it to others, such as Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp, Apotheker said, "It is certainly something we would entertain." The ambitious plan for WebOS comes as HP is gearing up to launch its 9.7-inch TouchPad tablet, which is based on the WebOS software that HP acquired last summer in its $1.2 billion purchase of handheld device pioneer Palm. WebOS is widely viewed as a strong platform, but HP faces an uphill battle to gain traction in the mobile market. Its products are arriving late to a market already crawling with competition from Apple Inc and devices based on Google Inc's Android. Apotheker said he regretted that the company didn't take Palm and WebOS to market sooner. "Right now we are focused on getting it out in the market to gain the credibility," he said. "WebOS will also be adopted by many partners who provide services to small and medium businesses." HP, which also plans to incorporate the operating system into every printer priced over $100 along with using it to run smartphones, wants WebOS to be the No. 3 operating system, behind Apple's ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-reveals-gmail-hacking-says-likely-from-china-reuters/ google-reveals-gmail-hacking-says-likely-from-china-reuters Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:01:24 +0300 BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Suspected Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including those of senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists, the Internet company said. The perpetrators appeared to originate from Jinan, the capital of China's eastern Shandong province, Google said. Jinan is home to one of six technical reconnaissance bureaus belonging to the People's Liberation Army and a technical college that U.S. investigators last year linked to a previous attack on Google. Washington said it was investigating Google's claims while the FBI said it was working with Google following the attacks -- the latest computer-based invasions directed at multinational companies that have raised global alarm about Internet security. The hackers recently tried to crack and monitor email accounts by stealing passwords, but Google detected and "disrupted" their campaign, the world's largest Web search company said on its official blog. The revelation comes more than a year after Google disclosed a cyberattack on its systems that it said it traced to China, and could further strain an already tense relationship between the Web giant and Beijing. Google partially pulled out of China, the world's largest Internet market by users, last year after a tussle with the government over censorship and a serious hacking episode. "We recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," Google said, referring to the practice where computer users are tricked into giving up sensitive information. "The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users' emails." It "affected what seem to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-gives-sneak-preview-of-39windows-839-afp/ microsoft-gives-sneak-preview-of-39windows-839-afp Thu, 2 Jun 2011 07:01:22 +0300 RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California (AFP) – Microsoft gave a sneak preview of Windows 8, a next-generation operating system designed to work on both personal computers and touchscreen tablets. Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows Division, demonstrated some of the features of the operating system code-named "Windows 8" at the D9 technology conference here hosted by All Things Digital. "Laptops, slates, desktops -- all can run one operating system," Sinofsky said. "Things that people see work... on an iPad, I think we can do that and then bring with it all of the benefits that you have with Windows," he said. "We have an approach that is different but builds on the value of an operating system that sells 400 million or so units a year," he said. "Windows 8" builds upon many of the features in Microsoft's latest mobile operating system for smartphones, Windows Phone 7, including the use of touch "tiles" instead of icons to launch and navigate between applications. In a blog post, Julie Larson-Green, corporate vice president of Windows Experience, said Windows 8 is a "reimagining of Windows, from the chip to the interface. "A Windows 8-based PC is really a new kind of device, one that scales from touch-only small screens through to large screens, with or without a keyboard and mouse," Larson-Green said. "Although the new user interface is designed and optimized for touch, it works equally well with a mouse and keyboard," she added. Larson-Green said Microsoft would reveal more features of Windows 8, which uses Internet Explorer 10 as a Web browser, at its developers conference in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-gives-peek-at-windows-8/ microsoft-gives-peek-at-windows-8 Thu, 2 Jun 2011 06:02:32 +0300 Rancho Palos Verdes, California (CNN) -- The next version of Windows will look a lot like Windows Phone 7. But the familiar PC design is still there under the hood. Microsoft unveiled the design for Windows 8 at the All Things Digital conference here on Wednesday. The software giant plans to provide a more extensive demonstration at a conference for application developers in September. Windows 8, which may not be the final name for the operating system, won't be available in stores this fall, as optimists had predicted, said Steven Sinofsky, the Windows division president. Analysts expect it to be released next year. The vast majority of PCs sold run Windows, but the tablet market currently belongs to Apple. Microsoft put a large focus on tablets during the Windows 8 presentation. Microsoft has been taking stabs at tablet PCs over the last decade. The company failed at its attempts to effectively adapt the Windows desktop, Start menu and all, to touchscreens. In a grand concession, Microsoft is now borrowing a page from Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Windows 8 takes the colorful tiles and finger-swipe gestures from the Windows Phone operating system and expands them to a larger screen -- in this demo, 10.6 inches diagonally. Like a smartphone, the system lights up to a "lock screen," which has some alerts and diagnostic information set atop a background picture. Once inside, small squares represent each app containing snippets of information. A finger swipe on the right side of the screen opens a menu of buttons for functions like search, sharing and a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/from-idisk-to-icloud-4th-time-a-charm-for-apple/ from-idisk-to-icloud-4th-time-a-charm-for-apple Thu, 2 Jun 2011 04:32:36 +0300 (WIRED) -- Apple has revealed the name of its upcoming online media service: iCloud. But don't let the cute branding fool you. The company has tried this service before, and the iCloud rebranding signals a do-over on one of Apple's greatest failures. The company issued a news release Tuesday about its software developers' conference to be held next week. In addition to previewing the new Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 operating systems, Steve Jobs will share details on iCloud -- Apple's upcoming "cloud services offering." Based on that terse description alone, we can decipher that iCloud will be Apple's sequel to MobileMe, a paid online service for synchronizing personal information, such as your calendars, address books, e-mail and photos, across multiple devices. Tech observers agree that MobileMe has been one of Apple's most embarrassingly flawed products, thanks to its extremely buggy launch and limited functionality. MobileMe was itself a 2008 rebranding of .Mac, which began its life in 2000 as iDisk. The rebranding hints that Apple may be ready to expand MobileMe into a broader online-storage service. Ross Rubin, consumer analyst at NPD Group, believes that iCloud shows Apple's intention to move into on-demand media, potentially allowing customers to access their iTunes-purchased music or movies over the internet with multiple devices. "There's clearly an opportunity that Apple hasn't really exploited before in terms of media and centralization," Rubin told Wired.com. "The opportunity is to move forward with what they acquired with [music-streaming service] Lala and toward having media available on demand." Apple's aggressive move into the "cloud" ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-discloses-china-attack-investor39s-business-daily/ google-discloses-china-attack-investor39s-business-daily Thu, 2 Jun 2011 04:31:40 +0300 The search giant revealed that hackers thought to be operating from central China tried to hack into the Gmail accounts of hundreds of users, including senior U.S. gov't officials, Chinese activists and journalists. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News), the world's largest Internet company, said on its official blog that the hackers recently tried to crack and monitor email accounts by stealing passwords, but Google detected and disrupted the campaign. It said it had notified targeted victims and relevant U.S. agencies. Google fell 0.7% to 525.60. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/groupon-ceo-done-fretting-over-copycats/ groupon-ceo-done-fretting-over-copycats Thu, 2 Jun 2011 03:33:46 +0300 Rancho Palos Verdes, California (CNN) -- Andrew Mason wanted to show how he's grown since founding and leading Groupon. For starters, he took the stage at the All Things Digital conference on Wednesday in a suit and tie, rather than his Zuckerbergian rumpled garb. "Just trying to show some professionalism," he quipped. Another way Mason demonstrated his maturity as a businessman: He says he's no longer bothered by others copying his ideas. "I'm on board!" the quirky Chicagoan shrieked. Mason said having studied music in college, the natural response to the type of imitation affecting Groupon was to cry plagiarism. But in business, it's called competition, he said. The phenomenon used to bother him immensely, he said. "We were proud of that idea in the same way that anybody who invents something would be proud," Mason said. "As obvious as it seems now, it wasn't obvious at the time." Groupon debuted in November 2008 with its daily deals delivered via e-mail. Since then, we've seen the rise of dozens of competitors, including LivingSocial, which used to make Facebook quizzes, and Gilt Groupe, which specializes in luxury fashion items. Groupon, too, has soared. It has 5,000 employees, half of whom make sales calls to retailers in the cities the company serves worldwide. Mason has stopped worrying much about what he perceives as idea theft. It's fortunate timing, because the day before he took the stage, Google was showing off a new local-deals feature as part of Google Wallet. It launched in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday. "One thing, I think, where they've got us," Mason ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-offers-goes-live-tests-the-waters-with-local-deals-yahoo-news/ google-offers-goes-live-tests-the-waters-with-local-deals-yahoo-news Thu, 2 Jun 2011 03:31:19 +0300 The pool of competitors in the local deals market might be growing crowded, but that won't stop Google Offers from diving right in. Google Offers, which debuts in Portland today, is a Groupon-like service that serves up discounts on meals and activities around town. Sign up, and you'll get a daily deal delivered to your Gmail inbox. Today's deal for Portlanders fittingly serves up a discount at a local coffee shop: $3 for $10 worth of drinks or treats. What could set Offers apart from the slew of other deal peddlers is not the service itself, but Google Wallet — the company's nascent near field communication (NFC) payment system, which ambitiously intends to transform your smartphone into a virtual billfold. While it's far too early to tell if Google Wallet will catch on, you can opt in for Google Offers as soon as the deals make a stop by your city — keep an eye out, Manhattan and the Bay Area are next in line. [Via: SearchEngineLand] More from Tecca: Facebook CEO promises to eat only what he kills Google +1 button pops up, lets you rate the wild web Groupon and Live Nation to team up for ticket deals http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/groupon-teams-up-with-expedia-for-travel-deals-afp/ groupon-teams-up-with-expedia-for-travel-deals-afp Thu, 2 Jun 2011 03:01:08 +0300 RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California (AFP) – Daily deals website Groupon and online travel site Expedia announced on Wednesday that they were teaming up to provide "high quality travel offers." "Groupon Getaways with Expedia" will initially focus on the United States and Canada before expanding to other countries, Groupon and Expedia said in a joint statement. Besides hotel offers, "Expedia and Groupon plan to also include package deals, airline tickets, car rentals, cruises and destination activities," they said. Groupon and Expedia said the deals will follow the Groupon model for other offers with members getting a limited time to buy a discount voucher. "Discounts will be significant -- typically around 50 percent off retail rates found at other online travel sites," they said. "We're excited to tap into Expedia's vast network of world-class travel providers," Groupon chief executive Andrew Mason said. The Groupon-Expedia alliance was announced as Mason made an appearance at the D9 technology conference hosted by All Things Digital in southern California. Interviewed on stage at D9, Mason humorously parried questions about an initial public offering of Groupon or a reported $5 billion bid for the company made last year by Google. Mason did say that Groupon, which has experienced spectacular growth and been valued at between $15 billion and $25 billion, now employs 8,000 people, up from 1,500 a year ago. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-publishers-weigh-options-after-ny-ruling-ap/ google-publishers-weigh-options-after-ny-ruling-ap Thu, 2 Jun 2011 02:31:06 +0300 NEW YORK – A judge in New York has agreed to give lawyers for Google and the book industry more time to decide how to proceed after he rejected their deal to create a massive online library. Federal Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan said Wednesday that it was fine for lawyers for Google and authors and publishers to return to his courtroom on July 19 to discuss how they want to proceed. An attorney for the publishers, Bruce Keller, said he was speaking for all parties when he said they needed several more weeks to figure out all the issues. Chin said the issues are complicated. In March, he ditched the deal that would have established a universal online library. He cited antitrust concerns and the need for involvement from Congress. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hp-sets-sights-on-rivals-with-webos-software-ap/ hp-sets-sights-on-rivals-with-webos-software-ap Thu, 2 Jun 2011 02:31:17 +0300 RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. – Hewlett-Packard Co. will soon include its webOS system for smartphones on all its PCs, upcoming tablet computer and higher-end printers, putting it in competition with operating software from Apple, Google and Microsoft. HP's intentions, laid out at a prominent technology conference Wednesday, represented a particular challenge to longtime partner Microsoft Corp., whose Windows operating system runs on all of the 65 million PCs that HP shipped last year. CEO Leo Apotheker said the company should have put webOS further into the marketplace sooner. HP acquired webOS when it bought struggling cellphone maker Palm Inc. last year. At first, webOS will sit on top of Windows in personal computers, Apotheker said. He hinted webOS could run on its own and be licensed to other hardware makers over time. But he said Windows will continue to have a presence for years to come. "I don't believe that Windows will fade into irrelevance," he said. Apotheker's statements came at the "D: All Things Digital" conference, an annual event hosted by News Corp.'s Dow Jones & Co., which also owns The Wall Street Journal. It has become a well-attended forum for executives to talk about strategy on the southern California coastline. Micro-blog service Twitter's CEO, Dick Costolo, announced a new photo uploading service and more relevant searches that would show photos and videos without having to click through to links. Netflix Inc. CEO Reed Hastings elaborated on the online video company's ambitious content-buying and expansion plans. Group discount company Groupon Inc. CEO Andrew Mason kept mum on the possibility ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/no-evidence-us-government-accounts-hacked-official-afp/ no-evidence-us-government-accounts-hacked-official-afp Thu, 2 Jun 2011 02:00:26 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House has no reason to believe that Gmail accounts of senior government officials were hacked in a cyber spying campaign originating in China, an official said Wednesday. "We're looking into these reports and are seeking to gather the facts," an official said on condition of anonymity. "We have no reason to believe that any official US government email accounts were accessed," the official said, referring other queries to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Google said earlier that a cyber spying campaign originating in China had targeted Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists. Those affected included senior US government officials, Chinese political activists, military personnel, journalists and officials in several Asian countries, predominately South Korea, the company said. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-given-more-time-to-reach-book-settlement-afp/ google-given-more-time-to-reach-book-settlement-afp Thu, 2 Jun 2011 02:01:17 +0300 NEW YORK (AFP) – A US judge on Wednesday allowed Google and US authors and publishers more time to seek a new settlement over the Internet giant's plan to create a massive online library and bookstore. US District Court Judge Denny Chin gave Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) until July 19 to hammer out a deal to settle a 2005 class action charging Google with copyright infringement over its huge book-scanning project. In March, Chin rejected a settlement calling for Google to pay $125 million to resolve outstanding copyright claims and to establish an independent "Book Rights Registry" which would provide sales and advertising revenue to authors and publishers. Google said in a statement Wednesday that it has been "working closely with the authors and publishers to explore a number of options in response to the court's decision. "At today's status hearing, we asked the court for more time to discuss those options," Google said. "Regardless of the outcome, we'll continue to make the world's books discoverable online through Google Books and Google eBooks." Google's plan to scan and put online some 15 million books from more than 100 countries has come under heavy criticism in the United States. In France, three leading publishers have also sued Google for allegedly scanning thousands of books without permission. Supporters of the settlement argued that Google's proposed digital library and e-bookstore would make millions of out-of-print books available and provide a new avenue for authors to profit from their works. Opponents urged the judge to reject the deal ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-reveals-gmail-hacking-likely-from-china-reuters/ google-reveals-gmail-hacking-likely-from-china-reuters Thu, 2 Jun 2011 00:30:36 +0300 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Google Inc revealed on Wednesday that unknown hackers likely originating from central China tried to hack into the Gmail accounts of hundreds of users, including senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists. The world's largest Internet company said on its official blog that the hackers, who appeared to originate from Jinan, China, recently tried to crack and monitor email accounts by stealing passwords, but Google detected and "disrupted" the campaign. It notified the victims and relevant governments, Google added in its blog post. Google shares slipped finished 0.7 percent lower at $525.60. "We recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," Google said on its official blog. "This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users, including among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists." The United States has warned that a cyber attack -- presumably if it is devastating enough -- could result in real-world military retaliation, although analysts say it could be difficult to detect its origin with full accuracy. The attacks are the latest computer-based invasions directed at western companies and come a year after Internet giant Google and numerous companies were targeted by hackers traced to China. That previous incident triggered a highly-charged ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nokia-denies-reports-of-a-microsoft-acquisition-for-19b-newsfactor/ nokia-denies-reports-of-a-microsoft-acquisition-for-19b-newsfactor Thu, 2 Jun 2011 00:31:22 +0300 When Nokia announced a few months ago that it was dropping its Symbian mobile operating system in favor of Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7, many observers described it as the phone company throwing a lifeline to the software giant. Now Nokia is denying reports that Microsoft will buy the company for $19 billion. The rumor apparently started when Eldar Murtazin, a Russian journalist who is editor of Mobile-Review.com, tweeted on Tuesday that "one small software company decided last week that they could spend 19 bln USD to buy a small phone vendor." He also mentioned the possibility in his blog several weeks ago, noting that the agreement could be reached before the end of this year. Nokia has described the rumor as "100 percent baseless." Falling Sales Murtazin was the source of the first report in February about Nokia's partnership with Microsoft for Phone 7, providing at least some credibility to his predictions. Several circumstantial facts also lend credence to the idea. The current Nokia chief executive is ex-Microsofter Stephen Elop. Additionally, Nokia's stock is now at a 13-year low. On Tuesday, the company warned that its sales and profit estimate for this quarter could be well below expectations. Shares dropped 17 percent Tuesday morning and another 10 percent Wednesday morning. The company's stock is down 38 percent since Feb. 11, when it announced the Microsoft partnership. Nokia also said Tuesday that it is dropping a full-year outlook, which it attributed to a changing and difficult environment in China and Europe. Nearly a third of Nokia's sales and services ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/t-mobile-preparing-for-htc-sensation-4g-launch-newsfactor/ t-mobile-preparing-for-htc-sensation-4g-launch-newsfactor Thu, 2 Jun 2011 00:31:25 +0300 Another summer, another flood of smartphones. Although the iPhone 5 won't make its typical early summer debut, HTC is pushing new devices -- and the company hopes its latest will be a market sensation. The HTC Sensation 4G will make its exclusive debut on the T-Mobile network on June 15. Touting Android 2.3, Gingerbread, the carrier is billing the Sensation 4G as the most powerful smartphone in its lineup. The Sensation 4G comes complete with HTC Sense, a 1.2-GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and access to a 4G network. The Sensation 4G was designed and manufactured by HTC. The company is positioning the new handset as a superphone. Appearance-wise, the device has rounded edges, aluminum unibody construction, and T-Mobile's first 4.3-inch qHD touchscreen display. Apps and More Apps With so much focus on apps in the smartphone world, HTC took steps to build in mobile entertainment with features that deliver movies, TV programs, and music via preloaded apps. Specifically, HTC Watch offers access to a library of premium movies and TV shows for rent or purchase, while HTC Listen offers access to millions of songs, along with the capability to transfer music purchases to other devices and computers. T-Mobile is helping the mobile entertainment cause with T-Mobile TV, a free selection of live and on-demand TV, including news, sports and kids' programming, plus full episodes of popular shows. T-Mobile also offers Video Chat powered by Qik to empower video conversations with friends and family. There's also Slacker Radio, a free, personalized radio with more than 150 genre stations and the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/amd-unveils-windows-powered-hd-tablet-platform-newsfactor/ amd-unveils-windows-powered-hd-tablet-platform-newsfactor Thu, 2 Jun 2011 00:31:31 +0300 Advanced Micro Devices unveiled a new semiconductor platform for Windows-based tablets Wednesday. Like its larger rival Intel, which announced its own Windows tablet platform Tuesday, AMD is pinning its hopes on Microsoft being able to make a comeback on the operating-system side of the tablet space currently dominated by Apple's iOS platform for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Though Windows-based tablets were unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last January, those first-generation products were unable to gain market traction. Nevertheless, AMD and Intel believe the full Windows ecosystem will eventually give Microsoft the leverage it needs to make a winning tablet play. The reality is that even the fast market responses with tablets using Google's Android have so far left the iPad unchallenged, noted Al Hilwa, director of applications development software at IDC. "There is probably nobody more experienced in building large hardware and software ecosystems today than Microsoft," Hilwa said. "So I have to believe that they will be successful in the long run at evolving the PC into new areas." In Sync with Smartphones Featuring support for HTML5, Adobe Flash 10.2, and external monitors, AMD's new Windows-powered 2011 HD tablet platform is based on AMD's latest Z-series application processor. Code-named Desna, the new Fusion chip is equipped with dual one-gigahertz cores. AMD's platform will give mobile workers full access to view, edit and collaborate on documents created in Microsoft Office and other business-related applications. What's more, it will support Microsoft Office across multiple devices via Windows Live. And to enable IT departments to safely offer ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gmail-targeted-in-china-based-campaign-google-afp/ gmail-targeted-in-china-based-campaign-google-afp Thu, 2 Jun 2011 00:00:26 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google said Wednesday that a cyber spying campaign originating in China had targeted Gmail accounts of senior US officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists. "We recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," Google security team engineering director Eric Grosse said in a blog post. "The goal of this effort seems to have been to monitor the contents of these users' emails, with the perpetrators apparently using stolen passwords to change peoples' forwarding and delegation settings," Grosse said. The campaign appeared to originate in Jinan, China, he said. Grosse said it affected hundreds of personal Gmail accounts including those of senior US government officials, Chinese political activists, military personnel, journalists and officials in several Asian countries, predominately South Korea. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-says-chinese-hackers-broke-into-gmail-ap/ google-says-chinese-hackers-broke-into-gmail-ap Thu, 2 Jun 2011 00:01:35 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Google says computer hackers in China broke into the Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior government officials in the U.S. and political activists. Google says all victims have been notified and their accounts have been secured. The attacks announced Wednesday on Google's blog aren't believed to be tied to a more sophisticated assault originating from China in late 2009 and early last year. That intrusion targeted the Google's own security systems and triggered a high-profile battle with China's Communist government over online censorship. The tensions escalated amid reports that the Chinese government had at least an indirect hand in the hacking attacks, a possibility that Google didn't rule out. In the latest incident, Google believes Chinese hackers tricked people into sharing their passwords in so-called "phishing" scams. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-hoping-other-sites-like-recommendation-tool-ap/ google-hoping-other-sites-like-recommendation-tool-ap Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:01:27 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Google is hoping other websites will like its recently introduced system for recommending online content and ads. The Internet search leader has been using "+1" recommendation button on its own site for two months. It became available to other publishers Wednesday. The +1 feature is similar to the Facebook "Like" button that has become a staple at thousands of websites. Pressing the +1 or Like button enables people to recommend an article, photo, video, song or some other kind of material to their online connections. The personal endorsement also says something about an individual's interests and preferences. That's something both Google Inc. and Facebook want to know more about so they can do a better job placing the online ads that generate most of their revenue. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-xperia-play-not-the-phone-gamers-hoped-for-ap/ review-xperia-play-not-the-phone-gamers-hoped-for-ap Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:31:44 +0300 WASHINGTON – Sony makes PlayStation game consoles and, through a joint venture, cellphones. Gamers have been asking for years why it hasn't combined the two products. Well, it finally has, with Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play. Sadly, though, this is not the "PlayStation phone" gamers have been hoping for. It is a solid machine that will feel immediately comfortable to PSP users, but it doesn't yet have anywhere near the breadth and depth of games you'd expect from something with "Play" in its name. At launch, only one classic PlayStation game is available: the delightful but dated "Crash Bandicoot." This is disappointing, particularly since it's the first time Sony has allowed its PlayStation games to run on hardware not directly made by Sony. (Sony Ericsson is a joint venture with Sweden's LM Ericsson AB, and substantially independent from either parent company.) The Xperia Play is available now from Verizon Wireless, and costs $200 with a two-year contract. As on many smartphones, a panel slides it out from under the screen. But it doesn't contain the usual keyboard. Instead, there's a full set of arcade controls that look like what might happen if you flattened a PlayStation controller to (almost) two dimensions. On the left are directional controls (up, down, left, right). On the right are the now familiar PlayStation buttons (triangle, square, circle, X). In the middle are two pressure-sensitive plates meant to duplicate the two joysticks on the PlayStation DualShock controller. Left and right triggers — which land where your index fingers should be — round out the game ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rim-shares-tumble-again-after-nokia-warning-reuters/ rim-shares-tumble-again-after-nokia-warning-reuters Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:31:46 +0300 TORONTO (Reuters) – Shares of Research In Motion extended a two-day slide on Wednesday on concerns that a profit warning from Finland's Nokia could presage more difficulties for the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry smartphone. As with Nokia, RIM is losing market share as consumers line up to buy Apple's iPhone and devices based on Google's Android technology. "Nokia cited Android pressures in Europe at all price points. This is impacting RIM as well," said Avian Securities analyst Matthew Thornton. Shares of RIM, which fell 4.4 percent on Tuesday, dropped a similar percentage to a fresh five-year low on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Wednesday, after Jefferies analyst Peter Misek wrote that the Nokia warning was a bearish signal for RIM. RIM issued its own warning in late April, exacerbating fears raised a month earlier after revealing lackluster forecasts. RIM is due to release its earnings for the three months to late May on June 16. The stock lost 16 percent of its value on April 29, the day after RIM warned it was not shipping as many devices in the United States and Latin America as it had expected. "We have reviewed RIM's margins and believe that the handset business could be much lower margin this quarter and going forward as average selling prices collapse," Misek said in a note to clients. "What is happening to Nokia could be a precursor to what could happen to RIM," said Misek, noting that both were embarking on difficult software transitions. RIM's PlayBook tablet computer runs on its new QNX system that the company ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lodsys-sues-app-store-developers-digital-trends/ lodsys-sues-app-store-developers-digital-trends Wed, 1 Jun 2011 20:31:25 +0300 Patent holder Lodsys is amping up its legal battles over in-app purchasing technology: fresh from filing suits against selected Android developers, the company has now filed a lawsuit against a selection of iOS developers, claiming their products infringe on its patents. The move comes after a withering assertion from Apple that iOS developers are covered by Apple’s licensing rights to the patents. The suit was filed in the historically patent holder-friendly Eastern District of Texas, and currently targets Combay, Iconfactory, Illusion Labs AB, Michael G. Karr (dba Shovelmate), Quickoffice, Richard Shinderman, and Wulven Game Studios. At issue are U.S. patents 7,222,078 and 7,620,565, which Lodsys claim cover in-app purchasing. The move ups the ante in the patent dispute between the two companies. Patent litigation can be a drawn-out, expensive proposition, and Lodsys is apparently betting that most iOS developers won’t have the deep pockets or resources to sustain a drawn out legal battle. The burden is now on Apple and Google to step forward and indemnify their developers, taking on the legal battle against Lodsys themselves, or attempt work out a settlement with Lodsys. However, if either Google or Apple capitulates or settles, it could have a dampening effect on development for the iOS and Android platforms, because if Lodsys can succeed in suing app developers for patent infringement, other patent holders are sure to consider the same strategy. In its blog, Lodsys claims it has been in discussion with Apple and that there was “clearly disagreement on the interpretation” of the terms of Apple’s license agreement. Lodsys ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/livingsocial-buys-france39s-dealissimecom-afp/ livingsocial-buys-france39s-dealissimecom-afp Wed, 1 Jun 2011 19:31:29 +0300 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Online bargain site LivingSocial is buying French daily deal site Dealissime.com in a bid to take on Groupon in France. The Washington-based LivingSocial announced on Wednesday that it was buying Dealissime and an online display advertising company founded by a former Google executive, SocialMedia.com. Financial details of the acquisitions were not disclosed. "LivingSocial looks for companies that have similar values and ways of working," LivingSocial co-founder and chief executive Tim O'Shaughnessy said. "The team at Dealissime shares our drive to change the face of local commerce by working directly with merchants to craft handpicked deals that entice, surprise and delight our members," O'Shaughnessy said in a statement. "The addition of Dealissime is one of the next steps in our aim to offer great value to merchants and customers worldwide," he said. Launched in April 2010, Dealissime currently offers group-buying deals in Paris, Marseille and Lyon and plans to expand to Lille and Bordeaux. Dealissime was founded by Lara Rouyres and Tatiana Jama and LivingSocial said the company's current team will remain in place. "We are very enthusiastic about this strategic move and confident in LivingSocial's ability to offer the same level of high-quality deals, customer service and to help us to accelerate our expansion in France," Jama said. LivingSocial's acquisitions were announced as Google began testing its own bargain service on Wednesday in a challenge to the Chicago-based market leader Groupon and others offering online discounts. Google Offers will begin testing in Portland, Oregon, and eventually expand to New York City and the San Francisco area. Groupon, which claimed 50 million subscribers at ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/it39s-a-boy-for-39housewife39-kim/ it39s-a-boy-for-39housewife39-kim Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:32:36 +0300 (CNN) -- This baby was not tardy for the party. "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star -- and aspiring singer -- Kim Zolciak announced late Tuesday that she has given birth to a boy. Zolciak's due date was sometime in early June. And true to her single, Kroy Jagger Biermann came on time. The reality show star announced the baby's birth via a post on her Twitter account. "@biermann71 and I are happy to announce the birth of our son today Kroy Jagger Biermann is healthy & beautiful We are so in love!" the post read. The newborn is the namesake of Zolciak's boyfriend, Atlanta Falcons defensive end Kroy Biermann. Viewers saw the pair meet in a November 14 episode of the Bravo television show. She has two daughters from a previous marriage. Zolciak shot to fame for her role in the "Real Housewives of Atlanta," which chronicles the lives of six "fabulous women from Atlanta's social elite," as the Bravo website put it. The show remains the most popular in Bravo's "Housewives" franchise. It returns for a fourth season in October. Zolciak has tried to parlay her show success into a career in music. Her first single, "Tardy for the Party" -- released in 2009 -- boasted lines such as: "Don't be tardy for the party. Hurry up baby don't be late." She followed up the following year with the single, "Google Me." "Research me, you'll find me. Click them keys and Google me!" CNN's Henry Hanks contributed to this report. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-taking-cautious-stance-on-privacy/ google-taking-cautious-stance-on-privacy Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:32:51 +0300 Rancho Palos Verdes, California (CNN) -- Google, now an Internet giant, is learning that it needs to take more careful steps in regards to privacy. Prompted by intensifying scrutiny from government regulators and privacy watchdogs, Google is striving to be more sensitive to data-collection issues that often make people uneasy. It went so far as to spike a recent project Google engineers had developed because of fears of potential backlash, said Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman and former CEO. The scrapped software would have let people include their head shot photos in a database so that they could be recognized by a mobile application when someone takes a picture of their faces. "We built that technology, and we withheld it," Schmidt said in an onstage interview at the D: All Things Digital conference here on Tuesday. "As far as I know, it was the only technology that Google built, and we decided to stop." That product was meant to be part of an app called Google Goggles, which is able to look at a picture taken from a phone and then translate text or recognize a building, advertisement or painting. (Facial recognition is, however, being used to power a feature in Google Maps's Street View that blurs the faces of bystanders caught on camera.) As recently as March, Google still had plans to eventually release the facial-recognition version of the app, CNN reported. Schmidt was less supportive of the idea at a conference two weeks ago when he said it was "unlikely" that Google would release the software. With facial-recognition technology, "an ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/4th-time-a-charm-for-apple-from-idisk-to-mac-to-mobileme-to-icloud/ 4th-time-a-charm-for-apple-from-idisk-to-mac-to-mobileme-to-icloud Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:03:01 +0300 (WIRED) -- Apple has revealed the name of its upcoming online media service: iCloud. But don't let the cute branding fool you. The company has tried this service before, and the iCloud rebranding signals a do-over on one of Apple's greatest failures. The company issued a news release Tuesday about its software developers' conference to be held next week. In addition to previewing the new Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 operating systems, Steve Jobs will share details on iCloud -- Apple's upcoming "cloud services offering." Based on that terse description alone, we can decipher that iCloud will be Apple's sequel to MobileMe, a paid online service for synchronizing personal information, such as your calendars, address books, e-mail and photos, across multiple devices. Tech observers agree that MobileMe has been one of Apple's most embarrassingly flawed products, thanks to its extremely buggy launch and limited functionality. MobileMe was itself a 2008 rebranding of .Mac, which began its life in 2000 as iDisk. The rebranding hints that Apple may be ready to expand MobileMe into a broader online-storage service. Ross Rubin, consumer analyst at NPD Group, believes that iCloud shows Apple's intention to move into on-demand media, potentially allowing customers to access their iTunes-purchased music or movies over the internet with multiple devices. "There's clearly an opportunity that Apple hasn't really exploited before in terms of media and centralization," Rubin told Wired.com. "The opportunity is to move forward with what they acquired with [music-streaming service] Lala and toward having media available on demand." Apple's aggressive move into the "cloud" ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-tests-groupon-rival-39offers39-afp/ google-tests-groupon-rival-39offers39-afp Wed, 1 Jun 2011 13:01:18 +0300 RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California (AFP) – Google will on Wednesday begin testing an Offers service that delivers local bargains to smartphone "wallets" in a challenge to online bargain hot spot Groupon. Google Offers, working in conjunction with the Wallet mobile payment platform for Android smartphones, will begin testing in Portland, Oregon and eventually expand to New York City and the San Francisco area. "There is no intent to favor one (smartphone) platform," Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said while introducing Offers at an All Things Digital conference at a resort in the southern California town of Rancho Palos Verdes. "This is a big opportunity," he added, as Stephanie Telenius and another Google executive demonstrated Offers on stage. "We make our money through advertising and the Offers." The service takes advantage of near-field-communication (NFC) chips to consummate discounts available to people who sign up using Gmail accounts. "Tap, pay and save," Telenius said. "This is new; there is no one doing this exact thing. We are integrating at the point of sale." Offers comes as a direct challenge to Chicago-based Groupon, which offers subscribers online coupons for discounts on a broad range of consumer goods and services. Groupon in April announced the appointment of former Google executive Margo Georgiadis, saying she would oversee global sales, marketing and operations. Georgiadis was previously Google's vice president in charge of global sales. Google's move to build its own local coupon service comes as it ramps up its commerce platform to stay in tune with lifestyles increasingly centered on smart mobile gadgets such as smartphones and tablet computers. Groupon, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ebay-si-paypal-au-dat-in-judecata-google-pentru-furt-de-secrete-comerciale/ ebay-si-paypal-au-dat-in-judecata-google-pentru-furt-de-secrete-comerciale Sat, 28 May 2011 14:03:20 +0300 eBay şi PayPal, divizia de plăţi online a companiei, au dat în judecată Google, precum şi doi foşti angajaţi, pentru furt de secrete comerciale, relatează Bloomberg. Acuzaţiile se referă la folosirea ilegală a unor secrete referitoare la operaţiunile de plăţi prin telefonul mobil ale PayPal. Osama Bedier, fost director la PayPal, în prezent angajat al Google, a furat informaţii confidenţiale de la fosta sa companie, potrivit reclamaţiei depuse la un tribunal din San Jose, California. Stephanie Tilenius, care şi ea a plecat de la PayPal la Google, şi-ar fi încălcat obligaţiile contractuale prin recrutarea lui Bedier, se arată în documente. "Bedier şi Google au folosit în mod ilegal secrete comerciale ale PayPal, referitoare la punctele de plată, pe care le-au dezvăluit Google şi altor retaileri importanţi", potrivit plângerii. Ambele companii încearcă să îşi dezvolte reţele de puncte de plată în magazine. PayPal colaborează cu retaileri importanţi pentru dezvoltarea unui nou tip de sistem de puncte de plată. Google a prezentat, joi, două servicii prin care consumatorii pot efectua plăţi la cumpărături prin telefoanele mobile. Un purtător de cuvânt al Google a declarat că nu poate comenta până când compania nu primeşte o copie a reclamaţiei. PayPal mai acuză că Bedier, care a plecat din companie în ianuarie, discuta cu Google despre acest fapt în timp ce în paralel conducerea negocierile ca Pay Pal să devină o opţiune de plăţi pe piaţa Android. Tilenius a plecat de la eBay în 2009 şi nu avea voie, prin contract, să recruteze angajaţi din companie. Anca Dumitrescu, anca.dumitrescu@mediafax.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/america39s-most-popular-online-teacher-us-news-world-report/ america39s-most-popular-online-teacher-us-news-world-report Sat, 28 May 2011 17:35:38 +0300 America's most popular teacher doesn't work at Harvard University or a fancy prep school. In fact, he doesn't work in a school at all, but his lessons have been viewed more than 56 million times. Salman Khan, a former hedge fund manager, is the founder of Khan Academy, a free online learning platform with a library of more than 2,300 videos covering everything from basic algebra and differential equations to the Vietnam War. In 2004, Khan's younger cousin in New Orleans, Nadia, was having trouble in her math class. Khan, an MIT graduate who was working in New York City, began tutoring Nadia over Yahoo! Messenger. Soon, more relatives began asking for help, so he started making YouTube videos explaining different topics, which they could view when they had time. Eventually, other people discovered his videos and thought they were useful. Most videos are brief--anywhere from a couple of minutes to a half hour, depending on the subject. Khan scrawls equations and writes down key terms on a computer program that simulates a chalk board as he explains them with a voiceover track. "Students were telling me they got better feedback on YouTube than in person with their teachers," he says. "The topics kept growing, [and] the feedback from users kept growing." [Learn how college professors are taking advantage of YouTube.] User feedback was so positive that in 2007 he founded the not-for-profit Khan Academy, which initially consisted of little more than a landing page for his videos. Today, the Academy features the videos, online exercises and assessments, and progress-tracking ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/twitter-chief-picked-as-obama-telecom-advisor-afp/ twitter-chief-picked-as-obama-telecom-advisor-afp Sat, 28 May 2011 17:45:47 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – US President Barack Obama named Twitter's chief and a high-ranking Microsoft executive among a handful of technology veterans to be appointed as telecommunications security advisors. "I am proud to appoint such impressive men and women to these important roles, and I am grateful they have agreed to lend their considerable talents to this administration," Obama said in a White House press release available online Friday. "I look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead," he continued in reference to those he picked to join his National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. The list of appointees included Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo; Microsoft vice president of trustworthy computing Scott Charney; McAfee computer security company president David DeWalt, and Lisa Hook, head of global communications technology firm Neustar. The final appointee to the committee was Jamie Dos Santos, chief of the group that handles federal government information technology at Terremark Worldwide. Costolo replaced Twitter co-founder Evan Williams as chief executive in October in a move that gave the San Francisco-based firm's helm to a Google veteran with a mandate to help the microblogging sensation make money. Microsoft's trustworthy computing unit specializes in identifying Internet threats and protecting systems operated by the Redmond, Washington-based technology firm's widely used software. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/whistleblower-rule-clears-divided-sec-reuters/ whistleblower-rule-clears-divided-sec-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:48:10 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Corporate whistleblowers could score multi-million-dollar payouts for reporting financial wrongdoing under a new program approved by securities regulators on Wednesday. A divided Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 to finalize the measure that has grown into one of the most contentious requirements of last year's Dodd-Frank Wall Street overhaul law. Tipsters would be paid between 10 and 30 percent of sanctions over $1 million for original and useful information. Companies from Google Inc to JPMorgan Chase & Co have expressed fears the whistleblower rule will undermine internal compliance programs at public companies by encouraging employees to go directly to the SEC. The rule does not require whistleblowers to first, or simultaneously, report problems internally, as companies had sought. In a concession to companies, the final SEC version would make a whistleblower still eligible for a reward if he or she reports wrongdoing to the company, and the company, in turn, reports it to the SEC. A whistleblower can also improve the chances of receiving a higher percentage award by internal reporting, but the rule only protects the whistleblower from retaliation if the employee also reports wrongdoing to the SEC. Business interests such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce remain deeply unhappy about the rule and could appeal in court. The SEC had put "trial lawyer profits ahead of effective compliance," the chamber said in a statement. Rewarding whistleblowers has a long history in the United States. Last year the U.S. Department of Justice gave former GlaxoSmithKline Plc employee Cheryl Eckard a $96 million reward under the U.S. False Claims Act, a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/new-rules-offer-big-cash-awards-to-whistleblowers-ap/ new-rules-offer-big-cash-awards-to-whistleblowers-ap Sat, 28 May 2011 17:48:12 +0300 WASHINGTON – Whistleblowers who report corporate fraud or other misconduct to the government could receive sizable cash awards under new rules adopted Wednesday by federal regulators. Tipsters would be eligible if they give the Securities and Exchange Commission information that leads to an enforcement action resulting in more than $1 million in penalties. The SEC would pay up to 30 percent of the money it recovers from a company or person. A divided SEC voted 3-2 to adopt the whistleblower program. The two Republican commissioners objected. The new rules will take effect in about 60 days. Whistleblowers who provided information starting in July 2010, when the overhaul law was enacted, also would be eligible to receive awards. The whistleblower program was mandated by the financial overhaul law enacted last year. It was contested by big U.S. companies, like AT&T Inc., Best Buy Co., FedEx Corp., Google Inc., Target Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., in addition to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. They argued that whistleblowers should first have to tell their companies of misconduct and give them a chance to correct problems before informing the SEC. Otherwise, the corporations contend, it will take longer to address wrongdoing. On the other side, advocates and lawyers for whistleblowers say they would be discouraged from reporting wrongdoing if required to inform company officials first. The new rules would seek to discourage employees from bypassing their companies' compliance programs. Once employees report potential wrongdoing to their company, the SEC would officially designate them as whistleblowers, potentially eligible for awards — provided they give the SEC the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sec-gears-up-to-finalize-new-whistleblower-rules-reuters/ sec-gears-up-to-finalize-new-whistleblower-rules-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:48:15 +0300 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Whistleblowers who provide substantive original tips leading to large-scale enforcement actions can get financial rewards under a new program about to be approved on Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The program, has proven to be among the most contentious new regulations that the SEC has tackled so far as it works to implement nearly 100 new rules under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street overhaul law. Companies from Google Inc and Microsoft Corp to General Electric Co and JPMorgan Chase & Co have asked the SEC to require whistleblowers to first report problems internally amid concerns they may be tempted to skirt company compliance programs to get a big payday. But the SEC did not give into the demands by big public companies, instead making more changes to the final rule that aim to encourage internal reporting without mandating it. Under the final rule, whistleblowers who provide original tips leading to sanctions exceeding $1 million can be eligible for between 10 percent and 30 percent of a reward. To promote internal reporting, the SEC has added some features to the rule such as making a whistleblower eligible for a reward if he or she reports wrongdoing to the company and the company, in turn, reports it to the SEC. Another change in the final rule, meanwhile, would let employees be treated as a whistleblower in the SEC program starting on the date they reported the problems internally, as long as the same tip is provided to the SEC within 120 days. Finally, whistleblowers who provide tips internally ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/6-alternatives-to-google-music-beta-yahoo-news/ 6-alternatives-to-google-music-beta-yahoo-news Sat, 28 May 2011 17:50:22 +0300 Google announced the Google Music Beta service during its recent I/O conference. Essentially, Google Music Beta will allow you to upload 20,000 of your songs to a virtual "locker," which you can access anywhere via the web or your Android device. Google Music Beta is already available to early testers who managed to score a beta invite (you can request a beta invite from Google if you want to check it out). In addition to accessing your music, the service will carry your playlists and preferences everywhere you use it. The app caches your recently played music, so you can still access it without an internet connection, providing you at least some music if you happen to be offline. While Google Music Beta is pretty exciting news, the cloud-based storage method won't necessarily appeal to everyone. Other options and competing services already exist across the internet, and you can use them now even without an invitation. 1. Amazon Cloud PlayerThe Amazon Cloud Player is the most direct competitor to Google Music Beta. The Amazon offering allows you to upload any kind of document to its Cloud Drive, providing a specific Cloud Player to let you listen to your music. Using the same storage space for both music and other types of files is obviously a pretty big benefit. On the drawbacks side, though, Amazon charges if your storage locker goes over 5GB, at a rate of about $1 per GB. The Amazon Cloud Drive has received pretty good reviews so far, although there's a bit of legal uproar because Amazon ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-wallet-smartphone-payment-system-wants-you-to-get-rid-of-your-wallet-yahoo-news/ google-wallet-smartphone-payment-system-wants-you-to-get-rid-of-your-wallet-yahoo-news Sat, 28 May 2011 17:50:23 +0300 It's no secret Google wants to revolutionize the way we pay. We've heard murmurings of Google's plans to put Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to expansive use since former Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off the NFC-savvy Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) last November. NFC technology enables devices like smartphones to interact directly with special NFC sensors, letting you pay for that coffee with a tap or a swipe of your phone. Today Google showed its hand, laying out a roadmap for an ambitious mobile payment system called Google Wallet. Google Wallet seeks to literally replace your wallet, allowing you to make transactions on the go without the need for plastic or cash with "one tap of your phone." Eventually Google Wallet wants to devour all of the contents of its physical counterpart, storing other cards and information you might tote around in your pocket. The company is wisely playing up the level of security its new mobile payment system provides, and through pin codes, encryption, and other measures, it aims to be more secure than carrying your information around in your back pocket. Google also emphasized Google Offers, a local deals service that the company announced back in January. Google Offers will tie right into your new virtual wallet, as well as delivering local offers to your inbox (we're assuming you can opt out of that bit). Through a partnership with Mastercard, Google's mobile payment vision will first roll out in San Francisco and New York, with a national expansion in the coming months. According to the company, today's announcement "is just ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-google-music-beta-puts-your-tunes-in-the-cloud-yahoo-news/ review-google-music-beta-puts-your-tunes-in-the-cloud-yahoo-news Sat, 28 May 2011 17:50:26 +0300 Google Music is a new way to listen to your music. By uploading music to the cloud, you can then access your music anywhere you have an internet connection, without having to download it onto your computer or phone. All your music is streamed right from Google's storage system, so you won't miss a beat. Google unveiled Google Music at the Google I/O conference that happened this May. The service is in beta testing now, and you can sign up to help test it out at the Google Music home page — it's pure luck whether or not you'll be selected as a tester, so cross your fingers. Remember that while this is a very neat piece of technology, it's still in beta. This isn't a finished product yet, so expect bugs. Nonetheless, it's fun to take a look at what Google has cooking! The entire process of getting your tunes up on Google Music is pretty easy, and so is creating playlists and listening to the music. Uploading musicThe uploading process starts when you download and install the Google Music Manager. This is a small app that runs on your computer and constantly scans a music folder you specify (like your iTunes folder) for new songs. Whenever a new song is added to that folder, it's automatically uploaded to Google Music. The program itself doesn't consume many system resources, and you probably won't even notice it running, although when it uploads a song you might notice your internet speed drop. If you have a fast internet connection, you won't need to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/keep-your-apple-computer-safe-from-mac-defender-malware-yahoo-news/ keep-your-apple-computer-safe-from-mac-defender-malware-yahoo-news Sat, 28 May 2011 17:50:30 +0300 One of the benefits of going with an Apple computer over a Windows-based machine is that most viruses and malware programs are designed to exploit Windows architecture, leaving Macs much less vulnerable. Earlier this month, some Apple forum-goers began reporting that a malicious program called Mac Defender was on the loose, tricking unsuspecting users into giving up credit card information and other information. After being installed on a computer, which Apple warns can be done automatically and without a user's knowledge, the program performs a fake "scan" of the machine and reports that a virus is present. In the brief moment of panic that such a declaration can produce in many computer users, the malevolent program offers to remove the non-existent virus for a small fee, payable by credit card. But the scam doesn't end there; the unauthorized third party can now wreak havoc using the stolen financial information. In the days since its discovery, Apple has acknowledged the threat is real, and the company is reportedly hard at work on an update that will remove the software. Until then, the Mac makers have posted a handy removal guide for those who prefer to take matters into their own hands. Follow the steps below — straight from Apple — to remove Mac Defender and make sure your computer is clean. Move or close the Scan Window Go to the Utilities folder in the Applications folder and launch Activity Monitor Choose All Processes from the pop up menu in the upper right corner of the window Under the Process Name column, look ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/galaxy-tab-101-a-few-days-away-running-brand-new-android-yahoo-news/ galaxy-tab-101-a-few-days-away-running-brand-new-android-yahoo-news Sat, 28 May 2011 17:50:31 +0300 Every Android tablet has big dreams of growing up to be an iPad killer, but could Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 be the real deal? After going back to the drawing board following Apple's iPad 2 launch, a recent tweet from Samsung suggests the tablet is "only a few days away." Another Honeycomb" that will feature resizable widgets, Google's new movie rentals service, and more. The Galaxy Tab 10.1, the big brother to the forthcoming Galaxy Tab 8.9, sports a 10.1" screen (as the name would suggest), along with a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, a front-and back-facing camera, and 1080p video recording. At .33" thick, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will squeak past the super slim iPad 2 to become the thinnest tablet on the market. While we'll have to wait and see if Samsung has a real contender in its reimagined Galaxy Tab, it sounds like we won't be waiting for very long. Via AndroidandMe More from Tecca: Tablet Wars: Meet the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Just Show Me: An overview of Android for tablets, Honeycomb 3.0 [Tecca TV] Visual Guide: Comparing the top tablets of 2011 http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-vows-to-fight-suit-over-mobile-39wallet39-afp/ google-vows-to-fight-suit-over-mobile-39wallet39-afp Sat, 28 May 2011 17:50:51 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google on Friday rejected a charge that it swiped PayPal trade secrets to build its new mobile application that turns a smartphone into an electronic wallet. Within hours of the unveiling of "Google Wallet" on Thursday, eBay and PayPal filed a lawsuit charging the Internet giant tapped into the online financial transaction service's know-how for the mobile payments project. PayPal spent three years trying to work out a deal in which it would handle payments for Android smartphones, only to see Google scuttle the talks and hire PayPal lead negotiator Osama Bedier, according to court documents. "Silicon Valley was built on the ability of individuals to use their knowledge and expertise to seek better employment opportunities, an idea recognized by both California law and public policy," a Google spokesman told AFP. "We respect trade secrets, and will defend ourselves against these claims." Bedier worked at the eBay-owned online financial services unit as a vice president of platform, mobile, and new ventures until being hired in January by Google. He played a central role at Google's official unveiling of Google Wallet on Thursday with financial partners Citibank, MasterCard and First Data and telecom ally Sprint. "(Bedier) had an intimate knowledge of PayPal's capabilities, strategies, plans, and market intelligence regarding mobile payment and related technologies," the lawsuit said. "He is now leading Google's efforts to bring point of sale technologies and services to retailers on its behalf." Google Wallet is being field tested and will be available this year. Google Wallet will initially work with Google's Nexus S 4G smartphone from Sprint, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/analysis-skorea39s-smartphone-love-affair-lures-foreign-suitors-reuters/ analysis-skorea39s-smartphone-love-affair-lures-foreign-suitors-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:50:56 +0300 SEOUL (Reuters) – The proliferation of smartphones in South Korea is transforming this former "walled garden" ruled by local players into one of Asia's most promising destinations for global Internet and social networking firms. A solid, wireless broadband infrastructure, feature-packed new models from homegrown giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, and an explosion in mobile applications and services have all contributed to the breakneck speed of smartphone adoption. In just 18 months the number of smartphone subscribers in South Korea has exploded more than ten-fold to top 10 million, or around a fifth of the population, according to the Korea Communications Commission (KCC). South Korea ranks first in Asia and third globally in smartphone penetration, according to eMarketer, lagging only the United States and Western Europe. All this is music to the ears of handset makers and application developers. "Korea is interesting because it's got a large, tech-savvy and concentrated population," said Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of group-buying site Groupon, which launched services in Korea in March. "It's the perfect market for Groupon." Smartphones have become a "Trojan horse into the Korean market" for the likes of Google and Facebook, which had a head start on local firms in optimizing their offerings for smartphones, said Richard Min, partner at Seoul-based startup incubator, Seoul Space. Foreign entrants have moved quickly to capitalize on the changing landscape. Twitter launched a Korean-language website in January after seeing a 3,400 percent spike in the volume of Korean tweets in 2010. It now has around 3 million local users, according to market research firm, Daumsoft. Facebook opened ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ebay-paypal-sue-google-over-mobile-wallet-afp/ ebay-paypal-sue-google-over-mobile-wallet-afp Sat, 28 May 2011 17:50:57 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Within hours of the unveiling of "Google Wallet," eBay and PayPal filed a lawsuit charging the Internet giant tapped into trade secrets for the mobile payments project. PayPal spent three years trying to work out a deal in which it would handle payments for Android smartphones, only to see Google scuttle the talks and hire PayPal lead negotiator Osama Bedier, according to court documents. "By hiring Bedier, with his trade secret knowledge of PayPal's plans and understanding of Google's weaknesses as viewed by the industry leader, Google bought the most comprehensive and sophisticated critique of its own problems available," the court filing said on Thursday. "Google put Bedier in charge of its mobile payment business, virtually ensuring that Bedier would misappropriate PayPal's trade secrets concerning planning and competitive assessments in mobile payment." Osama Bedier worked at PayPal as a vice president of platform, mobile, and new ventures until being hired in January by Google. Bedier was lured to Google by Stephanie Tilenius, who left her job as an eBay executive in late 2009 and went to work for Google, according to the lawsuit. Google could not immediately be reached for comment on the allegations. Bedier and Tilenius took center stage at the grand unveiling Thursday of Google Wallet, a platform for using Android-based smartphones to pay for purchases at real world shops. "(Bedier) had an intimate knowledge of PayPal's capabilities, strategies, plans, and market intelligence regarding mobile payment and related technologies," the court documents said. "He is now leading Google's efforts to bring point of sale technologies and services to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ebay-and-paypal-sue-google-over-trade-secrets-reuters/ ebay-and-paypal-sue-google-over-trade-secrets-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:50:58 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – EBay and its online payment unit, PayPal Inc, on Thursday sued Google Inc and two executives for stealing trade secrets related to mobile payment systems. The two executives, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, were formerly with PayPal and led the launch on Thursday of Google's own mobile payment system in partnership with MasterCard, Citigroup and phone company Sprint. The suit highlights the growing battle by a wide range of companies from traditional finance to Silicon Valley trying to take a major stake in what has been described as a $1 trillion opportunity in mobile payments. The mobile phone is seen as the digital personal wallet of the future. The eBay suit said Bedier worked for nine years at PayPal, most recently serving as vice president of platform, mobile and new ventures. He joined Google on January 24 this year. Tilenius was at eBay from 2001 to October 2009 and served as a consultant to the company until March 2010. The suit says Tilenius joined Google in February 2010 as vice president of e-commerce. Bedier is accused in the suit of having "misappropriated PayPal trade secrets by disclosing them within Google and to major retailers." The suit accused Tilenius of recruiting Bedier, thereby breaking a contractual agreement with eBay. It also claims Bedier attempted to recruit former colleagues still at PayPal. Ebay said PayPal and Google worked closely together for three years until this year on developing a commercial deal where PayPal would serve as a payment option for mobile application purchases on Google's Android phones. It said Bedier was ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/making-money-from-paid-apps-in-android-market-a-challenge-for-app-developers-digital-trends/ making-money-from-paid-apps-in-android-market-a-challenge-for-app-developers-digital-trends Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:04 +0300 It’s more difficult for app developers to make money in the Google Android Market than in the Apple App Store using the one-off fee model, according to the latest findings from app analytics company Distimo. A study published this week shows that among paid apps in the Google Android Market, 80% have been downloaded less than 100 times. Distimo found that it’s “more challenging for developers in the Google Android Market than in the Apple App Store to monetize using a one-off fee monetization model.” Big sellers in the Android market (ie. paid apps downloaded more than half a million times) number just two. In the Apple App Store, in contrast, six paid apps have been downloaded as many times, and that’s just in a two month time frame, and in the US alone. Looking more closely at Google’s app store, we are told by the Netherlands-based analytic company that there are 96 apps which have been downloaded more than 5 million times. There’s one free app that really stands out from the crowd, with more than 50 million downloads – Google Maps. Among paid games in the Android market, there are just five which have been downloaded more than 250,000 times. As for the Apple App Store, in the space of just two months, there are ten paid games that have generated more than 250,000 downloads – and that’s in the US alone. Distimo points out that one reason for Android paid apps being downloaded so few times is because “the top charts in the Google Android Market ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lodsys-switching-tactics-now-going-after-android-developers-digital-trends/ lodsys-switching-tactics-now-going-after-android-developers-digital-trends Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:10 +0300 Last week, patent holding firm Lodsys decided to take on iOS developers for using their allegedly patented in-app payment technology. Apple immediately shot back, saying its licensing rights to the technology extends to its developers. But Lodsys will not be deterred: The firm is now lodging the same complaints against Android. Cult of Mac noticed a forum thread in which an Android developer claims to have been contacted by Lodsys over the issue. “We recently implemented in-app purchases for our Android application and several weeks later we received a letter from Lodsys, claiming that we infringed on their patents,” a developer by the handle “Markusn82” says. He also, wisely, asks if any of his peers have experienced the same thing and more importantly, whether or not Google is going to do something about it. Google introduced it’s in-app payment plan for Android about two months ago, and developers have since been making use of the system. There’s speculation that Google will be less involved when it comes to defending its developers, as some think it has a less hands-on approach with Android than Apple does with iOS. Lodsys has been targeting developers instead of their respective platforms given their difficulty and financial inability to fight such litigation. But if it’s any consolation for Android developers, Google has licensed the same in-app technology that Apple did, so should it choose to fight to tell Lodsys to leave its developers alone, it certainly can. Whatever Google chooses to do, it’s certainly telling that after being told to get ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/is-lodsys-claiming-android-developers-infringe-its-patents-pc-magazine/ is-lodsys-claiming-android-developers-infringe-its-patents-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:12 +0300 Lodsys, which has targeted iOS developers and threatening them with legal action, has apparently taken aim against Android developers as well. In a post to an Android developer's board, "markusn82" claimed that his organization had received similar letters from Lodsys, claiming that the developer infringed on the Lodsys patents as well. "We recently implemented in-app purchases for our Android application and several weeks later we received a letter from Lodsys, claiming that we infringed on their patents," the developer wrote. Lodsys made headlines recently for contacting iOS developers and threatening legal action for patent infringement. The patent in question covers "methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity across a network," which translates into in-app purchases, like upgrades from lite to paid versions. Even though Apple has licenses for Lodsys patents, Lodsys argued that those licenses don't extend to app developers. However, this would be the first reported case of an Android developer being hit with a charge of infringement by Lodsys. "Have any other Android developers out there been sent a letter? Has Google taken any action on this issue yet?" "markusn82" wrote. "Has Google given direction to any developers that have been hit by this? We are obviously a small shop and are not financially capable of defending ourselves over a litigation." This week, Apple stepped in and defended its developers, claiming that its own license indemnified those developers who wrote for the Apple platform. "Apple is undisputedly licensed to these patent and the Apple App Makers are protected by that ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/qa-how-google-wallet-aims-to-replace-everything-in-your-pocket-contributornetwork/ qa-how-google-wallet-aims-to-replace-everything-in-your-pocket-contributornetwork Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:16 +0300 Apple likes to say "There's an app for that." But now Google's released Google Wallet, which it says is "an Android app that makes your phone your wallet." Confused? Well, think of it this way. In the same way that credit cards, gift cards, and store loyalty cards replaced carrying cash around, Google's trying to replace all your plastic cards with virtual ones, tied to an app on your phone. How does that work? It uses a technology called Near-Field Communication, which is a fancy way of saying "You wave your phone at things and stuff happens." In this case, credit card payments -- plus store check-ins and things that tie into Google's new Groupon-style offering, Google Offers. So, wait. Couldn't I accidentally pay for something just by getting my phone near the sensor? No. First, the way Google does NFC with Google Wallet, you don't just put your phone near the sensor; you physically tap it onto it. And second, you have to enter a PIN number first. It's basically like making a credit card payment, but you enter a PIN on your phone instead of signing your name on a PIN pad. And you keep the card in your Google Wallet, instead of your physical wallet. Is it safe to use virtual credit cards, though? It'd better be, because we've kinda been using them for years! Huh? A credit card isn't like the key to your car, in that you need the actual card to make payments. It's more like the sticky note above your monitor, with ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-sprint-chose-google-wallet-over-isis-pc-magazine/ why-sprint-chose-google-wallet-over-isis-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:18 +0300 Last November, one phone carrier was missing from the "Big Four" when three of America's biggest carriers aligned to form Isis, a mobile payment platform: Sprint. Sneaky ol' Sprint. Turns out America's fourth largest carrier was being courted by Google to join a Google-led mobile payments ecosystem, Google Wallet, announced on Thursday. Google, Sprint, and a slew of other financial companies had suddenly formed a formidable competitor to Isis, which was, until then, perceived as America's best chance at making mobile payments widespread. On the fringe of yesterday's event, Fared Adib, Sprint's Vice President of Product Development (right), explained why Sprint shunned Isis for Google Wallet. "The reason why we joined this group of companies was really its open philosophy, the ability to bring together multiple different players," said Adib. "Google had the credit card networks, the processors, merchants, everyone already signed up." To clarify, it had one member from each of these industries signed up: Citi, MasterCard, Sprint, and First Data, to be precise. However Google stressed its desire to work with more companies. At the event yesterday, Stephanie Tilenius, Google's VP of Commerce, expressed interest in partnering with "iPhone, RIM, and Microsoft." Adib said he was also excited by the immediacy of Google's plan. "This is not just something we're testing two years from now in one city," he said, snubbing Isis' recent announcement about launching in Salt Lake City in 2012. "We're trialing it today and deploying it in the market very soon." On the outset, partnering with Google puts Sprint in an excellent position, seeing that ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-promises-automatic-android-security-fix-newsfactor/ google-promises-automatic-android-security-fix-newsfactor Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:29 +0300 In the wake of Google's self-proclaimed momentum at the Google I/O conference last week, the creator of Android is getting hit with some stark realities about the security of its open-source operating system. A newly discovered flaw has widespread potential. There are 100 million activated Android devices, according to Google, and 400,000 new devices are activated every day. In all, researchers at Ulm University in Germany who discovered the flaw last week estimate about 98 percent of Android users are vulnerable. "We wanted to know if it is really possible to launch an impersonation attack against Google services and started our own analysis. The short answer is: Yes, it is possible, and it is quite easy to do so," the researchers wrote in a blog. "Further, the attack is not limited to Google Calendar and Contacts, but is theoretically feasible with all Google services using the ClientLogin authentication protocol for access to its data APIs." How Bad Is It? Google responded with an official statement: "Today we're starting to roll out a fix which addresses a potential security flaw that could, under certain circumstances, allow a third party access to data available in Calendar and Contacts. This fix requires no action from users and will roll out globally over the next few days." As Mike Paquette, chief strategy officer at Top Layer Security, sees it, Google is dealing with a serious vulnerability -- and individual users could indeed lose confidential information. Still, he added, this doesn't reach the "sky is falling" category since the attacker would require some level ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nine-features-we-may-see-in-ubuntu-1110-39oneiric-ocelot39-pc-world/ nine-features-we-may-see-in-ubuntu-1110-39oneiric-ocelot39-pc-world Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:33 +0300 Canonical's Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" may still be occupying much of the Linux world's attention, but at last week's Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest, the next version of the free and open source Linux distribution began to take form. A number of decisions were reportedly made about Ubuntu 11.10, or "Oneiric Ocelot," at the conference, while numerous other questions are still being debated. Ready for a very early look at Oneiric Ocelot? Here's a roundup of what's been reported so far. 1. A Refined Unity Natty Narwhal's new, notebook-derived Unity interface has been met with considerable hesitation on the part of some Ubuntu users, but apparently the next version will include a revised version of the desktop shell. For example, "the Unity launcher will see its quicklist functionality improved and icons in the launcher will be able to display count badges or progress meters to reflect the state of the underlying application," according to a report on The H. 2. GNOME 3 The classic GNOME desktop will reportedly no longer be included on the default Ubuntu CD, while Qt-based suggests that Ubuntu 11.10 will include the also-controversial GNOME 3. 3. Evolution -- or Thunderbird? For email, Ubuntu 11.0 is still on track to include Evolution, the Ubuntu standard. There's a chance, however, that Mozilla Thunderbird may be adopted instead, as noted in the software's blueprints. 4. No LibreOffice? Space restrictions on the Ubuntu CD have reportedly become a pressing consideration, with the result that attempts are being made to find a way to free up more room. One idea proposed so far is to drop ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/the-case-for-making-online-textbooks-open-source-infographic-mashable/ the-case-for-making-online-textbooks-open-source-infographic-mashable Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:34 +0300 As companies compete to digitize the textbook market, there is one approach that shakes the traditional publishing business model: open source textbooks, whose proponents believe online educational tomes should be free. Many universities, including MIT and Carnegie Mellon, post course lectures online for free use. A New York Times article last year explained some of the barriers to applying the same approach to textbooks. [More from Mashable: A Tale of Two Infographics: Before and After Firefox 4] For one thing, the textbook authors must agree to have them distributed online without charging royalties -- something that may work well in the software world, where engineers often work on projects while keeping a day job, but typically avoided by writers who put their sweat equity into one book at a time. Also, books for K-12 classrooms must meet state standards, and most states don't have procedures in place for approving open source textbooks. But there's no arguing that having at least a few open source textbooks (even when purchased through companies like Flat World Knowledge that charge for downloading or printing them) would cut down on the average $900 per year that the average student spends on textbooks. Online School has compiled this infographic to explain the cost savings. [More from Mashable: Google Offers $5,000 for Best Tax Infographic] [Source: onlineschools.org] This story originally published on Mashable here. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mozilla-plans-end-to-firefox-35-with-firefox-5-beta-on-horizon-pc-magazine/ mozilla-plans-end-to-firefox-35-with-firefox-5-beta-on-horizon-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:39 +0300 Mozilla is sticking to its new fast-track development cycle, with plans to release a beta version of Firefox 5 on Tuesday, May 17. Meanwhile, the company is also working on phasing out Firefox 3.5. Firefox 5 is recently created channel that now comes between nightly builds and beta in order to "deliver features to users at various levels of quality and polish," Mozilla said last month. Firefox 5 for Mobile is also scheduled for a beta release tomorrow, according to the MozillaWiki. Firefox 4 made its debut on March 22, about a year after the release of Firefox 3.5. Perhaps taking a page from Google Chrome, however, Mozilla is now shifting to an 18-week release cycle, which means we'll see several updated versions of Firefox this year. Firefox 5 is scheduled for a final release on June 21. Firefox 6 is currently in the nightly channel and is scheduled to move to Aurora on May 24. On Firefox 3.5, meanwhile, Mozilla will automatically upgrade 3.5 users to 3.6. "We don't think self-selection will ultimately get us to the place we need to be," Christian Legnitto, Firefox release manager, wrote in a note posted to the developer mailing list. "We will force 3.6 on 3.5 stragglers not choosing to update to Firefox 4 or 3.6." "We feel comfortable making the major update choice for users because a) the versions are very similar and b) we'd rather lose a small amount of miffed users than leave a large amount of users vulnerable," he continued. On the Firefox 3.5 end-of-life Web site, Mozilla said it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/how-open-source-projects-can-prepare-students-for-better-careers-mashable/ how-open-source-projects-can-prepare-students-for-better-careers-mashable Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:40 +0300 Paula Hunter is the executive director of the Outercurve Foundation. With over two decades of open source experience, she has served in leadership roles at organizations such as Open Source Development Labs and United Linux. Follow her on Twitter @huntermkt. Free and open source software (FOSS) is at the root of the most innovative products, technologies and services of our time. The Social Network may have taken some Hollywood liberties, but there’s still a big story to tell about today’s colleges as the hotbeds of innovation, much of it driven by FOSS. [More from Mashable: 57 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed] Today’s top entrepreneurs are using FOSS as the building blocks for innovation. Instead of writing an entire solution from scratch, developers can assemble large parts of their solutions from liberally licensed FOSS projects, and focus their creative energies. FOSS also serves as a training ground for new developers. Good developers have always known that the way to improve is by reading well-written programs. Good FOSS projects in dynamic communities provide a wealth of examples for students to read, understand, and work on. [More from Mashable: Why Career & Technical Education Should Be a Priority for the U.S. [OPINION]] Free and open source software isn't just a good way to program -- it's giving students a leg up in their education and job prospects. Here's how. Skills Working within a FOSS project community brings new benefits. First, there’s the real-world experience of participating in a distributed team. More and more of the world’s software projects are developed in highly connected ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/adobe-releases-flash-player-103-update-for-windows-mac-linux-and-android-digital-trends/ adobe-releases-flash-player-103-update-for-windows-mac-linux-and-android-digital-trends Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:41 +0300 Adobe has released the latest update for Flash Player, version 10.3. The update works with all Flash-enabled platforms, including Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Android, with support for the most recent 3.1 update to Honeycomb. You can nab the download on the web at Adobe.com or through Android Market on your mobile device. The latest Flash update is all about squashing bugs and making things work more smoothly. On the Android side, that means NEON optimizations for OMAP4-based devices (pretty much just the BlackBerry PlayBook for now), various fixes for the Samsung Galaxy S, HTC EVO and some Motorola devices and some optimizations for Android 3.0+. All of the fixes are detailed on Adobe’s Android patch notes page. There are a variety of fixes on the non-mobile side as well, along with a handful of new features. In addition to some new developer tools for measuring video and acoustic echo cancellation, there are also now new controls for managing local storage that have been integrated directly into your browser’s privacy settings, with support for Mozilla Firefox 4, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and higher, Google Chrome 11 and “a future release of Apple Safari.” The update also adds a dedicated Flash Player Settings Manager to Control Panels/System Preferences on Windows, Mac and Linux computers, and auto-updated notifications for Mac OS. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-to-open-source-google-tv-remote-api-pc-magazine/ google-to-open-source-google-tv-remote-api-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:44 +0300 Google will make freely available the API powering its remote-control app for Google TV, broadening its penetration into more markets, a Google executive said Tuesday night. "What we're thinking with the remote stack is that you could have all these interactions with the phone and the TV and just be this one seamless experience," Rishi Chandra, the product lead for Google TV, said at an event at the company's Google I/O conference Tuesday night. Google won't actually make its Google TV announcements at its keynote address on Wednesday, but save them for a developer session later in the afternoon. Instead, the keynote is expected to focus on Chrome, and possibly the related Chrome OS. At the developer session, examples of apps that the company will show off include MyBuddyTV, a content-finding app that consumers can use to find content on the TV, then communicate with the Google TV to actually launch it. Google's GoogleTV platform has struggled, partially because of a reluctance by content providers to allow Google TV (and other non-PC platforms, Chandra said) to view content archived at Web sites like CBS.com. Standalone devices like Google TV have also been marketed at twice the price of products like the Roku media streamers, which lack the ability to access the Web as the Logitech Revue or the television-based Google TV products do. But Google has also begun tying the Android smartphone to Google TV with its remote-control app. It's the first step in what Google called "Android@Home," a program to tie together home appliances ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google39s-android-moving-into-homes-afp/ google39s-android-moving-into-homes-afp Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:45 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google wants Android to move into people's homes with the open-source software powering everything from smart light bulbs to sound systems. More than 5,000 software savants at Google's annual developers conference in San Francisco on Tuesday were shown an "Android@Home" software platform for making dumb devices smart and robots manageable. Among the innovations on display were light bulbs that can be controlled by Android-powered gadgets and a Tungsten sound system that could be synched to Google's freshly-launched Internet "cloud" music storage service. Android light bulbs are to hit the market by the end of the year and developers were invited to turn them into smartphone-controlled alarm clocks for waking people up in the mornings. "We are extending the Android platform into the home," said Google senior vice president of mobile Andy Rubin. "It's a lot of fun," he continued. "The power of Android is that it can be used by a lot of people in a lot of different ways. We are going to see some pretty interesting stuff." The technology has the potential to turn Android smartphones or tablets into remote controls for lights, appliances, irrigation systems, thermostats and more, according to Google. "It is basically connecting lots of things together that inherently weren't designed that way," Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney said of Android@Home. "So many devices are becoming smart and connected, and Android is looking to become the technology to do that." While Microsoft has talked for decades about software giving brains to dumb devices in homes without bringing the vision to the masses, Google could succeed due ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/firefox-4-adoption-tops-xp-skipping-internet-explorer-9-newsfactor/ firefox-4-adoption-tops-xp-skipping-internet-explorer-9-newsfactor Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:47 +0300 Mozilla has reported a sharp rise in Firefox 4 downloads since offering an update to all users of older versions. As a result, Firefox 4's global market share rose more than 3.5 percentage points, Mozilla's Firefox Community Coordinator Asa Dotzler says. By contrast, Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 browser, which rolled out ahead of Firefox 4, held just more than a four percent market share, according to the latest figures cited by Mozilla. What's more, Dotzler doesn't expect IE9 to catch up with Firefox 4 anytime soon -- despite Microsoft's rollout of IE9 as part of its Windows Update service. "It will be a year or two before they can move the bulk of their IE7 and IE8 users forward," Dotzler wrote in a blog. "So today -- and for the foreseeable future -- Microsoft will be number three in terms of usage among the modern browsers." Leaving XP Users Behind IE9's inability to keep pace with Firefox 4 -- at least in the short run -- is due in large part to Microsoft's decision to limit the new browser's compatibility to PCs running Windows Vista and Windows 7. By contrast, Firefox 4 is compatible with PCs equipped with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, as well as Apple's Mac OS and Linux. Given that more than half of all PCs worldwide are still running Windows XP, Dotzler said abandoning the software giant's largest group of users was a poor decision. "It's a shame for the hundreds of millions of users they've left behind who could get huge ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/firefox-4-downloads-spike-with-automatic-upgrade-offers-digital-trends/ firefox-4-downloads-spike-with-automatic-upgrade-offers-digital-trends Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:48 +0300 Mozilla’s Firefox 4 got off to a strong start, with more than 100 million copies of the browser downloaded in its first month of availability. However, that was before Mozilla turned on Firefox Update late last week, which reaches out to eligible users of previous versions of Firefox and asks them if they would like to upgrade to Firefox 4. Since then, according to Mozilla’s community coordinator for Firefox marketing Asa Dotzler, the proportion of users running Firefox 4 has jumped nearly 30 percent. “IE 9 will never catch up to Firefox,” Dotzler wrote. “I’m quite pleased that Microsoft has finally released a modern browser but it will be a year or two before they can move the bulk of their IE 7 and IE 8 users forward. So today, and for the foreseeable future, Microsoft will be number three in terms of usage among the modern browsers.” Strong words, but Dotzler does have some figures to back them up. According to StatCounter, Firefox 4 along accounted for 13.2 percent of all browsers, a 30 percent increase from the 10.3 percent Firefox 4 had captured prior to Mozilla enabling Firefox update. In comparison, Internet Explorer 9 now accounts for just over 4 percent of the global browser market, although it also saw a jump in usership when Microsoft enabled IE9 updated via Windows Update in early April. Microsoft says most Windows Vista and Windows 7 users will have received an offer to upgrade to IE9 by the end of June; Internet Explorer 9 does not support Windows ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google39s-new-finland-data-center-is-cooled-by-baltic-sea39s-water-digital-trends/ google39s-new-finland-data-center-is-cooled-by-baltic-sea39s-water-digital-trends Sat, 28 May 2011 17:51:59 +0300 Google is once again showing off its big environmental conscience with video of the new Hamina, Finland data center, due to open up towards the end of the year. The new center, much like Google’s Saint-Ghislain center, will not be using chillers in its cooling system. Instead, waters from the Baltic Sea will be harnessed to keep servers cool. Google paid $52 million for the Summa paper mill that yielded the 410 acres of land where the new data center is being built. Stora Enso, the paper-making company that formerly owned the land, closed the paper mill down in 2008 because of the drop in newspaper and magazine-paper production. According to the video, the center collects cool water through an inlet pipe and travels through granite tunnels built by the paper mill in the 1950s. The Register has found that the pipes are two meters in diameter and “the system uses 20-year-old water pumps installed by the mill.” The tunnels and pipe are kept clear of blockage by using a small submarine to explore regularly. The water travels through four straining systems and meets a water-to-water heat exchanger. The heat exchanger cools a separate stream that carries on to the data center. Google senior director of data center construction Joe Kava says that once the water’s purpose is met, “we return the temperature that is much more similar to the inlet temperature, so we minimize any environmental impact in that area.†The total costs for the structure comes to roughly $260 million, including the purchase price but the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ibm-passes-microsoft39s-market-cap-after-15-years-reuters/ ibm-passes-microsoft39s-market-cap-after-15-years-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:01 +0300 SEATTLE (Reuters) – International Business Machines edged past old rival Microsoft Corp in market value for the first time since April 1996, marking the latest twist in the fluctuating fortunes of two of the world's most storied technology companies. The move marks another unhappy milestone for Microsoft, which has failed to persuade investors that it can dominate the future of technology as it did in the past, and has seen its share price stagnate over the past decade. An investor putting $100,000 into both stocks 10 years ago would now have about $143,000 in IBM stock and about $69,000 in Microsoft stock. Microsoft is now the third-largest U.S. tech company by market value, after a resurgent Apple Inc roared past a year ago to take first place. IBM ruled the computer industry for decades until it hired the tiny, unknown Microsoft to provide an operating system for its new range of personal computers in the early 1980s. Bill Gates parlayed that breakthrough into industry dominance -- proving his theory that software would be more valuable than hardware -- so that by the end of 1999, Microsoft's market value was three times that of IBM's, and bigger than any other U.S. company. Throughout Seattle-based Microsoft's rise, IBM was pilloried as an old-fashioned, immobile Goliath that could not keep up with the computing revolution. The Armonk, New York-based company known as "Big Blue" was losing billions of dollars a year in the early 1990s and was close to a break-up before a turnaround engineered by CEO Louis Gerstner. Since the Internet technology bubble burst ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lady-gaga-downloads-overwhelm-amazon-pc-magazine/ lady-gaga-downloads-overwhelm-amazon-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:04 +0300 Did you download your copy of Lady Gaga's new album from Amazon MP3 today? Count yourself lucky. The rock-bottom price of 99 cents has attracted Little Monsters far and wide, overloading Amazon's servers. "We're currently experiencing very high volume. If you order today, you will get the full @ladygaga album for $.99. Thanks for your patience," Amazon tweeted early this afternoon. At this point, the album, "Born This Way," is downloading, but very slowly. PCMag started downloading it from Amazon MP3 around 2:45pm Eastern, and by 3:30pm, one song had been downloaded and the rest were hanging at 0 percent. Lady Gaga's album made its debut at midnight, and Gaga herself promoted the iTunes release on her Twitter feed. It appears that some people are bypassing cheap prices in favor of getting their hands on the album as fast as possible. Gaga's album is now number one on iTunes, where the deluxe version is available for $15.99 and the regular version is selling for $11.99. Prior to the release, Gaga was on Twitter sharing tidbits about the album and its songs ("I wrote HAIR about how my parents used to get pissed at my outfits and my hair when I was a kid"). She was recently the first person to reach 10 million followers on Twitter. Over the weekend, Gaga was the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live," but the show also featured the debut of her new commercial (below) for Google. "Makes me choke up, cause i think about us monsters + how far we've come," she tweeted on ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/are-enterprise-app-stores-imminent-pc-magazine/ are-enterprise-app-stores-imminent-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:05 +0300 Despite consumers' enthusiastic embrace of app stores, enterprise has been sluggish to join the hugfest. In an in-depth article at ZDNet, Dion Hinchcliffe takes a look at why IT departments are slow to embrace app distribution, and what needs to change to coax enterprise into app stores. Limitations Abound When it comes to the needs to enterprise, Hinchliffe sees significant limitations in the current app marketplaces. In particular, IT departments are uneasy with the all-you-can-eat selection and rock bottom barriers to entry. Moreover, those who have released enterprise apps have experienced lackluster adoption—at least in terms of the Angry Birds rage. Hinchcliffe speculates that this may be because current apps haven't struck the right balance of features, audience, and software inventory. It could also be there isn't enough demand—yet—for targeted, business-specific apps. "In actuality, I believe that along with the right enterprise formula for an app store (which I think is somewhat problematic in the offerings to date), there is a matching problem in the mindset within most organizations when it comes to acquiring software," writes Hinchcliffe. "Unlike the Internet, most enterprises are not improving fast enough to make it easier and more rapid to obtain software." Who's the Market? Hinchcliffe sees small- and medium-sized businesses as obvious customers in app marketplaces because they lack the support structure (IT departments), time, and expertise necessary for complicated installations and ongoing maintenance; they would be the first to embrace a centralized and competitive marketplace stocked with utility software. Incidentally, this is the market targeted by on-demand software companies; however, until now, they've never reached ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/skype-says-some-users-had-problems-signing-in-ap/ skype-says-some-users-had-problems-signing-in-ap Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:21 +0300 NEW YORK – Internet phone service Skype says a small percentage of its 170 million users have been unable to sign in to its service, a problem that it expects to fix with a software update. Skype said on its website the trouble stemmed from corrupted data affecting computers using Windows, Linux or Macintosh operating systems. The company, which is based in Luxembourg, said it released a new version of Skype for Windows late Thursday to deal with issue. On Friday, it released a version for Mac. Linux users were told to delete a file manually. Skype said individuals using its service on cellphones, televisions or other non-computer devices were unaffected. Skype's service, which allows users to make voice or video calls for free or for low rates, has become a popular way to lower calling costs. Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, is buying Skype for $8.5 billion in a deal expected to close by the end of the year. Microsoft believes Skype will help it sell more digital advertising and offer more popular conferencing tools to help businesses save money. Skype's services also span hot markets — online socializing, mobile phones and digital video — where Microsoft has been struggling to catch up with Facebook, Apple Inc. and Google Inc. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-facebook-lose-social-network-patent-ruling-reuters/ google-facebook-lose-social-network-patent-ruling-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:22 +0300 CHICAGO (Reuters) – Google Inc and Facebook Inc failed to win dismissal of a lawsuit by a New York company related to software designed to let people take part on social networks through their mobile phones. Wireless Ink Corp, which runs the Winksite service, may pursue claims that Google Buzz and Facebook Mobile infringed its October 2009 patent, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan wrote in a ruling made public on Friday. The patent related to a method to help novice mobile phone users create mobile websites that other phone users can see. Wireless Ink is seeking a halt to the alleged infringement, and compensatory and triple damages. Jeremy Pitcock, a lawyer for Wireless Ink, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Facebook and Google did not immediately return requests for comment. According to an amended complaint filed in December, Wireless Ink's application for its so-called '983 patent became public in January 2004. It said this was three years before Facebook, the world's most popular social networking website, launched its first mobile website, and six years before Google launched Buzz to compete with Facebook. "If two of the most resource-rich, patent-savvy and technologically advanced companies leading the Internet were not aware of the '983 patent, despite its potential ramifications upon a major segment of the defendants' business," Wireless Ink wrote, "this was solely due to a deliberate indifference on the part of defendants." Wireless Ink said Winksite had more than 75,000 registered users, while Facebook Mobile has tens of millions of users, and Google said tens of millions of people ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ms-may-show-windows-running-on-an-arm-tablet-newsfactor/ ms-may-show-windows-running-on-an-arm-tablet-newsfactor Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:23 +0300 Get ready for Windows tablets. According to a new report, next week Microsoft will show a tablet-oriented version of its Windows operating system. Citing three unnamed sources with knowledge of the plans, Bloomberg News said the device will contain Nvidia's ARM-based Tegra chip and have a touchscreen interface. Although the location for the demonstration isn't known, Windows President Steven Sinofsky will be presenting at the All Things D conference in California next week, and Vice President Steve Guggenheimer is giving a speech to the Computex show in Taipei. 'A Misstatement' At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Microsoft announced it was developing a version of Windows for ARM-based devices. ARM chips are hugely popular in the world of mobile devices, used in Apple's iPad and Android tablets, among other products. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have jumped the gun earlier this week when he said machines running Windows 8 would come out next year. The company, eager to avoid having buyers wait till next year, then issued a retraction. "It appears there was a misstatement," the software giant wrote to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. It said "we are eagerly awaiting the next generation of Windows 7 hardware that will be available in the coming fiscal year," and added that "we have yet to formally announce any timing or naming of the next version of Windows." But Windows 7 doesn't run on ARM chips, so an OS for ARM devices would need to be a new version. In a note to its clients, Citigroup has predicted that Microsoft ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-not-too-late-for-tablet-party-citigroup-reuters/ microsoft-not-too-late-for-tablet-party-citigroup-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:27 +0300 (Reuters) – Microsoft is still not too late for the tablet party. And with its Next operating system closer than most expect, the software maker could corner meaningful market share in 2013 and beyond, Citigroup said. Microsoft could bring out a tablet-optimized version of Windows Next OS before it releases a PC version, the brokerage said in a note to clients. Citigroup analysts expect the beta version of the operating system by September and shipping to start between January 2012 and March 2013. However, Citigroup was not convinced the product will be a raving success, adding that the overwhelming investor sentiment is Windows Next will not improve Microsoft's position in the consumer devices market. Consumer PC sales have declined for the last three quarters even as smartphones and tablets have become red hot. Apple Inc shipped roughly 15 million iPads in 2010, accounting for nearly the total tablet market, Citigroup said. The analysts said the tablet market has the potential to expand significantly this year, with Apple's release of the iPad 2 in March and a slew of devices running on Google Inc's tablet-optimized Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) OS. "Microsoft can have a meaningful share of the market in 2013 and beyond. Of course this is dependent upon the company's ability to deliver a competitive operating system on partner hardware that is priced competitively," they said. Microsoft would have the enterprise market in its favor if tablets pick up with business users, as these customers are accustomed to Windows devices. The "make or break" element for Microsoft will be the user interface, and the company ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-to-show-windows-8-tablets-asian-oems-most-likely-partners-pc-magazine/ microsoft-to-show-windows-8-tablets-asian-oems-most-likely-partners-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:28 +0300 Microsoft reportedly will demonstrate its Windows 8 tablet operating system next week, according to a report. Bloomberg reported Thursday that the software company will address both the AllThingsD conference next week as well as the Computex show in Taipei. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Monday that Windows 8 would be coming out in 2012. Microsoft later retracted the statements, leading to the possibility that perhaps Microsoft intended to launch Windows 8 next year, but may in fact issue a point release or a dedicated tablet version of the OS. Speaking at a Microsoft Developer Forum in Tokyo on Monday, Ballmer said Microsoft is "obviously hard at work on the next version of Windows." "As we look forward to the next generation of Windows systems, which will come out next year, there's a whole lot more coming," he continued. "As we progress through the year, you ought to expect to hear a lot about Windows 8. Windows 8 slates, tablets, PCs, a variety of different form factors." Which companies could Microsoft partner with? If PCMag.com's list of Windows 7 tablet manufacturers is any indication, Asus, Lenovo, and Samsung would be the likely candidates; Microsoft usually picks existing partners to help launch new initiatives, and Asus especially has developed a fully-formed tablet. For example, Asus launched the Eee Slate EP121, a slate tablet that runs on a full blown Windows 7 operating system and an Intel Core i5 processor. The EP121 is among the biggest slates, boasting a 12-inch screen and weighing 2.5-pounds. Samsung's Sliding PC also bridges ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/higher-prices-for-phone-7-apps-will-be-encouraged-newsfactor/ higher-prices-for-phone-7-apps-will-be-encouraged-newsfactor Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:32 +0300 Even with hundreds of new features built into an upcoming update of Windows Phone 7 and new device partners, Microsoft seems to understand that it's all about the apps. After the software giant showed off its Mango update this week, an executive said the company will encourage more developers to create applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace by allowing higher prices. "I'd rather developers sell fewer than a million downloads and get to a million dollars," Brandon Watson, director of an apps developer program for Microsoft, told Bloomberg News during an interview in Helsinki. "If we can support a higher price point, that's good for developers." How Do They Compare? A report last year by the Dutch research company Ditsimo, which studies the app market, found that, based on October data, the average cost of Windows Mobile apps was more than $5, with the top 100 most popular apps costing more than $6. The average cost of all paid apps for Phone 7, the successor to Windows Mobile, was about $2.50 as of November, the report said, while the average cost of the top 100 most popular apps was more than $6. The average app for Apple's iPhone cost just more than $2, with the top 100 costing about four bucks. For Android, the average cost was just under $5 for all paid apps and about $3.25 for the most popular 100. The Windows Phone Marketplace also had the lowest share of free apps at 22 percent, compared to 57 percent for Android, Ditsimo said. Watson also told Bloomberg ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/hedge-fund-star-einhorn-calls-for-microsoft39s-ballmer-to-go-reuters/ hedge-fund-star-einhorn-calls-for-microsoft39s-ballmer-to-go-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:34 +0300 NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters) – Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn has called for Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to step down, saying the world's largest software company's leader is stuck in the past. "His continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock," Einhorn said in reference to Ballmer. The comments by outspoken Einhorn, who made his name warning about Lehman Brothers' financial health before the investment bank's collapse, are the most pointed yet from a high-profile investor against Microsoft's leadership. Microsoft shares, which have been static for over a decade, gained 0.87 percent in after-hours trading after Einhorn's comments, the most of any Dow Jones industrial average component. The software giant, which was the largest U.S. company by market value in the late 1990s, has since been overtaken by Apple Inc and IBM in market value, and is no longer seen as a dominating force in technology after a failure to capitalize on new Internet and mobile computing markets. The stock is down 6 percent in the last two weeks alone after Microsoft agreed to pay $8.5 billion for Internet phone service Skype, a move which mystified many investors. Speaking at the annual Ira Sohn Investment Research Conference in New York on Wednesday, Einhorn said it was time for Ballmer -- who succeeded co-founder Bill Gates in 2000 -- to step aside and "give someone else a chance." Einhorn's comments echo what some investors have said for some years in private. A Microsoft spokesman declined comment on Einhorn's remarks. RECENT BUYER Einhorn's Greenlight Capital hedge fund has been a recent buyer of Microsoft ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft39s-mobile-software-gets-htc-zte-lift-reuters/ microsoft39s-mobile-software-gets-htc-zte-lift-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:39 +0300 SHENZHEN/PARIS (Reuters) – Microsoft's new Windows Phone platform won instant support from major manufacturers on Wednesday when China's ZTE and Taiwan's HTC Corp pledged to launch smartphones running the software. The software giant had stepped up its push into the cellphone market a day earlier with the launch of the new Windows Phone software, code-named Mango. It hopes a host of new features will help it close the gap on smartphone leaders Google Inc and Apple Inc. Microsoft has struggled for years to gain support from mobile phone manufacturers. All vendors in total sold just 1.6 million Windows Phones last quarter, giving it a market share of below 2 percent. Google and Apple together control more than 50 percent of the smartphone market. Windows Phone got a major boost in February when Nokia, the largest phone vendor by volume, said it would swap its own Symbian platform for Windows Phone. On Wednesday ZTE said it would roll out smartphones running updated Microsoft software later this year in Europe, and in 2012 in the United States. And Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC plans to bring out some models based on Microsoft's new software, its Chief Executive Peter Chou told Reuters on the fringes of an internet conference in Paris. "We are very committed to Windows phone products," he said. Analysts said Microsoft needed all the support it could get from handset vendors. "Increased support and competition can only help Windows Phone. It desperately needs more aggressively priced devices and a substantial promotional push to coincide with the Mango release," said Geoff Blaber, an analyst with ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/htc-ceo-says-windows-mango-phones-in-development-reuters/ htc-ceo-says-windows-mango-phones-in-development-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:41 +0300 PARIS (Reuters) – Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC plans to bring out phones based on Microsoft's new Mango Windows phone software, which was launched on Tuesday, HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou said on Wednesday. Microsoft hopes a host of new features on Mango, a stepping stone to a full Windows phone software update due next year, will help it close the gap on smartphones leaders Google and Apple. "We have some Windows Mango phones," Chou told Reuters in an interview on the fringes of an Internet conference hosted by President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. "We are very committed to Windows phone products." Chou, who is known for killing off products he is not satisfied with at a late stage of development, declined to say when the first HTC Mango phones might appear. Taiwan-based HTC has seen runaway success with smartphones based on Google's Android operating system, a rival to Microsoft's Windows phone. But it also has a long-standing partnership with Microsoft, which Chou said would not change. Last month, HTC said it expected its revenue to double in the current quarter. Chou said on Wednesday: "Q2 looks pretty good." IT research firm Gartner expects the smartphone market to grow 58 percent in 2011 and 35 percent in 2012. (Editing by Hans Peters) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/zte-to-launch-lte-devices-microsoft-mango-reuters/ zte-to-launch-lte-devices-microsoft-mango-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:42 +0300 SHENZHEN (Reuters) – ZTE Corp, China's No.2 network equipment maker, plans to launch LTE (long term evolution) devices in the United States along with smartphones based on Microsoft's Mango operating system to expand its U.S. footprint. The Shenzhen-based company plans to roll out LTE devices in the United States in the second half of this year and aims to launch its Mango smartphones early next year, ZTE's U.S. CEO Cheng Lixin told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday during a company event. "Phone carriers in the U.S. have expressed a lot of interest and we've said that we'll support Mango. We'll likely see Mango smartphones early next year," the Texas-based executive said. Earlier in the day, ZTE executives told Reuters that the company planned to introduce Mango smartphones in Europe in the second half of this year. Microsoft launched an update of its Windows phone software code-named Mango on Tuesday, hoping a host of new features will help it close the gap on smartphone leaders Google Inc and Apple Inc. [ID:nN24255209] ZTE and larger Chinese rival Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, traditionally in the network equipment business, have been aggressively trying to capture market share in the fast-growing mobile devices sector by rolling out smartphones and tablet PCs. ZTE expects to ship more than 80 million handsets this year, up by a third from last year's 60 million units, an executive told Reuters earlier this year. Key markets for ZTE's handphones include China, Europe and the United States. Shipments of its smartphones, which mainly run Google Inc's Android operating system, would rise to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/e-book-report-nook-is-up-ipad-still-catching-up-ap/ e-book-report-nook-is-up-ipad-still-catching-up-ap Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:58 +0300 NEW YORK – As the publishing industry wrapped up four days of digital talk at its annual national convention, Amazon.com's Kindle was seen as the clear, if not dominant, player in the growing e-market; Barnes & Noble's Nook was considered a pleasant surprise and Apple's iPad an underachiever. "They had a respectable launch, but we think Apple can do better," Penguin Group (USA) CEO David Shanks said this week during BookExpo America, which ended Thursday at the Jacob Javits Center. "They still haven't moved their e-books into their iTunes store, and they can have a much better search capability in their iBookstore." "The iPad offers so many audio visual applications that reading is not given as much priority as it is in dedicated (reading only) devices like the Nook and Kindle," says literary agent Richard Curtis. More than 20 million iPads and iPad 2s have been sold over the past year, and the iBookstore is also available on more than 160 million additional devices through the iPhone and iPod. But publishers and agents say Apple is not yet the balance to Amazon.com for which they had hoped. They estimate that Apple sales are around 10 percent of the e-market, far behind the believed 60 percent to 65 percent for Amazon. Publishers and agents say e-books are at least 15 percent to 20 percent of overall sales, more than double from just a year ago. Apple spokesman Jason Roth declined to comment on any specific criticisms, but did say that the iBookstore had over 150,000 titles — an Amazon spokesman ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-will-patch-os-x-to-kill-mac-defender-virus-digital-trends/ apple-will-patch-os-x-to-kill-mac-defender-virus-digital-trends Sat, 28 May 2011 17:53:16 +0300 In the next few days, Apple plans to release a patch to its Mac OS X to kill the “Mac Defender” virus that has been tricking Apple users into giving away their credit card information. News of the patch comes from Apple’s Support site, which now has an entire page dedicated to the malware, which has spread like wildfire across the Mac world. “In the coming days, Apple will deliver a Mac OS X software update that will automatically find and remove Mac Defender malware and its known variants,” says Apple. ” The update will also help protect users by providing an explicit warning if they download this malware.” However, for those with more immediate problems, Apple has provided a guide to avoid installing the malicious software, which also goes by the names MacSecurity and MacProtecter, and how to remove it if you’ve already made a huge mistake and installed it. If you haven’t yet installed Mac Defender, Apple recommends Force Quitting your browser before it installs or aborting the installation and dragging the installer out of your downloads folder and into the Trash. If you’ve already installed it, follow the steps on the site, which we’ve also included below. The Mac Defender virus attacks users if they click on an infected link on the Web, usually in a search engine like Google. Many of the infected websites have been positioned using search engine optimization (SEO), so they appear high in results. Once infected, a window pops up telling a user that the computer is infected with a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-plans-os-x-patch-to-kill-macdefender-scareware-pc-magazine/ apple-plans-os-x-patch-to-kill-macdefender-scareware-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:53:18 +0300 Apple plans to release a OS X software update that will seek out and destroy the MacDefender malware or scareware, Apple said in a support notice late on Tuesday. The support document (which, at press time, wasn't available via a PCMag.com's desktop Chrome browser, but was accessible via a mobile phone) also provides a step-by-step resolution to eliminate the MacDefender malware, which also goes under the names MacProtector and MacSecurity. "In the coming days, apple will deliver a Mac OS X software update that will automatically find and remove MacDefender malware and its known variants," Apple wrote. The update will also help protect users by providing an explicit warning if they download this malware." Security firm Intego reported that the application attaches itself to a computer's launch menu and has no dock icon, making it difficult to quit. Mac Defender also opens Web pages for pornographic Web sites in the user's Web browser every few minutes, the firm said. "This is most likely to make users think that they are infected by a virus, and that paying for MAC Defender will relieve them of the problem," it said. The professional-looking download is reportedly popping up on Google image searchers, according to Mac users who have been targeted. "When a user clicks on a link after performing a search on a search engine such as Google, this takes them to a Web site whose page contains JavaScript that automatically downloads a file. In this case, the file downloaded is a compressed ZIP archive, which, if a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ap-source-apple-nears-music-deal-with-labels-ap/ ap-source-apple-nears-music-deal-with-labels-ap Sat, 28 May 2011 17:53:40 +0300 LOS ANGELES – Apple Inc. is close to securing deals with all four major recording companies on a music service that will allow users to stream songs stored on remote computer servers, presumably to an array of portable Apple-made devices, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. Such a service would give users a wide array of music on-the-go, without having to worry about limited storage space and the need to physically connect different devices to transfer songs. Universal Music Group, a division of Vivendi SA, is about to sign a deal that will give Apple the right to stream songs to its customers, although how exactly the service will function is unclear, the person said. The cloud music service is likely to be unveiled at Apple's annual developers' conference in San Francisco, which gets under way on June 6. Agreements with the units of the recording companies that collect songwriting royalties have not yet been completed but are expected to be finalized soon, the person said. The person was not authorized to speak publicly on the deals and spoke on condition of anonymity. Universal would be the largest and last recording company to sign a cloud music deal with Apple after the maker of iPads and iPhones cut deals with Sony Corp.'s music arm, EMI Group Ltd. and Warner Music Group Corp, the person said. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment. Bloomberg News earlier reported that Apple had reached agreements with Sony, EMI and Warner and that Universal was close to a deal. Over the last two months, Amazon.com Inc. and ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/intel-eyes-apple-as-it-maps-its-future-reuters/ intel-eyes-apple-as-it-maps-its-future-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:53:47 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Trend-setting products launched by Apple Inc (AAPL.O) are a key factor in Intel Corp's (INTC.O) plans for new processors, a senior executive of the world's top chipmaker said. Tom Kilroy, a senior vice president at Intel, told the Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York on Wednesday that the runaway success of the iPad and other Apple products shapes how Intel thinks about future devices and the chips that will power them. "We work very closely with them and we're constantly looking down the road at what we can be doing relative to future products. I'd go as far as to say Apple helps shape our roadmap," Kilroy said. "Apple -- they push us hard," he said. Intel's chips power 80 percent of the world's personal computers but so far have failed to gain traction in the mobile market, where manufacturers favor energy efficient processors designed with technology licensed by Britain's ARM Holdings (ARM.L). But in its high-end MacBook PCs, which set the tone for other computer manufacturers, Apple uses powerful Intel chips. Kilroy played down suggestions that ARM processors could eventually unseat the world's top chipmaker in those premium PCs. "Go look at the performance of those platforms. They're taking our latest and high-end end versions of second-generation core, and ARM doesn't even come close to any capability there," he said. Kilroy would not specifically confirm whether Intel has been guaranteed a place in future MacBooks, saying that kind of announcement would be up to Apple. Inclusion in an Apple product is seen as a major coup for ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/intel-will-launch-10-tablets-running-on-oak-trail-chips-newsfactor/ intel-will-launch-10-tablets-running-on-oak-trail-chips-newsfactor Sat, 28 May 2011 17:53:48 +0300 Few think any vendor can dethrone Apple's iPad 2 tablet -- at least not in the short term. But Intel is going to give it a shot by launching more than 10 new tablets that run on its chips, according to The Wall Street Journal. The chipmaker will reportedly unveil the new devices at Computex, the Taiwanese computer trade show, on May 31. "It is the right move for anyone to strategically leverage the tablet momentum, but they have to get the programming model right and bring developers along," said Al Hilwa, a program director at IDC. "That is the single biggest challenge facing tablet makers outside of the hardware engineering and cost factors. For that, a viable application platform with strong development tools is key. We will have to see how Intel devices fall in this area." 35 Tablets in 2011 According to news reports, Intel will drive deeper into the tablet market by offering its chips in more than 35 tablets in 2011. Intel is competing against ARM-designed chips with a new chipset called Oak Trail that is designed specifically for tablets. The Oak Trail platform, officially known as the Atom processor Z670, offers increased battery life and several other new features. "The new Intel Atom 'Oak Trail' platform, with 'Cedar Trail' to follow, are examples of our continued commitment to bring amazing personal and mobile experiences to netbook and tablet devices, delivering architectural enhancements for longer battery life and greater performance," said Doug Davis, vice president and general manager of Intel's Netbook and Tablet Group. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/droid-x2-mates-a-dual-core-chip-with-a-3g-connection-newsfactor/ droid-x2-mates-a-dual-core-chip-with-a-3g-connection-newsfactor Sat, 28 May 2011 17:53:49 +0300 Stocking up its summer offerings, Verizon Wireless will add another Droid phone to its growing arsenal, Motorola Mobility's dual-core Droid X2. It's Verizon's first smartphone to pack a dual-core processor, a feature likely to be common in the next generation of smartphones as customers crave more multitasking and better web browsing. It will be available beginning May 19 online and May 26th in stores for $199 with a two-year voice and data plan. Like its Droid X predecessor, the Droid X2 has a 4.3-inch display, with a virtual keyboard and an eight-megapixel rear-facing camera. It will ship with Google's Android 2.2 operating system with an update soon to 2.3. It's the second Droid phone to appear this week, after Samsung's Droid Charge, which was originally scheduled for release last month. Motorola's Droid Bionic is due this summer. Tough Choice The Charge and the Bionic are equipped for Verizon's high-speed Long Term Evolution network, which the carrier switched on in December and opened for smartphones in March with HTC's Thunderbolt. But although Verizon is marketing the one-gigahertz Droid X2 as "fast and powerful," it won't access the LTE network, which promises speeds of five to 12 megabits per second for download and two to five Mbps for upload. That puts the company in the position of marketing a sleek, powerful 3G phone against its LTE choices. "Motorola's Droid X was the first phone with a 4.3-inch display at Verizon Wireless," said consumer-devices analyst Avi Greengart of Current Analysis. "The Droid X2 updates the formula with a dual-core processor, but not with ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/intel-gets-defensive-about-windows-8-on-arm-pc-world/ intel-gets-defensive-about-windows-8-on-arm-pc-world Sat, 28 May 2011 17:53:51 +0300 Intel claims that it is not concerned about Microsoft expanding the platform options for Windows 8 to include ARM system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors. At the same time, though, Intel seems to be a bit sensitive about the ARM issue and preemptively hedging its bets. To paraphrase Shakespeare, Intel doth protest too much, me thinks. Microsoft and Intel have a long, established symbiotic relationship. There is a reason that PCs are often referred to as "Wintel". Windows and Intel are both dominant in their respective arenas, and both achieved their dominance with the aid of the other. So, it may have come as a slight shock to Intel when Microsoft revealed that the Windows 8 operating system will also work on the rival ARM architecture. Windows 8 will come in different versions, and that Windows 8 Traditional will be a very different animal from the ARM version of Windows 8 targeted at mobile devices. James stressed that Windows 8 on ARM will not run legacy Windows software. According to reports of the Intel Investor's Meeting, James also spent a considerable amount of time justifying why ARM is not a threat. It seems a bit defensive to say that you aren't losing any sleep over ARM, and then in the same breath explain that you believe that Microsoft platforms are losing some ground, and that you are hedging your bets with Linux and working with Google to port Android to work on x86 architecture. Details of Windows 8, or Microsoft's support for ARM hardware is still sketchy, but apparently the core Microsoft ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/arm-accelerates-server-software-ecosystem-efforts-pc-world/ arm-accelerates-server-software-ecosystem-efforts-pc-world Sat, 28 May 2011 17:53:53 +0300 ARM Holdings is seeking the support of software makers for its plan to put its low-power processors in servers, company executives said this week. Most of the software written for servers is designed to run on x86 chips made by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. ARM and x86 architecture use different instruction sets, so software would need to rewritten to run on servers containing ARM processors. ARM has set up a dedicated team to chase the server opportunity and will reach out to virtualization software makers and server OS companies to write applications for the company's processors, said Vice President of Software Alliances James McNiven during a webcast of the company's analyst conference. ARM is a dominant player in the mobile device market with the processor designs it develops and licenses, but it has almost no presence in the server market. As more servers connect to the Internet, ARM sees an opportunity to put processors in servers that execute web-related tasks such as search and social networking transactions. During analyst day speeches, company officials argued that ARM processors are fast, and more power-efficient for such workloads than conventional server chips such as Intel's Xeon or AMD's Opteron. "We think server ... is a good opportunity for ARM. We're looking to apply the lessons we've learned over several different ecosystems over many years to that ecosystem in servers," McNiven said. ARM is relatively new to the server market compared to Intel and AMD, whose processors populate data centers. ARM initially started looking at the server market two years ago, when it ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/intel-says-39medfield39-smartphone-coming-early-next-year-pc-world/ intel-says-39medfield39-smartphone-coming-early-next-year-pc-world Sat, 28 May 2011 17:53:57 +0300 Intel on Tuesday showed a prototype smartphone based on its low-power Medfield processor and said Intel-based phones from "major players" would be in the market next year. Intel has struggled to get its chips into smartphones and tablets, markets that are dominated today by processor designs from Intel's U.K. rival ARM Holdings. Intel had been working closely with Nokia to develop phones based on its Meego operating system, but Nokia pulled out of the partnership to focus on Windows phones instead. "That was, in hindsight, perhaps the wrong partner to have picked," Intel CEO Paul Otellini said at the company's investor conference Tuesday, in perhaps the biggest understatement of the day. Intel has taken the reference designs it created with Nokia and is shopping them around to other manufacturers, Otellini said. "We plan to have Medfield phones in the market early next year," he said. The device Intel showed on stage looked much like an iPhone. It was running a version of Google's Android OS and displaying high-definition video. The company also has reference designs for 7-inch and 10-inch Medfield tablets. Asked if Intel might produce its own ARM-based processors, Otellini said Intel has a license to produce ARM chips but that it wouldn't be in its interest to do so. That would eat into Intel's profits, since it would have to pay a royalty to ARM on each chip it sold, he said. The company thinks it is better off improving its own Intel Architecture-based processors, which Otellini and other Intel executives contended can be as power-efficient as ARM-based processors. While ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sony-playstation-network-breach-and-other-tweets-of-the-week-pc-world/ sony-playstation-network-breach-and-other-tweets-of-the-week-pc-world Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:22 +0300 This Week's Top Story: PSN Fiasco PlayStation Network lurches to life. Sony's slogan "make.believe" will no longer apply to network security. After hack, Sony offers freebies to unhappy gamers. Let me guess: Free personal info about other players? 5/14/11 Alibaba transferred Alipay ownership without Yahoo approval. On the plus side, 40 thieves seem delighted. Tech gadgets for the absurdly wealthy. I'm still looking for a reasonably priced iPad 2 embedded in a 36-foot yacht. Lady Gaga fans descend on FarmVille. Diva enthusiasts hope to learn how to grow meat dresses. 5/15/11 Senators introduce PROTECT IP bill. House counters with a bill banning cutesy acronyms. Companies explore private virtual worlds. Isn't that just another term for "employees' cubicles"? 5/16/11 Is the cellphone killing honeybees? I hope they aren't talking on their phones while flying... Playing video games preps you for tomorrow's global workplace. Assuming that your job will involve flinging birds at pigs. Scammers empty African victims' bank accounts. Ruse begins "Greetings. I am Alan Greenspan, former chairman of US Fed..." iOS developers threatened with patent lawsuits. I wonder if anyone has a patent on patent lawsuits. 5/17/11 Researchers test robot toughness with a bat. We'll be notifying PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Androids). Homebrew computer plays homebrew Asteroids. Alert me when they add homebrew beer to the equation. Windows scareware fakes impending diaster. Want to really scare users? Threaten to revert to Vista. Starbucks shares lessons of going mobile. Goal, we suspect, was to shift attention away from the coffee. Moving to the cloud isn't for everyone. We recommend living in Seattle for a week as a simulation first. 5/18/11 FTC targets entrepreneur who charged ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-cloud-music-service-scans-user39s-itunes-library-for-content-sources-say-digital-trends/ apple39s-cloud-music-service-scans-user39s-itunes-library-for-content-sources-say-digital-trends Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:27 +0300 Apple has yet to formally announce its planned cloud-based music service, but it’s really just a rumor in name only at this point. Amazon and Google are both up and running, to varying degrees, with competing offerings. Cupertino’s been silent on this front simply because of a reported push to ensure that deals are struck with the major record labels before there’s any kind of launch. EMI, Sony and Warner Music are all on board, and Universal is said to be not far behind. Of course, just because nothing is official doesn’t mean people in the know haven’t been talking. They have, and Bloomberg Businessweek has some insider-sourced details on what’s planned. The so-called iCloud service will apparently scan each user’s music library in iTunes and then create a cloud-sourced mirror of it with any songs ever having to be uploaded directly, three sources “briefed on [Apple's] talks” confirm. Any tracks with sub-par sound quality will automatically be replaced with a high quality version. Once the cloud-based library is built, you’ll be able to stream the content to your computer or iOS device. Interestingly, it sounds like the iCloud library scan won’t differentiate between officially purchased iTunes Store content and music that comes from other sources, whether it’s a ripped CD or an illegal download. This will reportedly be possible because of the deals Apple is signing with record labels and the rumored plans for how iCloud will earn money. It is believed that the service will be tacked onto Apple’s existing MobileMe offering, currently a $99 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-39icloud39-music-service-will-mirror-users39-itunes-libraries-pc-magazine/ apple39s-39icloud39-music-service-will-mirror-users39-itunes-libraries-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:28 +0300 Apple's rumored cloud music service will have the ability to scan a user's iTunes library and "mirror" it in the cloud, says a report from Businessweek. It will also be able to tell if an individual song is of low quality and instead replace it with a "higher-quality" track. The features aren't that surprising since they're very similar to the abilities of Lala, the cloud-music company Apple acquired in 2009. Rather than actually copying a user's music library and putting it in the cloud, Lala would scan the songs, determine which ones were from labels that it had licensing deals with, and give the user access to those songs in the cloud. Then the user could listen to those songs from any computer just by logging in to the service. This is in contrast to the cloud music lockers recently unveiled from Amazon and Google, which physically copy a user's library and put it in the cloud. The disadvantage to that approach is that it typically takes hours to copy many gigabytes of music. It also doesn't provide the opportunity to "upgrade" the songs to higher-quality versions, as Apple's service will supposedly do. Apple is said to be in the final negotiations that will put everything in place for the coming music service, dubbed iCloud. Unconfirmed reports say the company has secured deals with three of the major record labels, with the fourth and final label very close to signing on. If the deal comes together in the next week, there's a chance iCloud could be unveiled at ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mspot-adds-39radio39-music-discovery-to-online-music-locker-hands-on-pc-magazine/ mspot-adds-39radio39-music-discovery-to-online-music-locker-hands-on-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:33 +0300 MSpot, a service that has until provided a storage locker for a user's music files, is entering the music discovery business by providing access to streaming music stations, curated by both in-house DJs and algorithms. The update to mSpot Music, called Radio Spotter Beta, goes live Thursday morning as a free Web and Android application. It will allow the company to provide a challenge to both Pandora and Slacker, two popular streaming services that also create channels based upon types of music, artists, or specific songs. According to Daren Tsui, the chief executive of mSpot, Radio Spotter Beta service will be the first to offer access to both stored content that a user uploads, as well as discovery of new music based on what the user actually listens to. Users can still upload 5 Gbytes of music to the service for free; users can also pay $3.99 per month for 40 gigabytes of storage space. New paid tiers will be added in the coming days, Tsui said. mSpot is competing against services like Amazon's Cloud Player, which also offers 5 Gbytes of storage for free (and a total of 20 Gbytes with the purchase of an MP3 album) and Google's Music Beta, which will store about 20,000 songs for free. MP3Tunes and ZumoDrive offer 2-Gbytes of storage for free, and MP3Tunes is offering invitations for 10 Gbytes; SugarSync also offers 5 Gbytes for free, plus paid plans. "We are focused on bringing users more of a great listening experience, such as complete lyrics, prefetching ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rumor-facebook-and-spotify-collaborating-on-music-streaming-service-digital-trends/ rumor-facebook-and-spotify-collaborating-on-music-streaming-service-digital-trends Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:34 +0300 Facebook and Spotify are two weeks away from launching a new music streaming service, according to a Forbes report. “Sources close to the deal” have told Forbes that the service is now being tested. The report says that “when launched, Facebook users will see a Spotify icon appear on the left side of their newsfeed, along with the usual icons for photos and events.” It continues: “Clicking on the Spotify icon will install the service on their desktop in the background,” thereby opening up Spotify’s huge library of songs, allowing users to listen to them through Facebook. If the two companies do announce news of a partnership, the service can only be rolled out in the countries where Spotify already has deals with music companies – namely Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Spotify is, however, planning to launch in the US, possibly this year, though no date has yet been fixed. The launch depends on Spotify’s ability to broker deals with the major music companies. Possible names for the rumored Facebook/Spotify service range from “Facebook Music” to “Spotify on Facebook.” Interestingly, the Forbes article also quotes a Spotify spokesperson as saying, “We have a Facebook integration. We’re continuously working with them to make that as good as it can be. But that’s the extent of our relationship.” The spokesperson is referring to Facebook Connect, which lets users see what music their Facebook friends are listening to. The report also states that “no money is changing hands” in the deal, but of course, both companies will ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/paypal-says-google-wallet-steals-trade-secrets-newsfactor/ paypal-says-google-wallet-steals-trade-secrets-newsfactor Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:49 +0300 While Google was outlining Google Wallet for mobile payments, PayPal was readying a lawsuit against the search giant. eBay-owned PayPal filed suit against Google and two executives for allegedly stealing trade secrets that helped Google develop Google Wallet and push for a piece of the multibillion-dollar mobile-payments pie. PayPal sued Google in the Superior Court of the State of California in Santa Clara County. The suit names Google and former PayPal employees and now Google execs Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius. Bedier previously was vice president of PayPal's mobile platform and came aboard as Google's vice president of payments in January 2011. Tilenius served in various executive roles at PayPal and eBay, including vice president of PayPal Merchant services, from 2001 to 2009, when she joined Google as vice president of commerce. "Silicon Valley was built on the ability of individuals to use their knowledge and expertise to seek better employment opportunities, an idea recognized by both California law and public policy," Google said in a published statement. "We respect trade secrets, and will defend ourselves against these claims." PayPal's Beef The PayPal complaint argues that Bedier had intimate knowledge of PayPal's capabilities, strategies, plans and market intelligence regarding mobile payments and related technologies -- information constituting in part PayPal's trade secrets. "In the course of his work at Google, Bedier and Google have misappropriated PayPal trade secrets by disclosing them within Google to major retailers," the complaint alleges. PayPal also asserts that Tilenius solicited and recruited Bedier to Google. By doing so, PayPal argues, Tilenius violated her contractual obligations ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-paypal-tussle-over-mobile-payment-secrets-ap/ google-paypal-tussle-over-mobile-payment-secrets-ap Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:50 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc.'s ambitious plan to supplant credit cards with smartphones has thrust the Internet search leader into a legal tussle with online payment pioneer PayPal, which contends Google stole its ideas by hiring away two key executives. PayPal painted a picture of betrayal and corporate espionage in a lawsuit filed late Thursday in a California state court, just hours after the unveiling of the "Google Wallet" payment service in New York. The 28-page complaint alleges the service evolved from research that eBay Inc.'s PayPal had been working on for the past decade. PayPal fingers two central culprits in the intellectual heist — one of its former executives, Osama Bedier, and former eBay executive Stephanie Tilenius. In its response Friday, Google contends it merely identified talented candidates to run its mobile payments service and then made them offers that proved too tempting to refuse. "Silicon Valley was built on the ability of individuals to use their knowledge and expertise to seek better employment opportunities, a principle recognized by both California law and public policy," Google spokesman Aaron Zamost said. "We respect trade secrets, and will defend ourselves against these claims." The civil complaint alleges Google spent more than two years discussing a partnership that would have relied on PayPal to process payments for an application market set up for Google's mobile phone software, Android. Google cut off the Android talks earlier this year after it had poached enough PayPal employees to set up its own mobile payments service, according to the suit. The suit doesn't directly connect the application markets ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/first-quarter-online-ad-revenues-set-a-new-record-newsfactor/ first-quarter-online-ad-revenues-set-a-new-record-newsfactor Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:52 +0300 Let Google rejoice and Bing and Yahoo Search hope for the best. Online advertising revenues in the U.S. alone hit $7.3 billion in the first quarter. That's a 23 percent increase over the year-ago period, according to new figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. And here's something else for search engines to celebrate: that $7.3 billion was the highest first-quarter revenue ever in the history of online advertising. Noteworthy is the fact that, despite the recession, the year-ago online advertising revenues also broke a record. "The consistent and considerable year-over-year growth we're seeing demonstrates that digital media is an increasingly popular destination for ad dollars, and for good reason," said Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the IAB. "As Americans spend more time online for information and entertainment purposes, digital advertising and marketing has emerged as one of the most effective tools businesses have to attract and retain customers." Online Ad Momentum The news comes just weeks after the IAB reported results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2010. Specifically, 2010 results set a record for online advertising revenues at $26 billion, up 15 percent from 2009. Fourth-quarter revenue also hit new heights at $7.45 billion, up 19 percent from the fourth quarter of 2009. Now it's a new day and a new year, and the momentum is continuing. "The year-on-year 23 percent increase in first-quarter revenues is not just impressive in its own right, but especially so when you take into account the fact that 2010 was a record-breaking year itself for Internet advertising ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-adds-flight-schedules-to-search-results-pc-magazine/ google-adds-flight-schedules-to-search-results-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:53 +0300 It might be a little late for a Memorial Day getaway, but Google has begun adding flight schedules to its search results. How useful is this? Without pricing information, the number of flights leaving from a particular airport might not be all that informative. And that's what the new results offer: the number of flights leaving from a given airport, the departure times and duration, what days of the week they fly out, and the carrier. Currently, Google appears to have restricted the routes to and from a given airport to just nonstop routes, so if you want to fly from San Francisco to Minneapolis and don't mind a layover to save you a few dollars (from Southwest, for example) the Google results won't immediately indicate the possibility. Users won't be able to get pricing information until, presumably, the company begins integrating the flight information it included with the acquisition of ITA Software, which was approved last month. Google announced plans to acquire Boston-based ITA in July 2010. The purchase will help Google produce new flight search tools intended to simplify the process of searching for flights, comparing options, and buying tickets, the company said at the time. Currently, that function is served via Web sites like Kayak.com, which allows users to compare flight information and prices across various airlines. "With the close of our ITA acquisition last month, we're eager to begin developing new flight search tools to make it easier for you to plan a trip," Peter Wedum, a software engineer for ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-correlate-what-is-it-pc-magazine/ google-correlate-what-is-it-pc-magazine Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:54 +0300 Yesterday, Google Labs announced Correlate, a new tool takes Google Trends and throws it in reverse. With Correlate, researchers instead start with a trend and correlate that data to search terms. While the Internet giant already has tools that access search data, namely Google Trends, existing tools aren't designed to help researchers use search data to estimate real-world activities. In short, until now, your trend was only as useful as your search term. But what if you could start with a trend and see the search results that correspond to that trend? Correlate fills the gap by allowing users to upload an existing data series (trend) and see a list of search terms that relate to the trend. In the blog announcement, Google uses the flu as an example. They uploaded several years of flu activity data from the U.S. CDC and found that people search for related terms ("cold" and "flu") in patterns that correlate to actual flu rates. Searching for a specific term (Google uses "ribosome") reveals others terms that attract corresponding activity (in this case another biological term, "mitochondria," follows a similar pattern). While this doesn't explain why the two terms follow the same pattern—correlation isn't the same as causation—it provides researchers with new avenues for research. And because Google collects data from millions of individual, anonymous searches, Correlate allows researchers tap a huge sample. For non-researchers, though, Correlate can be fun to use. Try out the Search by Drawing tool, through which you can draw a trend line and reveal related search terms. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china39s-baidu-eyes-foreign-expansion-afp/ china39s-baidu-eyes-foreign-expansion-afp Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:55 +0300 BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese search engine Baidu said Thursday it was thinking about expanding into more overseas markets and expected its share of the booming domestic mobile search market to grow rapidly. The company, which has already launched a Japanese-language search engine in Japan, is currently determining which markets to target next, senior vice president Shen Haoyu told a technology forum in Beijing. Baidu is setting up a multi-language platform "to get us more ready once we do decide to go to a market," Shen said. "For sure, we do have global aspirations," he said. "A lot of the company's growth in the next 10 years will come from overseas expansion." He added that Baidu also sees China's fast-growing mobile Internet market as "a huge opportunity". The number of China's mobile Internet users reached 303 million at the end of last year, compared with its total world-leading online population of 477 million, according to official data. The government said Tuesday the country had more than 900 million mobile phone subscribers at the end of April, up from 859 million as of end-2010 -- meaning the army of mobile Internet users could see explosive growth. Shen expressed confidence that Baidu would eventually achieve the same dominant market share in mobile search as it already has in the overall search market. "We are not there yet, but I think our share is growing... very fast," Shen said. Baidu had 36.1 percent of China's diverse wireless search market in the first quarter of 2011, as compared with its 75.8-percent share of the overall search market, according to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/yahoo-says-makes-headway-in-alibaba-talks-reuters/ yahoo-says-makes-headway-in-alibaba-talks-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:56 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said it has made significant progress in resolving a dispute over the online payments unit of Alibaba Group, a Chinese Internet search company whose founder took control of the prized business. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse flew to Asia last week to thrash out the issue with Alibaba, which is 43 percent-owned by Yahoo. Another Alibaba investor, Japan's Softbank, also participated in the meeting. The revelation this month that Yahoo's Chinese partner had abruptly handed Alipay -- one of Alibaba's crown jewels -- to a company controlled by Alibaba founder Jack Ma sent the U.S. company's shares tumbling 12 percent. "There're a lot of moving parts but we're making progress," Chief Executive Carol Bartz told investors at an annual analysts' meeting on Wednesday. "We're not going to get into a public back and forth." Investor attention has focused squarely on Yahoo's Asian assets. Yahoo also owns 35 percent of Yahoo Japan Corp. Yahoo and Alibaba have sported a somewhat turbulent relationship. Observers say Yahoo has bristled at the way it has been sidelined on major decisions -- the surprise move to separate off Alipay being the latest example -- while Ma's company has been rebuffed by Yahoo in attempts to buy back some of the U.S. company's invested stake. Some investors believe those assets could potentially be worth as much as Yahoo's entire current market value and are betting that an IPO by privately held Alibaba, or one of its subsidiaries, could boost Yahoo's valuation. In the past, investors have ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/yandex-has-international-ambitions-reuters/ yandex-has-international-ambitions-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:54:58 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Internet search company Yandex, fresh from raising $1.3 billion from an IPO, now has the clout to make an impact farther from its Russian heartland. The IPO is the biggest U.S. Internet listing since Google Inc went public in 2004, and is a long-held plan for the two founders, who met as teenagers at school. Chief Executive Officer Arkady Volozh said the company's success was emblematic of a new Russia -- distinct from the country's energy-focused economy -- and said there is a place in the world for a "global technology company born in Russia". "Russia is famous for its resources," said Volozh. "But Russia also has a lot of talent... Russia deserves to have a technology company of a global level." The IPO values Yandex at around $8 billion but the duo, who founded Yandex in 1997, will retain most of their holdings. Their rise is distinct from many of Russia's other billionaires, a number of which built their empires during the 1990s and profited from a boom in commodities. Chief Technology Officer Ilya Segalovich, 46, described how the pair met at school, excelled at math and physics and got such good marks that teachers suspected them of copying. Volozh, who has a degree in applied mathematics, began working on search technology in 1989. A year later, he started his own search software development firm, where he was joined by Segalovich, who had studied to be a geophysicist. Yandex was founded in 1997. In 2000 Yandex lost $2 million on revenue of $72,000. Last year the company generated revenue ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/yandex-soars-55-largest-internet-ipo-since-google-in-3904-investor39s-business-daily/ yandex-soars-55-largest-internet-ipo-since-google-in-3904-investor39s-business-daily Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:00 +0300 Russian Web portal Yandex turned its search engine on Wall Street, and found plenty of hits. The company priced late Monday at $25, above the expected range of $20 to $22. The $1.3 billion raise made it the largest Internet IPO since Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) in 2004. Yandex had stopped taking orders a few days earlier due to strong demand. Shares traded in a tight range for much of Tuesday, rising in the afternoon to close up 55% to 38.85. Though a strong showing, it was less wild than last week's debut of U.S. professional networking site LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD - News), which more than doubled. "I'm somewhat pleased that it didn't have a runaway episode similar to LinkedIn," said David Menlow, president of IPOfinancial.com. "It's a little pricey, but not completely out of the realm of a reasonable valuation." Internet Bubble? Valuation has been a concern for Internet IPOs, since several have seen big first-day pops followed by a weak aftermarket. After Tuesday's gain, LinkedIn was slightly above its debut close, but 23% below opening-day peak. Chinese social networker Renren (NYSE:RENN - News) is well below its IPO price after debuting strongly on May 4. E-Commerce China Dangdang (NYSE:DANG - News) jumped 87% when it opened in December but is now up only 25% — and near the lowest levels since its debut. In a note Monday, Morningstar analyst Rick Summer opined that even Yandex's initial range was a bit steep, noting that growth will probably be limited to Russia, a market with considerable risks. Last week the firm drew some ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/yandex-soars-on-wall-street-debut-afp/ yandex-soars-on-wall-street-debut-afp Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:01 +0300 NEW YORK (AFP) – Yandex shares soared on Tuesday as Russia's top Internet portal and leading search engine made its Wall Street debut amid feverish investor enthusiasm for technology stocks. Shares in Yandex, which is being traded under the ticker symbol "YNDX," gained 55.36 percent on the Nasdaq to close at $38.84. Yandex, the first Russian company to carry out an initial public offering on the Nasdaq since 2006, is seeking to raise $1.3 billion in the largest Internet IPO since Google's in 2004. The company will keep a total of $365 million, using the proceeds for "general corporate purposes, including investments in technology infrastructure, particularly new servers and data centers." Yandex, valued at $8 billion, offered 52.2 million shares at $25 each with an option of selling an additional 5.2 million shares to cover over-allotments. Yandex's IPO comes less than a week after career-focused social-networking firm LinkedIn staged a dazzling public launch of its own on Wall Street. LinkedIn shares more than doubled in price after launching on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, reviving memories of the infamous dot-com boom. Renren, China's largest social network, went public on May 4 at an IPO price of $14. The shares soared in the first few days of trading but have since fallen and closed at $12.26 on Tuesday, below their offer price. In November Mail.ru -- Russia's largest free e-mail service -- raised $912 million on the London Stock Exchange. In its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Yandex cited Mail.ru and Google as its chief rivals. "We face strong competition ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/shares-of-russia39s-yandex-climb-40-pct-in-debut-ap/ shares-of-russia39s-yandex-climb-40-pct-in-debut-ap Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:03 +0300 NEW YORK – Shares of Russian search engine Yandex climbed about 40 percent in their stock market debut Tuesday. The strong opening — especially following the huge first-day pop that jobs networking website LinkedIn Corp.'s shares enjoyed last week — highlights demand for Internet stocks. Yandex raised $1.3 billion in an initial public offering late Monday that was the biggest for a U.S. Internet company since Google Inc. went public in 2004, according to IPO research and investment fund Renaissance Capital. The initial share price of $25, already higher than the expected range of $20 to $22, gave Yandex a total market value of $8 billion. By midday, the shares were trading on the Nasdaq at $35. LinkedIn shares priced at $45, then more than doubled in their opening day Thursday and remain up about 97 percent in a run-up reminiscent of the late-1990s dot-com boom. LinkedIn's IPO attracted interest to the Internet sector and likely helped drive up demand for Yandex's shares, said Renaissance Capital analyst Stephanie Chang. Yandex NV is Russia's most-visited website. It generated 65 percent of Russia's Internet search traffic in the first three months of this year. Google, which Yandex says is its biggest competitor, has 22 percent of Russia's Web search market. It plans to use the funds from the IPO to invest in new servers and data centers and perhaps for acquisitions and investments. Like Google, Yandex makes money from advertising. It places text ads next to users' search results and on other websites. When calculated in rubles, Yandex's revenue grew 43 percent and its net ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/yandex-up-sharply-on-wall-street-debut-afp/ yandex-up-sharply-on-wall-street-debut-afp Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:04 +0300 NEW YORK (AFP) – Yandex shares rose sharply on Tuesday as Russia's top Internet portal and leading search engine made its debut on Wall Street. Shares in Yandex, which is being traded under the ticker symbol "YNDX," surged 44 percent to $36 within minutes of being quoted on the Nasdaq. Yandex, valued at $8 billion, is set to raise $1.3 billion through its initial public offering, the largest Internet IPO since Google's in 2004. According to its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Yandex is offering 52.2 million shares at $25 each with an option of selling an additional 5.2 million shares to cover over-allotments. Yandex is the first Russian company to carry out an IPO on the Nasdaq since 2006. In November Mail.ru -- Russia's largest free e-mail service -- raised $912 million on the London Stock Exchange. Yandex accounted for 64 percent of search traffic in Russia last year, besting Google and making it the largest Russian Internet company in revenue terms. Its website, yandex.ru, received 38.3 million unique visitors in March. Yandex reported profits of $134.3 million last year on revenue of $439.7 million. Yandex's IPO comes less than a week after career-focused social-networking firm LinkedIn staged a dazzling public launch of its own on Wall Street. LinkedIn shares more than doubled in price after launching on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, reviving concerns of the infamous dot-com boom. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/yandex-says-better-than-google-reuters/ yandex-says-better-than-google-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:06 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Internet search firm Yandex declared itself "better than Google" as it debuted on the Nasdaq on Tuesday, and signaled it has ambitions to expand beyond its Russian heartland. The IPO is the biggest U.S. Internet listing since Google Inc went public in 2004, and is a long-held plan for the founders, who met at school at age 13. CEO Arkady Volozh, 47, and Chief Technology Officer Ilya Segalovich, 46, who as schoolmates excelled at math and physics, said the IPO was just the beginning for Yandex. "Russia deserves to have a technology company of a global level," Volozh told Reuters in an interview conducted in Russian. "We're working toward that happening." Yandex raised $1.3 billion through the IPO as investors scooped up the shares, lured by prospects for the country's growing Internet market and the euphoria of last week's blowout debut by LinkedIn Corp. Yandex shares were up 42 percent at $35.48 in late morning. "Google is a great company but we are better," Segalovich said with a smile. "We ... are very focused on what we are doing and the focus is technology and search." He said the company has ambitions to move beyond Russia. "We have several ideas (about) how to go beyond our current business models," Segalovich said. "Definitely there are some new business models we are trying to explore and also international expansion is one of the new areas for us." Yandex has not yet decided how to use the proceeds of the IPO but said it could be potentially useful for acquisitions. "All our competitors have ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/stocks-follow-linkedin-ipo-higher-ap/ stocks-follow-linkedin-ipo-higher-ap Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:07 +0300 NEW YORK – The biggest Internet IPO since Google combined with a drop in oil prices to send the broad stock market higher. Shares of social networking company LinkedIn jumped 109 percent to $94.25 on the first day they began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "LNKD." The debut is seen as a preview of other social networking sites that are expected to start trading during the next year. The list of candidates includes the online messaging service Twitter, game maker Zynga, and the biggest social network of all, Facebook. "LinkedIn represents the first opportunity for the average investor to participate in what looks like a lasting, powerful trend of social media," said Lawrence Creatura, a portfolio manager at Federated Investors. "They're frothy with excitement, and that's being imputed into the share price." LinkedIn finished the day with a gigantic price-to-earnings ratio of 554, a valuation reminiscent of Internet stocks during the late 1990s tech bubble. By comparison, the average price-to-earnings ratio of technology companies in the S&P 500 index like Apple Inc. and Google Inc. is 15. Sumeet Jain, a principal with venture investing firm CMEA Capital, said LinkedIn's IPO suggests that the number of mergers and acquisitions will increase this year as social networking companies grow, a potential boon for the stock market. LinkedIn is "going to have to be quite aggressive" to meet investors' lofty expectations, Jain said. "All the rest of the companies in the pipeline, when they're all public companies they will be extraordinarily active acquirers as well." The Dow Jones ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-won39t-dabble-in-facial-recognition-search-system-pc-world/ google-won39t-dabble-in-facial-recognition-search-system-pc-world Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:09 +0300 Google will not be building a facial recognition search system, even though facial recognition technology is quickly advancing. According to The Telegraph, Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, believes the "surprising accuracy" of facial recognition technology is "very concerning." According to Schmidt, who spoke at Google's Big Tent conference in London, a database using facial recognition software is "unlikely" to be a service that Google will create. Schmidt did suggest that, while Google may not build a facial recognition search system, "some company, by the way, is going to cross that line." That last comment may have been a subtle stab at Facebook, which recently started using facial recognition technology as a means of helping its users tag photos. I wouldn't be surprised, considering Facebook was recently caught attempting a smear campaign against Google (ironically, the campaign was about Google's alleged violation of user privacy). Google-Facebook catfights aside, Schmidt's concern about facial recognition is a relief (even though it's really hard not to laugh when anyone from Google talks about privacy). A facial recognition search system would be extremely troubling, so it's good to hear the largest search provider is at least sort of on our side. And this isn't the first time a Google official has confirmed that the company thinks face recognition is kind of creepy; in April, Google announced that it had created a facial recognition app, but would not be releasing it because of privacy concerns. I'm actually starting to believe that Google does care about user privacy. While this is ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/baidu-china-sued-in-us-for-internet-censorship-reuters/ baidu-china-sued-in-us-for-internet-censorship-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:10 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eight New York residents sued Baidu Inc and the Chinese government on Wednesday, accusing China's biggest search engine of conspiring with its rulers to censor pro-democracy speech. The eight pro-democracy activists claim violations of the U.S. Constitution and, according to the plaintiffs' lawyer, the suit is the first of its type. In an unorthodox move it names not only a company but also the Chinese government as defendants. The lawsuit was filed more than a year after Google Inc declared it would no longer censor search results in China, and rerouted Internet users to its Hong Kong website. Baidu spokesman Kaiser Kuo declined to comment. China's Foreign Ministry, when asked about the lawsuit, said that China "guarantees Chinese citizens' freedom of expression according to the law." "The way the Chinese government manages the Internet in accordance with the law accords with international norms and is a sovereign matter," ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular news briefing on Thursday in Beijing. "According to international law, foreign courts have no jurisdiction." According to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Baidu acts as an "enforcer" of policies by the ruling Communist Party in censoring such pro-democracy content as references to the 1989 Tiananmen Square military crackdown. This censorship suppresses the writings and videos of the plaintiffs to the extent that the materials do not appear in search results, the complaint said. It also violates U.S. laws because the censorship affects searches here, according to the complaint. "We allege a private company is acting as the arm and agent of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/search-destroy-why-you-can39t-trust-google-inc-newsfactor/ search-destroy-why-you-can39t-trust-google-inc-newsfactor Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:11 +0300 Scott Cleland's new book tells the other side of the Google story. Published by Telescope Books, Search & Destroy: Why You Can't Trust Google Inc. is the first book to critically examine Google's business practices, mission, and unprecedented power over information access and the digital economy. Google has acquired far more information, both public and private, and has invented more ways to use it, than anyone in history. Information is power, and in Google's case, Cleland argues, it's the power to influence and control virtually everything the Internet touches. Google's power is largely unchecked, unaccountable -- and grossly underestimated. Search & Destroy examines Google's position as the Internet's lone superpower -- the new master of the digital information universe. And Google's power, Cleland points out, depends almost entirely on the blind trust it has gained through masterful duplicity. Search & Destroy demonstrates how Google routinely says one thing and does another. Don't Want To Go There Cleland shows that the world's #1 brand is untrustworthy. He exposes the unethical company hiding behind a "Don't Be Evil" slogan. He uncovers Google's hidden political agenda and reveals how Google's famed mission to organize the world's information is destructive and wrong. Cleland is the first to critically examine where Google is leading us, explain why we don't want to go there, and propose straightforward solutions. Google's unprecedented centralization of power over the world's information is corrupting both Google and the Internet, Cleland says. Google is evolving from an information servant to master -- from working for users, to making ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-doesnat-google-polish-android-with-chrome-pc-world/ why-doesnat-google-polish-android-with-chrome-pc-world Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:13 +0300 Search engine giant Google had a bold strategy: Create a new operating system and try to take down the top dog. What made this really bold is that Google is trying to do this not once but twice, and at the same time. In the mobile space Google's Android has gone after Apple's iOS, while on the PC front it's going against Microsoft's Windows dominance with the cloud-based Chrome. So the question is, why two different operating systems? The answer is simple: Because it can. Google has been extremely successful in many areas, and this move could be seen as the company hedging its bets. Rather than putting all its eggs into one basket, Google is opting to develop two operating systems that operate differently. And here is where it gets even more confusing, but in the end actually makes some sense. Chrome is Google's open source Web browser; and essentially like Firefox, it's taking a bite out of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But Chrome is also Google's new cloud-based operating system. Essentially Chrome the OS is born out of Chrome the browser, because Chrome the OS uses Web-based applications. So, Chrome is both a browser and OS, while Android is an OS with its own browser. Yet Google isn't lending the shine of Chrome to Android, which doesn't include Chrome the Web browser. A Tale of Two Operating Systems Google isn't the only company to have multiple operating systems. Microsoft has been in the multi-OS business for years. Yet Google's strategy is unique, as the two operating systems almost exist ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-to-expand-ultra-fast-broadband-to-kc-mo-ap/ google-to-expand-ultra-fast-broadband-to-kc-mo-ap Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:14 +0300 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – More than a month after Kansas City, Kan., announced it would be the first place to get Google's ultra-fast broadband service, Kansas City, Mo., leaders declared their city the envy of the entire world after the search engine giant said it was expanding the service to their town. Google announced in March it had picked Kansas City, Kan., as the inaugural site for its "Fiber for Communities" program, which is expected to deliver Internet access 100 times faster than broadband connections offered by telephone and cable companies. On Tuesday, the company said it had reached a deal with Kansas City, Mo., to run the high-speed fiber optics across the Missouri River and into the city. The first customers are expected to go online sometime in the middle of next year. "The eyes of the entire world are on this city," said Cindy Circo, a Kansas City, Mo., councilwoman who led the drive to get Google to come to the city. "Tomorrow, they will be talking about us around the world, around the water coolers in London, pointing to us on maps in Hong Kong. Tomorrow, in a hundred different languages in far off corners of the world, people will be saying, 'have you heard of Kansas City?' We were once the capital of the West, songs were written about us and how we were up-to-date. St. Louis even built an arch to let people know how close they were to Kansas City." High-tech businesses, hospitals, utilities and schools initially would be the biggest beneficiaries of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bing-facebook-deepen-ties-threaten-google-1-pc-world/ bing-facebook-deepen-ties-threaten-google-1-pc-world Sat, 28 May 2011 17:55:15 +0300 Microsoft has unveiled a deeper conglomerate of Bing and Facebook that harvests the power of the social Web, one year after forming a partnership to take "social search" to the next level. When the partnership was formed it seemed meaningless and redundant. After all, if you're checking Facebook and Twitter several hundred times a day, do you need your friends' updates appearing in your Bing search results? Where's the value in that? Well here's a look at Bing's new Facebook features and why this may mean the end of Google +1. Shared Shopping Lists When you're shopping on Bing -- say, for a Microsoft Kin phone -- you can add items to a shopping list to keep track of your browsing history. Now you can share those lists with other Facebook friends with the click of a button. "Liked" Search Results -- with Faces! The first rollout of Bing and Facebook included "liked" pages of Facebook friends -- now you can see the faces of up to three "likers," just in case you forgot. Crowdsourced Popularity Not only will Bing reveal the pages your friends like, you can also see what other Facebook users are digging lately. Bing shows descriptions of pages other people like -- without revealing their Facebook identities -- to gauge not only what sources are validated by the herd, but also individual pages within those domains. For instance, you'll see that many people "like" Epicurious and can also see its most popular recipes. Deeper Facebook Profile Search with Locations Bing makes Facebook stalking easier with enhanced profile search ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sarkozy39s-web-initiative-faces-reality-check-reuters/ sarkozy39s-web-initiative-faces-reality-check-reuters Sat, 28 May 2011 17:57:57 +0300 PARIS (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy softened his usually tough stance on Internet regulation at a forum that brought together tech titans in Paris, but stark divisions remained on everything from privacy to copyright. Sarkozy, who is notorious among techies for creating a law that calls for copyright pirates to be cut off from the Internet, lauded the gathering of executives that included Google Inc's Eric Schmidt and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg for helping fuel the Arab spring and spurring economic growth. But he maintained that governments have a role in setting ground rules to limit the abuses and excesses of the Internet, setting up a clash with Schmidt, who said no one would win if "some stupid rule" stunted the growth of the Web. As speakers paraded on a stage built in the Tuileries Gardens of central Paris, deep rifts between policymakers and Internet executives became apparent, with few signs of how they would be resolved in the two-day forum. A draft communique reviewed by Reuters, which is being finalized for release at the conclusion of the forum, suggests that the gathering will paper over the deepest divisions and shy away from making concrete policy proposals. The draft will urge G8 leaders to adopt an international approach to protecting users' personal data but will sidestep the fraught issue of intellectual property by leaving it largely under the purview of national governments. Copyright has proven one of the most divisive issues at the forum. Executives from big music and publishing groups have argued for more protection of their works, while Internet ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/eight-secrets-to-avoiding-a-sex-scandal-the-daily-beast/ eight-secrets-to-avoiding-a-sex-scandal-the-daily-beast Sat, 28 May 2011 18:00:03 +0300 NEW YORK – So you’re a straying politician who doesn’t want to end up in the tabloids. Don’t date an employee, and do use birth control! Ex-madam Kristin Davis and the founder of Ashley Madison offer a guide to getting away with it. It’s no secret that Americans have the highest rate of divorce in the Western world; at least one study has found that 60 percent of men and half of women will cheat on their spouses at some point during their lives. But if cheating happens so often, why haven’t we gotten any better at doing it? From Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose wife is leaving him over a secret child, to former presidential candidate John Edwards, who allegedly paid off his mistress using campaign funds, to the text-happy Tiger Woods, let’s hope America’s cheating husbands and wives have taken a hint on what not to do. But in case they haven’t, we went straight to the experts—including the founder of Ashley Madison and an ex-madam—for a foolproof guide on how not to get caught having illicit sex. (Not that we’re endorsing such behavior, of course.) From finding the right partner to not leaving a paper trail, The Daily Beast offers eight dos and don’ts to successful hanky-panky. 1. Find the Right Partner, Part 1 DON’T: Shack up with a single man or woman—they might form an attachment or expect you to leave your spouse for them. DO: Find another married person. It’s like the old Cold War doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction,” says Noel Biderman, who founded the affair-facilitating ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/waking-from-a-long-winter39s-nap-investor39s-business-daily/ waking-from-a-long-winter39s-nap-investor39s-business-daily Sat, 28 May 2011 18:04:45 +0300 Never mind stubborn unemployment, high gas prices and underwater mortgages: What am I going to wear to yoga class? The erupting trend of fitness fashion stretched Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ:LULU - News) to its limit in the first quarter, as the purveyor of pricey yoga clothes strained to keep inventory on its shelves. "I'm ready to sell my personal closet. I mean, we can't get enough," Lulu CEO Christine Day said on a conference call with analysts in March. Lulu has been a steady headliner, but not the only influence driving the Retail-Apparel/Shoes/Accessories group into the top 20 rankings among IBD's 197 industry groups in May (up from No. 55 at the beginning of March). Ascena Retail Group (NASDAQ:ASNA - News), parent of Dress Barn and other clothing chains, soared 8% Thursday after its fiscal third-quarter earnings squeezed past analyst consensus forecasts and BB&T raised its price target on the stock. Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF - News) has climbed 5% so far this month after posting a 20% gain for April. Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ - News) is up 8% so far, for a fourth straight month of gains. And Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST - News) is up 12%, moving decisively to new highs. But the group also faces rising concerns. Investors are cautiously tracking the impact of higher cotton prices, and of improving wages in China that are making polos and chinos more pricey in this country. Gap (NYSE:GPS - News), for example, tumbled 18% on May 20 after reporting first-quarter hits to revenue and earnings from rising costs and frugal consumers. Several other ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/winning-the-internship-game-businessweek/ winning-the-internship-game-businessweek Sat, 28 May 2011 18:06:12 +0300 MBA internships are more important -- and more competitive -- than ever. Now, besides helping business school students get a taste of life post-graduation, they are the main gateway to a full-time job offer. During the recession, companies cut back on their on-campus recruiting of second-year students, relying instead on internship classes for their full-time hiring needs, says Michelle Chevalier, director of the Graduate Business Career Center at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management (Carlson Full-Time MBA Profile). At the strategy consulting firm Bain & Co., the internship class grew more than 20 percent in 2011, and the same will probably happen next year, says Mark Howorth, senior director for global recruiting. And a high percentage of interns will get a full-time offer at the end of the summer, he adds. When the economy is good, interns are more willing to be experimental with their internships, whereas nowadays they're looking for a permanent home starting in the summer, says Howorth. That, say experts, can bring on the stress to perform well from day one. "It puts an insane amount of pressure on MBA students," says Chevalier. Indeed, not everyone will get a full-time offer, and no one wants to have to explain to other potential employers why he was not hired. To improve one's chances of converting an internship into a permanent position, it helps to get an edge on the competition, even before the internship begins. What follows is a checklist with advice from experts on how to end the summer on top. Put> During the recruiting and interviewing ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/b-school-startups-click-for-handy-cooking-cues-businessweek/ b-school-startups-click-for-handy-cooking-cues-businessweek Sat, 28 May 2011 18:06:18 +0300 Editor's Note: This story is part of Bloomberg Businessweek's occasional series on the world of startups. The series focuses on MBAs and undergraduate business students who developed ideas or launched businesses while still in school, examining the many ways their schools helped them get new ventures off the ground. For a look at some business students trying to build their own businesses, check out our slide show. One of Ben Saur's best ideas came to him on an empty stomach in front of his near-empty refrigerator. As with so many nights during his undergraduate days at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York, Saur was hungry and clueless about what he could cook with the few odd ingredients he saw. "My mom always made the same five meals every week -- pasta on Wednesday, tacos on Tuesday -- so my cooking creativity was low," Saur explains. "I thought: 'Why can't I find new and creative recipes based on what I have in my fridge?'" Saur answered his own question by experimenting during his senior year with the prototype for a website that would become RecipeKey.com. He combined his ideas with inspiration from the '90s Food Network TV show Door Knock Dinners to hone the core concept behind the site. On the TV show, host Gordon Elliot -- sometimes joined by a guest chef -- would surprise families at their homes and prepare gourmet meals for them with the groceries they had in the pantry. Saur varied the idea by making his online guest chef a digital tool. The first step ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/dream-jobs-college-students-make-their-picks-businessweek/ dream-jobs-college-students-make-their-picks-businessweek Sat, 28 May 2011 18:06:22 +0300 For recent college graduates, finding a job is a lot like finding a match when dating. Personality (yours and theirs) play a major role. Everybody wants a genuine connection, and a little arm candy doesn't hurt. If job hunting were indeed The Dating Game, Google (NasdaqGS:GOOG - News) would be the most eligible bachelor among all sorts of personality types. Apple (NasdaqGS:AAPL - News) and Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS - News) wouldn't be far behind. In its annual survey of U.S. college students, the research firm Universum USA asked its more than 60,000 respondents to identify the characteristics they associate with dream employers and broke down the results into seven personality types. Careerists are looking for a prestigious brand name and employers who recruit only the best and brightest; entrepreneurs want to work for fast-growing companies with a creative work environment; explorers are looking for challenging work and a variety of assignments; harmonizers are seeking work/life balance and secure employment; hunters are attracted by competitive base salaries and good prospects for future earnings; idealists are drawn to friendly work environments and high ethical standards; and leaders want leadership opportunities and mentors. Universum then asked the students to identify the five employers they would most like to work for. Universum didn't designate an overall winner, but Google -- which took the top spot in each of the past four years -- is still the big favorite, taking the No. 1 spot in five of the personality types and taking a top-three spot in all seven. Apple is in the top ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/china-39setting-up-military-cyber-warfare-team39-afp/ china-39setting-up-military-cyber-warfare-team39-afp Mon, 30 May 2011 11:22:19 +0300 BEIJING (AFP) – China's military has set up an elite Internet security task force tasked with fending off cyberattacks, state media reported on Friday, denying that the initiative is intended to create a "hacker army". The People's Liberation Army has reportedly invested tens of millions of yuan (millions of dollars) in the project -- which is sure to ring alarm bells around the world among governments and businesses wary of Beijing's intentions. "Cyber attacks have become an international problem affecting both civilian and military areas," the Global Times quoted China's defence ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng as telling a rare briefing this week. "China is relatively weak in cyber-security and has often been targeted. This temporary programme is aimed at improving our defences against such attacks." The 30-member "Cyber Blue Team" -- the core of the PLA's cyber force -- has been organised under the Guangdong military command in the country's south, and will carry out "cyber-warfare drills", the newspaper said. The United States, Australia, Germany and other Western nations have long alleged that hackers inside China are carrying out a wide-range of cyberattacks on government and corporate computer systems worldwide. But in a commentary, the Global Times hit out at "some foreign media" for interpreting the programme as a breeding ground for a "hacker army". "China's capability is often exaggerated. Without substantiated evidence, it is often depicted by overseas media as the culprit for cyberattacks on the US and Europe," the paper said. "China needs to develop its strong cyber defence strength. Otherwise, it would remain at the mercy of others." China's military ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/why-safe-corporate-bonds-aren39t-so-smart-anymore-ap/ why-safe-corporate-bonds-aren39t-so-smart-anymore-ap Mon, 30 May 2011 11:26:11 +0300 NEW YORK – The safest corporate debt isn't looking so smart anymore. Companies deemed good for the money are raising trillions selling bonds to investors who can't seem to get enough of them. It looks like a great deal for both parties — until you consider the details. Some bonds are throwing off interest so puny that investors are already losing money to inflation. Others pay higher rates but won't return your money for more years than you're likely to live. Johnson & Johnson just sold $4.4 billion worth of debt with fixed rates as low as 0.7 percent, 2.5 percentage points less than inflation. The prospect of near-free money was so irresistible to Google Inc., it decided to sell $3 billion worth, even though it already had more than 10 times as much cash at its disposal. And Norfolk Southern Corp. convinced investors to lend it $400 million for 100 years. "When companies start putting out 100-year bonds, you can bet we've hit lows," says Richard Lehmann, a Miami money manager with $100 million under management. He has largely shunned investment grade corporate bonds. "This market has gone from stupid to ridiculous." Stocks were the primary target of the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's attempt to push people out of Treasurys into riskier assets. But corporate IOUs that earn top grades from rating agencies have been on a tear, too — returning 31 percent in two years. That has allowed Corporate America to put trillions of dollars in their coffers and has sent billions of dollars to ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/writer-urges-internet-junkies-to-39switch-off39-and-think-afp/ writer-urges-internet-junkies-to-39switch-off39-and-think-afp Mon, 30 May 2011 11:26:45 +0300 SEOUL (AFP) – Like tens of millions of others, US technology writer Nicholas Carr found the lure of the worldwide web hard to resist -- until he noticed it was getting harder and harder to concentrate. He set out his concerns in a celebrated essay headlined "Is Google making us stupid?" And his latest book "The Shallows" explores in depth what he fears the Internet is doing to our brains. "The seductions of technology are hard to resist," Carr acknowledges in that book, which has sold an estimated 50,000 hardback copies in the United States alone. But he thinks it's time to start trying. In a speech at last week's Seoul Digital Forum and an interview with AFP, Carr restated his concerns that IT is affecting the way people think and feel and even the physical make-up of their brains. Every new technology in history -- like the map and the clock -- changed the way people think but Carr sees special dangers in the Internet. He got his first PC back in the 1980s and was an avid net user until "a few years ago, I noticed some disturbing changes in the way my mind worked. I was losing the ability to concentrate." While the Internet has enormous benefits in delivering incredible amounts of information at incredible speed, it's also a distracting and interruption-rich environment. Carr said it encourages quick shifts in focus -- and discourages sustained attention and the ability to think deeply and creatively about one topic and to challenge conventional wisdom. Popularity-driven search engines, in one of the ironies of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rivals-likely-to-reach-for-google39s-wallet-afp/ rivals-likely-to-reach-for-google39s-wallet-afp Mon, 30 May 2011 11:26:48 +0300 NEW YORK (AFP) – With the announcement of "Google Wallet" the Internet giant became the first player to dash into a future where people use smartphones as credit cards, but rivals are expected to cut its lead short. EBay quickly threw up a hurdle in the form of a lawsuit accusing Google of building the mobile payments platform with trade secrets swiped from the online auction titan's PayPal financial transactions unit. Apple, Amazon.com, eBay and Facebook are each believed to be working on ways to let people use smartphones to pay for items or services but Google was the first to introduce such a system, in the form of "Google Wallet." At this point, the move is largely symbolic. A test version of the system will go to live in coming months in just two US cities, New York and San Francisco. Google Wallet will work with Android-powered phones like Google's Nexus S equipped with near-field-communication (NFC) chips, serviced by US telecom Sprint and only at merchants that have partnered with Google for the launch. Google partners on the mobile payment platform include major chains such as Macy's, Subway sandwiches, and American Eagle Outfitters clothing shops. For Justin Post, financial analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, being first into the market with Wallet positions the California Internet firm as an early leader in mobile payments. "Google Wallet has big ambitions but also faces great obstacles, but (its operating system for mobile) Android and location-based search are key assets that could help launch the ecosystem," he said. Within hours of the unveiling of ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google39s-new-quick-flight-search-makes-your-life-easier-mashable/ google39s-new-quick-flight-search-makes-your-life-easier-mashable Mon, 30 May 2011 11:26:50 +0300 Google just made it a lot easier to quickly look up flight information. Now you can type "flights from [a city] to [another city] in the Google search window, and it'll quickly display a summary of flight information right there on the results page. Could it get any easier? We tested this new feature that was announced Friday on Google's Inside Search blog, and it works beautifully, especially if you're talking about major cities. [More from Mashable: Indy 500 Warmup: World Record-Setting 332-foot Truck Jump [VIDEO]] For instance, type "flight LA SF", and you'll get a long list of flights when you click on the resulting drop-down list: [More from Mashable: Is There a Social Media Tech Bubble? [INFOGRAPHIC]] Or you can simply type "flights LA" and Google will helpfully show you each flight to Los Angeles from all airports, including numerous airlines and flight durations. Find out what flights originate from your local airport by typing "flights from [your airport here]". It works in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Catalan. It's not quite so easy if your destination is not served by a nonstop flight. For example, we tried entering "flights from Milwaukee to Tahiti" and got nothing but the usual list of travel sites. Smaller towns with tiny airports aren't particularly well served, either. Type "flights from Topeka" and again you'll see those usual travel sites. But city dwellers will almost always get results when they type the word "flight" and the name of a city. There ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/amazon-kindle-tablet-rumor-roundup-contributornetwork/ amazon-kindle-tablet-rumor-roundup-contributornetwork Mon, 30 May 2011 11:27:00 +0300 We should've known this was coming. The Kindle may have made it to the gate first, but pretty soon Barnes and Noble had the Nook, with its mini-color touch screen. Then came the iPad and Nook Color, and now more people are reading on color touch screens, and expecting games and apps and things like that. Now the rumors are in, and it sounds like Amazon is planning to enter the tablet market "with a bang." So what does it look like the future Kindle tablet will be like? Android under the hood This one's a gimme, for several reasons. First, the Android operating system is open source, which basically means anyone can take it and do what they want with it. Including, say use it to get a head start in making a tablet. (Want to look at the programming code? Knock yourself out.) The tablet version of Android isn't open-source yet, but that hasn't stopped Barnes and Noble, which stretched the smartphone version of Android to fit on the Nook Color -- not that you'd recognize it after all the streamlining that B&N did. Second, and this is the big one, Amazon's already got a lot invested in Android. And I don't just mean its Amazon.com and Amazon MP3 apps in the Android Market. See, there's an Amazon Appstore for Android, which actually competes with the Android Market. And the new Amazon Cloud Drive service lets you get to the MP3s you buy from Amazon.com from anywhere -- like, say, your Android ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/taiwan-show-to-feature-apple-tablet-challengers-ap/ taiwan-show-to-feature-apple-tablet-challengers-ap Mon, 30 May 2011 11:27:21 +0300 TAIPEI, Taiwan – Computer manufacturers of all sizes and descriptions have been pushing to get a piece of the ever-expanding tablet market created by the launch of Apple's iPad in April 2010. The obsession with tablet computing will be on full display Tuesday as Computex, the world's second-largest computer show, begins its annual five-day run in Taipei. The prominence of tablets underscores a dramatic shift under way in the personal computer industry — and keenly felt in Taiwan, which is home to some of the world's biggest PC manufacturers — as many consumers opt to buy a tablet rather than a new PC. Computex will feature more than 50 tablet models, said organizer Taipei Computer Association, with big names including Lenovo Group Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. having their products displayed. Researchers have predicted slower growth in PC sales this year because of the rising consumer interest in tablets. Gartner Research recently cut its sales growth forecast for global PC sales in 2011 from 15.9 percent to 10.5 percent. According to IHS iSuppli, world PC shipments declined 0.3 percent year-on-year to 8.1 million units in the first quarter of 2011, with sales by No. 3-ranked Acer plunging 20 percent. Many analysts say it may take two or three years before mobile device software from Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. can catch up with iPads, which have thousands of applications for consumers to choose from. That may mean a hard time for many PC makers in the short term. Research company CDC says Apple Inc. had a 73 percent share of the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/46-new-digital-media-resources-you-may-have-missed-mashable/ 46-new-digital-media-resources-you-may-have-missed-mashable Mon, 30 May 2011 11:27:27 +0300 Guess who's back, back again? Mashable has wrapped another week jam-packed with tools and resources for your digital life. This week we have stories walking you through the startup investment process, Lady Gaga's social media spectacle, a history of advertising on Twitter, and even some cool decals for your iPad. [More from Mashable: Is There a Social Media Tech Bubble? [INFOGRAPHIC]] Looking for even more social media resources? This guide appears every weekend, and you can check out all the lists-gone-by here any time. Editors' Picks How Lady Gaga Created a Web Marketing Spectacle for Born This Way [PICS] Lady Gaga has paved a path for stars and brands to get inventive with the ways they use digital and social media to promote themselves and connect with fans. Here's how she did it with her new album, Born This Way. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Conundrum Should Ballmer get the boot? Does Microsoft need a fresh, new face to guide it into a post-PC world? Let's crunch the numbers. Hacking for Good: Three Ways for Devs to Get Involved Want to use your dev powers for the greater good? Here are three ways to get involved. How Activist Investors Use Social Media to Influence Companies In the world of corporate investing, a blog post or tweet could change the course of business for companies and stakeholders. 6 Excellent Small Business Websites To Learn From For small businesses looking to clean up their websites, here are six quick tips for improvement, along with six excellent websites to learn from. Social Media 3 Unique Ways To Read Your News This Weekend As a follow-up to our ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/happy-little-checkins-bob-ross-on-social-media-infographic-mashable/ happy-little-checkins-bob-ross-on-social-media-infographic-mashable Mon, 30 May 2011 11:27:34 +0300 Have you ever wondered how iconic painter/television personality Bob Ross would portray Facebook or Instagram? You haven't? Well, we have a handy chart for you on that subject, anyhow. So get your iPad and your paintbrush stylus, and get ready to follow along. [More from Mashable: 46 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed] On the canvases of Bob Ross, Facebook is a mega mountain with 600 million happy little users, and Google Buzz is a desert with "swirly tumbleweeds." We've also got Ross's take on Path, Color, Digg, Reddit and a slew of other social web apps. This infographic comes to us from Flowtown, a social marketing startup, and the designers at Column Five Media. [More from Mashable: Social Media Distractions Are Costing Businesses Major Money [STUDY]] Click image to see full-size version. This story originally published on Mashable here. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-would-have-paid-more-than-100-million-to-major-labels-for-licenses-mashable/ google-would-have-paid-more-than-100-million-to-major-labels-for-licenses-mashable Mon, 30 May 2011 11:27:52 +0300 Many music fans were disappointed by Google Music Beta, the cloud-based locker that the company released at Google I/O this year -- in particular because it lacks the ability to purchase music and stream seamlessly without uploading. Now it seems Google was prepared to offer big bucks to make a more robust notion. Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that Google was ready to shell out $100 million to the four major labels -- up front -- for licenses. However, those negotiations fell apart because of "the music industry's concern that search results in Google and YouTube often point to pirated music." [More from Mashable: Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Cover Song Edition] We already know that Google was having issues getting the labels' blessings. The piracy angle is new, however. It was reported that Google was fed up with the labels, particularly WMG, which was said to be suggesting that Google charge users $30 per year for the cloud service. Apparently, Google wanted users to be able to try the service for free with the first 500 tracks stored. As a result, Google launched Google Music Beta without licenses with the first 20,000 stored songs on the house, meaning that users have to upload all their music to the cloud-based locker (a lengthy process) for listening across devices. This is a much less intriguing -- and much bulkier -- offering than what could have transpired if Google had been able to nab those licenses. [More from Mashable: Forget Vinyl; Band Releases Album as Location-Based App] The cloud-based music business ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft39s-bing-leans-more-heavily-on-facebook-ap/ microsoft39s-bing-leans-more-heavily-on-facebook-ap Mon, 30 May 2011 11:27:56 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine is increasing its emphasis on the recommendations shared within Facebook's online social network to give people something they can't find on Google's dominant search engine. Starting Monday afternoon, Bing's search results will vary depending on whether the person making a request is logged into Facebook's online social network at the same time. For example, Bing's standard ranking system might analyze a search request about the band "U2" and relegate a link pertaining to the music group to the fourth or fifth page of results if the query came from someone who wasn't logged into Facebook at the time. But that same link might appear at the top of Bing's first search page if the query were made by a logged-in Facebook user and a few friends in the requestor's social circle had pressed Facebook's "Like" button on the site. Bing's revisions will also affect the rankings of some search results even when people aren't logged into Facebook. That's because Bing's formula also will consider how many times Facebook's more than 500 million members have pressed on a Web page's "Like" button to help determine the content's value and relevance. "Bing is bringing the collective IQ of the Web together with the opinions of the people you trust most, to bring the 'Friend Effect' to search," Microsoft search executive Yusuf Mehdi wrote in a Monday blog post. Bing also is adding several other features and tools that deepen its ties to Facebook. Among other things, online shoppers using Microsoft's search engine will ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-bing-expand-search-partnership-via-39like39-button-pc-magazine/ facebook-bing-expand-search-partnership-via-39like39-button-pc-magazine Mon, 30 May 2011 11:27:58 +0300 Microsoft on Monday expanded its use of Facebook within its Bing search engine, adding "likes" and recommendations from friends and strangers into search results. Going forward, if you search for something one of your Facebook friends has "liked," Bing will note that in its search results. Did your sister and roommate "like" a nearby Italian restaurant? A small photo, the Facebook "thumbs up" icon, and a note that said they approve will show up in search results, Microsoft said. Bing will also prioritize results based on what friends have liked. If you're searching for "Italian restaurants" in your neighborhood and the restaurant your sister and roommate "liked" normally showed up on page four of a regular Bing search, for example, that restaurant will move up in the search rankings because they liked it. Microsoft started incorporating the "like" button into search back in February as an expansion of a partnership that was unveiled in October. Today's announcement also incorporates the opinion of people not in your direct social circle. Let's say you search for "Star Magazine." The results will also display links to some "Star" stories that readers have liked, even if they are not your friends. "Search is better when it's not just based in math and algorithms, but also infused with the opinions of people," Microsoft said in a blog post. "Input from the collective IQ can enable search to become a discovery tool, allowing you to benefit from the connections, inferences and 'likes' of it." To that end, Bing will also incorporate Facebook posts from the brands ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-sets-up-for-settlement-investor39s-business-daily/ google-sets-up-for-settlement-investor39s-business-daily Mon, 30 May 2011 11:27:59 +0300 The Web search site has set aside $500 mil to cover possible legal settlements, published reports said. The FDA is looking into whether Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) improperly profited from ads touting unlicensed drug sellers. Online drug ads generated $1 bil revenue last year, eMarketer said. In addition, EU regulators are investigating how Google's ad system works as part of an antitrust probe. Google fell 1% to 529.55. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/just-show-me-an-overview-of-google-music-beta-yahoo-news/ just-show-me-an-overview-of-google-music-beta-yahoo-news Tue, 31 May 2011 22:48:48 +0300 Welcome one and all to Just Show Me, where we give you short tips and tricks for getting the most out of your gadgets. In our last episode we showed you how to download apps to your iPad, and today we've got an episode especially for music fans. Check out the video above for a first look at Google Music, the search giant's new cloud service that lets you access your tunes from anywhere. If you already know all about Google Music, why not pass this on to the music fan in your life? If you want to know more about the service, be sure to check out our full review. And if you've already tried out the service and decided it's not for you, why not check out 6 alternatives to Google Music? Plus as always, be sure to let us know what you'd like to see Just Show Me cover in a future episode! http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/24-of-us-adults-have-made-phone-calls-on-the-internet-study-mashable/ 24-of-us-adults-have-made-phone-calls-on-the-internet-study-mashable Tue, 31 May 2011 22:49:03 +0300 The number of adults in the U.S. who make phone calls over the Internet has risen exponentially in recent years. According to a survey released Monday from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, about a quarter of American adult Internet users have used the Internet to make calls. In early 2007, only 8% of Internet users had ever placed a call online. And during other times in the 2000s, about 10% of web users had made calls online. [More from Mashable: One in Five Americans Make Video Calls [STATS]] The study, conducted in April and May, also found that on average, 5% of Internet users on any given day are online to make calls. In 2007, that number was 2%, and at various points in the 2000s it was closer to 1%. [More from Mashable: Majority of Adults Now Google Themselves [STUDY]] Image courtesy of Flickr, Trace Meek This story originally published on Mashable here. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/three-android-challengers-to-the-verizon-iphone-arrive-contributornetwork/ three-android-challengers-to-the-verizon-iphone-arrive-contributornetwork Tue, 31 May 2011 22:49:19 +0300 On May 26, Verizon added four new smartphones to its lineup, three of which are powered by Google's open-source Android operating system: The LG Revolution, the Droid X2, and the Xperia Play. All three are more powerful, in one way or another, than the Verizon iPhone 4. But are any of them worth buying instead? The LG Revolution: 4G LTE Capable The LG Revolution is not only one of the fastest phones on Verizon's network (in terms of both processor and connection speed), it's also one of the first Android phones to support streaming movies through Netflix. And with an optional tethering package, you and your friends or family can use your laptops with its 4G wireless connection. A monster 4.3-inch screen -- nearly an inch longer diagonally than the iPhone's -- and the standard front-facing camera, HDMI out, and HD video recording round out the Revolution's package. It also comes with a 16 GB MicroSD card. It's not exactly "revolutionary," but its specs are impressive and come in a sleek package. The biggest drawback is the price ($250), which is $50 more than the Verizon iPhone 4. The Droid X2: Dual-Core Power The Motorola Droid X2 has a dual-core processor, unlike the Revolution's (and the Play's) single-cores. With fewer apps and no standout features compared to the iPhone 4, it may be a hard sell at $199, especially without 4G LTE support. But its enormous, 4.3-inch screen and Adobe Flash support just might win a few buyers over. The Xperia Play: Android Gaming Powered ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nielsen-android-gained-no-ground-in-april-digital-trends/ nielsen-android-gained-no-ground-in-april-digital-trends Tue, 31 May 2011 22:49:20 +0300 New survey results from market research firm Nielsen show that while Android remains the top smartphone platform amongst U.S. mobile users, Android gained no ground on rivals like Apple’s iOS or RIM’s BlackBerry during April 2011, holding even at a 36 percent share of the smartphone market. The figures mark the third straight month Android has essentially flatlined in its share of the U.S. smartphone market: after jumping from a 15 percent share in June 2010 to 36 percent in February 2011, the operating system has held steady throughout March and April. However, Android isn’t along in finding its market share growth stalled: according to Nielsen, neither Apple or RIM is making any progress growing their share of the smartphone market either: Apple is holding steady at a 26 percent share, while RIM is hovering right around 22 percent. However, all companies can expect to see sales growth: even if their share of the smartphone market isn’t changing lately, the smartphone market itself continues to grow in the United States, with Nielsen estimating some 37 percent of U.S. mobile users now carry smartphones. Nielsen’s data, based on an analysis of some 65,000 cell phone bills, shows other distinctions between iOS and Android users: while Apple users tend to download (and pay for) more mobile applications than Android users, Android users consume an average of 582MB of data a month, compared to an average of 492 MB for iOS users. Proportions of heavy data use activities are largely the same across both platforms: app downloads are the single biggest ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/intel-taps-into-new-computing-at-taiwan-show-ap/ intel-taps-into-new-computing-at-taiwan-show-ap Tue, 31 May 2011 22:49:25 +0300 TAIPEI, Taiwan – Intel Corp. is touting a hybrid laptop 0.8 inches (20 mm) thick with sleek tablet computing features and ultra-sharp visual images that it hopes will create a market bridging traditional PCs and new devices. The laptop also represents what the U.S. technology giant promises its latest generation of processors will be able to deliver by 2012, when they power new computers produced by companies like Taiwan's AsusTek Computer Inc. "Computing is taking many forms," Intel executive vice president Sean Maloney said Tuesday at the opening of Taipei's Computex, the world's second-largest computing show. He said that by the end of 2012, Intel aims to shift 40 percent of consumer laptops to its "Ultrabook" model, a new category of thin and light mobile computers. Like many other tech companies, Intel is under immense pressure from Apple Inc., whose iPhones and iPads have swept through global markets with the force of a hurricane and show no signs of slowing. Maloney described the Ultrabook as a laptop-tablet hybrid, featuring touch screens and instant log on, all with a price of less than $1,000. The projected thickness of the new Intel-powered device would make it the sleekest laptop in the marketplace after Apple's MacBook Air 15" model, which ranges from .11 to .68 inches. The devices will be based on Intel's "Ivy Bridge," a new generation of chips made with 22 nanometer manufacturing technology and the 3-D transistor the company unveiled early in May. It is slated to be on the market by 2012, Intel said. The new transistor, with increased density, will make ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sony-xperia-x10-users-finally-get-to-taste-an-old-eclair-android-21-pc-magazine/ sony-xperia-x10-users-finally-get-to-taste-an-old-eclair-android-21-pc-magazine Tue, 31 May 2011 22:49:27 +0300 Consumers spent Tuesday morning bashing Sony Ericsson and AT&T for announcing today that it has begun upgrading Xperia X10 phones to Android 2.1, or "Eclair"—the version of Android launched in January 2010. "WOW!!! And you guys are actually excited to announce this. SE has just lost the plot," wrote one user at Sony Ericsson's blog. On Tuesday, Sony Ericsson announced the manual update to Android 2.1 in a blog post: "We couldn't be more excited to bring you the news we have for you today. After much hard-work, we are happy to announce that the Android 2.1 upgrade will be available for AT&T XperiaTM X10 customers in the US starting Tuesday, May 31. We can't thank you enough for your patience." The announcement was met with more sarcasm than the usual tech post, with responses like "Thats great news...everybody open up a bottle of campaign (sic) and lets celebrate this!!se you are a joke!!and a bad one!!" and "No wonder why sony always get hacked, good luck with this." Xperia X10 users in the U.S. have reason to be annoyed. Android 2.1 is a minor platform update that Google launched in January 2010. The update gives Xperia X10 devices 720p HD video capture, multi-touch support, continuous autofocus on the camera, face detection during video capture, and expanded homescreen support. Click here to download instructions for manually upgrading your phone. Sony Ericsson can't be blamed entirely for the holdup. In fact, it first announced the upgrade last November for users in Europe and Australia. AT&T had "no comment" on the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/samsung-to-stick-with-google-for-its-tablets-afp/ samsung-to-stick-with-google-for-its-tablets-afp Tue, 31 May 2011 22:49:51 +0300 SEOUL (AFP) – Samsung Electronics will depend on Google's Android mobile-device software to run future versions of its tablet computers, a senior Samsung official said in an interview published Tuesday. "We'll continue to work with Android on future tablets," J.K. Shin, head of the South Korean giant's mobile division, told The Wall Street Journal. Samsung Electronics is the world's second-largest cellphone maker after Finland's Nokia but trails Apple's iPhone and iPad in smartphones and tablets. However, the Android system has boosted its smartphone business and Samsung hopes to do the same with tablets. The iPad surprised competitors with the success of its launch early last year. Samsung responded by choosing Android for its tablets and introduced the seven-inch (17.8 centimetre) Galaxy Tab in October 2010 to take on Apple. Samsung will launch new versions of the Galaxy Tab this summer in an 8.9-inch and 10.1-inch model. Both will run the latest version of Android, known as Honeycomb. Despite Apple's status as a major customer for Samsung components, the two companies are embroiled in lawsuits. The US firm sued its South Korean rival, claiming it copied the look and feel of the iPhone and iPad. Samsung launched its own suits, alleging that Apple violated patents covering Samsung's cellphone transmission technologies. "We didn't copy Apple's design," Shin told The Wall Street Journal. "We have used many similar designs over the past years and it (Apple's allegation) will not be legally problematic." Samsung expects its tablet shipments to rise about fivefold this year to 7.5 million. Market data provider IHS iSuppli forecast in April that Apple's iPad ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/steve-jobs-to-open-apple-event-unveil-icloud-reuters/ steve-jobs-to-open-apple-event-unveil-icloud-reuters Tue, 31 May 2011 22:49:55 +0300 NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who spent months on medical leave, will open an annual developers' conference next week showcasing the iPad maker's latest computer software and a new cloud computing service. Apple's shares rose almost 2 percent after it said on Tuesday that Jobs, along with a team of executives, will deliver the keynote speech at the June 6 conference. It was unclear if the CEO is returning from medical leave, however. An appearance by Jobs, a survivor of a rare form of pancreatic cancer, would mark one of the few occasions he has showed up in public on the company's behalf since going on medical leave -- for an undisclosed condition -- in January. In March, a thin but energetic Jobs took to his now-familiar platform at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center to unveil the iPad 2, drawing a standing ovation after months of frenetic media and investor speculation about his health. But this is the first time in recent years that Apple has said Jobs will be joined by his executive team during the keynote speech. Jobs typically takes the stage alone at most new product or service launches. Channing Smith, co-manager of the Capital Advisors Growth Fund, said he was "very surprised but happy" to see that Jobs appeared to be taking a more active role in strategic planning, though he was also encouraged that Apple was letting other executives share the spotlight. "The biggest overhang on Apple's stock is the health concerns surrounding Steve Jobs and the move to show ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/two-new-tablets-unveiled-ahead-of-top-asia-it-fair-afp/ two-new-tablets-unveiled-ahead-of-top-asia-it-fair-afp Tue, 31 May 2011 22:49:59 +0300 TAIPEI (AFP) – Two electronic firms unveiled new tablet computers in Taipei Monday, on the eve of Asia's biggest IT trade fair, as they try to get a slice of a lucrative market dominated by Apple's iPad. As thousands of industry delegates prepared for the Computex Taipei fair US firm ViewSonic and Taiwan's Shuttle Inc showed off their latest innovations. ViewSonic, a visual technology firm based in California, introduced what it said is the world's first tablet that is equipped with both Windows 7 and Google's Android platforms. "While iPad users are aimed for entertainment, our new machine has functions more than that," Kai Wang, a ViewSonic product manager, told AFP during a news conference on the eve of the five-day event. Kai said the ViewPad 10 Pro will be a simple transition for people who are already used to Microsoft's operation system, adding that he expects much of its customer base to come from those who already use netbooks. The new tablet, weighing slightly more than 830 grams, will hit the Taiwan market in June and elsewhere in the Asia Pacific in July, with a price tag of up to $799. IT firm Shuttle Inc from Taipei, meanwhile, showed off its low-priced gadget aimed at the student market. On unveiling the Shuttle V08, company manager Donald Chen told journalists: "It's true iPad is popular, but it is impossible for Apple to take the world's entire tablet market. There is still room for some tailor-made tablet developers." With anti-dust and waterproof characteristics, its tablet weighs only 650 grams and is slated to cost ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-confirms-icloud-ios-5-os-x-lion-unveils-at-wwdc-digital-trends/ apple-confirms-icloud-ios-5-os-x-lion-unveils-at-wwdc-digital-trends Tue, 31 May 2011 22:50:00 +0300 Apple confirmed in a short press release today plans to unveil its long-rumored iCloud feature at this year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, which is set to take place in San Francisco on June 6. The Cupertino, California-based electronics giant will also debut its next-generation mobile operating system, iOS 5, as well as OS X Lion for Mac PCs. In addition to the big software unveils is the confirmation that Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from the company since January, will appear at WWDC, presumably to make the keynote address. But as with all things Apple, even that detail remains enigmatic, with the press release only saying that “Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives” will “kick off” this year’s WWDC. We’ve contacted Apple to clear up Jobs’ role at the conference, but haven’t yet heard a response. Of course, the details about iCloud and iOS 5 remain equally unclear. Last we heard, iCloud will be a kind of combination of MobileMe and iTunes. Users will be able to store their digital media files, like music and videos, in an online database. This media could then be accessed using an iOS device, like an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, which could stream the media over a wireless network, including both Wi-Fi and 3G. As far as iOS 5 goes, the details remain even less solid, but here’s our educated guess as to what we might see on June 6: First, rumors out this weekend indicate a complete overhaul of iOS notifications, which have ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/it39s-official-steve-jobs-will-reveal-apple-icloud-ios-5-on-june-6-pc-magazine/ it39s-official-steve-jobs-will-reveal-apple-icloud-ios-5-on-june-6-pc-magazine Tue, 31 May 2011 22:50:05 +0300 Apple today said Steve Jobs will deliver the opening keynote at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 6. On the docket: the next-generation versions of Apple's software platforms, namely iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion, and the until-now mysterious cloud service, officially called iCloud. Apple revealed its plans in a press release issued this morning. The advance notice is somewhat out of character for the company, which typically prefers to keep the specifics of its announcements under lock and key until the event itself. It's likely Apple saw the speculation around the next version of the iPhone, which has traditionally been unveiled this time of year for a summer release, and decided to get ahead of those expectations lest anticipation for "iPhone 5" overshadow the software and services it wants to highlight. Unconfirmed reports appear to indicate iPhone 5 won't be revealed until late summer, and won't be in stores until fall. The most interesting part of Apple's announcement today is the confirmation of iCloud, which until now has been the subject of speculation ever since Apple acquired cloud-music service Lala in 2009. After Apple obtained the domain icloud.com and competitors like Amazon and Google began rolling out cloud services of their own, the rumors got even more prevalent. The latest is that Apple is very close to finalizing plans for iCloud that would allow consumers to mirror their music libraries online for playback anywhere, on any PC or iOS device. Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) is the eighth major release of of the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/samsung-asks-court-for-next-gen-iphone-and-ipad-reuters/ samsung-asks-court-for-next-gen-iphone-and-ipad-reuters Tue, 31 May 2011 22:50:10 +0300 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics has asked a U.S. court to force Apple Inc to hand over its next-generation models of the iPhone and iPad in the latest volley in a series of patent infringement suits between the two technology companies. Earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh ordered Samsung to give Apple copies of several models of its Galaxy mobile phones and tablets, as well as other products. "It would put Samsung at a significant disadvantage in this litigation if the Court allowed Apple access to Samsung's future products ... but prevented Samsung from gaining access to Apple's future products so that it could prepare its defense," Samsung argued in a motion filed on Friday with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Apple sued Samsung last month, claiming Samsung's Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets "slavishly" copies the iPhone and iPad. Samsung followed with its own lawsuit, alleging that Apple was the company doing the copying. [nN28231826] Apple was Samsung's second-biggest customer last year, mostly for semiconductors. The iPhone maker's claims against Samsung focus on Galaxy's design features, such as the look of its screen icons. Samsung declined to comment, and Apple could not be immediately reached for comment on Monday. Apple and Samsung are part of a wider web of litigation among phone makers and software firms over who owns the patents used in smartphones and tablets as rivals aggressively rush into a market jump-started by Apple with its iPhone and iPad. Samsung is one of the fastest-growing smartphone makers and has ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/more-android-malware-invades-google-marketplace-digital-trends/ more-android-malware-invades-google-marketplace-digital-trends Tue, 31 May 2011 22:50:13 +0300 While you may have been enjoying barbecues and sunshine over the long holiday weekend, several malware programs were busying inserting themselves into Google’s Android app portal. According to security firm Lookout, over two dozen apps were infected by malicious programs. When all was said and done, some 30,000 to 120,000 users are said to have been affected by the outbreak, dubbed Droid Dream Light. Google was quick to respond and pulled the 25 apps suspected of being infected. Those apps include titles developed by the companies Magic Photo Studio, BeeGoo, Mango Studio and E.T. Tean. Lookout says the this latest round of malware does not rely on users manually launching infected apps to trigger the malware’s behavior. Rather, the programs can be activated through basic phone functions, such as an incoming call. Droid Dream Light programs are capable of prompting users to download additional packages to their phones, but apparently cannot do so without user consent. Previous Android malware outbreaks have featured programs capable of downloading additional packages without user intervention. Lookout says that it first became aware of Droid Dream Light after a developer alerted the company that versions of his apps were appearing in the Google Marketplace in modified forms. Droid Dream Light comes in the wake of a similar wave of malware infections that were first reported in early March of this year. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/intel-unveils-laptops-that-include-tablet-features-reuters/ intel-unveils-laptops-that-include-tablet-features-reuters Tue, 31 May 2011 22:50:18 +0300 TAIPEI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel unveiled a new category of laptops that it says will include the best features of tablets as the world's top chipmaker struggles to find its footing in the exploding market for mobile gadgets. Netbook pioneer Asustek showed its first new PC in Intel's "Ultrabook" class, the UX series, on Monday at the Computex computer show in Taipei. Intel said models made by other manufacturers would go on sale by Christmas and cost under $1,000. Ultrabooks will be svelte and lightweight but still pack high-performance processors. They should account for 40 percent of laptop sales to consumers by the end of next year, Tom Kilroy, a senior vice president at Intel, told Reuters in an interview in San Francisco. "We're shooting for ultra responsive. You'll have always-on, always-connected, much more responsive devices, similar to what you would see with a tablet today such as an iPad," he said. In Taipei on Tuesday, Intel's vice president Mooly Eden called the Ultrabook a "different category" from the tablet and notebook, hoping that it would appeal to a different category of consumers. "There'll be some confusion if you look at the fold factor; when you open it you'll see a PC but if you're on the go, just fold it and suddenly it's a tablet. Is it a PC? Is it a tablet? I think it doesn't matter," Eden told a media conference. Santa Clara, California-based Intel is eager to make laptops more attractive to consumers who are increasingly captivated by Apple's iPad and other mobile gadgets. Its processors power 80 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/android-market-gives-video-game-emulators-the-boot-mashable/ android-market-gives-video-game-emulators-the-boot-mashable Tue, 31 May 2011 22:50:30 +0300 A collection of console emulators, including N64oid, Nesoid and Snesoid, have been removed from the Android Market. HotHardware and Engadget both report that the -oid series developer, Yong Zhang, has also lost his Android Market developer account. Although emulators have cleared various legal challenges in the past, most commercial application stores -- including Apple's App Store -- ban emulators unless the packaged ROMs are specifically licensed. [More from Mashable: 7 Stunning Augmented Reality Business Cards [VIDEOS]] Until recently, Google has seemingly turned a blind eye toward emulators, allowing users to sell emulators for virtually every classic console or old-school PC platform. That started to change in April, when Google removed the PSX4Droid emulator from the Android Market. The removal of PSX4Droid from the Android Market was suspect, especially given Sony's announcement of the Xperia Play Android phone, which can download and play many classic PlayStation One games. In the case of -oid series, the decision to remove the apps purportedly came after game maker (and console maker of old) Sega filed a complaint with Google. Presumably, Sega is upset that the emulators allow users who have illegally obtained ROM files for its games to play those games on their Android smartphones or tablets. [More from Mashable: Indy 500 Warmup: World Record-Setting 332-foot Truck Jump [VIDEO]] In response, the -oid developer has made its emulators available on the third-party Android market, SlideME and is making the apps free to download for now -- so that users won't have to worry about paying for an app twice. Although we understand the position ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple39s-new-os-x-lion-will-make-macs-look-like-ipads-the-atlantic-wire/ apple39s-new-os-x-lion-will-make-macs-look-like-ipads-the-atlantic-wire Tue, 31 May 2011 22:50:35 +0300 At Apple's World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco next week, Steve Jobs will take the stage to announce a series of much anticipated software upgrades, including iCloud, Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5. Jobs, who's been on medical leave from the company this year, will don his signature black turtleneck with Levi's jeans and might have a surprise in his pocket.The company's rare preview of what's to be expected at WWDC--particularly the inclusion of a new mobile operating system, iOS 5--hints that the iPhone 5 could make a surprise appearance.  But let's not get carried away. The iPhone 5 will arrive one day, likely without too dramatic an update, but these software changes could signal a big shift in Apple's business plan. What we already know about the upcoming products reveals that new iPhone or not, Apple is doubling down on their commitment to mobile and making a big bet on cloud computing. Streaming iTunes seems highly likely with Google and Amazon's recent announcements for cloud music services, Apple's existing cloud options with MobileMe and contracts signed by three of the four major music labels. In brief, music subscriptions piled on top of media subscriptions and app purchases will give Apple a trickle of cash out of all of their users' wallets for the foreseeable future. Here's what you may get in return. iCloud Om Malik reports that Apple snapped up the iCloud.com domain name in April for an estimated $4.5 million. They'll make their money back and then some as the service, Malik further explains, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-will-unveil-icloud-ios-5-new-mac-os-x-at-wwdc-newsfactor/ apple-will-unveil-icloud-ios-5-new-mac-os-x-at-wwdc-newsfactor Tue, 31 May 2011 22:50:38 +0300 After weeks of rumors, Apple has confirmed it will announce its iCloud service at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which begins Monday. The new service, expected to be centered around streaming music, will be unveiled during the morning keynote address by CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives. Except for that acknowledgment in a brief press release, the company has been quiet about what exactly iCloud will offer. But various news reports have given Apple watchers a sense of what to expect. Deals with Music Labels Apple has signed licensing deals with EMI Music and Warner Music Group for a cloud-based music service, and reportedly has also done so with Sony Music Entertainment. Reports indicate that a deal with the fourth big music label, Universal Music Group, hasn't yet been concluded but is close. These contracts with the big four music labels would give Apple a leg up on Amazon.com and Google, both of which recently unwrapped their versions of cloud-based music services. Amazon's Cloud Player and Cloud Drive launched in March, and Google's beta service, appropriately called Music Beta, was unveiled earlier this month. The big difference between these two services and the iCloud service from Apple is that Amazon and Google's are essentially storage vaults that require users to spend time uploading their music collections to the cloud, while Apple may be able to provide or duplicate all or most of a user's music collection in the cloud. Since Apple is doing licensing deals with the labels, which Google and Amazon have not, the music ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-says-chrome-to-power-only-notebooks-for-now-reuters/ google-says-chrome-to-power-only-notebooks-for-now-reuters Tue, 31 May 2011 22:50:42 +0300 TAIPEI (Reuters) – Google Inc will keep the focus of its Chrome operating system on notebooks, and has no immediate plan to make it available on tablets or to merge with its popular Android software for smartphones, said a senior executive. Google has been making aggressive inroads into the PC operating system arena dominated by Microsoft Corp, whose Windows operating system can be found on 90 percent of the world's PCs. Google had seen Chrome user numbers double over the past year to about 160 million, Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president for Chrome, told a news conference on Tuesday during the Computex PC show in Taipei. "Chrome OS is a computer model designed with various form factors in mind, but we are entirely focused on the notebook form factor for now. We have no other plans at this time," Pichai said in response to a question on whether Chrome would also be available for tablet PCs. Web-centric PC laptops, made by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Acer Inc using Chrome will go on sale in June, challenging Microsoft and Apple Inc. With the number of original equipment manufacturers still small, Google had set up a Chrome center in Taiwan, hoping to engaging more partners in the region, Pichai said, declining to provide details. The bare-bones operating system is essentially a web browser that steers users to applications such as email and spreadsheets directly on the web, instead of using software stored on the PCs. Some analysts said it would be some time before Chrome could revolutionize the PC world in the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/is-abc39s-wipeout-a-rip-off-reuters/ is-abc39s-wipeout-a-rip-off-reuters Tue, 31 May 2011 22:51:40 +0300 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – In the 1996 film "Swingers," Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and their fellow wannabe actors debate whether Quentin Tarantino ripped off a slow-motion sequence in "Reservoir Dogs" from Martin Scorsese. "Everybody steals from everybody," Vaughn's character announces. "That's Hollywood." The Swingers maxim is true throughout showbiz, but perhaps it most accurately describes one particular segment of Hollywood: Reality TV. Since "Survivor" kicked off the U.S. boom in unscripted, narrative programing 11 years ago, the niche has been littered with more copycat shows and derivative concepts than hit original formats. "American Idol," the official U.S. version of Britain's "Pop Idol," spawned countless singing elimination shows. History's "Pawn Stars" begat "Hard Core Pawn," "Pawn Queens" and the rest. Producers of ABC's "Wife Swap" once sued the makers of Fox's similar family switcheroo series "Trading Spouses." Owing to what might be a knee-jerk reaction against protecting the creativity in a genre dubbed "reality," as well as a lack of clarity in copyright law, many producers believe there is a Wild West mentality in the unscripted world that has given rise to a culture of rampant, unlicensed borrowing. Not helping matters was a leaked 2008 memo from an ABC executive, urging executives and producers to "carefully scrutinize" whether licensing foreign formats was "necessary or appropriate" before going forward with similar shows, especially when they might only be interested in the "general, underlying premise." The memo didn't specifically target reality shows, but it drew the ire of the Format Recognition and Protection Association, an international group pushing for intellectual property ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sturgeon39s-death-highlights-threat-to-ancient-fish-ap/ sturgeon39s-death-highlights-threat-to-ancient-fish-ap Tue, 31 May 2011 22:53:49 +0300 TULCEA, Romania – Alas, poor Harald. Wired up to a satellite transmitter, he had much to teach science about the life of the great sturgeons of the Danube River and Black Sea. His probable demise is a cautionary tale of the multiplying threats to the great sturgeons, sought since Roman times for the wealth they yield in meat and caviar. Consider: A living creature from the age of the dinosaurs, a fish that can grow as long as a minibus, lives longer than most men, sniffs its way to its birthplace to spawn and can yield a fortune in caviar. When in 2009 a team of Romanian and Norwegian researchers attached a satellite transmitter to Harald's 2.9 meter (9 1/2-foot) body, they hoped the data beamed back would show them ways of halting the rapid drop in the sturgeons' numbers. But now the Beluga sturgeon is missing, presumed to be a victim of poachers. Sturgeon have thrived in the Danube for 200 million years, migrating from feeding grounds in the Black Sea to Germany 2,000 kms (1,200 miles) upstream. Archaeologists have found wooden sturgeon traps in the ruins of Roman fortresses behind the willow trees on the Danube's banks, along with sturgeon bones dated to the 3rd century. In the 1970s and '80s Romania built giant dams across the Iron Gates gorge, cutting off half the sturgeons' spawning grounds. Fishermen, unrestrained after the collapse of order in eastern Europe in 1989, caught them in huge numbers as they began their migration, trapping them before they could reproduce. Pollution from agricultural run-off ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/android-android-everywhere-pc-magazine/ android-android-everywhere-pc-magazine Tue, 31 May 2011 23:31:29 +0300 Google officially wants to be everywhere—or at least it wants Android to be everywhere. At the Google I/O 2011 conference last month, the company outlined a vision for global platform domination, which includes a new cloud-based music service, a new movie rental service, Android for the home, reference designs for new Android hardware, and even, yes, Android light bulbs. Prepare to get bombed by Google Android. Google's anticipated music service—still in beta and without a lot of major label support— puts all your music in the cloud, and as Google repeatedly reminded us, doesn't require any docking or wires to play the music wherever you want to. Google also introduced a movie service that works with new apps on the Motorola Xoom tablet and Android phones. Still, the most announcement was the Android-everywhere portion. Google is now ready to send its mobile operating system well beyond phones and tablets. The plan is that it will show up in everything from speakers and exercise bikes to light bulbs. These Android-enabled devices will of course work with Android phones and tablets. Android as an embeddable operating system is also becoming a reality as Google introduced hardware reference designs that should help Android power all sorts of crazy ideas. Google demonstrated the power of this hardware and the Android platform with a tablet-controlled maze (one that was breadbox-size and one that was large enough for a bowling ball to roll on). Interestingly, Google said it wants Android, specifically Android Ice Cream Sandwich (or 4.0) to be one OS ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/just-show-me-how-to-find-what-version-of-android-your-phone-is-running-yahoo-news/ just-show-me-how-to-find-what-version-of-android-your-phone-is-running-yahoo-news Wed, 1 Jun 2011 01:01:20 +0300 Welcome one and all to Just Show Me, where we give you short tips and tricks for getting the most out of your gadgets. In our last episode we showed you an overview of the Google Music service, and today we've got another edition for the Android fans in the house. Want to know how to find out what version of the Android mobile operating system is currently on your phone? Check out the video above to find out! If you already know all about how to find your Android version, why not pass this on to the new Android owner in your life? Or, check out one of our other Android video tips from the list below. What other topics do you want to see us cover here on Just Show Me? Let us know in the comments! Just Show Me: Android editions How to save battery life with selective syncing How to uninstall apps from your Android phone How to get a refund for Android apps from the Android Market An overview of Honeycomb 3.0 for tablets How to add a widget to your Android tablet An overview of Google Music Beta http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/privacy-group-gets-part-of-google-settlement-judge-reuters/ privacy-group-gets-part-of-google-settlement-judge-reuters Wed, 1 Jun 2011 01:01:29 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. judge approved a class action settlement over Google's Buzz social network, and awarded $500,000 to an Internet privacy group that had previously been left out of the proposed deal. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission last year, saying Buzz threatened the privacy of Gmail users. Google settled with the FTC this past March and agreed to independent privacy audits. Google also agreed last year to resolve a separate proposed class action lawsuit brought by a Gmail user. Part of that deal provided for more than $6 million to be distributed to groups advocating for Internet privacy issues. However, that list of groups did not include EPIC, which objected to the proposed settlement. EPIC and a handful of other groups said the majority of funds would be allocated to groups that "receive support from Google for lobbying, consulting, or similar services," according to a court filing. The plaintiffs called that argument meritless. But on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge James Ware wrote that there was no good cause to exclude EPIC from the settlement. "EPIC has demonstrated that it is a well-established and respected organization within the field of Internet privacy," Ware wrote. Marc Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC, did not immediately comment on the order. Representatives for Google and the plaintiffs did not respond to a request for comment. EPIC had originally requested $1.75 million. The settlement also includes money for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the YMCA of Greater Long Beach, among other groups. The ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/jobs-to-headline-apple-launch-unveil-icloud-reuters/ jobs-to-headline-apple-launch-unveil-icloud-reuters Wed, 1 Jun 2011 01:01:36 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs leaps back into the spotlight next week to showcase the iPad maker's latest software and is widely expected to unveil an online music storage and streaming service. Apple shares rose 3 percent on news that Jobs, along with a team of executives, will deliver the keynote speech at a June 6 conference showcasing the iPad-maker's latest software and products. But it was unclear if the CEO, who has been on his third medical leave since January, is returning full-time. An appearance by Jobs, who survived a rare form of pancreatic cancer, would mark only the second time he has shown up in public for a company event since going on medical leave for an undisclosed condition. In March, a thin but energetic Jobs took to his now-familiar platform at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center to unveil the iPad 2, drawing a standing ovation after months of frenetic speculation about his health. Jobs plans to unveil a new cloud-based service called iCloud, offering computing and data over the Internet, the company said in a statement. The CEO will also unveil a slew of software upgrades at the conference, including Lion, its Mac OS X computer operating system, and iOS 5, the next version of its mobile operating system. The conference will be the first time in recent years that Jobs will be joined by his executive team during the keynote speech. The Silicon Valley icon typically takes the stage alone at most new product or service launches. Channing Smith, co-manager of the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/steve-jobs-to-deliver-apple-keynote-next-week-ap/ steve-jobs-to-deliver-apple-keynote-next-week-ap Wed, 1 Jun 2011 01:31:24 +0300 NEW YORK – Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs will take a break from medical leave to deliver the keynote speech at next week's Apple conference, the company said Tuesday. The keynote will feature a new "iCloud" service, the company said. It didn't explain what the service will do, but Apple has been in talks with all four major recording companies on allowing users to store their songs on Apple-run servers rather than on their home PCs, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person was not authorized to speak publicly on the deals and spoke recently on condition of anonymity. Jobs went on medical leave in January for unspecified reasons, handing over day-to-day control to chief operating officer Tim Cook. Investors were rattled because Jobs is seen as the creative force behind the company, crucial to shaping hit products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Even while on leave, Jobs has remained involved in larger decisions at the company, and demonstrated the new iPad model at a news conference in March. Apple shares rose $10.42, or 3.1 percent, to close at $347.83. Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday in San Francisco. Jobs decision to appear at the conference indicates he believes iCloud will be another breakthrough service for Apple. ICloud could give users a wide array of music for their iPhones, iPads and Wi-Fi-capable iPods, without having to connect them to their home PCs to transfer songs. Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. have recently launched similar services. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/jobs-to-unveil-apple-software-innovations-afp/ jobs-to-unveil-apple-software-innovations-afp Wed, 1 Jun 2011 01:31:25 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Ailing chief executive Steve Jobs returns next week from sick leave to unveil Apple's latest generation of software, the firm announced Tuesday. The 56-year-old cancer survivor will present Apple's new operating system, dubbed "Lion," at a developers conference in San Francisco on June 6. Jobs went on leave in January, his third medical absence since 2004, but has retained his title of chief executive at Apple. He underwent an operation for pancreatic cancer in 2004 and received a liver transplant in 2009, but Apple has not released any details about his latest health issues. "Lion" will be the eighth major iteration of Apple's operating system for the California company's increasingly popular Macintosh computers. Apple stock price finished the trading day up more than three percent to $347.83 after the morning announcement that the culture-changing company's renowned pitchman will play a starring role at the event. "If Steve Jobs is going to be there, it means something is going to launch," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley. Apple's rare decision to disclose what Jobs and other executives will discuss could be intended to curb the rampant speculation that routinely precedes the company's events, according to Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg. "The key is to remember it is a developers conference," Gartenberg said. "They could be talking up software so people don't expect to see an iPhone 5 or a new Macbook." Apple promised that announcements would include an "iCloud services offering," which many expected to include a streaming music. Apple provided no details. Google and Amazon.com recently launched services ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/twitter-acquires-online-ad-team-to-help-with-monetization-reuters/ twitter-acquires-online-ad-team-to-help-with-monetization-reuters Wed, 1 Jun 2011 02:01:06 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter has acquired the team behind a small Internet company whose tools helped manage advertising campaigns on Google Inc, stepping up the microblogging site's effort to generate revenue. AdGrok announced the acquisition on its Website on Tuesday, saying Twitter asked them to work on a "monetization platform." The company added that it had served customers on Google's AdWords platform but would stop doing so by the end of June. "We're happy to announce that Twitter has acquired the AdGrok team. Starting today, we will be working full-time on Twitter's revenue engineering team," AdGrok said in a brief statement. Twitter spokesman Matt Graves confirmed that two of the members of the AdGrok team were now working at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters as part of the deal. The third AdGrok co-founder has joined Twitter rival Facebook, Graves said in an emailed message. Twitter did not disclose a price, but tech blog Techcrunch reported the deal was sealed at under $10 million. Twitter has quickened efforts to generate revenue under the helm of new CEO Dick Costolo, introducing ways for marketers to deliver ads within the microblogging service. But the company's revenue growth has lagged some of its online peers. Twitter is expected to bring in about $150 million in ad revenue this year, compared to Facebook's roughly $4 billion in ad revenue, according to research firm eMarketer. Twitter, which allows people to send 140-character text messages or "tweets" to groups of followers is one of the Web's most popular social networking sites along with Facebook and Zynga, and is closely ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/can-asian-tech-take-bite-out-of-ipad/ can-asian-tech-take-bite-out-of-ipad Wed, 1 Jun 2011 05:02:13 +0300 Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) -- The tablet computer market is about to get a whole lot more crowded. Apple's iPad had gobbled up 75% of the market for the portable devices at the end of last year, according to the manufacturer. But now computer makers and software manufacturers in Asia are scrambling to take a bigger bite out of the California technology giant's hold on the market. At Computex, Asia's biggest computer and communications technology trade show, held in Taipei, companies unveiled products that they hope could diminish Apple's dominance of the sector, even if they don't prove to be an "iPad killer." Apple's iPad burst onto the scene in April 2010 amid massive buzz and, according to the company, sold 3 million units in 80 days. Manufacturers are banking on huge growth in the field of tablets -- which bridge the gap between smartphones and laptops. The evolving market for the devices is predicted to grow by around 400% over the next four years, according to the Taiwanese Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute. It predicts that 160 million devices a year will be sold in 2015. Among the most eye-catching devices hoping to make an impact is the Asus Padfone, and its name shouldn't leave anyone in doubt as to what it is. The tablet has a 10.1-inch screen. Its back hides a discreet hatch for an accompanying smart phone. Docking the smart phone into the tablet instantly transfers the phone's functions to the tablet, including media and all phone functions. Running the latest Android operating system, the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-says-was-rebuffed-as-partner-by-facebook-reuters/ google-says-was-rebuffed-as-partner-by-facebook-reuters Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:31:37 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc tried to partner with Facebook but was rebuffed, denying the search giant to the social network's trove of personal information, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday. Schmidt did not specify which deal in particular he was referring to, but noted that Google's search could be improved with access to Facebook's data about Web surfers' friends and acquaintances. "We tried very hard to partner with Facebook," Schmidt said. "They were unwilling to do the deal," he added, noting that Facebook had traditionally partnered with Microsoft. Schmidt, who was speaking at the D9 conference organized by the blog AllThingsD, also noted that Google had also recently renewed a partnership with Apple in which Google provides map technology featured in the iPhone. A former Apple board member, Schmidt said their relationship had gotten "rough" as Google began to develop its Android smartphone operating system, although they remained good partners in certain good parnters in certain businesses. Schmidt, who ended his 10-year run as Google CEO in April and handed the reins to 38-year-old Google co-founder Larry Page, is among the more than a dozen tech industry executives slated to speak at the conference, taking place this week at an upscale resort in Southern California. Among the other scheduled speakers are the chief executives of the Walt Disney Co, Hewlett-Packard, Twitter, Zynga, Groupon and Alibaba. (Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lots-more-phone-calls-being-made-online/ lots-more-phone-calls-being-made-online Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:32:44 +0300 (CNN) -- Online telephone calls have seen a big jump in popularity in the past couple of years, according to new survey numbers. After years of modest use, nearly one-fourth of all American adults who use the Internet say they have made a Web-based phone call, according to the survey by the Pew Internet and Amercian Life Project. The results come in the wake of the news earlier this month that computing giant Microsoft had bought popular Web chat tool Skype for a staggering $8.5 billion. According to a Pew report, 24 percent of online U.S. adults have placed calls online. That's 19 percent of all adults in the country. On any give day, 5 percent of the Web's users are making phone calls using services like Skype, Vonage and Google Voice, according to the results. Both of those numbers are up sharply from the last time Pew, which explores the impact of the Internet on American life, asked a similar question. In 2007, Pew reported that 8 percent of internet users had made a call online and 2 percent did so on any given day. Earlier in the 2000s, several surveys suggested that no more than one-tenth of users made calls and that never more than 1 percent did so each day. According to the recent survey's results, men and women are pretty much equally making the Web-based calls. The most frequent callers (27 percent) are in the 18-29 year-old age group and users 65 and older are least likely (18 percent). Hispanic users had the highest percentage (27 percent) saying they ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/smart-money-promise-drama-in-yahoo39s-asian-assets-reuters/ smart-money-promise-drama-in-yahoo39s-asian-assets-reuters Wed, 1 Jun 2011 07:31:12 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is known as a strong-willed and straight-talking leader, but some top money managers are betting she can mend fences and compromise with crucial partners in China. Shares of Yahoo Inc, at around $16, are just over half what they were in 2008 when Microsoft came calling, never mind the Internet bubble highs of a decade ago. But the stock's potential rebound attracted top hedge fund managers David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital, Philippe Laffont of Coatue Capital, Anand Parekh of Alyeska Investment Group and Ricky Sandler of Eminence Capital in the first quarter. The buying spree made Yahoo one of the biggest additions to portfolios of the Smart Money 30, a group of the largest stock-picking hedge funds, according to Thomson Reuters data. Analysts say most investors have undervalued the most exciting part Bartz's Yahoo portfolio: its substantial Asian assets, which include a 43 percent stake in China's Alibaba Group and a 35 percent stake in Yahoo Japan. But Bartz has had a tough time dealing with some of her Asian partners, particularly Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, as investors discovered in early May. That's when Yahoo revealed that online payment company Alipay, an important piece of its Chinese investment, had slipped through its fingers as a result of an asset transfer that raised questions about what kind of payout Yahoo's Asia assets will deliver. Yahoo shares tumbled 12 percent in the days that followed. Bartz got off to a bad start with Ma, a former English schoolteacher, by criticizing his management of Yahoo's ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/former-google-ceo-39screwed-up39-on-facebook-threat-ap/ former-google-ceo-39screwed-up39-on-facebook-threat-ap Wed, 1 Jun 2011 08:31:24 +0300 SAN FRANCISCO – If he had a another chance, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt would have pressed the Internet search leader to focus more on mounting a challenge to Facebook while he was still running the company. "I screwed up," Schmidt said late Tuesday during a 75-minute question-and-answer session at the D: All Things conference in Rancho Palos Verdes. The Associated Press watched a webcast of the conference. Schmidt's admission comes nearly two months after he ended his decade-long stint as Google's CEO and became the company's executive chairman. He was replaced by Google co-founder Larry Page, who is pushing the company's employees to develop more ways to connect people with their friends and family like Facebook already does That was a priority that Schmidt said he started addressing in internal memos written about four years ago when Facebook had about 20 million active users. But he acknowledged he and other executives didn't take Facebook seriously enough. Now, Facebook has more than 500 million users who shares billions of links, posts and photos each month. Facebook's growing popularity is becoming more nettlesome for Google. As Facebook's audience grows, it is attracting more online advertising and stunting Google's financial growth. Perhaps even more troubling to Google, much of the information on Facebook's website can't be indexed by Google's search engine. That restriction threatens to make Google's less useful as more people form social circles online and could make it more difficult to get a handle on personal preferences so it can do a better job selling ads. Schmidt said the company has been ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/39real-housewives39-zolciak-gives-birth-to-a-boy/ 39real-housewives39-zolciak-gives-birth-to-a-boy Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:32:35 +0300 (CNN) -- This baby was not tardy for the party. "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star -- and aspiring singer -- Kim Zolciak announced late Tuesday that she has given birth to a boy. Zolciak's due date was sometime in early June. And true to her single, Kroy Jagger Biermann came on time. The reality show star announced the baby's birth via a post on her Twitter account. "@biermann71 and I are happy to announce the birth of our son today Kroy Jagger Biermann is healthy & beautiful We are so in love!" the post read. The newborn is the namesake of Zolciak's boyfriend, Atlanta Falcons defensive end Kroy Biermann. Viewers saw the pair meet in a November 14 episode of the Bravo television show. She has two daughters from a previous marriage. Zolciak shot to fame for her role in the "Real Housewives of Atlanta," which chronicles the lives of six "fabulous women from Atlanta's social elite," as the Bravo website put it. The show remains the most popular in Bravo's "Housewives" franchise. It returns for a fourth season in October. Zolciak has tried to parlay her show success into a career in music. Her first single, "Tardy for the Party" -- released in 2009 -- boasted lines such as: "Don't be tardy for the party. Hurry up baby don't be late." She followed up the following year with the single, "Google Me." "Research me, you'll find me. Click them keys and Google me!" CNN's Henry Hanks contributed to this report. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-launches-its-groupon-competitor-wednesday-mashable/ google-launches-its-groupon-competitor-wednesday-mashable Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:31:13 +0300 Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has announced that the search giant will launch its Groupon competitor on Wednesday, starting with Portland. The news that Google is getting into the daily deals space is not a surprise. Google attempted and failed to acquire Groupon for $6 billion last year. A few months later, Mashable exclusively learned that Google was developing a Groupon competitor called Google Offers. [More from Mashable: Google Graduates 3 Gmail Labs Features] At the D9 Conference in Palos Verdes, California, Schmidt and Stephanie Tilenius, Google's VP of commerce, demonstrated the company's new product. It's just like Groupon in that it provides users a daily deal from "thousands of merchant partners." Google showed off a deal for $10 worth of Floyd's coffee for $3 on stage. The big selling point for Google Offers is that it will integrate seamlessly with Google Wallet, the company's NFC-based payment system launching this summer. Instead of printing out a coupon or barcode, completed offers are saved to a user's Google Wallet, where they are automatically saved and redeemable. Eventually they will be utilized automatically through NFC. [More from Mashable: Nokia’s Freefall Continues] Google Offers will be available tomorrow in Portland and eventually roll out to New York, San Francisco and other cities during the summer. This story originally published on Mashable here. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-graduates-3-gmail-labs-features-mashable/ google-graduates-3-gmail-labs-features-mashable Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:31:14 +0300 Google has announced that three Gmail Labs add-ons have graduated and become standard Gmail features. Starting today, users now have access to Superstars, Nested Labels and Advanced IMAP Controls as part of the regular Gmail experience. The Google Search Box lab feature, which was added in April 2009, was retired. The Official Gmail Blog gives an overview of these labs turned features and describes how users can access them in their settings. [More from Mashable: Google Launches Its Groupon Competitor Wednesday] Superstars, the ability to use different types of stars in addition to the basic Gmail star icon, was one of the most popular Gmail Labs experiments. Users can now access and customize their stars in the Settings panel. Nested labels allow users to organize groups of labels, something that can be particularly handy for users who have intricate rules and tagging systems. Users can create new sub-labels from a new dropdown menu or move existing labels below others in the "edit" options. Nested labels can also now be designated in closed or expanded states. [More from Mashable: Nokia’s Freefall Continues] The final labs graduate is Advanced IMAP Controls. This has long been one of my most-used Gmail features for my various Google Apps accounts and it's great to see it get upgraded to full feature status. These controls, which are accessible in the IMAP section of the Gmail settings, let users specify what labels are set to sync, folder size limits and other behavior that is especially useful for those of us who frequently access Gmail in a desktop or ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/laptop-thief-gets-exposed-by-hidden-security-camera-app-mashable/ laptop-thief-gets-exposed-by-hidden-security-camera-app-mashable Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:31:20 +0300 [More from Mashable: Tumblr Blog Chronicles Real Outrage Over Fake News] Joshua Kaufman didn't just sit back and watch when his laptop was stolen -- he continued to watch it being stolen, days later. Yup, thanks to Hidden, an app that collects webcam pics and screenshots when a computer is stolen, Kaufman knows just what his MacBook thief looks like. The MacBook in question was lifted from interaction designer Kaufman's Oakland, CA, apartment March 21, along with a few pieces of jewelry. Luckily, Kaufman had installed the Hidden app on his computer back in December, which allowed him to capture pictures of the thief -- as well as his Google ID -- and create a Tumblr dedicated to the missing computer, This Guy Has My MacBook, which went live last Friday. [More from Mashable: Tumblr Launches New “Spotlight” Directory] According to Kaufman, despite the fact that he has told police where the MacBook is -- thanks to Hidden -- no progress had been made on its recovery. When asked if he thinks he'll get his computer back, Kaufman replied: "I believe in the power of good." You hear that, dude who supposedly has Kaufman's MacBook? He believes in you. So why don't you go ahead and return that sucker to its rightful owner? This story originally published on Mashable here. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google39s-schmidt-takes-subtle-shots-at-microsoft-apple-facebook-mashable/ google39s-schmidt-takes-subtle-shots-at-microsoft-apple-facebook-mashable Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:31:36 +0300 Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt described his company as part of a "gang of four" kings of consumer technology, along with Amazon, Apple and Facebook. Explicitly not on that list: Microsoft. Speaking at the opening interview of the All Things D conference in southern California, Schmidt seemed determined to sideline the world's largest software company as an enterprise play. He said Microsoft was "not driving the consumer revolution in the minds of consumers," and claimed that the majority of its profits came from corporate sales. The Xbox gaming system didn't count as it was "not a platform at the computational level," Schmidt said. [More from Mashable: Google Graduates 3 Gmail Labs Features] And Schmidt sounded a warning that Microsoft shouldn't feel safe from Google in the enterprise space either. The former CEO said we were seeing "the death of IT as we know it," as more and more companies move their data off local servers and online. Google and Microsoft are competing aggressively in the cloud-based services market. Schmidt had a mixture of praise and criticism for Apple, a partner in some things (search, maps) and a competitor in others (the increasingly brutal Android vs. iOS war in the mobile space). Schmidt called Apple a company that makes "beautiful products" -- but also one that clamps down too harshly on iOS developers. Android developers have much more freedom to launch apps, he said. [More from Mashable: Lewd Photo From New York Congressman’s Twitter Account Has Web in a Tizzy] "The Apple model is the reverse of the ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google39s-schmidt-insists-it39s-no-one-trick-pony-afp/ google39s-schmidt-insists-it39s-no-one-trick-pony-afp Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:31:45 +0300 RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California (AFP) – Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took the blame for the Internet giant's failure to go "social" but insisted the company was much more than a search engine. "I would not describe Google as just search and ads," Schmidt said late Tuesday during a wide-ranging on-stage talk at a premier All Things Digital conference in the Southern California resort town of Rancho Palos Verdes. "We are very much a cloud computing company," he said. His list of blossoming Google endeavors included Android-powered smartphones and tablet computers as well as "a huge maps business" that includes a freshly-renewed contract with Apple. Schmidt billed Google's online video-sharing service as one of its most successful acquisitions. Google is one of four companies exploiting "platform strategies" really well in the Internet industry, according to Schmidt. He listed the other firms as Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, with Microsoft not making the cut. "Google has all the world's information," Schmidt said. "In Facebook's case, every friend you ever had, including those you can't quite remember." Amazon weighs in as the largest store on the Internet, and Apple makes "beautiful products," he reasoned. "Microsoft is not driving the consumer revolution in the minds of consumers," Schmidt contended, saying its strength was with businesses. Google tried very hard to partner with Facebook, according to Schmidt, who said he admired a number of things the social networking service has done. He said he had long felt that the Internet was missing online identities that would enable services to be better tailored to individuals. As Google chief executive for a decade ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-taking-more-cautious-stance-on-privacy/ google-taking-more-cautious-stance-on-privacy Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:32:52 +0300 Rancho Palos Verdes, California (CNN) -- Google, now an Internet giant, is learning that it needs to take more careful steps in regards to privacy. Prompted by intensifying scrutiny from government regulators and privacy watchdogs, Google is striving to be more sensitive to data-collection issues that often make people uneasy. It went so far as to spike a recent project Google engineers had developed because of fears of potential backlash, said Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman and former CEO. The scrapped software would have let people include their head shot photos in a database so that they could be recognized by a mobile application when someone takes a picture of their faces. "We built that technology, and we withheld it," Schmidt said in an onstage interview at the D: All Things Digital conference here on Tuesday. "As far as I know, it was the only technology that Google built, and we decided to stop." That product was meant to be part of an app called Google Goggles, which is able to look at a picture taken from a phone and then translate text or recognize a building, advertisement or painting. (Facial recognition is, however, being used to power a feature in Google Maps's Street View that blurs the faces of bystanders caught on camera.) As recently as March, Google still had plans to eventually release the facial-recognition version of the app, CNN reported. Schmidt was less supportive of the idea at a conference two weeks ago when he said it was "unlikely" that Google would release the software. With facial-recognition technology, "an ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ciberhondrul-pacientul-imbolnavit-de-internet-si-de-clinicile-virtuale/ ciberhondrul-pacientul-imbolnavit-de-internet-si-de-clinicile-virtuale Fri, 6 May 2011 08:07:40 +0300 Ciberhondria este o boala a generatiei cu acces la internet. Peste 160 de milioane de persoane cauta informatii medicale in spatiul virtual, insa numai o mica parte dintre acestea ajung sa consulte in realitate un medic. Pe langa faptul ca se alarmeaza inutil, ciberhondrii isi pierd treptat increderea in medicii din spitale si prefera sa se lase tratati exclusiv de Dr. Google. Citeste pe MedLive.ro cine sunt ciberhondrii si cum se autodiagnosticheaza http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/concurs-google-cum-poti-castiga-10000-de-dolari/ concurs-google-cum-poti-castiga-10000-de-dolari Fri, 6 May 2011 07:42:02 +0300 Eşti student la calculatoare? Scrierea codurilor informatice este specialitatea ta? Dacă esti pasionat de tot ce înseamnă programare, află că poţi participa pe 6 mai, la concursul organizat de Google pentru studenţii şi programatorii profesionişti. Google lansează ediţia din acest an a concursului Google Code Jam, o competiţie în care se întrec programatori profesionişti şi studenţi din întreaga lume. Dacă te simţi în stare să scrii coduri informatice în timp record şi să propui, în timp scurt, rezolvări pentru algoritmii complecşi, atunci nu mai sta pe gânduri. Anul acesta, startul se dă pe 6 mai şi concursul presupune patru runde online. Cei mai buni 25 de concurenţi care se vor califica în urma acestor probe vor zbura direct in capitala Japoniei, la Tokyo, acolo unde îşi vor disputa premiul de 10.000 dolari, cât şi titlul de campion Code Jam, pe care îl va câştiga însa cel mai bun IT-ist. Citeşte mai multe despre concursul Google Code Jam pe www.incont.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-si-google-incearca-sa-obtina-parteneriate-cu-skype/ facebook-si-google-incearca-sa-obtina-parteneriate-cu-skype Thu, 5 May 2011 10:35:02 +0300 Facebook şi Google încearcă separat să obţină diverse tipuri de colaborare cu Skype, după ce compania care operează unul dintre cele mai răspândite şi mai cunoscute servicii de videoconferinţe online a amânat oferta publică iniţială, au declarat două surse apropiate discuţiilor. Directorul general al Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, a participat la discuţii interne privind preluarea Skype, potrivit uneia dintre surse. O altă sursă a afirmat că Facebook a propus Skype formarea unui joint venture. Aceeaşi persoană susţine că şi Google a purtat discuţii preliminare pentru un joint venture cu Skype. Un acord cu Skype ar putea genera o tranzacţie evaluată la 3-4 miliarde de dolari, a adăugat prima sursă. Oferta publică iniţială a Skype, odată derulată, ar putea atrage circa un miliard de dolari, au declarat alte surse. Discuţiile sunt în etape preliminare şi nu este clar care sunt variantele favorizate de companii pentru o combinaţie cu Skype. Oferta publică iniţială a companiei rămâne în cărţi pentru cea de-a doua parte a anului, însă discuţiile cu alţi jucători vor continua, au adăugat sursele. Facebook ar avea cel mai mult de câştigat dintr-un parteneriat cu Skype, deoarece şi-ar extinde baza de utilizatori prin creşterea pe plan internaţional, pe pieţele unde serviciul de telefonie şi conferinţe online este deja foarte popular. În plus, cei 500 de milioane de utilizatori Facebook ar avea un nou motiv să folosească activ serviciile companiei şi să rămână conectaţi. Analiştii consideră că o colaborare a Skype cu Facebook ar fi mai oportună decât una cu Google, din moment ce gigantul căutărilor pe internet oferă deja un serviciu similar, Google Voice. Reprezentanţii Skype şi Google au refuzat să comenteze informaţiile, iar cei ai Facebook nu au fost disponibili pentru declaraţii. Anul trecut, 124 de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cum-vrea-guvernul-sa-se-implice-in-fabricarea-automobilului-electric-alaturi-de-renault-cum-si-cu-cat-ar-putea-scadea-pretul-la-carburanti-in-romania-cum-a-suierat-glontul-pe-la-urechea-bcr-platforma-android-a-devenit-lider-pe-piata-sm/ business-report-cum-vrea-guvernul-sa-se-implice-in-fabricarea-automobilului-electric-alaturi-de-renault-cum-si-cu-cat-ar-putea-scadea-pretul-la-carburanti-in-romania-cum-a-suierat-glontul-pe-la-urechea-bcr-platforma-android-a-devenit-lider-pe-piata-sm Thu, 5 May 2011 04:56:09 +0300 In articolul "Topul celor mai ieftine benzinarii Petrom din Capitala", ZF scrie: "Cea mai ieftina benzina Petrom din Bucuresti este in Ferentari, iar cea mai scumpa pe Dorobanti. Datele, care arata ca cea mai mare companie petroliera din Romania tine cont de puterea de cumparare a locuitorilor Bucurestiului, apar pentru prima data pe site-ul Petrom". Topul integral in Ziarul Financiar. Pro TV, Orange si Zara, printre brandurile in care romanii au cea mai mare incredere. Pro TV, Orange, Danone, Zara si Dove se numara printre brandurile in care romanii au cea mai mare incredere, potrivit studiului Trusted Brands 2011, realizat de revista Reader's Digest. La sectiunea categorii locale, consumatorii romani au declarat ca au cea mai mare incredere in: Pro TV (statii TV), Vel Pitar (produse de panificatie), Danone (produse lactate), Cris-Tim (produse din carne), Untdelemn de la Bunica (ulei de gatit), Fuchs (condimente), Borsec (ape minerale), Pedigree (hrana pentru animale), Medlife (clinici private), Jacobs (cafea), Colgate (pasta de dinti), Zara (retailer de imbracaminte), Domo (retailer electrocasnice), Dove (sapun), Nivea (deodorant), Kaufland (centre comerciale), Adevarul (cotidiene) si Europa FM (statii radio), scrie Daily Business.In articolul "Cum a suierat glontul pe la urechea BCR", ZF scrie: "20 Decembrie 2005, ora 19:13. Sebastian Vladescu, ministrul de atunci al finantelor, anunta rezultatul celei mai mari privatizari din istoria Romaniei: grupul austriac Erste cumpara la mustata in fata portughezilor de la Millennium BCP cea mai mare banca locala, BCR, intr-o tranzactie de 3,75 mld". Integral in Ziarul Financiar. Patronatele: Consumul nu a scazut cu 10%, ci s-a mutat in ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-si-google-vor-sa-cumpere-skype-surse/ facebook-si-google-vor-sa-cumpere-skype-surse Thu, 5 May 2011 02:42:10 +0300 Facebook si Google Inc au in vedere asocieri cu Skype, potrivit unor surse din cadrul celor doua companii, care au participat la negocieri. Skype, furnizor de software care permite utilizatorilor sa folosesca internetul pentru apeluri audio si video, vrea sa vanda actiuni in valoare de 100 de milioane de dolari printr-o oferta publica initiala (IPO) pe piata din SUA, informeaza Reuters.Directorul executiv al Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, este implicat in discutii interne cu privire la cumpararea Skype, potrivit uneia dintre sursele citate. Surse din cadrul companiei au declarat pentru publicatia americana Bloomberg ca discutiile intre cele doua companii au inceput inca de anul trecut.O alta sursa a declarat pentru Reuters ca atat Facebook, cat si Google intentioneaza sa formeze un joint venture cu compania luxemburgheza. Sursele citate au mai declarat ca Skype ar putea fi evaluata la trei, pana la patru miliarde de dolari si ca oferta publica initiala ar putea strange pana la un miliard de dolari. Skype si Google au refuzat sa comenteze, iar reprezentantii Facebook nu au fost disponibili pentru comentarii. Informatiile nu sunt publice, iar sursele au cerut sa ramana in anonimitate. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/platforma-android-a-devenit-lider-pe-piata-smartphone-in-primul-trimestru/ platforma-android-a-devenit-lider-pe-piata-smartphone-in-primul-trimestru Wed, 4 May 2011 19:56:02 +0300 Platforma Android creată de Google a urcat în primul trimestru pe o poziţie dominantă pe piaţa aplicaţiilor informatice destinate aparatelor smartphone, potrivit companiei de cercetare a pieţei Canalys. Informaţia scoate în evidenţă cât de repede a progresat Google, care oferă gratuit soft-ul producătorilor de telefoane, pe piaţa smartphone. Google şi-a majorat astfel avansul faţă de Nokia şi a depăşit şi Apple. Apple şi Google au revoluţionat piaţa smartphone în numai câţiva ani şi au lăsat în urmă fostul lider Nokia. HTC, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, Motorola Mobility şi LG Electronics au mizat pe Android pentru a-şi construi o poziţie puternică pe piaţa smartphone. Potrivit Canalys, această piaţă a înregistrat în primele trei luni o creştere de 83% faţă de intervalul similar din 2010, la 101 milioane de telefoane. Platforma software a Google şi-a majorat cota de piaţă la 35%, de la sub 10% în urmă cu un an. Cota soft-ului Symbian produs de Nokia a scăzut în schimb de la 45% la 26%. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/new-york-times-jim-carrey-angry-birds-si-o-campanie-pentru-old-spice-printre-castigatorii-din-acest-an-ai-oscarurilor-internetului/ new-york-times-jim-carrey-angry-birds-si-o-campanie-pentru-old-spice-printre-castigatorii-din-acest-an-ai-oscarurilor-internetului Wed, 4 May 2011 16:07:06 +0300 Justin Bieber, Jim Carrey, jocul Angry Birds, TechCrunch, New York Times, Discovery Communications si agentiile Wieden+Kennedy si Goodby, Silverstein & Partners se numara printre castigatorii editiei din acest an a Webby Awards, asa-numitele "Oscaruri ale internetului". Premiile sunt acordate celor mai bune site-uri, celor mai bune reclame online si celor mai bune aplicatii mobile.Printre cei care si-au adjudecat premii la mai multe categorii se numara Funny or Die, site de umor ce gazduieste multe celebritati de la Hollywood (9 premii), Google Creative Labs (7 premii), agentia Wieden+Kennedy (7 premii), @radical.media (5 premii), Discovery Communications (5 premii).Intre altele:Campania in social media "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like", pentru Old Spice, a adus mai multe premii agentiei Wieden+Kennedy LEGO.com a fost declarat site-ul cu cel mai bun homepagefoursquare a castigat la categoria Best USE of GPS/Location TechnologyThe Johnny Cash Project a fost premiat pentru Best Use of Online MediaAngry Birds a fost declarat cel mai bun joc pe telefonul mobilPremiul pentru cel mai ciudat site: Awkward Family Photos  Cel mai bun site personal: What I madeOpenIDEO si Twitter sunt castigatorii categoriei Community Vezi aici lista completa a castigatorilor Webby Awards 2011 http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/eurovision-2011-romania-ocupa-locul-8-intr-un-clasament-realizat-de-google-locul-1-lena-castigatoarea-editiei-2010/ eurovision-2011-romania-ocupa-locul-8-intr-un-clasament-realizat-de-google-locul-1-lena-castigatoarea-editiei-2010 Wed, 4 May 2011 15:00:19 +0300 Trupa Hotel FM, reprezentanta Romaniei la editia din acest an a concursului Eurovision, se afla pe pozitia a opta intr-un clasament realizat de Google. Primele trei pozitii sunt ocupate de Germania (reprezentata de Lena, castigatoarea editiei din 2010), Suedia si Irlanda, in timp ce Moldova (Zdob si Zdub) se afla pe 9. In momentul de fata, clasamentul arata astfel:Locul 1: Lena (Germania) - 123 puncteLocul 2: Jedward (Irlanda) - 121 puncteLocul 3: A Friend In London (Danemarca) - 98 puncteLocul 8: Hotel FM (Romania) - 51 puncteLocul 9: Zdob si Zdub (Moldova) - 49 puncteClasamentul este provizoriu (modificarile pot avea loc zilnic) si este realizat pe baza cautarilor inregistrate de motorul de cautare al Google.Gadgetul iGoogle "Predictor" arata cat de popular este fiecare participant si calculeaza scorul pe care l-ar obtine acesta daca voturile ar fi acordate in ziua respectiva.In urma cu doi ani, gadgetul realizat de Google l-a desemnat castigator pe Alexander Ryback, iar anul trecut, pe Lena. Ambele "previziuni" s-au indeplinit. Clasamentul complet realizat de Google poate fi vazut aici.Concursul Eurovision a ajuns la a 56-a editie si se va desfasura anul acesta la Dusseldorf (Germania). Semifinalele vor avea loc pe 10 si 12 mai, iar finala pe 14 mai.Formatia Hotel FM (reprezentanta Romaniei, cu piesa Change) si trupa Zdob si Zdub (reprezentanta Moldovei, cu piesa So Lucky) vor intra intra in concurs in cea de-a doua semifinala, pe 12 mai. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/eurovision-2011-google-a-facut-topul-celor-mai-populari-concurenti-hotel-fm-pe-locul-8/ eurovision-2011-google-a-facut-topul-celor-mai-populari-concurenti-hotel-fm-pe-locul-8 Wed, 4 May 2011 12:56:10 +0300 Google a creat un site unde fanii pot urmări evoluţia popularităţii concurenţilor în căutările online, prin intermediul unui grafic temporar şi al unui clasament al celor mai căutaţi concurenţi în mediul online, informează un comunicat. În fiecare an, fani din toată Europa aşteaptă cu sufletul la gură marea finală a concursului de muzică Eurovision. Plecând de la acest aspect, Google readuce în atenţia publicului un site care permite internauţilor să urmărească şansele conaţionalilor de a câştiga ediţia din acest an a Eurovision. Datele - oferite de Google Insights for Search şi bazate pe traficul generat de căutări - sunt actualizate zilnic, pentru ca fanii să poată urmări drumul parcurs de concurenţi şi să le permită acestora să prevadă ţara câştigătoare. Cea de-a 56-a ediţie a concursului internaţional Eurovision se va desfăşura în acest an în Germania, la Dusseldorf. 38 dintre cele 43 de ţări participante vor evolua în cele două semifinale ale concursului, pe 10 şi 12 mai. Primele 10 ţări din fiecare semifinală, alături de ţara gazdă - Germania - şi de cele patru ţări mari care evoluează, în mod tradiţional, direct în finală (Spania, Italia, Marea Britanie şi Franţa) vor concura pe 14 mai. România va fi reprezentată de trupa Hotel FM cu piesa "Change" şi va intra în concurs în cea de-a doua semifinală, pe 12 mai. Cu toate că România va intra în concurs abia în cea de-a doua semifinală, românii din întreaga lume vor putea urmări la TVR toate cele trei competiţii, transmise în direct pe TVR 1, TVR HD şi TVR Internaţional, pe 10, 12 şi 14 mai, începând cu ora 22.00. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-inregistrat-o-crestere-de-1-milion-la-suta-la-cautarile-pentru-bin-laden/ google-a-inregistrat-o-crestere-de-1-milion-la-suta-la-cautarile-pentru-bin-laden Wed, 4 May 2011 10:56:10 +0300 Stirea mortii liderului terorist Osama Bin Laden a dus la recorduri pe internet. Dupa ce, in noaptea anuntului, pe Twitter se inregistrau peste 3.000 de postari pe secunda, Google a anuntat ca in ora in care se specula pe marginea mortii liderului al-Qaeda, cautarile pentru "Bin Laden" au crescut cu 1 milion la suta, potrivit The Atlantic. Informatia a fost facuta publica pe contul oficial Google Twitter. Site-ul TechGraph a facut un grafic prin care compara aceasta cautare pe Google cu alta stire care a luat cu asalt internetul - nunta regala. Vineri, nunta dintre printul William si Kate Middleton parea sa fie singurul lucru de interes. Duminica insa a fost uitat, eclipsat complet de moartea lui Osama.Stirea mortii lui Bin Laden a pornit pe Twitter, inainte cu circa o ora ca presedintele Obama sa o confirme. In jurul orei 21:45 (ora coastei de est a SUA), duminica, directorul de comunicare de la Casa Alba a anuntat, pe Twitter, ca "Presedintele se va adresa natiunii in aceasta seara la 10:30 p.m. ET".Editorii si prezentatorii nu stiau, initial, ce urma sa anunte presedintele. Insa reporterii din Washington au suspectat imediat ca anuntul ar putea fi despre bin Laden.Speculatia nu a aparut la televiziune, ci pe Twitter. La ora 10:25, in timp ce Obama inca isi scria discursul, Keith Urbahn, seful de cabinet al fostului secretar al apararii Donald Rumsfeld, a scris: "Deci mi se spune de o persoana respectabila ca l-au omorat pe Osama Bin Laden." http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cum-sa-ridici-cat-mai-repede-o-casa-ieftina-rezultat-surpriza-al-unui-concurs-desfasurat-la-hollywood-cel-mai-frumos-magazin-din-lume-dintr-un-centru-comercial-este-din-romania-cristian-sima-vom-prelungi-programul-de-tranzactionare/ business-report-cum-sa-ridici-cat-mai-repede-o-casa-ieftina-rezultat-surpriza-al-unui-concurs-desfasurat-la-hollywood-cel-mai-frumos-magazin-din-lume-dintr-un-centru-comercial-este-din-romania-cristian-sima-vom-prelungi-programul-de-tranzactionare Wed, 4 May 2011 04:49:10 +0300 Cum au ajuns romanii sa-si duca locuinta la amanet. Afacerea crizei este puternic fundamentata pe situatiile in care romanii ajung stramtorati si in lipsa de moment a banilor, care merg pana intr-acolo incat renunta la anumite bunuri pentru a face rost de bani. Probabil ati ghicit, este vorba despre cunoscuta casa de amanet. Conform unor date oferite de Oficiul National al Registrului Cometului, la cererea Capital, in 2010 s-au infiintat in Romania nu mai putin de 276 de case de amanet, dupa ce in 2009 fusesra infiintate 362 de astfel de unitati de creditare. In 2008, numarul caselor de amanet deschise a fost de 249 de case de amanet, scrie Capital.ro.De ce ar renunta France Telecom la operatiunile din Romania. France Telecom, una dintre cele mai mari companii de comunicatii din Europa, ar putea decide sa-si vanda operatiunile mai "mici" din Romania, Austria si Belgia pentru a se concentra pe piete cu potential ridicat de crestere din Orientul Mijlociu si Africa, a declarat Gervais Pellissier, directorul financiar al companiei, citat de Bloomberg. "Cu exceptia Frantei, Poloniei si Spaniei, toate celelalte operatiuni europene sunt implicate in aceasta evaluare", a declarat Gervais Pellissier, directorul financiar al companiei, citat de Bloomberg. France Telecom va evalua optiuni de a consolidare, dar si de vindere a operatiunilor, a adaugat el, fara a oferi detalii in legatura cu durata evaluarii si a criteriilor care vor fi luate in calcul, anunta ZF.ro.12 companii de la Bursa au un PER mai mic de 10. Vezi care sunt acestea. Un grup de 12 companii ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cristian-sima-pdg-sibex-bvb-ne-a-cerut-in-casatorie-noi-fetita-de-la-tara-am-spus-da-mirele-insa-nu-s-a-prezentat-la-nunta/ cristian-sima-pdg-sibex-bvb-ne-a-cerut-in-casatorie-noi-fetita-de-la-tara-am-spus-da-mirele-insa-nu-s-a-prezentat-la-nunta Mon, 2 May 2011 19:14:07 +0300 “Voi face un lobby puternic la Ministerul de Finante, la Primul-ministru si la Guvernatorul BNR pentru a avea obligatiuni cu scadente la 5 si 10 ani si produse derivate pe aceste active suport, cotate la bursele romanesti. Astfel, vom afla si adevarata dobanda a leului. Piata secundara a titlurilor de stat este slab dezvoltata la ora actuala”, a declarat Cristian Sima, noul presedinte al Sibex la intalnirea online cu cititorii HotNews.ro. Despre fuziunea burselor: "BVB ne-a cerut in casatorie. Noi, fetita de la tara, am spus "Da". Mirele insa nu s-a prezentat la nunta"Sima a fost ales Presedinte Director General al Sibex in urma AGA desfasurate in 29 aprilie, data la care actionarii bursei sibiene au votat de principiu si fuziunea cu BVB. "Daca unim doua burse, o facem pentru a avea o lichiditate comuna mai mare decat suma lichiditatilor celor doua burse luate in parte. Am de gand sa atrag mai multi emitenti prin transparenta si prin increderea pe care o voi reda investitorilor. Atragerea de emitenti straini (vezi ETF-uri pe Google, Apple sau mai stiu eu ce) va convinge societatile romanesti ca Bursa este cea mai ieftina si mai rapida sursa de capital proaspat", a mai explicat Sima.In opinia lui, fuziunea poate fi comparata in acest moment cu o nunta la care mirele nu a mai aparut. "BVB ne-a cerut in casatorie. Noi, fetita de la tara, am spus "Da". Mirele insa nu s-a prezentat la nunta. Noi suntem dispusi sa reprogramam nunta. Usa ramane deschisa si ii asteptam pe colegii din CA ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cristian-sima-pdg-al-sibex-bursa-de-la-sibiu-are-nevoie-de-produse-noi-de-market-makeri-noi-si-de-spread-uri-foarte-mici/ cristian-sima-pdg-al-sibex-bursa-de-la-sibiu-are-nevoie-de-produse-noi-de-market-makeri-noi-si-de-spread-uri-foarte-mici Mon, 2 May 2011 18:28:07 +0300 “Voi face un lobby puternic la Ministerul de Finante, la Primul Ministru si la Guvernatorul BNR pentru a avea obligatiuni cu scadente la 5 si 10 ani si produse derivate pe aceste active suport, cotate la bursele romanesti. Astfel, vom afla si adevarata dobanda a leului. Piata secundara a titlurilor de stat este slab dezvoltata la ora actuala.”, a declarat Cristian Sima, noul presedinte al Sibex la intalnirea online cu cititorii HotNews.ro. Despre fuziunea burselor: ŢBVB ne-a cerut in casatorie. Noi, fetita de la tara, am spus "Da". Mirele insa nu s-a prezentat la nuntaŢSima a fost ales Presedinte Director General al Sibex in urma AGA desfasurate in 29 aprilie, data la care actionarii bursei sibiene au votat de princiopiu si fuziunea cu BVB. "Daca unim doua burse, o facem pentru a avea o lichiditate comuna mai mare decat suma lichiditatilor celor doua burse luate in parte. Am de gand sa atrag mai multi emitenti prin transparenta si prin increderea pe care o voi reda investitorilor. Atragerea de emitenti straini (vezi ETF-uri pe Google, Apple sau mai stiu eu ce) va convinge societatile romanesti ca Bursa este cea mai ieftina si mai rapida sursa de capital proaspat", a mai explicat Sima.In opinia lui, fuziunea poate fi comparata in acest moment cu o nunta la care mirele nu a mai aparut. "BVB ne-a cerut in casatorie. Noi, fetita de la tara, am spus "Da". Mirele insa nu s-a prezentat la nunta. Noi suntem dispusi sa reprogramam nunta. Usa ramane deschisa si ii asteptam pe colegii din ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-este-compania-cu-cea-mai-buna-reputatie-din-statele-unite/ google-este-compania-cu-cea-mai-buna-reputatie-din-statele-unite Mon, 2 May 2011 16:28:05 +0300 Google a devenit compania cu cea mai bună reputaţie din Statele Unite, urcând pe prima poziţie în acest an, de pe trei anul trecut, într-un sondaj realizat în rândul americanilor de către firma Harris Interactive, transmite Bloomberg. Producătorul de bunuri de îngrijire a sănătăţii Johnson & Johnson s-a menţinut pe poziţia a doua, în timp ce fostul lider, compania de investiţii Berkshire Hathaway, a coborât pe patru. Locul al treilea a fost ocupat de compania 3M. Google, operatorul celui mai popular motor de căutare pe internet din lume, a ajuns pe prima poziţie în urma rezultatelor financiare foarte bune şi a admiraţiei populaţiei pentru angajaţii companiei, a afirmat şeful Harris, Robert Fronk. Sondajul a evidenţiat îmbunătăţirea reputaţiei companiilor în SUA, în contextul recuperării economiei şi a estompării scandalurilor din timpul crizei financiare. "Există încă 44% din populaţie care spune că reputaţia corporaţiilor americane se înrăutăţeşte, însă procentul a scăzut semnificativ", a afirmat el. Top zece este completat de Apple (5), Intel (6), Kraft Foods (7), Amazon (8), Walt Disney(9) şi General Mills (10). Sondajul, aflat la a 12-a ediţie, a fost derulat online, fiind consultate 30.000 de persoane în privinţa celor mai cunoscute 60 de companii americane. Pe ultimele poziţii s-au situat Chrysler, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, BP şi AIG. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-pus-pe-harta-locul-exact-unde-a-fost-ucis-osama-bin-laden/ google-a-pus-pe-harta-locul-exact-unde-a-fost-ucis-osama-bin-laden Mon, 2 May 2011 14:14:09 +0300 Google Maps indica de cateva ore locul exact in care temutul Osama a fost ucis in noaptea de duminica spre luni dupa atacul unui comando american. Pe harta Google Maps/Earth a orasului pakistanez Abbottabad figureaza in dreptul cladirii cu pricina eticheta "Osama bin Ladern's Compound". Cum Street View nu este disponibil pentru Pakistan, imaginea este neclara iar detaliile concrete ale cladirii nu pot fi deslusite.Complexul unde s-a produs atacul a fost construit in 2005 si era de opt ori mai mare decat celelalte case din cartier, a spus un inalt oficial american, citat de AFP.Masurile de securitate erau "extraordinare", potrivit sursei citate. Zidurile aveau o inaltime de 5,5 metri, peste care se ridica sarma ghimpata, iar accesul era posibil doar prin "doua intrari securizate".Imobilul are putine ferestre, pe fatada exterioara, iar un zid de doi metri, amplasat peste cele trei etaje, proteja locatarii de privirile indiscrete atunci cand ei urcau pe acoperis. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-arata-unde-a-murit-osama-ben-laden/ google-arata-unde-a-murit-osama-ben-laden Mon, 2 May 2011 13:49:04 +0300 Hărţile Google Maps au fost actualizate cu locaţia ultimei ascunzători a liderului Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden. Locaţia din Abbottabad, un oraş din nordul Pakistanului, a fost ţinta unui atac coordonat de armata americană, desfăşurat duminică noaptea. Deşi coordonatele din Google Maps au şanse mici să arate locaţia exactă a ascunzătorii lui Osama Bin Laden, ne oferă totuşi o impresie despre mediul în care acesta a trăit în ultima perioadă. Departe de viaţa de nomad dusă în peisajul arid al munţilor din Afganistan, Bin Laden a dus o existenţă confortabilă într-un cartier de vile situat într-o zonă urbană destul de primitoare a oraşului Abbottabad. Citeşte mai multe despre acunzătoarea lui Osama ben Laden pe www.go4it.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bogdana-butnar-a-preluat-pozitia-de-industry-manager-la-google/ bogdana-butnar-a-preluat-pozitia-de-industry-manager-la-google Mon, 2 May 2011 10:56:06 +0300 ​Bogdana Butnar a anuntat luni, pe blogul sau, ca de astazi s-a "alaturat echipei Google in pozitia de Industry Manager". Ea scrie "treaba mea si a intregii echipe Google Romania va fi sa evanghelizam, promovam si sa extindem onlineul in general si produsele Google in particular".Bogdana Butnar a parasit anul trecut grupul McCann, unde in ultimii doi ani condusese agentia de marketing digital MRM. Ea s-a alaturat apoi agentiei Headvertising, unde mai lucrase in perioada 2004-2006.Ea scrie pe blogul sau ca "sunt in prima zi asa ca veti intelege daca momentul precum si regulile mai degraba mai stricte de comunicare intr-o corporatie globala nu ma lasa sa "dau din casa" tot. (...) Google nu este un promoter de indivizi deci va rog asa intelegeti daca nu intentionez sa discut despre mine in acest context".Vezi ce atributii are Bogdana Butnar la Google aici http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cum-sa-profiti-de-deprecierea-dolarului-strategia-europa-2020-cum-se-apreciaza-saracia-in-europa-care-sunt-cele-zece-arme-pe-care-le-au-doar-sua-topul-celor-mai-bune-aplicatii-pentru-android-autoritatile-americane-vor-sa-investighez/ business-report-cum-sa-profiti-de-deprecierea-dolarului-strategia-europa-2020-cum-se-apreciaza-saracia-in-europa-care-sunt-cele-zece-arme-pe-care-le-au-doar-sua-topul-celor-mai-bune-aplicatii-pentru-android-autoritatile-americane-vor-sa-investighez Mon, 2 May 2011 03:14:08 +0300 Topul celor mai bune aplicatii pentru Android. Gasirea unor aplicatii de top pentru Android nu este o munca tocmai usoara, dar asta nu inseamna ca ele nu exista. Vedeti mai jos o selectie a celor mai importante aplicatii. Cel mai simplu puteti gasi aplicatiile pentru retele sociale: Twitter, Facebook, eBuddy Messenger, Tango si Handcent SMS. Toate se pot descarca gratuit pe de internet. Din categoria aplicatiilor pentru amuzament puteti incerca Vignette, o aplicatie care permite aplicarea a 68 de efecte diferite fotografiilor pe care le aveti salvate pe telefon si 56 de rame unice. Costul acestei aplicatii este de 4 dolari. Pentru a asculta radio online, puteti apela la Pandora sau Rdio, ambele aplicatii sunt gratuite si va ofera acces la sute de posturi de radio, scrie Capital.In articolul "BNR tine cu dintii de adoptarea euro in 2015 si propune 11 luni de <<prelungiri>>", ZF scrie: "In fata indeciziei guvernului, banca centrala sustine ferm aderarea la euro tot in 2015. Euro si leul vor circula 11 luni in paralel". Integral in Ziarul Financiar.Care sunt cele zece arme pe care le au doar SUA. Sovieticii au explodat prima lor arma nucleara in 1949, iar China a anuntat anul trecut ca isi va construi propriul bombardier Stealth. Chiar si-asa, sunt cateva arme pe care restul lumii nu le are. Unele existe deja de mai bine de cativa ani, altele au fost modificate, iar unele se afla inca in faza de productie. Integral in Capital.Aga Sima vine, Aga Ancuta pleaca, Aga Farmache sta. La Sibex s-a schimbat presedintele. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/autoritatile-americane-vor-sa-investigheze-google-pentru-pozitia-dominanta-pe-internet/ autoritatile-americane-vor-sa-investigheze-google-pentru-pozitia-dominanta-pe-internet Sun, 1 May 2011 16:35:04 +0300 Comisia Federală pentru Comerţ din Statele Unite pregăteşte o investigaţie referitoare la poziţia dominantă deţinută de Google în domeniul serviciilor de căutare pe Internet, prin alertarea companiilor high-tech să strângă informaţii în acest sens, potrivit unor surse citate de Bloomberg. Agenţia a anunţat companiile că intenţionează să le solicite oficial informaţii, au spus sursele. Aceste cereri sunt similare citaţiilor. Comisia a aşteptat ca Departamentul de Justiţie să finalizeze analiza preluării companiei ITA Software de către Google. ITA dezvoltă aplicaţii informatice pentru sectorul transporturilor, inclusiv cel aerian. Departamentul a aprobat la începutul lui aprilie preluarea ITA de către Google, pentru 700 milioane de dolari, cu condiţia să pună la dispoziţia concurenţei date referitoare la domeniul transporturilor. Google mai trebuie să permite autorităţilor guvernamentale să analizeze plângerile că ar avea un comportament incorect pe piaţă. O investigaţie din partea Comisiei pentru Comerţ poatea avea un potenţial semnificativ, a declarat Eleanor Fox, profesor de drept la New York University. "Google ar putea fi viitorul caz de tip Microsoft", a spus Fox, referindu-se la o anchetă a Departamentului de Justiţie şi la un acord între autorităţi şi Microsoft pentru stingerea litigiului. Adam Kovacevich, purtător de cuvânt al Google, a refuzat să comenteze, ca şi Cecelia Prewett, reprezentantă a Comisiei. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-sarbatoreste-160-de-ani-de-la-prima-expozitie-mondiala-printr-un-nou-logo-inedit/ google-sarbatoreste-160-de-ani-de-la-prima-expozitie-mondiala-printr-un-nou-logo-inedit Sun, 1 May 2011 12:28:03 +0300 Google sărbătoreşte 160 de ani de la prima expoziţie mondială, organizată la Londra în perioada 1 mai - 15 octombrie 1851, printr-un nou logo inedit ce prezintă un desen cu locul de desfăşurare şi unele exponate, ce poate fi observat în detaliu cu ajutorul cursorului care serveşte drept lupă. Prima expoziţie universală, denumită atunci Marea Expoziţie a Lucrărilor de Industrie a tuturor naţiunilor ("The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations") s-a desfăşurat în Hyde Park, Londra, într-o structură arhitectonică temporară, denumită Crystal Palace. Organizatorii au fost Henry Cole şi Prinţul Albert, soţul monarhului britanic în funcţie, regina Victoria, aceasta deschizând evenimentul. Expoziţia s-a bucurat de participarea a numeroase figuri notabile ale timpului, printre care Charles Darwin, membri ai casei regale de Orléans sau scriitorii Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll şi George Eliot. Acesta a fost prima dintr-o serie de expoziţii internaţionale dedicate culturii şi industriei, care aveau să devină manifestări foarte populare în cea de-a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea. Intervalurile la care au fost organizate aceste expoziţii au diferit de-a lungul timpului, de la un an la şase ani. Precedenta expoziţie universală a avut loc la Shanghai anul trecut, iar următoarea va fi organizată la Yesou (Coreea de Sud), în 2012. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/nunta-regala-a-acaparat-si-spatiul-virtual-traficul-global-pe-internet-a-fost-cu-39-peste-normal-in-timpul-ceremoniei/ nunta-regala-a-acaparat-si-spatiul-virtual-traficul-global-pe-internet-a-fost-cu-39-peste-normal-in-timpul-ceremoniei Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:14:04 +0300 Facebook, Twitter, Google şi YouTube au fost cucerite, vineri, de cea mai mediatizată nuntă de până acum, cea dintre prinţul William şi Kate, euforia generată de eveniment acaparând şi spaţiul virtual, relatează bbc.co.uk. Liderul celebrărilor oniline a fost chiar site-ul oficial al monarhiei britanice. Vizitatorii paginii erau direcţionaţi către pagina de Twitter a Clarence House, contul de Flickr al casei regale, pentru fotografii, dar şi, bineînţeles, către pagina de Facebook dedicată nunţii. Discuţiile despre nuntă au predominat printre utilizatorii Twitter din întreaga lume, nu doar din Marea Britanie. În timp ce blogurile şi reţelele de socializare abundau de informaţii şi feedback despre nuntă, alte site-uri le-au dat ocazia utilizatorilor să vadă ceremonia live. ABC News a pus la dispoziţie imagini de la nuntă pentru dispozitivele mobile, iar YouTube a redifuzat imaginile BBC pe Royal Channel. Acesta din urmă a fost pe locul 23 în topul celor mai vizualizate canale, vineri, după cele dedicate emisiunilor "America's Next Top Model" şi "Top Gear". Facebook a realizat deja statistici în ceea ce priveşte impactul virtual pe care l-a avut nunta asupra celor peste 500 de milioane de utilizatori ai săi. David Beckham a fost menţionat de 9.000 de ori în update-urile de status, la 20 de minute de la sosirea sa la Westminster Abbey, în timp ce soţia sa, Victoria a fost menţionată de 47 de ori pe secundă, în desurs de patru ore. Mai mult, 2.274 de utilizatori au accesat virtual Westminster Abbey, folosind aplicaţia Places de pe Facebook. O pagină de Facebook intitulată "Pălăria ridicolă de nuntă pe care o poartă prinţesa Beatrice" ("Princess Beatrice's Ridiculous Royal Wedding Hat", în original) a strâns peste 4.000 de fani. Potrivit experţilor, o estimare a notorietăţii ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-microsoft-resimte-in-rezultatele-financiare-concurenta-cu-google-si-apple-inflatia-vine-de-unde-te-astepti-mai-putin-atentie-la-preturile-productiei-industriale-marea-provocare-a-micii-autostrazi-care-au-fost-primele-joburi-ale-miliar/ business-report-microsoft-resimte-in-rezultatele-financiare-concurenta-cu-google-si-apple-inflatia-vine-de-unde-te-astepti-mai-putin-atentie-la-preturile-productiei-industriale-marea-provocare-a-micii-autostrazi-care-au-fost-primele-joburi-ale-miliar Sat, 30 Apr 2011 03:14:09 +0300 "Politia internetului" asteapta unda verde de la Guvern. Cum sa te pazesti de virusi pe internet. Acesta va fi obiectivul nou-infiintatului Centrul de Raspuns la Incidente de Securitate Cibernetica, care, printre altele, isi propune sa-i educe pe internauti. In urma cu cateva zile, ministrul comunicatiilor, Valerian Vreme, vorbea despre existenta unui Centru de Raspuns la Incidente de Securitate Cibernetica, dar si a unui grup de lucru care trebuie sa puna la punct o strategie de securitate cibernetica. Sunt denumiri oarecum "pompoase" pentru ceea ce ar urma sa fie un fel de "Politie a internetului". Astfel de centre exista in toate tarile membre UE, cu exceptia Bulgariei, dar si a Romaniei, unde CERT-RO (Romanian Computer Emergency Response Team) nu este, deocamdata, complet functional din cauza unor lacune legislative, scrie Capital. In articolul "Care au fost primele joburi ale miliardarilor de astazi", ZF scrie: "Michael Dell a spalat vase intr-un restaurant chinezesc cand avea doar 12 ani. A fost apoi promovat in functia de ospatar. Cand a ajuns la facultate a inceput o afacere in camera sa de camin, intititulata PC Limited. Compania a devenit in cele din urma Dell Computers". Integral in Ziarul Financiar. Cei care fac afaceri cu tutun spun ca in 2050 vor fi mai multi fumatori pe plan mondial. Vanzarile companiei British American Tobacco Plc (BAT) au scazut cu 2,4%, la 164 de miliarde de lire sterline, in primul trimestru din 2011, din cauza declinului inregistrat pe pietele din Asia, Europa Occidentala, America de Nord si de Sud, potrivit unui articol aparut vineri ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-si-google-vor-da-explicatii-senatului-american-despre-modul-in-care-telefoanele-transmit-datele-de-localizare-ale-utilizatorilor/ apple-si-google-vor-da-explicatii-senatului-american-despre-modul-in-care-telefoanele-transmit-datele-de-localizare-ale-utilizatorilor Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:14:06 +0300 ​Reprezentanti ai Apple si Google au raspuns pozitiv la cererea Senatului american care vrea sa-i audieze pentru a afla de ce telefoane care folosesc sistemele de operarea iOS si Android transimit date legate de localizarea posesorilor. Problema, semnalata recent de doi programatori, a starnit ingrijorari legate de confidentialitatea datelor personale si dreptul la viata privata, iar companiile au fost intens criticate pentru ca nu au spus nimic pana acum. Apple declara insa recent ca e o problema de programare ce va fi rezolvata printr-un update.Senatorul democrat de Minnesota Al Franken spune ca e multumit ca cele doua companii au acceptat sa dea explicatii in Senat si ca e un prim pas spre rezolvarea problemelor si spre linistirea publicului care s-a aratat ingrijorat de colectarea acestor date. Audierile vor avea loc pe 10 mai.Cel mai mult s-a vorbit despre telefoanele Apple in acest scandal, insa apoi s-a observat ca si telefoanele cu Google Android colecteaza date despre pozitia geografica a posesorilor. Apple spunea recent ca totul se rezuma la un "bug" pe care il va rezolva printr-un update si adauga ca in niciun caz datele nu sunt colectate intentionat.Google sustine ca utilizatori pot opta ca aceste informatii de tracking sa nu mai fie trimise catre serverele Google si adauga ca cele transmise sunt anonime si nu pot fi astfel legate de un anumit utilizator, pentru a i se urma traseul dintr-o anumita zi, spre exemplu.Pe de alta parte, un expert in securitate IT citat de PC World critica Apple pentru ca a raspuns cu intarziere numeroaselor ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-si-a-modificat-logoul-de-pe-pagina-din-marea-britanie-cu-ocazia-nuntii-regale/ google-si-a-modificat-logoul-de-pe-pagina-din-marea-britanie-cu-ocazia-nuntii-regale Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:07:05 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, vineri, logoul de pe pagina sa din Marea Britanie, cu ocazia nunţii regale a prinţului William cu Kate Middleton, noul logo al companiei ilustrând un alai de nuntă. Noul logo al Google ilustrează o caleaşcă regală, un castel şi o catedrală într-o atmosferă de sărbătoare. Kate şi William se căsătoresc, vineri, la catedrala Westminster din Londra, într-o atmosferă plină de entuziasm şi de fast. Kate Middleton, în vârstă de 29 de ani, şi prinţul William, în vârstă de 28 de ani, al doilea în ordinea succesiunii la tronul Marii Britanii, s-au cunoscut în 2001 la universitatea scoţiană St. Andrews, dar relaţia lor, care a început în 2003, a fost întreruptă de o scurtă despărţire în anul 2007. William, fiul cel mare al prinţesei Diana, decedată în 1997, şi Kate Middleton s-au logodit în luna octombrie 2010, cu ocazia unei vacanţe private pe care au petrecut-o în Kenya. Căsătoria lui Kate Middleton cu prinţul William va avea loc la 30 de ani de la somptuoasa căsătorie dintre prinţul Charles şi prinţesa Diana, celebrată în 1981, la Catedrala Saint-Paul din Londra. Cuplul a divorţat în 1996, iar prinţesa Diana a murit în urma unui accident de automobil, la Paris, în 1997. Ulterior, Charles s-a căsătorit cu Camilla, o veche prietenă a sa. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/astronautii-de-pe-endeavour-vor-raspunde-pe-youtube-la-intrebarile-transmise-de-fani/ astronautii-de-pe-endeavour-vor-raspunde-pe-youtube-la-intrebarile-transmise-de-fani Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:35:05 +0300 YouTube şi-a invitat utilizatorii să transmită întrebările pe care doresc să le pună astronauţilor de pe naveta spaţială americană Endeavour, care va decola vineri din Florida, pentru ultima ei misiune în spaţiu. Reprezentanţii acestui site de partajare de fişiere, proprietate a grupului Google, au precizat că Mark Kelly, comandantul acestei misiuni spaţiale, dar şi ceilalţi membri ai echipajului, vor răspunde utilizatorilor YouTube luni, 2 mai. Intervenţia astronauţilor de pe Endeavour va fi difuzată în direct pe site-ul YouTube, care va prelua emisiunea zilnică de ştiri PBS NewsHour, de la ora 18.15 GMT. Întrebările pot fi adresate în scris sau în cadrul unor fişiere video la adresa youtube.com/pbsnewshour sau pe Twitter, utilizând comanda #ytalk2nasa. Astronauţii vor răspunde acelor întrebări care se vor dovedi a fi cele mai populare în rândul internauţilor. Site-ul YouTube va transmite în direct şi lansarea navetei Endeavour, care va decola către Staţia Spaţială Internaţională (ISS) vineri, la ora 19.47 GMT, de la Centrul spaţial Kennedy din apropiere de Cape Canaveral din statul Florida. Principalul obiectiv al acestui zbor este transportarea pe ISS a spectrometrului magnetic Alpha 2 (AMS), un modul experimental de fizică fundamentală, construit cu scopul de a descifra unele dintre cele mai mari mistere ale universului, precum existenţa antimateriei sau natura materiei negre, invizibile. Această materie formează circa 25% din masa universului. Este pentru prima oară când un spectrometru magnetic va fi trimis în spaţiu. Pe lângă AMS, naveta Endeavour va transporta modulul Express Logistic Carrier (ELC), care va fi ataşat permanent la ISS. Echipajul de pe Endeavour include şase membri: comandantul Mark Kelly, copilotul Greg Johnson şi patru specialişti - Mike Finckle, Drew Feustel, Greg Chamitoff şi italianul Roberto Vittori de la Agenţia Spaţială Europeană (ESA). După lansarea navetei Endeavour, ultimul zbor ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vizita-virtuala-la-cernobil-cu-ajutorul-yandex-echivalentul-rusesc-al-google/ vizita-virtuala-la-cernobil-cu-ajutorul-yandex-echivalentul-rusesc-al-google Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:07:08 +0300 Yandex (Я́ндекс), echivalentul rusesc al Google, propune o plimbare virtuala in Cernobil si in zona contaminata din jurul centralei nucleare, intr-un decor parasit si acoperit de zapada.Pentru acest tur virtual nimeni nu are nevoie de un contor Geiger, comenteaza Le Figaro.Pentru a vedea cum arata acum centrala, urmati acest link: http://maps.yandex.ru/?ll=30.110389,51.385676&spn=0.1684,0.028786&z=13&l=map,stv&ol=stv&oll=30.110389,51.385676&ost=dir:315.841972,8.391072~spn:70.341246,43.043406Yandex este cel mai popular motor de cautare din Rusia. Fondat la finele anului 2000, motorul de cautare era evaluat, la inceputul lui 2008, la cinci miliarde de dolari. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-greii-din-top-300-isi-fac-patronat-anticriza-iphone-si-blackberry-pierd-teren-bancile-centrale-au-pompat-5k-miliarde-de-dolari-in-economie-de-la-inceputul-crizei-de-la-offline-la-online-cu-microsoft-reducere-de-costuri-de-60-google/ business-report-greii-din-top-300-isi-fac-patronat-anticriza-iphone-si-blackberry-pierd-teren-bancile-centrale-au-pompat-5k-miliarde-de-dolari-in-economie-de-la-inceputul-crizei-de-la-offline-la-online-cu-microsoft-reducere-de-costuri-de-60-google Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:28:07 +0300 Google a schimbat algoritmul de cautare. Cine a fost lovit. Google a anuntat la finalul lunii februarie ca va face modificari privind algoritmul sau de cautare si a declarat razboi agregatoarelor de continut editorial, care nu au continut propriu. Primele schimbari au inceput deja sa apara. Prima victima importanta a noului algoritm a fost grupul Demand Media, una dintre cele mai cunoscute "ferme de continut" din America. Conform unor informatii aparute pe site-ul publicatiie Forbes, in urma unui studiu realizat de Experian Hitwise, s-a descoperit ca traficul site-urilor Demand Media prezinta mai putini utilizatori veniti din Google, dupa ce a motorul de cautare a implementat noul update pentru algoritm, numit "Panda", scrie Capital.In articolul "Harvard University, cel mai mare proprietar de paduri din Romania", ZF scrie: "Fondul de investitii Phemus Corporation inregistrat la aceeasi adresa cu Harvard Management Company, entitate a prestigioasei universitati americane Harvard care administreaza active de 27 mld. dolari, este actionarul majoritar al celui mai mare proprietar de paduri din Romania, firma Scolopax SRL din Focsani". Integral in Ziarul Financiar. Greii din Top 300 isi fac patronat anticriza. Liviu Tudor, Ion Tiriac si Iulian Dascalu au pus bazele unui patronat al marilor proprietari de cladiri comerciale la care ar fi interesat sa adere si Gabriel Popoviciu. Motivul este nevoia de unire a fortelor intr-un moment de mare cumpana pe piata imobiliara. Patronatul, afiliat la European Property Federation - un organism european ai carui membri detin active evaluate la peste 1.100 miliarde de euro, este singurul de acest fel din Romania. Fondatorii asociatiei ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/trimite-i-un-mail-lui-boc-premierul-si-a-dezvaluit-adresa-de-yahoo/ trimite-i-un-mail-lui-boc-premierul-si-a-dezvaluit-adresa-de-yahoo Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:56:03 +0300 Premierul Boc a declarat că nu este îngrijorat că tableta iPad îi poate crea probleme de securitate, susţinând că nu foloseşte decât date publice care nu prezintă pericol pentru siguranţa naţională, şi şi-a prezentat adresa de e-mail, arătând că este folosită doar pentru comunicări în interes public Într-o conferinţă de presă susţinută, miercuri, la Palatul Victoria, şeful Guvernului a fost întrebat de jurnalişti dacă a aflat de discuţiile din Statele Unite privind securitatea tabletelor PC şi dacă este îngrijorat de această situaţie. Premierul a răspuns însă că nu are motive de îngrijorare, deoarece datele pe care le utilizează sunt publice. "Datele mele pe care le am pe tabletă sunt date publice, aşa că nu prezintă pericol pentru siguranţa naţională. Din acest punct de vedere, pot să utilizez fără niciun fel de problemă tableta, iar căsuţa poştală este o căsuţă utilizată pentru a comunica în interes public", a spus Boc. Întrebat de presă care este adresa sa de e-mail, Boc a răspuns: emilboc09@yahoo.com. "Sigur că toate aceste instrumente de comunicare sunt utilizate doar în interes public", a adăugat Boc. Surse apropiate premierului au declarat, la sfârşitul anului trecut, pentru MEDIAFAX, că premierul Emil Boc şi-a achiziţionat o tabletă iPad, pe care o foloseşte pentru a se documenta atât la biroul de la Palatul Victoria, cât şi pentru a pregăti răspunsurile la conferinţele de presă sau la discursurile din Parlament. El şi-a achiziţionat echipamentul după ce, aflat în Statele Unite, a vizitat un magazin Apple. Apple, Google şi alte patru companii trebuie să răspundă la mai multe întrebări din partea unor congressmani americani, care vor să afle dacă produsele lor încalcă dreptul la viaţă privată al utilizatorilor prin urmărirea, stocarea şi transmiterea de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-top-10-cele-mai-bune-browsere-din-2011-inghetarea-preturilor-la-carburanti-pripita-si-inutila-fondurile-de-pensii-private-cresc-investitiile-in-actiuni-si-obligatiuni-piata-concertelor-din-romania-12-milioane-de-euro-in-2011-economi/ business-report-top-10-cele-mai-bune-browsere-din-2011-inghetarea-preturilor-la-carburanti-pripita-si-inutila-fondurile-de-pensii-private-cresc-investitiile-in-actiuni-si-obligatiuni-piata-concertelor-din-romania-12-milioane-de-euro-in-2011-economi Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:56:07 +0300 Inghetarea preturilor la carburanti, pripita si inutila. Inghetarea pretului carburantilor la actualele niveluri, de 5,5 lei pe litru sau chiar mai mult, s-ar dovedi contraproductiva in cazul in care pretul petrolului ia un curs invers sau moneda nationala se depreciaza masiv. Cand ajungi sa iei decizia inghetarii preturilor carburantilor inseamna ca situatia este foarte grava. Pentru cei din Guvern ca si pentru cei care simt ca o tot mai mare parte din venituri se duce pe benzina si motorina, pretul actual al combustibililor ar putea, eventual, sa justifice o astfel de decizie. Insa efectele unei astfel de decizii sunt mult mai serioase decat se poate vedea in termenii unei abordari populiste, iar argumentele pe care se sprijina trebuie sa fie inatacabile, scrie Capital.ro.In articolul "Prima casa 4 a ajuns la start. Ce aduce nou fata de editiile anterioare?", Ziarul Financiar scrie: Programul de credite ipotecare "Prima casa" intra in etapa in care riscurile de neplata vor fi impartite in mod egal intre banci si Fondul de Garantare a Creditelor pentru IMM-uri ca reprezentant al statului. Din punctul de vedere al clientilor, aceasta va insemna probabil restrangerea numarului de banci care vor continua sa acorde finantari in cadrul programului. Bancile care au deja volume mai mari de credite in stoc isi pot asuma mai usor riscul aferent noii variante. De asemenea, bancile care cauta sa recastige cota de piata ar putea fi implicate. La nivelul costurilor nu sunt de asteptat modificari semnificative: avansul cerut va fi de 5%, iar marja maxima peste rata EURIBOR la trei ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-celebra-226-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-lui-john-james-audubon/ google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-celebra-226-de-ani-de-la-nasterea-lui-john-james-audubon Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:00:03 +0300 Google celebrează 226 de ani de la naşterea naturalistului şi pictorului franco-american John James Audubon, printr-un logo special, care prezintă câteva specii de păsări originare din America de Nord. Google a folosit imagini cu desenele realizate de acest pionier al ornitologiei din secolul al XIX-lea pentru a marca cea de-a 226-a aniversare a acestuia. Păsări de pradă, păsări cântătoare şi o bufniţă au înlocuit celebrele litere care alcătuit logoul Google. Fiul proprietarului unei plantaţii de trestie de zahăr din Haiti, Jean-Jacques Audubon a emigrat în America la începutul secolului al XIX-lea şi devenit celebru pentru pasiunea cu care studia şi picta speciile de păsări de pe continentul nord-american. De altfel, el a declarat la un moment dat că şi-a stabilit obiectivul de a picta toate speciile de păsări din America de Nord cu o precizie şi o atenţie la detalii nemaiîntâlnite până atunci. Un vânător iscusit, a primit porecla "The American Woodsman" (Omul din pădure american) în Europa, reprezentând pentru mulţi întruchiparea spiritului naţional american. Născut pe 26 aprilie 1785 pe plantaţia de trestie de zahăr a tatălui său din colonia franceză Saint-Domingue, tânărul Jean-Jacques Audubon s-a mutat în Franţa cu puţin timp înainte de izbucnirea Revoluţiei franceze şi a crescut în Hexagon, în apropiere de Nantes. În 1803, tatăl său l-a trimis în Statele Unite, unde şi-a schimbat numele în John James Audubon şi a început să studieze şi să picteze fauna din această ţară, vânzându-şi tablourile pe teritoriul american dar şi în străinătate. În anii 1820 a organizat o expoziţie cu operele sale în Marea Britanie care s-a bucurat de un succes deosebit. Acest turneu european i-a permis să strângă banii de care avea nevoie pentru a publica volumul "Birds of America", o ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sony-a-prezentat-primele-sale-tablet-pc-uri-bazate-pe-android/ sony-a-prezentat-primele-sale-tablet-pc-uri-bazate-pe-android Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:35:01 +0300 Sony a prezentat primele sale tablet PC-uri, bazate pe sistemul de operare Android, al Google, într-o încercare ambiţoasă de pătrunde pe o piaţă dominată de iPad-urile produse de Apple. Tabletele, denumite S1 şi S2, sunt compatibile cu sisteme WiFi şi 3G/4G. S1 are un display de 9,4 inch, iar S2 un ecran de 5,5 inch care poate fi pliat. Tabletele vor permite rularea jocurilor PlayStation. Aparatele se bazează pe sistemul de operare Android 3.0. Compania de cercetare a pieţei Gartner estimează că vânzările de tablete vor creşte de patru ori, la 294 milioane de unităţi, între 2011 şi 2015, iar jumătate din aparate vor avea Android. Vicepreşedintele Sony, Kunimasa Suzuki, a declarat în ianuarie că grupul ţinteşte locul doi pe piaţa tabletelor într-un an. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-sony-a-prezentat-doua-tablete-cu-android-ce-vor-fi-lansate-pe-piata-la-toamna/ video-sony-a-prezentat-doua-tablete-cu-android-ce-vor-fi-lansate-pe-piata-la-toamna Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:49:05 +0300 ​Sony si-a facut intrarea pe piata tablet PC-urilor cu doua produse numite S1 si S2 care vor fi lansate incepand cu luna septembrie si vor rula sistemul Google Android in versiuena 3.0. S1 are ecran de aproape 10 inch, iar S2 are doua ecrane mai mici. De pe ambele va putea fi accesat continut PlayStation, iar compania are asteptari mari in ceea ce priveste volumul de vanzari.Sony a prezentat la Tokyo cele doua noi produse cu nume de cod S1 si S2. S1 are ecran de 9,4 inch, in timp ce S2 are doua ecrane de 5,5 inch ce pot fi inchise ca o carte. Compania spune ca cele doua tablete sunt ideale pentru accesarea continutului online (text, video si mai ales jocuri). Compania nu a dat detalii despre pret, insa cele doua produse vor fi la vanzare din septembrie si vor rula versiunea 3.0 a Android. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/printul-si-cenusareasa-monarhia-britanica-intre-cool-si-hot/ printul-si-cenusareasa-monarhia-britanica-intre-cool-si-hot Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:07:07 +0300 Povestea incepe in anul 2002, cand Kate face pe modelul, etalandu-si dedesubturile intr-o rochie foarte transparenta, la un show de moda studentesc din campusul de la St. Andrews University. William Windsor, fiul reginei inimilor Diana, nepotul reginei Elisabeta a II-a si mostenitor, candva, al coroanei britanice, are o reactie putin regala, mai mult barbateasca. "She's hot", ar fi murmurat el. Dupa aproape noua ani de la prima intalnire, o prietenie tumultuoasa si o despartire temporara, "Wills" i-a cerut mana fetei din popor. Vineri, visurile cenusareselor lumii acesteia se vor fi implinit, cu o nunta ca-n basme si un show mediatic de zile mari.Regina si DianaDincolo de Canalul Manecii, extravaganta e la ea acasa, ca si traditionalismul. Nici o tara nu se cramponeaza, parca, atat de tare, de valorile sale traditionale. Acestea tin sus catargul britanic, pe o mare a istoriei dezlantuita si plina de capcanele noului. Englezii conduc pe stanga, Garda Regala se sufoca sub busby-ul din blana de urs si timpul se scurge la Londra dupa bataia lui Big Ben. A, mai e si Regina! Elizabeth II e convinsa ca „poti realiza multe, printr-o imbracaminte adecvata”. Prin urmare, o putem admira in roz, mov, albastru royal, galben sau verde fistichiu. Regina are 85 de ani si e casatorita de-o viata cu Philip, mai mare cu patru ani. Cei doi sunt „ultimii mohicani” ai unor precepte de viata stricte, prescrise dupa protocol. Odata cu casatoria lui Charles cu Diana, in anul 1981, intre Windsori „isi baga dracusorul coada”. Diana e frumoasa, pasionala si non-conformista. Ea ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-lansat-google-offers-un-serviciu-de-reduceri-concurent-cu-groupon/ google-a-lansat-google-offers-un-serviciu-de-reduceri-concurent-cu-groupon Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:49:01 +0300 Google a pierdut un director executiv în favoarea Groupon, site-ul de cupoane de reduceri pentru cumpărături, şi a început implementarea unui serviciu care ţinteşte direct acest segment de piaţă, denumit Google Offers. Groupon a anunţat joi că a angajat-o ca director operaţional executiv pe Margo Georgiadis, vicepreşedinte pentru operaţiuni globale de vânzări la Google. În aceeaşi zi, Google a început să introducă reclame pe mai multe site-uri prin care invită consumatorii din Portland, Oregon să folosească un nou serviciu, Google Offers. Rivalitatea dintre cele două companii pe piaţa advertising-ului online localizat a devenit tot mai intensă, fiecare jucător încercând să atragă afaceri mici, precum restaurante sau saloane de cosmetică. Google a încercat să cumpere Groupon pentru 6 miliarde de dolari în decembrie, însă oferta a fost respinsă, potrivit unei surse apropiate situaţiei. Google Offers va permite clienţilor "să obţină deal-uri grozave, livrate chiar în inbox", potrivit unui comunicat al companiei. Popularitatea aşa-numitelor servicii de reduceri a crescut puternic de la lansarea Groupon, cu mai puţin de trei ani în urmă. Compania, nelistată la bursă, nu face publice rezultatele financiare, însă susţine că a trecut pe profit din iunie 2009. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/wael-ghonim-eroul-revolutiei-20-din-egipt-se-retrage-de-la-google/ wael-ghonim-eroul-revolutiei-20-din-egipt-se-retrage-de-la-google Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:14:06 +0300 Wael Ghonim, directorul de marketing al Google pentru Orientul Mijlociu si eroul revolutiei 2.0 din Egipt, desemnat de revista Time cel mai influent om al anului, a anuntat pe Twitter ca se va retrage de la Google pentru a crea un ONG care sa lupte impotriva saraciei si pentru educatie, relateaza AFP. "Am decis sa imi iau o lunga perioada sabatica la Google si sa lansez un ONG care utiliseaza noile tehnologii pentru a lupta impotriva saraciei si pentru educatie in Egipt", a mentionat el pe Twitter. Wael Ghonim a infiintat pagina de Facebook "We are Khaled Said", un tanar ucis in bataie de politisti, initial cu scopul de a protesta impotriva abuzului autoritatilor. Pagina a atras sute de mii de utilizatori. Ghonim a fost arestat timp de 12 zile de politia secreta egipteana. In ziua eliberarii, Ghonim le-a vorbit miilor de protestatari stransi in Piata Tahrir, care l-au primit ca un erou. In prezent, Ghonim continua sa lucreze pentru Google si este un simbol al revolutiei pasnice. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/un-pic-mai-porno-decat-profesoara-din-zalau/ un-pic-mai-porno-decat-profesoara-din-zalau Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:01:23 +0300 Imi cer scuze profesoarei de la Zalau ca am tabarat in dormitorul ei, impins fiind de colegii mei din presa care au avut grija sa puna filmul pe toate site-urile de stiri posibile. N-am avut nici o sansa sa-l evit. Puteau sa-l lase, desigur, acolo unde l-au gasit deoarece n-are nici o relevanta ce face o femeie in dormitor cu sotul ei. A ne scuti pudibonzii care isi dau ochii peste cap si ne tin lectii de moralitate cu argumentul ca  profesoara este un model pentru copii bla bla bla.Faptul ca filmuletul a ajuns, nu stim cum si chiar nu ne priveste, pe un site nu justifica expandarea lui in presa. Si sa-l fi pus chiar profesoara. Care-i problema? Repet, nu serveste interesului public si punct. Veti spune: in situatia in care si-a postat singura filmuletul, a renuntat de buna voie la dreptul ei la viata intima. Nu-i asa. A ales doar un anumit mod si un anumit spatiu in care sa-si traiasca intimitatea iar publicul larg cu apucaturi franciscane este avertizat din timp ca n-are ce cauta acolo.  Copilasii astia nevinovati si parintii lor calugariti n-au decat sa nu se uite pe site-uri pornografice si atunci nu vor fi rascoliti sufleteste si mutilati pe viata de profesoara lor de franceza. Acum, nu mai au nici o sansa. Cu foarte putine exceptii, presa din Romania a dat drumul la film ca sa aiba motiv sa discute, cu o ipocrizie fara margini, problema moralitatii profesoarei. Adica presa a invadat brutal viata intima a unui om si ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/faze-tari-el-este-oficial-cel-mai-inalt-om-din-lume-vindecata-de-epilepsie-dupa-ce-i-au-extras-jumatate-din-creier-ce-a-mai-descoperit-google-earth-imagini-de-pe-marte-cu-un-extraterestru-decapitat/ faze-tari-el-este-oficial-cel-mai-inalt-om-din-lume-vindecata-de-epilepsie-dupa-ce-i-au-extras-jumatate-din-creier-ce-a-mai-descoperit-google-earth-imagini-de-pe-marte-cu-un-extraterestru-decapitat Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:01:11 +0300 Vindecata de epilepsie, dupa ce i-au extras jumatate din creier. O tanara chinezoaica ar putea sa se vindece total de epilepsie dupa ce a suferit o interventie chirurgicala in care medicii i-au extras jumatate din creier. Yan Yan, in varsta de 17 ani, s-a imbolnavit dupa ce a suferit o febra puternica in copilarie. Dupa operatie, insa, medicii sunt foarte optimisti si se asteapta ca tanara sa-si revina in totalitate, scrie Libertatea.Cum sa furi 225 de kilograme de aur. O angajata a uneia dintre cele mai mari companii de bijuterii din Statele Unite a fost acuzata ca furat aur in valoare de 12 milioane de dolari de la locul de munca, scrie editia electronica a cotidianului The Times. Procurorii sustin ca Teresa Tambunting a furat peste 225 de kilograme de aur in cinci ani. Prada ei era atat de mare incat ar fi tinut-o in 12 cutii mari din pivnita casei sale. Intr-o presupusa marturisire, ea le-a spus sefilor de la Jacmel Jewelry: "Sunt o femeie foarte bolnava. Eu am luat aurul", scrie EVZ. Si-a lasat mama sa fie mancata de viermi. O femeie de 49 e ani din Saint Albens, Australia, e acuzata ca si-a lasat mama sa moara in conditii inumane, mancata de viermi.  Mary Eve Pyrczak (72 de ani) era grav bolnava, iar in noiembrie anul trecut a fost gasita la ea in camera, pe jos, acoperita pur si simplu de viermi. Femeia era inca in viata, dar a murit la scurt timp dupa ce a fost dusa la spital. Potrivit autoritatilor ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/de-prin-presa/ de-prin-presa Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:00:55 +0300 ​Bancilor europene le e iarasi bine, daca te uiti strict la rezultatele financiare. Tin minte cum ne extaziam toti prin 2008 cand se raportau cresteri cu 20 sau chiar 30% a rezultatelor, pentru ca un an mai tarziu, aceleasi banci sa cerseasca bani de la stat. Cand le era bine, s-a dovedit ca nu le era bine, ca sa ma exprim (ca un) plastic, scrie Dan Popa pe blogul sau.Japonezii sunt tot mai optimisti, ceea ce ma face sa ma intreb cine si in ce limba le-a fost pusa intrebarea. PS Nu azi se implinesc fix 65 de ani de la bombardamentele americanilor cu bomba nucleara?Va spuneam ieri ca in Kenya urma ieri un referendum cu privire la o noua Constitutie. Ei bine, 67% dintre kenyeni au spus "DA". Ce spune Constitutia lor, in esenta? Limiteaza mandatele sefului statului la cel mult doua a cate 5 ani, iar cea mai importanta prevedere mi se pare infiintarea Senatului, compus asa: 47 de membri alesi de populatie, 16 membri numiti de partidele politice (dupa reprezentativitate), doi reprezentanti ai tinerilor si doi ai persoanelor cu handicap. Apare in schema si Curtea Suprema, plus alte mici detalii.Eric Schmidt, CEO-ul Google zice ca in curand, gata cu anonimii de pe internet. Abia astept! Dincolo de asta, am mai retinut o zicere a lui Schmidt: Lumea nu e pregatita pentru revolutia tehnologica ce se anunta a veni”.In Franta, se schimba sistemul de notare a functionarilor publici. As vrea sa vad asta si la noi.Tot in Franta, un raport arata ca numarul ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/faze-tari-vaduva-lui-kurt-cobain-a-tras-cenusa-sotului-pe-nas-o-chinezoaica-fara-degete-la-o-mana-canta-dumnezeieste-la-pian-si-a-distrus-bolidul-lamborghini-gallardo-cu-ciocanul-a-mancat-o-leopardul-pe-platoul-de-filmare/ faze-tari-vaduva-lui-kurt-cobain-a-tras-cenusa-sotului-pe-nas-o-chinezoaica-fara-degete-la-o-mana-canta-dumnezeieste-la-pian-si-a-distrus-bolidul-lamborghini-gallardo-cu-ciocanul-a-mancat-o-leopardul-pe-platoul-de-filmare Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:00:47 +0300 Vaduva lui Kurt Cobain a tras cenusa sotului pe nas. Fostul solist al trupei Nirvana nu se rasuceste in mormant, ci in plamanii fostei sale sotii. Nici dupa 17 ani de la moartea sotului ei, Courtney Love nu si-a revenit din suferinta. Intr-un interviu pentru RadarOnline.com, vaduva legendei rock a declarat ca a facut mai multe gesturi disperate pentru a-si regasi sotul. Unul dintre acestea a fost sa prizeze o parte din cenusa lui Cobain. Ea a spus ca a pus ramasitele lui Cobain pe o masa din sticla si le-a tras pe nas ca pe cocaina, intr-o seara in care era deja drogata si beata, scrie Click.O chinezoaica fara degete la o mana canta dumnezeieste la pian. O adolescenta chinezoaica lasa publicul cu gura cascata cand se asaza la pian si incepe sa cante. Desi nu are degete la mana dreapta, ea da un mini recital senzational interpretand "Souvenirs d'enfance".  Pe scena ea uita de handicapul sau si reuseste sa impresioneze si cel mai critic spectator, scrie Cancan.A mancat-o leopardul pe platoul de filmare. Regizoarea Veronika Bauriedl, de 46 de ani, a fost atacata de felina dupa ce terminase o scena. Drama in lumea filmului german. O regizoare a fost sfartecata de un leopard in Namibia, la cateva secunde dupa terminarea unei scene de filmare. Veronika Bauriedl, de 46 de ani, si echipa serialului de supersucces "Um Himmels Willen" (In voia Domnului), la care se uita circa sapte milioane de germani, se pregateau sa incheie o noua zi de activitate, scrie Click. Cel mai ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/subiectele-zilei-operatia-oprescu-pe-buget-erori-grave-in-proiectul-de-buget-al-capitalei-pe-2011-libia-lider-al-rebelilor-scolit-la-bucuresti-interviu-cu-seful-google-romania-quotla-noi-pierdem-foarte-multa-energie-in-a-dezbate-in-public-probl/ subiectele-zilei-operatia-oprescu-pe-buget-erori-grave-in-proiectul-de-buget-al-capitalei-pe-2011-libia-lider-al-rebelilor-scolit-la-bucuresti-interviu-cu-seful-google-romania-quotla-noi-pierdem-foarte-multa-energie-in-a-dezbate-in-public-probl Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:58:16 +0300 Libia: lider al rebelilor, scolit la Bucuresti. Ali Abdul Aziz al-Issawi (45 de ani), ministrul de Externe al rebelilor din Libia, a absolvit doctoratul la Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti in 2001. Teza libianului, intitulata "Privatizarea ca politica economica - Experienta Romaniei", a fost coordonata de prof.dr. Alexandru Zamfir, decedat in urma cu doi ani. Odata cu intetirea miscarilor de strada din Libia, rebelii din partea de est a tarii au format la sfarsitul lunii trecute, mai exact pe 27 februarie, Consiliul National Libian. Unul dintre membrii de frunte ai acestui asa-zis guvern, Ali Issawi, ocupant al functiei de "ministru de Externe", si-a obtinut doctoratul in economie la Bucuresti. Ideile punctate de libian in teza "Privatizarea ca politica economica - Experienta Romaniei", pastrata in biblioteca Academia de Studii Economice (ASE) Bucuresti, se regasesc in prezent in viziunea rebelilor care au format Consiliul National, scrie Adevarul.Operatia Oprescu pe buget. Erori grave in proiectul de buget al Capitalei pe 2011. Prefectura a identificat suplimentari de cateva milioane de euro pentru finantarea unor lucrari publice in Bucuresti. Zeci de milioane de lei acordate in plus Administratiei Strazilor si institutiilor publice subordonate mu-nicipalitatii sunt principalele nereguli descoperite la hotararea prin care s-a consfintit proiectul de buget al Capitalei pe 2011. Desi consilierii au aprobat modificarea anumitor sume din proiect, acest lucru nu se regaseste si in forma finala a hotararii. De exemplu, la capitolul subventii de la bugetul de stat pentru compensarea cresterilor neprevazute ale preturilor, edilii au pastrat varianta initiala, de 250 milioane lei, desi consilierii au ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cinci-proiecte-mamut-de-10-mld-euro-care-este-stadiul-realizarii-celor-mai-mari-investitii-energetice-locale-si-android-ul-te-spioneaza-autostrada-soarelui-in-faza-de-hei-rup-10-marci-auto-celebre-care-au-disparut/ business-report-cinci-proiecte-mamut-de-10-mld-euro-care-este-stadiul-realizarii-celor-mai-mari-investitii-energetice-locale-si-android-ul-te-spioneaza-autostrada-soarelui-in-faza-de-hei-rup-10-marci-auto-celebre-care-au-disparut Sat, 23 Apr 2011 03:14:07 +0300 Telefoanele care au Android urmaresc si ele miscarile utilizatorilor. Telefoanele mobile inteligente care utilizeaza sistemul de operare Android dezvoltat de Google colecteaza si ele date cu privire la miscarile utilizatorilor intr-o maniera similara cu cea a telefoanelor iPhone de la Apple, informeaza editiile de vineri ale publicatiilor Wall Street Journal si The Guardian. Wall Street Journal il citeaza pe americanul Samy Kamkar, un fost pirat care s-a facut remarcat dupa ce a scos din functiune site-ul MySpace in 2005 in timp ce The Guardian il citeaza pe programatorul suedez Magnus Eriksson. Potrivit WSJ telefoanele HTC Android colecteaza informatii cu privire la locatia utilizatorului pe care le trimite catre Google cel putin de cateva ori pe ora. De asemenea sunt transmise informatii cu privire la retelele de Internet wireless din zona, scrie Capital. In articolul "Povestea unui esec: cum ne-au inchis ungurii centrul de servicii financiare ING de la Cluj, care urma sa angajeze 1.000 de oameni", ZF scrie: "Guvernul ungar a motivat necesitatea preluarii in administratia statului a activelor fondurilor de pensii private (asa-numitul pilon II) prin faptul ca tocmai acest sistem a creat deficite bugetare si datorie publica, 8% din salariul brut al fiecarui angajat mergand in siste mul de pensii private". Integral in Ziarul Financiar.Analiza: Vantu nu doarme linistit: Justitia se joaca, dar statul inca lucreaza pentru el. Cum stam cu ratele la FNI. Desfasurarea de forte a Justitiei - cu retinerile, arestarile, audierile si recursurile din ultimele luni ale lui Sorin Ovidiu Vantu si extradarea, pas cu pas, a lui Nicolae Popa - pare sa ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vezi-aici-cum-vrea-sa-puna-stop-google-fermelor-de-continut/ vezi-aici-cum-vrea-sa-puna-stop-google-fermelor-de-continut Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:35:03 +0300 Unii ii spun sclavie, pe internet. Zilnic, zeci de mii de persoane scriu articole si realizeaza materiale video pentru sume mici de bani. Scopul lor este ca firmele la care lucreaza sa fie afisate primele in urma cautarilor realizate de utilizatori pe internet. Google insa vrea sa puna stop acestor ferme de continut. Va reusi? Christian Munoz-Donoso are de filmat zece videoclipuri in doar doua ore. Inarmat cu trei camere video si cu rucsacul in spate, tanarul porneste dis de dimineata cu SUV-ul spre lacul Hungtinton, Massachusetts, scopul fiind de a face o frumoasa poveste video despre caiac canoe. Ajuns la fata locului, Munoz-Donoso se intalneste cu instructorul si cu cei trei sportivi pe care i-a contactat anterior si, dupa ce porneste camera si cateva sfaturi despre cum trebuie sa foloseasca caiacul, vasleste spre mijlocul lacului pentru a realiza filmuletele. In timpul plimbarii vantul puternic si luminozitatea redusa l-au impiedicat sa isi faca treaba asa cum si-ar fi dorit. In plus, desi a sperat ca va termina lucrarea la ora 11, ceasul este deja unu fara un sfert in momentul in care Munoz se afla din nou in masina si se indreapta spre birou. In mai putin de cateva ore el are treaba terminata pentru Demand Media si asteapta cu nerabdare sa isi primeasca cei 200 de dolari. Desi nu este Martin Scorseze, Munoz-Donoso a fost, in opinia revistei Wired, rapid, ieftin si destul de bun. Mii de alti producatori de filmulete si scriitori din America, care opereaza la fel ca Munoz, produc peste 4.000 de videoclipuri si articole pe care Demand Media le publica zilnic pe site-urile pe care le detine. Ambitiile companiei, care este si ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/smartphone-urile-android-transmit-locatia-posesorului-catre-google-ca-si-iphone-urile-catre-apple/ smartphone-urile-android-transmit-locatia-posesorului-catre-google-ca-si-iphone-urile-catre-apple Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:21:04 +0300 Smartphone-urile cu soft Android transmit locaţia posesorului către dezvoltatorul acestuia, grupul Google, la fel cum iPhone-ul furnizează date producătorului Apple, potrivit unei analize a cotidianului american Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Google şi Apple strâng informaţii despre locaţia utilizatorilor pentru a dezvolta baze de date capabile să indice cu precizie, prin intermediul telefonului mobil, locul în care se află o persoană. Aceste baze de date ar putea oferi celor două grupuri acces la piaţa de 2,9 miliarde de dolari a serviciilor de localizare, estimată să ajungă la 8,3 miliarde de dolari până în 2014, potrivit Gartner. În cazul Google, potrivit unor noi cercetări ale analistului Samy Kamkar, un telefon HTC Android a înregistrat locaţia la fiecare câteva secunde şi a transmis datele către Google de cel puţin câteva ori la fiecare oră. În plus, softul Android a transmis inclusiv numele, locaţia şi intensitatea semnalului reţelelor Wi-Fi din apropiere, respectiv un cod unic de identificare a telefonului. Reprezentanţii Google au refuzat să comenteze. Până anul trecut, Google aduna informaţii similare privind semnalul Wi-Fi prin intermediul flotei de maşini StreetView, care fotografiază şi cartografiază străzile în toată lumea. Compania a renunţat la adunarea de date Wi-Fi anul trecut, după ce a colectat, fără intenţie, adrese de e-mail, parole şi alte informaţii personale din aceste reţele. Datele pe care telefoanele Android le transmit nu includ astfel de informaţii, a observat Kamkar. Apple a atras atenţia săptămâna aceasta după ce doi cercetători au anunţat că iPhone-urile şi iPad-urile conţin un fişier care înregistrează detaliat locul în care se află posesorul pe parcursul unei perioade de luni sau chiar ani. Google este cel mai important furnizor de soft-uri pentru smartphone-uri în Statele Unite, în timp ce Apple ocupă poziţia ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/wsj-terminalele-iphone-si-google-android-transmit-catre-apple-si-google-datele-de-localizare-ale-utilizatorilor/ wsj-terminalele-iphone-si-google-android-transmit-catre-apple-si-google-datele-de-localizare-ale-utilizatorilor Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:42:04 +0300 Terminalele iPhone si cele bazate pe platforma Android transmit cu regularitate informatii despre localizarea geografica a utilizatorilor catre Apple si respectiv Google, potrivit unor date dezvaluite vineri de Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Problema, semnalata recent de doi programatori in cazul terminalelor iPhone 4 si iPad 3G, a starnit ingrijorari legate de confidentialitatea datelor personale si dreptul la viata privata, iar Germania a cerut deja Apple sa raspunda la o serie de intrebari pe aceasta tema.In cazul Google, sustine analistul in securitate IT Samy Kamkar, un smartphone HTC Android aduna datele de localizare in mod regulat la cateva secunde si le transmitea catre Google de cel putin cateva ori intr-o ora. De asemenea, erau transmise si date despre retelele WI-FI din apropiere si codul unic de identificare al terminalului in cauza.De cealalta parte, Apple colecteaza "in mod intermitent" date de localizare, inclusiv coordonate GPS ale multor utilizatori de iPhone, iar datele sunt transmise catre producatorul american la fiecare 12 ore, reiese dintr-o scrisoare transmisa de Apple unor avocati americani si citata de WSJ.Doi programatori, Alasdair Allan si Pete Warden, au dezvaluit recent o posibila problema de confidentialitate a datelor in cazul produselor 3G ale Apple, legata de un fisier ascuns care stocheaza informatii despre localizarea geografica a utilizatorilor. Ministerul pentru protectia consumatorilor din Germania a anuntat joi ca a solicitat Apple sa ofere explicatii in legatura cu acest aspect. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-revista-time-cei-mai-influenti-100-de-oameni-wael-ghonim-director-google-in-egipt-in-fruntea-topului-in-2011/ video-revista-time-cei-mai-influenti-100-de-oameni-wael-ghonim-director-google-in-egipt-in-fruntea-topului-in-2011 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:21:07 +0300 Revista TIME a publicat joi lista anuala a celor mai influente 100 de persoane din lume. Primul in top este Wael Ghonim, directorul de marketing al Google Egipt, unul dintre principalii responsabili pentru revolutia de la Cairo, cunoscuta ca prima revolutie 2.0. In primii 10 se numara Joseph Stiglitz - laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru economie, Mark Zuckerberg - fondatorul Facebook, dar si Julian Assange - fondatorul WikiLeaks.Despre Ghonim a scris, pentru Time, politicianul egiptean Mohamed ElBaradei, laureat al Nobelului pentru pace, fost director al Agentiei Internationale de Energie Atomica si candidat le presedintia Egiptului. Wael Ghonim a infiintat pagina de Facebook "We are Khaled Said", un tanar ucis in bataie de politisti, initial cu scopul de a protesta impotriva abuzului autoritatilor. Pagina a atras mii de utilizatori. Ghonim a fost arestat timp de 12 zile de politia secreta egipteana. In ziua eliberarii, Ghonim le-a vorbit miilor de protestatari stransi in Piata Tahrir, care l-au primit ca un erou. In prezent, Ghonim continua sa lucreze pentru Google si este un simbol al revolutiei pasnice. Vezi mai jos o conferinta TED Cairo sustinuta de Ghonim in luna martie. Intre cei 100 se afla si rapperul tunisian El General, dar si fiul lui Muammar Gaddafi, Saif Al-Islam, revoltele din lumea araba marcand anul 2011. Ghonim este urmat de economistul Joseph Stiglitz, Reed Hasting - fondatorul Netflix, actrita americana Amy Poehler, Geoffrey Canada - reformator in educatie, Mark Zuckerberg - fondatorul Facebook, directorul companiei 'Rovio' Peter Vesterbacka (realizatorul jocului Angry Brids, download-at de 100 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-vrea-sa-majoreze-salariile-si-recompensele-pentru-a-pastra-angajatii-talentati/ microsoft-vrea-sa-majoreze-salariile-si-recompensele-pentru-a-pastra-angajatii-talentati Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:07:02 +0300 Microsoft intenţionează să majoreze salariile angajaţilor şi recompensele în acţiuni pentru a păstra şi atrage personal talentat, a afirmat CEO-ul producătorului de software, Steve Ballmer. Microsoft, care ca şi Google sau Yahoo! riscă să piardă angajaţi de top în favoarea unor companii mai noi precum Facebook, trebuie să îmbunătăţească modul în care recompensează şi sprijină cei mai talentaţi salariaţi, a menţionat Ballmer într-un memoriu intern. "De-a lungul istoriei, am fost locul în care oamenii au venit când au vrut să facă ceva remarcabil cu ajutorul programelor, componentelor de calculatoare sau serviciilor. Schimbările pe care le aducem ne vor ajuta să ne asigurăm că Microsoft continuă să fie locul în care talentele vin să schimbe lumea", a spus CEO-ul Microsoft. Schimbările se vor produce din septembrie, a adăugat el. Decizia companiei vine după ce Google a majorat cu 10% salariile angajaţilor în acest an. Microsoft intenţionează să mărească, printre altele, remuneraţiile acordate în diviziile cu pieţe în dezvoltare rapidă. Documentul menţionează că angajaţii vor beneficia de schimbarea în salarii a stimulentelor acordate în acţiuni. Acţiunile Microsoft sunt la acelaşi nivel ca în urmă cu zece ani. Compania a suspendat creşterile salariale bazate pe merit pentru toţi angajaţii în urmă cu doi ani, când a disponibilizat 5.000 de salariaţi, sau 5% din personalul total, pentru a reduce cheltuielile. Microsoft a revenit la politica majorărilor "modeste" pentru merit în 2010. Anul trecut, angajaţii au fost anunţaţi că trebuie să contribuie la asigurările sociale pentru prima dată în istoria companiei. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-celebra-ziua-pamantului/ google-si-a-modificat-logoul-pentru-a-celebra-ziua-pamantului Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:35:04 +0300 Google celebrează Ziua Pământului printr-un logo special, interactiv, care prezintă mai multe animale, printre care un leu, doi pinguini, un urs koala şi doi ursuleţi panda, în habitatul lor natural. Noul logo al Google este interactiv şi se activează de fiecare dată când utilizatorii îşi trec cursorul peste imagini. Ziua Pământului se sărbătoreşte fiecare an pe 22 aprilie, ziua când s-a născut mişcarea pentru protejarea mediului înconjurător. Această mişcare a apărut în SUA într-o perioadă când au avut loc mai multe evenimente deosebite, printre care folosirea armelor de foc pentru oprimarea revoltei unor studenţi care militau împotriva războiului din Cambodgia, "Masacrul din 4 mai", apariţia fibrelor optice, succesul melodiei "Bridge over Troubled Water", ultimul album al formaţiei Beatles, moartea lui Jimmy Hendrix, un accident în Carolina de Sud la centrala nucleară din Savannah River din apropierea oraşului Aiken - nerecunoscut timp de 18 ani, poluarea foarte mare cu gaze şi fum, considerată "semn al prosperităţii". În aceste condiţii, societatea a început să vorbească din ce în ce mai des despre mediul înconjurător. Ziua Pământului a fost proclamată de senatorul american Gaylord Nelson în anul 1970, cu scopul de a trezi interesul clasei politice faţă de mediu, un subiect ignorat. Ziua Pământului a fost celebrată în primul an de circa 20 milioane de cetăţeni americani, în marea lor majoritate tineri şi foarte tineri. După două decenii, în anul 1990, peste 200 milioane de oameni din 141 de ţări au transformat Ziua Pământului într-o manifestare de amploare în istoria omenirii, prin alăturarea lor în dorinţa de a milita pentru un viitor mai bun al planetei. Ziua Pământului a avut un rol important în popularizarea problemelor de mediu. De altfel, a fost înfiinţată şi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/germania-cere-apple-explicatii-privind-stocarea-datelor-utilizatorilor-pe-iphone-si-ipad/ germania-cere-apple-explicatii-privind-stocarea-datelor-utilizatorilor-pe-iphone-si-ipad Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:28:09 +0300 Apple trebuie sa raspunda la o serie de intrebari  legate de stocarea datelor privind  localizarea geografica a utilizatorului descoperite pe iPhone 4 si iPad 3G, a declarat, joi, un purtator de cuvant al ministerului de protectie a consumatorului din Germania, relateaza Reuters.Compania urmeaza sa raspunda unei solicitari similare facuta de catre senatorul american Al Franken, miercuri, care a citat un raport al unor cercetatori in domeniul securitatii, care sustine ca  sistemul Apple iOS4 stocheaza intr-un fisier ascuns date despre localizarea geografica a utilizatorilor.  "Apple trebuie sa dezvaluie unde, pentru cat timp si in ce scop aceste informatii sunt pastrate, cine are acces la ele si cum le protejeaza de accesarea neautorizata," a declarat purtatorul de cuvant al ministerului german, Holger Eichele.Ministrul sustine ca stocarea si colectarea in secret a datelor privind localizarea smartphone-ului reprezinta o incalcare grava a dreptului la viata privata a utilizatorului.Germania are o legislatie referitoare la protectia datelor deosebit de stricta, iar reteaua de socializare Facebook si motorul de cautare Google  au avut probleme cu autoritatile de reglementare.Un fisier ascuns care stocheaza informatii despre localizarea geografica a utilizatorului a fost descoperit pe iPhone 4 si iPad 3G. Problema de confidentialitate a datelor a fost dezvaluita de doi programatori, Alasdair Allan si Pete Warden, care sustin ca fisierul denumit "consolidated.db" pastreaza evidenta datelor GPS de pe dispozitivele 3G produse de Apple si este actualizat constant cu pozitia geografica a utilizatorului.Un purtator de cuvant al Apple Germany a refuzat sa comenteze subiectul. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/germania-cere-apple-clarificari-privind-stocarea-datelor-utilizatorilor-pe-iphone-si-ipad/ germania-cere-apple-clarificari-privind-stocarea-datelor-utilizatorilor-pe-iphone-si-ipad Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:49:04 +0300 Apple trebuie să clarifice o serie de întrebări referitoare la stocarea datelor utilizatorilor pe iPhone, iPad şi alte aparate, a declarat, joi, un purtător de cuvânt al ministerului pentru protecţia consumatorilor din Germania. Senatorul american Al Franken a făcut miercuri o solicitare similară, în urma unui raport al unor cercetători în domeniul securităţii, care acuză că sistemul de operare al produselor Apple conţine un fişier secret care înregistrează locul în care se află posesorul pe parcursul unei perioade de luni sau chiar ani. "Apple trebuie să dezvăluie unde, pentru cât timp şi în ce scop sunt păstrate aceste date, cine are acces la ele şi cum le protejează de accesarea neautorizată, a declarat purtătorul de cuvânt al ministerului german, Holger Eichele. El a adăugat că o astfel de colectare şi stocare în secret a datelor privind localizarea smartphone-ului reprezintă o încălcare gravă a dreptului la viaţă privată a utilizatorului. Legislaţia din Germania referitoare la protejarea datelor este deosebit de strică, iar companii precum reţeaua de socializare Facebook şi motorul de căutare Google au avut probleme cu autorităţile de reglementare. Fişierul în care sunt stocate datele, deşi ascuns, nu are sisteme de protecţie şi permite unui hacker cu acces la iPhone sau iPad să afle locaţiile în care s-a aflat posesorul, au afirmat Pete Warden, fost inginer la Apple, şi Alasdair Allan, cercetător la Universitatea din Exeter, Marea Britanie. Descoperirea celor doi vine în contextul intensificării atenţiei asupra modului în care companiile tehnologice colectează, arhivează şi transmit informaţiile strânse de la clienţii care utilizează aparatură digitală. Un purtător de cuvânt al Apple Germany a refuzat să comenteze subiectul. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-tudor-gheorghe-elenele-n-au-fost-benefice-pentru-neamul-romanesc-troia-eventual-dar-elena-nu/ video-tudor-gheorghe-elenele-n-au-fost-benefice-pentru-neamul-romanesc-troia-eventual-dar-elena-nu Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:42:16 +0300 Cu erotomani si "faste amante-antice", cu Eve si Psychee, cu melodii din 1968, cu "hituri demne de Eurovision" - asa ar arata Al cincilea anotimp - Femeia, in viziunea lui Tudor Gheorghe. Cu ocazia spectacolului sustinut in acest weekend la Sala Palatului, maestrul a explicat de ce innebunesc romanii de la bauturile din supermarketuri (a povestit cum pe o sticla de plastic scria "bautura cu aspect de vin"), de ce a castigat Germania Eurovisionul si a facut glume la adresa politicienilor, caci "sunt aiurea, sunt nervos!""Doamnelor si domnilor, al cincilea anotimp este femeia! Femeia este al cincilea anotimp, cand natura se odihneste, amintindu-si de toate florile primaverii, de toate ciocarliile verii, de toti strugurii toamnei, de toate ninsorile iernii. Asa spunea fratele Grigore Vieru. Si de aici mi-a venit ideea. Initial, spectacolul s-ar fi chemat Al cincilea anotimp - anotimpul permanentelor iubiri. O sa vedeti de ce l-am schimbat", a explicat in weekendul trecut maestrul Tudor Gheorghe, in cadrul unui spectacol inceput cu o trista constatare: "In fiecare zi, ne batem joc / De pasari, de iubire si de mare / Si nu bagam de seama, ca in loc / Ramine un desert de disperare / In fiecare zi ne batem joc". (Romulus Vulpescu - In fiecare zi)"Am considerat, in aceasta perioada de tranzitie, ca e bine sa fac acest spectacol, acest anotimp, pe care sa-l dedic femeii. Femeia este poate cea care sufera mai mult decat barbatul in aceasta perioada. E un omagiu discret si meritat adus acestei fiinte sensibile si puternice in acelasi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-cum-va-evolua-pretul-la-energie-total-liberalizat-cand-si-unde-ar-putea-testa-romanii-dacia-hamster-caracteristicile-tehnice-ale-hibridului-diesel-electric-cand-devine-rentabil-un-automobil-electric-ghid-complet-de-cumparaturi-itc-p/ business-report-cum-va-evolua-pretul-la-energie-total-liberalizat-cand-si-unde-ar-putea-testa-romanii-dacia-hamster-caracteristicile-tehnice-ale-hibridului-diesel-electric-cand-devine-rentabil-un-automobil-electric-ghid-complet-de-cumparaturi-itc-p Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:49:07 +0300 Eric Schmidt, fostul sef Google, primeste o marire de salariu. Eric Schmidt, fost CEO Google in prezent noul presedinte executiv, a primit o marire consistenta de salariu, conform unui document depus de Google la comisia de control a activitatilor bursiere. Conform documentului, Schmidt  va primi un salariu de 1,25 de milioane de dolari pe an si un bonus de 6 milioane de dolari daca totul va merge bine anul acesta. Pe cand ocupa functia de CEO, Schimdt avea un salariu onorific de 1 dolar pe an. Marirea de salariu se aplica din data de 4 aprilie atunci cand Schimdt a predat functia de CEO lui Larry Page, confondatorul Google, scrie Capital.In articolul "Astra Asigurari, controlata de familia Adamescu, a cumparat 16% din hotelul Intercontinental", ZF scrie: "Familia Adamescu a ajuns sa controleze 32% din hotelul de cinci stele. Astra afirma ca este o investitie de portofoliu. Compania Astra Asigurari, detinuta de familia Adamescu, a cumparat de pe Bursa un pachet de 16,2% din actiunile companiei Intercontinental (RCHI), care detine hotelul cu acelasi nume din centrul Capitalei, pentru suma de 4,1 mil. euro, potrivit unei raportari transmise Bursei". Integral in Ziarul Financiar. Studiu Independent: Cum-necum, Romania este competitiva international. Publicam astazi un studiu de exceptie, realizat de doctorul in economie Daniel Ionescu, care a sintetizat evolutia balantei noastre de plati in ultimii zece ani (2001-2010), procesand datele oficiale furnizate de autoritatile din domeniu. Studiul cuprinde texte si tabele, in proportii aproape egale. Comentariul este succint si judecatile de valoa-re reduse la minimum, uneori escamotate. La prima ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/computerele-vor-avea-sentimente-cercetatorii-le-invata-sa-simta-regretul/ computerele-vor-avea-sentimente-cercetatorii-le-invata-sa-simta-regretul Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:00:05 +0300 Informaticieni din Tel Aviv încearcă să înveţe computerele sentimente de tipul "regretelor", astfel încât acestea să opereze mai rapid şi să împiedice evenimente înainte ca acestea să se întâmple. Un grup de cercetători, conduşi de profesorul Yishay Mansour de la Universitatea de Informatică Blavatnik din Tel Aviv, încearcă să dezvolte un program care va cere computerelor să împiedice în mod deliberat evenimente nedorite, potrivit Daily Mail. Prin "înţelegerea" diferenţei dintre rezultatul dorit şi realitate, maşinile vor învăţa sentimentul de "regret" şi cum să evite situaţia. Computerele cu astfel de experienţă probabil nu vor face aceeaşi greşeală în viitor şi vor funcţiona mai eficient. Inteligenţele artificiale ar putea fi învăţate, de asemenea, să prezică viitorul, prin luarea în calcul a tuturor posibilităţilor, acest lucru ducând la reuşită sigură, chiar de la început. Cercetătorii care lucrează la acest proiect admit totuşi că acest program nu este acelaşi lucru cu ceea ce vedem în filmele SF. În schimb, susţin că acesta este primul pas pentru crearea de computere cu emoţii umane. Rezultatul unui astfel de program ar putea ajuta companii precum Google să eficientizeze instrumentele de publicitate. De altfel, gigantul de căutare pe internet s-a arătat interesat de cercetările profesorului Mansour. Potrivit profesorului "în cazul în care serverele şi sistemele de rutare ar putea evalua toate variabilele relevante în avans, resursele acestora ar putea fi mai eficient gestionate, în funcţie de cererile prioritare". "Comparativ cu fiinţele umane, sistemele de ajutor ar putea procesa mult mai rapid toate informaţiile disponibile pentru a estima rezultatul evenimentelor în desfăşurare - indiferent dacă este vorba despre un conflict al ofertelor pe un site de licitaţii online, un vârf brusc de trafic la un site de mass-media sau cereri pentru un produs online", ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/profitul-net-al-yahoo-a-scazut-in-primul-trimestru-cu-28/ profitul-net-al-yahoo-a-scazut-in-primul-trimestru-cu-28 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:56:02 +0300 Yahoo! a raportat pentru primul trimestru un profit net de 223 de milioane de dolari, în scădere cu 28%, la venituri nete de 1,06 miliarde de dolari, cu 6% mai reduse decât în perioada similară a anului trecut. Veniturile din operaţiuni au crescut cu 1%, la 190 de milioane de dolari, se arată într-un comunicat al Yahoo! privind rezultatele financiare din primele trei luni ale acestui an. "În primul trimestru am fost în continuare prima companie de media digitală din lume", menţionează în comunicat CEO-ul Yahoo!, Carol Bartz. Veniturile din operaţiunile de căutare pe Internet au scăzut cu 19% în perioada analizată, la 440 de milioane de dolari. Pentru al doilea trimestru, compania estimează venituri nete de 1,07-1,12 miliarde de dolari. Reprezentanţi ai companiei au anunţat marţi că Yahoo! va amâna planurile de a folosi un sistem de publicitate al Microsoft pe anumite pieţe deoarece aşteaptă ca producătorul de software să îmbunătăţească tehnologia, potrivit Reuters. Yahoo! este una dintre cele mai populare destinaţii de pe Internet, însă compania se confruntă cu o competiţie tot mai acerbă din partea reţelei de socializare on-line Facebook şi a Google. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tanarul-de-23-de-ani-care-a-reinventat-site-urile-de-reduceri/ tanarul-de-23-de-ani-care-a-reinventat-site-urile-de-reduceri Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:35:02 +0300 Siteul care a salvat buzunarele a zeci de mii de români s-a născut într-o seară, mai mult din joacă. Creatorul său, tânărul Matei Pavel, se întorsese în noaptea aia acasă, ca niciodată, foarte obosit. În loc să se bage în pat, s-a dus la calculator. "Mi-am spus că, dacă nu-l fac eu, îl face altcineva, şi m-am apucat de treabă" Ideea e simplă: a reunit în acelaşi loc mai multe site-uri de reduceri. "Site-ului meu îi făcusem fond portocaliu cu floricele, apoi am pus acolo alte patru site-uri de reduceri care deja existau pe piaţă. În scurt timp, site-ul meu a început să crească de la sine, fără să fac eu mare lucru. Acum, după câteva luni, are 80.000 de vizitatori unici pe lună. Ceea ce am făcut eu prin CautăReduceri.ro a fost că am reunit într-un singur loc, al meu, mai multe site-uri de reduceri. Funcţionează ca un fel de Google pentru reduceri", povesteşte Matei Pavel, pentru gândul. "Apoi, din octombrie 2010 şi până acum au mai apărut încă 15 - 20 de site-uri după ideea noastră", adaugă el. În fiecare zi, 500 - 600 de oameni fac cumpărături prin intermediul site-ului său. Câştigă toată lumea : cumpărătorul (plăteşte mai puţin), firma care oferă reducerile (îşi face reclamă şi îşi fidelizează clientela), site-ul de reduceri şi Matei (primesc comision). Matei Pavel: "Nu mă văd într-un birou de la 9 la 5. Nu cred în felul acesta de a munci" Astfel, la 23 de ani, Matei câştigă 10.000 de euro net pe lună, în medie. Banii ies nu numai din reclamă, ci şi din comisioane. Îl ajută partenera sa, Silvia Nistor, de 27 de ani. Citeşte mai multe ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-petrom-pierde-33-din-cifra-de-afaceri-restantele-la-creditele-in-valuta-au-crescut-cu-75-doar-85-de-cumparatori-la-targul-de-imobiliare-gabriel-popoviciu-a-facut-avere-la-adapostul-offshore-urilor-500000-de-euro-pentru-780-de-cai/ business-report-petrom-pierde-33-din-cifra-de-afaceri-restantele-la-creditele-in-valuta-au-crescut-cu-75-doar-85-de-cumparatori-la-targul-de-imobiliare-gabriel-popoviciu-a-facut-avere-la-adapostul-offshore-urilor-500000-de-euro-pentru-780-de-cai Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:48:12 +0300 Cum sa iti deschizi o cafenea. Investitia initiala porneste de la 50.000 de euro - 100.000 de euro si poate ajunge chiar la peste 1 milion de euro, in cazul achizitiei masterfrancizei pentru o marca internationala. Insa, jucatorii din domeniu spun ca recuperarea banilor se poate face chiar si intr-un an, maxim doi, scrie StartUps.roMoneda nationala a castigat, in ultimele doua sedinte de saptamana trecuta, 3,54 bani, dupa anuntarea acordului de finantare externa de la institutiile internationale, cursul de referinta anuntat de Banca Nationala a Romaniei, valabil astazi, coborand pana la 4,2484 lei pentru un euro. Ultima data cand am avut un nivel al cursului mai scazut decat acesta a fost in urma cu sapte saptamani, mai exact cel stabilit de BNR pe 9 februarie. De asemenea, se pare ca si declaratiile facute de Guvernatorul BNR, saptamana trecuta, au avut un impact asupra cursului, readucand increderea in moneda nationala, scrie Bursa.Compania americana Google cauta sa angajeze 360 de noi salariati, in contextul in care saptamana trecuta a anuntat al treilea val de concedieri de la inceputul anului. Google anunta ca a angajat prea multa forta de munca in anumite sectoare, in timp ce in altele nu dispune de suficienti salariati. Recent, compania a concediat 200 de membri ai departamentelor de marketing si vanzari, dupa ce anterior concediase 100 de angajati ai departamentului de resurse umane. Majoritatea locurilor de munca ii vizeaza pe cetatenii americani si sunt dintre cele mai variate, de la inginer IT pana la administrator al cantinelor pentru angajati de la sediul din ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-o-masa-doua-banci-doua-cosuri-toate-de-plastic-1200-euro-ar-putea-sa-lucreze-pentru-google-insa-s-a-angajat-la-o-companie-romaneasca-ipad-2-vs-samsung-galaxy-tab-vs-motorola-xoom-decalogul-investitiilor-romaniei-in-opinia-consi/ business-report-o-masa-doua-banci-doua-cosuri-toate-de-plastic-1200-euro-ar-putea-sa-lucreze-pentru-google-insa-s-a-angajat-la-o-companie-romaneasca-ipad-2-vs-samsung-galaxy-tab-vs-motorola-xoom-decalogul-investitiilor-romaniei-in-opinia-consi Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:42:03 +0300 Ar putea sa lucreze pentru Google, insa s-a angajat la o companie romaneasca. A absolvit Facultatea de Matematica si are doua mastere, unul in Matematica Aplicata si unul in Econometrie si Statistica. Ar putea sa lucreze foarte bine pentru Microsoft, Google, Intel sau oricare alta mare companie, insa prefera sa conduca echipa de cercetare de la TradeAds.Raoul Savos este seful departamentul de cercetare al companiei TradeAds care se vrea "prima bursa de publicitate online". Lucreaza de un an de zile la aceasta firma desi cu C.V-ul sau ar putea sa se angajeze la orice multinationala, scrie Capital.O masa, doua banci, doua cosuri, toate de plastic: 1.200 euro. Compania de Autostrazi a organizat o licitatie in care a primit doar firme ce au angajate persoane cu handicap strict de cetatenie romana. O singura firma indeplinea cerintele. Compania Nationala de Autostrazi si Drumuri Nationale din Romania (CNADNR) va inlocui clasicul si ieftinul mobilier din beton din parcarile de pe marginea drumurilor nationale cu seturi formate din o masa, doua banci si doua cosuri de gunoi facute din plastic reciclat si reciclabil. Achizitia mobilierului, despre care oficialii CNADNR sustin ca l-au ales deoarece ar fi indestructibil, nu este ieftina. Pentru 127 de seturi de mobilier, compania de stat va plati nu mai putin de 527.000 lei fara TVA, adica 125.000 euro, sau 1.220 de euro pe set, daca socotim si TVA. Din magazinele de mobila cu acesti bani se poate cumpara o sufragerie din lemn masiv. Firme din Romania vand in prezent seturi similare de mobilier stradal, din ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/messi-vs-ronaldo-cine-este-mai-bun/ messi-vs-ronaldo-cine-este-mai-bun Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:28:12 +0300 Lionel Messi si Cristiano Ronaldo impart lumea fotbalului in doua, cei mai buni jucatori de fotbal ai planetei luptandu-se pentru suprematie. De la goluri marcate, pase reusite, contracte de publicitate si pana la trofee castigate, duelul dintre argentinian si lusitan naste o intrebare la care este greu sa raspunzi: cine este mai bun?Doi dintre cei mai valorosi fotbalisti din lume se vor duela in urmatoarea perioada de trei ori, Barcelona si Real Madrid urmand sa se intalneasca in finala Cupei Spaniei (miercuri) si in semifinalele Champions League. In primul El Clasico, scorul a fost egal, 1-1 (Ronaldo si Messi au marcat din lovituri de la 11 metri). Comparatie Messi vs Ronaldo Reusitele lui Ronaldo reprezinta 39,7% din golurile Realului, in timp ce Messi a marcat 34,8% din golurile Barcelonei in acest sezon competitional. Pe internet, lusitanul este mult in fata lui Messi: Ronaldo apare in 53.800.000 de cautari pe Google, in timp ce Lionel este doar in 21 de milioane de cautari. Pe Facebook, portughezul este lider: are 23 de milioane de fani, in timp ce Messi a adunat deja 7,4 milioane (in doar doua saptamani).  Cifre impresionante ale celor doi:In Champions League, Messi are o medie de gol de 0,9, in timp ce Ronaldo se poate lauda cu 0,6. In Primera Division, media celor doi este egala: o reusita la 1,03 meciuri. Ronaldo trimite in medie 32,5 pase bune pe partida, in timp ce Messi are un procentaj de 60,9 pase reusite intr-un meci (* Primera Division + Champions League). Messi vs Ronaldo, all ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-ce-omoara-google-analiza-50-din-smartphone-uri-vor-fi-android-in-2012-apartamentele-noi-sunt-la-fel-de-scumpe-in-lei-ca-in-2008-tom-glocer-ceo-al-thomson-reuters-jurnalismul-clasic-nu-a-murit-doar-si-a-schimbat-prezentarea-ferrar/ business-report-ce-omoara-google-analiza-50-din-smartphone-uri-vor-fi-android-in-2012-apartamentele-noi-sunt-la-fel-de-scumpe-in-lei-ca-in-2008-tom-glocer-ceo-al-thomson-reuters-jurnalismul-clasic-nu-a-murit-doar-si-a-schimbat-prezentarea-ferrar Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:07:06 +0300 Ce mai omoara Google zilele astea. La ce venituri are Google  - 8,5 miliarde dolari in primul trimestru  - isi permite sa mai dea si rateuri. Zilele trecute a spus adio serviciului Google Tags si acum renunta si la Google Video.Google a pus capat serviciului de publicitate Google Tags, care era adresat firmelor  mici. Pentru o taxa de 25 dolari pe luna, comerciantii locali puteau cumpara  un tag galben si cateva cuvinte despre oferta, fotografii, meniuri sau linkuri catre site-ul lor. Google Tags a fost interconectat cu Google Places acum aproximativ un an, dupa ce fusese testat cateva  luni, scrie Money.ro."Oltchim" aproape a dublat banii investitorilor. Desi au adus cele mai mari randamente investitorilor, apreciindu-se cu pes-te 90% de la inceputul anului, actiunile "Oltchim" Ramnicu Valcea (OLT) sunt inca departe de maximele inregistrate in 2007, cand s-au tranzactionat si la pretul de 1,46 de lei/titlu. Pentru comparatie, cotatia OLT a atins, ieri, 0,49 lei/titlu. Interesul pentru actiunile OLT a crescut mai ales dupa ce Guvernul a anuntat, la inceputul anului, ca a demarat procedurile pentru privatizarea combinatului programata sa aiba loc undeva in a doua parte a lui 2012. Aprecierea continua a actiunilor a determinat conducerea SIF "Oltenia" sa isi vanda participatia de circa 6,4% din companie catre un fond de investitii cu sediul la Londra, interesat de investitiile cu grad de risc ridicat, in companii aflate in dificultate, scrie Bursa.ro.Ce ar trebui sa invete Bursa de la H&M: marketingul agresiv aduce clientii, nu scandalurile. Problema BVB nu este sediul, ci faptul ca pe nimeni ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/semnificatii-istorice-pentru-18-aprilie/ semnificatii-istorice-pentru-18-aprilie Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:14:03 +0300 1480 - S-a născut Lucrezia Borgia. 1848 - A avut loc adunarea politică a românilor ardeleni de la Blaj. 1878 - La Bucureşti, a fost încheiată o Convenţie comercială româno-elenă. 1882 - S-a născut dirijorul american Leopold Stokowski. 1897 - A fost încheiată o Convenţie comercială între România şi Olanda. 1922 - România a semnat, alături de alte state, o notă adresată Germaniei, prin care protesta împotriva semnării Tratatului de la Rapallo, din 16 aprilie 1922, care încălca prevederile Tratatului de la Versailles. 1931 - S-a format un guvern condus de Nicolae Iorga. 1946 - A avut loc dizolvarea formală a Societăţii Naţiunilor. 1947 - Guvernul britanic a hotărît reluarea relaţiilor comerciale cu România, după cel de al doilea război mondial. 1949 - Irlanda devine o republică independentă. 1951 - A fost înfiinţată Comunitatea Europeană a Cărbunelui şi a Oţelului, primul pas către viitoarea Uniune Europeană. 1955 - A murit fizicianul Albert Einstein, laureat al premiului Nobel pentru fizică în 1921. (n.1879) 1966 - Mao Zedung lanseaza conceptul de "marea revoluţie culturală proletară". 1980 - Rebublica Zimbabwe îşi proclamă independenţa. 1994 - A fost adoptat Legea impozitului pe venitul agricol. 1996 - Miniştrii Apărării ai României şi Ucrainei, Gheorghe Tinca şi Valeri Şmarov, au semnat un "Protocol privind dezvoltarea colaborării între Ministerul Apărării din România şi cel din Ucraina". 1996 - Senatul a ratificat Convenţia europeană pentru reprimarea terorismului, prin care era reglementată procedura extrădării persoanelor care sînt căutate pentru acte de terorism. 2001 - Camera Deputaţilor a adoptat textul legii privind accesul liber la informaţiile de interes public. 2001 - A încetat din viaţă pictorul şi graficianul român Eugen Crăciun. 2002 - Fostul rege al Afganistanului, Mohammad Zaher Shah, s-a întors la Kabul, după 29 de ani de exil la Roma. 2002 - Producătorul de seringi de unică folosinţă Sanevit Arad a intrat ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/trip-journal-prima-aplicatie-romaneasca-nominalizata-la-premiile-webby/ trip-journal-prima-aplicatie-romaneasca-nominalizata-la-premiile-webby Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:21:05 +0300 Aplicatia pentru telefoane inteligente Trip Journal, produsa de o firma din Cluj Napoca, a fost nominalizata la preiile Webby, in categoria “Best Travel App” (Cea mai buna aplicatie pentru calatorii). In istoria de 15 ani a premiilor Webby, oferite de AOL si supranumite “Oscarurile intenetului”, aceasta este prima data cand o aplicatie romaneasca ajunge pe lista finalistilor.Trip Journal, disponibila pe platformele Apple iOS, Google Android, Symbian si Samsung Bada OS, este produsa de compania romaneasca IQest si a mai castigat in anul 2010 premiul pentru “Cea mai buna aplicatie din toate timpurile” la conferinta anuala a dezvoltatorilor Apple (WWDC). Aplicatia ofera utilizatorilor posibilitatea de a tine un jurnal al calatoriilor pe care le fac folosind imagini, texte si clipuri video, care pot fi integrate pe o harta multumita unei functii de geolocatie.Premiile Webby sunt considerate drept echivalentul “Oscarurilor pentru internet” si includ categorii precum cele mai bune site-uri, cele mai bune reclame online interactive si cele mai bune aplicatii mobile. Premiile Webby au fost acordate incepand cu anul 1996, iar la cea de-a 15-a editie a avut un total de peste 10 000 de  concurenti. Puteti vota aplicatia Trip Journal aici. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-il-omagiaza-pe-charlie-chaplin-intr-un-mod-inedit-video/ google-il-omagiaza-pe-charlie-chaplin-intr-un-mod-inedit-video Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:21:06 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, vineri, logoul de pe pagina principală pentru a-i aduce un omagiu renumitului actor şi regizor englez Charlie Chaplin, de la a cărui naştere se împlinesc sâmbătă 122 de ani. Logoul tradiţional al Google a fost înlocuit de un videoclip realizat special de echipa companiei de internet pentru această ocazie. Videoclipul imită stilul filmelor în care apărea Charlie Chaplin, însă în mai multe scene este inserat şi logoul Google. Charles (Charlie) Spencer Chaplin s-a născut pe 16 aprilie 1889 la Londra. Este considerat a fi unul dintre cele mai mari staruri de cinema din secolul XX. Printre cele mai renumite filme ale sale se numără "City Lights/ Luminile oraşului", "Modern Times/ Timpuri noi" şi "The Great Dictator/ Dictatotul". Părinţii lui Chaplin erau animatori - tatăl său era vocalist şi actor, iar mama lui era cântăreaţă şi actriţă. Aceştia au divorţat înainte ca Charles să împlinească trei ani. Recensământul din anul 1891 arată că mama sa, actriţa Hannah Hill, trăia cu Charles şi fratele său vitreg, Sydney, pe Barlow Street, Walworth, Marea Britanie. Bunica sa din partea mamei era pe jumătate ţigancă, lucru de care era extrem de mândră. Tatăl lui Chaplin, Charles Chaplin Sr., era alcoolic şi nu a prea avut contact cu fiul său. Tatăl său a murit din cauza dependenţei de alcool când Charlie avea 12 ani, în anul 1901. Conform recensământului din acel an, Charlie locuia împreună cu o organizaţie de artişti numită The Eight Lancashire Lads, condusă de John William Jackson, fiul unuia dintre fondatori. Mama lui Chaplin a murit în anul 1928, în Hollywood, la şapte ani după ce a fost adusă în America de către copiii ei. Charlie şi Sydney nu ştiau pe ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-google-il-sarbatoreste-pe-charlie-chaplin-cu-un-doodle-video/ video-google-il-sarbatoreste-pe-charlie-chaplin-cu-un-doodle-video Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:00:07 +0300 Google il aniverseaza intr-un mod special pe comicul Charlie Chaplin printr-un "doodle" mai special, un filmulet facut de angajatii companiei care imita gaguri ale celebrului personaj care a devenit cunoscut acum aproape un secol. Deasupra campului de cautare Google poate fi vizionat acest filmulet care aniverseaza 122 de ani e la nasterea marelui artist.Google isi modifica des sigla de pe pagina principala a motorului de cautare pentru a marca diverse evenimente cu imagini interesante (doodles), dar pentru Charlie Chaplin, compania a ales sa mearga mai departe si sa faca un filmulet in care apar angajati ai companiei care imita gaguri ale marelui artist. In clip apar angajati Google, sigla companiei si chiar un ziar cu numele Google.Charlie Chaplin s-a nascut in 1889 in Marea Britanie, dar faima si-a castigat-o in America, prin filme precum Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914), The Tramp (1915), The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925) sau City Lights (1931).Chaplin a incetat din viata in 1977. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/rezultatele-google-au-dezamagit-investitorii-dupa-o-crestere-surprinzatoare-cu-54-a-cheltuielilor/ rezultatele-google-au-dezamagit-investitorii-dupa-o-crestere-surprinzatoare-cu-54-a-cheltuielilor Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:07:02 +0300 Profitul net al Google a crescut cu 17% în primul trimestru faţă de aceeaşi perioadă a anului trecut, la 2,3 miliarde de dolari, plasându-se însă sub estimările analiştilor, după ce cheltuielile companiei au urcat puternic, cu 54%, în urma unei campanii de angajări fără precedent, transmite Reuters. Creşterea cheltuielilor a uimit investitorii, deja îngrijoraţi că noul director general, Larry Page, ar putea pierde din vedere profitabilitatea pentru a se concentra pe creşterea veniturilor. Acţiunile Google au pierdut peste 5% în prelungirea şedinţei bursiere de joi de la New York, deşi venitul net al companiei a urcat cu 29%, la 6,54 miliarde de dolari, peste aşteptările pieţei. Analiştii anticipează că Larry Page va continua să investească în produse noi, care să deschidă o ofensivă agresivă în sectoare precum reţelele sociale şi gadget-urile mobile. Managementul Google a arătat joi că avansul puternic al cheltuielilor face parte din strategia companiei de a urmări oportunităţi de afaceri de miliarde de dolari. Cheltuielile operaţionale ale companiei au urcat cu 54% în primul trimestru, la 2,84 miliarde de dolari. Google a angajat peste 2.000 de persoane în primul trimestru şi a acordat, de la începutul acestui an, o mărire de salariu de 10% întregului personal. Planul de angajări pentru acest an depăşeşte 6.000 de posturi. Page (38 de ani), care a preluat la începutul acestei luni postul de director general de la veteranul Eric Schmidt, a luat cuvântul pentru numai câteva minute în conferinţa de joi cu analiştii, dezamăgindu-i pe cei care doreau să afle mai multe despre strategia sa de a revigora inovaţia şi creşterea la Google. Noul CEO şi-a exprimat optimismul legat de viitorul companiei, apoi a părăsit conferinţa, lăsându-i pe ceilalţi directori executivi să răspundă la valul ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-angajat-1900-de-oameni-trimestrul-trecut-si-a-inregistrat-profit-cu-18-mai-mare/ google-a-angajat-1900-de-oameni-trimestrul-trecut-si-a-inregistrat-profit-cu-18-mai-mare Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:21:04 +0300 ​Profitul Google a urcat cu 18% trimestrul trecut, spre circa 2,3 miliarde dolari, in timp ce veniturile nete au avansat cu 29%, la peste 6,5 miliarde dolari, noteaza Financial Times. Larry Page, cel care conduce oficial Google de la 1 aprilie, a spus ca rezultatele sunt foarte bune, insa analisti din piata spun ca Google are cheltuieli foarte mari din cauza planului de expansiune. Compania a angajat 1.900 de persoane anul acesta si isi va mari efectivele cu 4.000 de persoane pana la final.Veniturile nete au ajuns la 6,54 miliarde dolari in intervalul ianuarie - martie, fata de 5,06 miliarde dolari in perioada similara din 2010. Profitul net a ajuns la 2,3 miliarde dolari, cu 18% peste valoarea din primul sfert al lui 2010. Totusi, costurile operationale au urcat cu peste 50% fiindca Google a majorat la finele anului trecut cu 10% salariile celor care nu ocupau functii de conducere, iar in prezent e angrenata intr-un plan amplu de crestere a efectivelor, lucru care insa se vede si in bilantul financiar.Google a angajat 1.900 de persoane trimestrul trecut, ajungand la un total de 26.316 la final de martie, iar obiectivul este adaugarea a 4.000 de persoane pana la final de an. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/recomandari-pentru-weekend-ul-15-17-aprilie/ recomandari-pentru-weekend-ul-15-17-aprilie Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:21:03 +0300 Nu ştii ce să faci în weekend? Mediafax.ro îţi propune câteva din evenimentele ce au loc la finalul săptămânii în Bucureşti. FILM Vineri: Dincolo de limite (Hollywood Multiplex, Movieplex, Cinema City Sun Plaza, Cinema City Cotroceni, The Light Cinema) Măria Ta (Hollywood Multiplex, Movieplex, The Light Cinema) Scream 4: Coşmarul continuă (Hollywood Multiplex, Movieplex, Cinema City Sun Plaza, Cinema City Cotroceni) Sâmbătă: Dincolo de limite (Hollywood Multiplex, Movieplex, Cinema City Sun Plaza, Cinema City Cotroceni, The Light Cinema) Transfer de identitate (Cinema Pro, Hollywood Multiplex, Movieplex, Cinema City Sun Plaza, Cinema City Cotroceni, The Light Cinema) Rio (Cinema Pro, Hollywood Multiplex, Movieplex, Cinema City Sun Plaza, Cinema City Cotroceni, The Light Cinema, Cityplex) Duminică: Uniunea animalelor (Hollywood Multiplex, Movieplex, Cinema City Sun Plaza, Cinema City Cotroceni, The Light Cinema) Hop-Ţop (Hollywood Multiplex, Movieplex, Cinema City Sun Plaza, Cinema City Cotroceni, The Light Cinema) Scufiţa Roşie (Hollywood Multiplex, Movieplex, Cinema City Sun Plaza, Cinema City Cotroceni, The Light Cinema, Cityplex) TEATRU Vineri: Ai toată viaţa înainte (Teatrul Notta) ...Escu (Teatrul de Comedie) Sânziana şi Pepelea (Teatrul Naional I.L. Caragiale) Sâmbătă: Camerista (Teatrul Naţional I.L. Caragiale) Slugă la doi stăpâni (Teatrul Masca) Oprea de trei parale (Teatrul Nottara) Duminică: Clovnii (Teatrul Masca) Tectonica sentimentelor (Teatrul Naţional I.L. Caragiale) Google ţara mea (Teatrul Foarte Mic) OPERĂ: Sâmbătă: Grand Opera Gala - ediţia de Paşti (Ateneul Român, Piaţa George Enescu) CONCERTE Vineri: Nightlosers (Clubul Ţăranului) Sâmbătă: Manu Chao (Sala Palatului) ALTE EVENIMENTE Vineri: Bookland - Târg de carte urban (AFI Palace Cotroceni) Târg de Florii (Muzeul Ţăranului Român) Sâmbătă: Târg "I Love Handmade" cu iz de primăvară (Muzeul Municipiului Bucureşti - Palatul Şuţu) Bookland - Târg de carte urban (AFI Palace Cotroceni) Târg de Florii (Muzeul Ţăranului Român) Duminică: Târg "I Love Handmade" cu iz de primăvară (Muzeul Municipiului Bucureşti - Palatul Şuţu) Bookland - Târg de carte urban (AFI Palace Cotroceni) Târg de Florii (Muzeul Ţăranului Român) http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/interviu-vanghelie-de-1-mai-usl-trebuie-sa-dea-un-mesaj-de-speranta-speranta-nu-sta-intr-un-mic/ interviu-vanghelie-de-1-mai-usl-trebuie-sa-dea-un-mesaj-de-speranta-speranta-nu-sta-intr-un-mic Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:00:01 +0300 Marian Vanghelie a declarat, într-un interviu pentru MEDIAFAX, că micii şi vanghelioanele sunt o etapă depăşită a carierei sale politice şi că 1 Mai nu este oportun pentru petreceri cu mici şi bere, apreciind că USL trebuie să dea un mesaj de speranţă românilor şi că acea speranţă nu stă într-un mic "În viaţă trebuie să îţi propui lucruri foarte mari. Dacă îţi propui lucruri mici, rămâi mic. Dacă îţi propui lucruri mari, ajungi mare. Ştiţi că există şi o zicală: dacă îţi propui, ai şanse să ajungi, indiferent pe ce funcţie îşi propui să ajungi. Dacă nu-ţi propui, sigur nu ajungi niciodată. Deci, asta cu micii, cu Vanghelionul, a fost ceea ce aţi vrut dvs., presa, să preluaţi din activitatea mea de 15 ani sau de 17 ani în politică şi de 10 ani în administraţia locală. Sunt într-o altă etapă", a spus Vanghelie. Primarul Sectorului 5 nu crede că 1 Mai ar fi un moment oportun pentru petrecerile cu mici şi bere, el apreciind că USL trebuie să dea un mesaj de speranţă românilor şi că acea speranţă nu stă într-un mic. "Mici, bere? Mici, bere - şi aici e o chestie în momentul când lucrurile merg bine. Când nu merg bine ţi-e şi ruşine să inviţi pentru că nu trebuie să denaturăm că omul venea să mânânce doi mici sau să bea o bere. Era pur şi simplu o plăcere a românilor. Să stea şi ei un pic liniştiţi, se mai vedeau cu prietenii, erau şi colegii de partid, pur şi simplu se întâmpla. Eu cred că acum, inclusiv acei colegi ai mei, nu numai ei, şi cei din sindicate, angajaţii din societăţile ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ringier-lanseaza-o-revista-dedicata-exclusiv-tabletelor/ ringier-lanseaza-o-revista-dedicata-exclusiv-tabletelor Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:00:05 +0300 Grupul media elvetian Ringier a anuntat marti lansarea primei reviste destinate exclusiv tabletelor din portofoliul sau. Noua revista, numita “the collection”,  va avea o abordare mono-tematica, aprofundand in fiecare editie cate un singur subiect. Publicatia digitala va folosi posibilitatile tehnice disponibile pe tablete pentru a oferi continut multimedia utilizatorilor si va fi disponibila in engleza, germana si chineza, conform unui comunicat de presa care anunta lansarea. “the collection” va fi disponibila pentru inceput doar in magazinul de aplicatii Apple la un pret de 5, iar in trimestrul al doilea al anului va avea loc si lansarea pe platforma Google Android.Primul numar al revistei va avea ca tema “Printul William - marea speranta a monarhiei britanice” si a fost dezvoltat de echipe Ringier din Elvetia si Vietnam. Unul dintre cele mai importante articole, care descrie pregatirile pentru nunta regala de la sfarsitul lunii aprilie, va fi actualizat automat si gratuit dupa eveniment, publisher-ul subliniind astfel avantajele unei publicatii electronice.Ringier este unul dintre cele mai importante grupuri media din Europa, fiind prezent si pe piata din Romania prin cotidianul Libertatea si suplimentele acestuia, revistele Joy, Lumea Femeilor, Unica, TV Mania si altele. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-il-omagiaza-pe-iuri-gagarin-printr-un-logo-special/ google-il-omagiaza-pe-iuri-gagarin-printr-un-logo-special Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:42:08 +0300 Cel mai popular motor de căutare din lume, Google, şi-a modificat, marţi, logoul de pe pagina principală pentru a marca împlinirea a 50 de ani de la primul zbor al omului în spaţiu şi pentru a-l omagia pe Iuri Gagarin, primul om care a ajuns în spaţiu. Noul logo al Google este realizat în stilul afişelor din anii '60, iar în sintagma "Google", cei doi "o" au fost înlocuiţi de casca unui astronaut şi imaginea unui corp ceresc. Logoul este, în acelaşi timp, un omagiu adus lui Iuri Gagarin, primul om care a călătorit în spaţiu. În urmă cu 50 de ani, pe 12 aprilie 1961, o capsulă Vostok avându-l la bord pe Iuri Gagarin a decolat de pe cosmodromul Baikonur din Kazahstan, cosmonautul rus devenind astfel primul om care a ajuns în spaţiu. În 1960, Gagarin a fost inclus în grupul select al celor 19 oameni din care urma să fie aleşi doar doi care să zboare în spaţiu. Au fost aleşi Iuri Gagarin şi Gherman Titov. Pe 12 aprilie 1961, cosmonautul Iuri Gagarin a devenit primul om care călătorea în spaţiu şi primul ce ajunsese pe orbita Pământului. Zborul a durat 108 minute şi Iuri Gagarin s-a reîntors cu bine pe Pământ, aceasta fiind şi singura sa misiune în spaţiu. La reintrarea în atmosferă au apărut probleme tehnice care i-au pus în pericol viaţa, dar Gagarin a reuşit să se paraşuteze şi să ajungă în siguranţă la sol. El a primit numeroase medalii în diferite ţări pentru călătoria sa în spaţiu. Iuri Gagarin, decedat în 1968, este unul dintre puţinii eroi naţionali ruşi a căror imagine nu a avut de suferit după prăbuşirea URSS, la sfârşitul anului ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/firefox-50-iese-la-final-de-iunie-versiunea-60-ar-trebui-sa-fie-gata-in-august/ firefox-50-iese-la-final-de-iunie-versiunea-60-ar-trebui-sa-fie-gata-in-august Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:14:04 +0300 ​Firefox vrea sa reduca drastic timpii care trec intre lansarile versiunilor cheie ale browser-ului Firefox, astfel ca varianta 5.0 ar trebui sa iasa in versiune finala pe 21 iunie, iar 6.0, doar doua luni mai tarziu, scrie PC World. Compania adopta modelul Google Chrome si va reduce timpii de dezvoltare ale versiunilor, tinta fiind ca lucrul la o versiune majora sa tina doar 18 saptamani.Firefox 4.0 a aparut in ultima decada a lui martie dupa ce a stat cateva luni in "beta", dar fundatia Mozilla vrea ca lucrurile sa se schimbe semnificativ, astfel ca Mozilla 5.0 va intra in "beta" de pe 17 mai, iar la 21 iunie va iesi versiunea finala.Mozilla vrea ca lucrul la o versiune majora sa nu dureze mai mult de 18 saptamani, iar timpul intre lansarea unor versiuni majore trebuie sa fie cam de opt saptamani, la fel ca la Google Chrome.Compania vrea sa introduca la Firefox si functia de "silent update", un update automat, discret si eficient care actualizeaza browserul cand o noua versiune este gata, fara sa mai ceara o actiune din partea utilizatorului. Acest mecanism nu a putut fi instalat la 4.0, insa e prezent la Google Chrome si ar trebui sa se regaseasca in Firefox 5.0.Conform datelor StatCounter, Firefox are o cota de 30% pe plan mondial, Internet Explorer are 45%, iar Chrome, 17%. In tara, cota Firefox este de 42%, cea a IE de 31%, iar Chrome a ajuns la 19%. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/programul-teatrelor-bucurestene-in-perioada-11-17-aprilie/ programul-teatrelor-bucurestene-in-perioada-11-17-aprilie Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:28:03 +0300 Programul principalelor instituţii de spectacole din Bucureşti în perioada 11 - 17 aprilie: Teatrul Naţional Bucureşti, Sala Mare: marţi, ora 19:00 "Macbeth", de William Shakespeare; miercuri, ora 19:00 "Macbeth", de William Shakespeare; vineri, ora 20:00 "Sânziana şi Pepelea", după Vasile Alecsandri; sâmbătă, ora 20:00 "Comedia norilor", după Aristofan; duminică, ora 20:00 "S-a sfârşit cum a-nceput", de Sean O'Casey Sala Amfiteatru: marţi, ora 19:00 "Cinci femei de tranziţie", de Rodica Popescu Bitănescu; miercuri, ora 19:00 "Regina Mamă", de Manlio Santanelli; joi, ora 19:00 "A patra soră", de Janusz Glowacki; vineri, ora 19:00 "Cu uşile închise", de Jean Paul Sartre; sâmbătă, ora 19:00 "Egoistul", de Jean Anouilh; duminică, ora 19:00 "Sinucigaşul", de Nikolai Erdman Sala Atelier: miercuri, ora 19:00 "Legenda Marelui Inchizitor", după Feodor Dostoievski; joi, ora 19:00 "Sonată pentru saxofon şi Eva" de Eugen Şerbănescu; vineri, ora 19:00 "Avalanşa", de Tuncer Cücenoğlu; sâmbătă, ora 19:00 "Camerista", după Hermann Broch Sala 99: sâmbătă, ora 19:00 "Scara pisicii", de Katalin Thuróczy; duminică, ora 11:00 - Teatrul Naţional pentru copii; ora 19:00 "Tectonica sentimentelor", de Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Teatrul Bulandra, sala Izvor: miercuri, ora 19:00 "Mamouret", regia Dinu Cernescu; joi, ora 19:00 "Voiajul domnului Perrichon", regia Dinu Cernescu; sâmbătă, ora 18:30 "Îngropaţi-mă pe după plintă, regia Yuri Kordonsky; duminică, ora 19:00 "Arta", regia Cristi Juncu. Sala "Toma Caragiu": sâmbătă, ora 18:30 "Ivanov", regia Andrei Şerban. Teatrul Nottara, Sala "Horia Lovinescu": luni, ora 19:30 "Biloxi Blues", de Iarina Demian; vineri, ora 19:00 "Omul hazardului", de Yasmina Reza, regia Cristian Juncu; sâmbătă, ora 19:00 "Opera de trei parale" de Bertolt Brechet, regia Diana Lupescu; duminică, ora 19:00 "Vacanţă în Guadalupa", de Pierre Sauvil di Erioc Assous, regia Diana Lupescu Sala "George Constantin": luni, ora 19:30 "Pygmalion", conducători proiect lector univ. dr. Bogdana Darie şi prof. asoc. dr. Mirela Gorea; miercuri, ora 19:30 "Aniversarea", de Thomas Vinterberg si Mogens Rukov, regia Vlad Massaci; joi, ora 19:30 "Hangiţa" ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/youtube-mai-face-un-pas-spre-televiziunea-online-si-ofera-utilizatorilor-posibilitatea-de-a-urmari-in-direct-spectacole-si-evenimente-pe-youtube-live/ youtube-mai-face-un-pas-spre-televiziunea-online-si-ofera-utilizatorilor-posibilitatea-de-a-urmari-in-direct-spectacole-si-evenimente-pe-youtube-live Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:28:05 +0300 YouTube are, incepand de vineri, o platforma de transmitere in direct a evenimentelor, relateaza AFP. Prin abonarea la YouTube Live, internautii vor putea urmari in direct spectacolele sau evenimentele transmise in direct de partenerii YouTube, care se afla in proprietatea gigantului internet Google.Un concert "Digitour" a inaugurat sambata, la ora 02,00 GMT, acest nou serviciu.Site-ul intentioneaza sa dezvolte progresiv o versiune-test a acestei platforme, care va oferi posibilitatea persoanelor care au conturi YouTube sa-si difuzeze in direct performantele lor, daca doresc acest lucru.YouTube a difuzat si in trecut, dar de o maniera exceptionala, evenimente sportive sau interviuri in direct. "Scopul este, in urmatoarele luni, sa permitem miilor de parteneri sa utilizeze difuzarea in timp real pe propriile lor canale" YouTube, explica pe blogul sau directorul de produs, Joshua Siegel, si directorul de marketing, Christopher Hamilton.Peste doua miliarde de videoclipuri sunt vizionate in fiecare zi pe YouTube, care isi dezvolta progresiv oferta, cu scopul de a deturna din ce in ce mai mult spectatorii programelor de televiziune in beneficiul internetului. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/eul-meu-digital-si-dreptul-fundamental-la-delete-adica-la-uitare/ eul-meu-digital-si-dreptul-fundamental-la-delete-adica-la-uitare Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:49:05 +0300 Trec in revista spamul nou, de ieri, din posta mea electronica. Oferta e generoasa: motociclete de 7.500 de euro, toale de barbati, femei, copii, bijuterii, locuinte. Concedii de vis, sejururi in hoteluri de 5 stele, la preturi tot de vis. Zic ei, promotorii de pe net. Urmeaza un test de abilitate. Eu, pas. Apoi, unul de IQ. Pas parol, ca m-a pus pe ganduri. "Cine sunt eu si cine mi se potriveste?" vor sa-ti clarifice mediatorii unei "relatii amoroase de elita", care sa se injghebe chiar pe website-ul lor. Nu stiu cum functioneaza, subiectul e prea fierbinte, te arzi usor. Pasez iar, caci stiu ca, pana la urma, tot cobai sau bun de plata esti.Hits si shitsO madam trimite un mail cu titlul "Fa-te milionar cu doar 1 Euro". Unele poze si grafici au fost blocate, pentru ca expeditorul sa nu-ti poata identifica PC-ul. "Klick aici, ca sa incarci pozele, sau aici, daca nu poti citi continutul mail-ului, sau aici, daca nu mai vrei sa primesti newsletter-ul". Nu dau click, ca nu stiu peste ce dau, nu ma intereseaza ce vor sa-mi mai vanda si nici de dezabonare nu sunt chiar sigura. "Ati primit aceasta instiintare, pentru ca v-ati inscris intr-un program promotional al ..." Nu-i adevarat. Cu manuta si clickul meu propriu, nu m-am inscris nicaieri si nu inteleg de unde m-a pescuit firma cu adresa frantuzeasca. Ei, de unde ... De prin internet, ca pe tot omul care se respecta si vrea sa fie in randul lumii. Sterg mesajul si vad altul. Ma ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-ce-obligatii-au-clientii-bancii-daca-vor-dobanda-mai-mica-cum-pot-studentii-si-absolventii-it-din-romania-sa-lucreze-pentru-microsoft-exista-actiuni-la-bursa-romaneasca-care-au-adus-profituri-anuale-de-75-de-ce-plateste-bill-gates-27/ business-report-ce-obligatii-au-clientii-bancii-daca-vor-dobanda-mai-mica-cum-pot-studentii-si-absolventii-it-din-romania-sa-lucreze-pentru-microsoft-exista-actiuni-la-bursa-romaneasca-care-au-adus-profituri-anuale-de-75-de-ce-plateste-bill-gates-27 Sat, 9 Apr 2011 03:21:04 +0300 Ce obligatii au clientii bancii daca vor dobanda mai mica. Capital a intrat in posesia unui Act Aditional pe care clientii nemultumiti trebuie sa-l semneze cu banca pe care au dat-o in judecata. Anexa la AA este o cerere pe care clientul trebuie sa o semneze si in care se obliga sa renunte la proces. In urma semnarii actului aditional, banca se obliga sa renunte la a solicita orice fel de cheltuieli de judecata asupra clientului generate de litigii care au fost pe rolul instantei pana la semnarea AA. Pe de alta parte, clientul trebuie sa se angajeze ca renunta la procesul impotriva bancii care are legatura cu contractele de credit. De asemenea, cleintul se obliga "sa nu initieze in viitor nicio alta procedura administrativa, litigioasa, sau de alta natura impotriva bancii, care isi gaseste temeiul in prevederile prezentului Contract de Credit", scrie Capital.ro.ANAF ramburseaza in aprilie TVA in valoare de 1,12 miliarde de lei. Agentia Nationala de Administrare Fiscala (ANAF) va rambursa in luna aprilie TVA in cuantum de 1,12 miliarde de lei, din care va restitui efectiv 788,8 milioane de lei si va compensa restul, potrivit institutiei. "In selectia lunii aprilie au fost cuprinse in ordinea vechimii toate deconturile de TVA, solutionandu-se prin restituire deconturile a caror vechime este de pana la data de 4 martie", potrivit unui comunicat ANAF. Deconturile de TVA au fost organizate drept deconturi cu compensare si restituire in suma de 875,7 milioane lei, din care se compenseaza 86,9 milioane lei si se restituie 788,8 milioane de lei, deconturi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-linux-implineste-20-de-ani-povestea-pinguinului-care-tine-in-spate-google-facebook-si-amazon/ video-linux-implineste-20-de-ani-povestea-pinguinului-care-tine-in-spate-google-facebook-si-amazon Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:14:04 +0300 In urma cu 20 de ani, un student finlandez pe nume Linus Torvalds incepea un proiect care avea sa schimbe radical lumea tehnologiei. Initial, Linux nu era decat un proiect experimental pentru lucrarea de diploma a lui Torvalds. In prezent, sisteme de operare bazate pe Linux sunt folosite pe aparate extrem de variate, de la telefoane inteligente, la supercomputere si servere interent. Linux este bazat pe unul dintre cele mai vechi si robuste sisteme de operare create vreodata, UNIX. Dezvoltat in laboratoarele Bell incepand cu 1969, UNIX a oferit de-a lungul timpului avantajul compatibilitatii si scalabilitatii, putand fi rulat inca de la inceput pe o multime de computere, cu puteri de procesare dintre cele mai variate. Din 1970, de la lansarea comerciala, si pana in anii ’90, UNIX a fost cele mai folosit sistem de operare din insitutiile academice, stiintifice si comerciale. In 1983, Richard Stallman, un programator american, a lansat proiectul GNU, care avea ca scop crearea unui sistem de operare similiar cu UNIX, doar ca gratuit. Primele rezultate concrete au aparut 4 ani mai tarziu, in 1987, cand un student al Universitatii din Amsterdam a lansat sistemul de operare MINIX. Inspirat de acest sistem de operare, Linus Torvalds a pus bazele Linux. Fara sa foloseasca nici o linie de cod din MINIX, Torvalds a programat, dupa cum declara intr-un mesaj la acea vreme, “un sistem de operare gratuit (doar ca hobby, nimic mare sau profesional ca GNU) pentru clone de 386”.La un an dupa lansare, Linus Torvalds a licentiat tot codul sursa al ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/piata-mondiala-a-smartphone-urilor-va-creste-cu-58-in-acest-an-datorita-cererii-pentru-android/ piata-mondiala-a-smartphone-urilor-va-creste-cu-58-in-acest-an-datorita-cererii-pentru-android Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:35:01 +0300 Piaţa mondială a smartphone-urilor va avansa cu 58% în acest an şi cu 35% în 2012, datorită cererii în creştere pentru aparatele dotate cu sistemul de operare Android, al Google, estimează firma de cercetare a pieţei Gartner. Gartner anticipează că Android îşi va majora anul acesta cota de piaţă la 39%, pe când cea a Symbian, platformă software a Nokia, se va înjumătăţi la 19%, după decizia companiei finlandeze de a renunţa la acest sistem de operare. Symbian a ocupat anul trecut primul loc pe piaţa de profil. Nokia a decis în februarie să facă din platforma Windows Phone, a Microsoft, principalul sistem de operare pentru telefoanele mobile inteligente. În urma acestei decizii, cota de piaţă a Windows Phone ar putea creşte la 11% anul viitor şi la 20% până în 2015. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vrei-sa-te-angajezi-la-dacia-google-sau-microsoft-mii-de-joburi-scoase-la-concurs-de-aceste-companii-maine-si-poimaine/ vrei-sa-te-angajezi-la-dacia-google-sau-microsoft-mii-de-joburi-scoase-la-concurs-de-aceste-companii-maine-si-poimaine Thu, 7 Apr 2011 07:42:02 +0300 Cele mai importante multinationale prezente pe piata din Romania scot la concurs peste 2.200 de locuri de munca la targul de cariera Anagajatori de Top, care se va desfasura vineri si sambata, in Bucuresti. Giganti ca Google, Dacia, HP, BCR, Coca-Cola, Renault sau Microsoft ofera atat joburi pentru tinerii absolventi de facultate, cat si internshipuri pentru studenti. Potrivit organizatorilor, cele 90 de companii participante ofera 2.250 de joburi care se adreseaza atat tinerilor absolventi de facultate, cat si studentilor care vor sa faca internshipuri intr-o multinationala. Vizitatorii targului vor putea, de asemenea, sa participe la studii de caz, seminarii de cariera, workshopuri si prezentari ale companiilor. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-lectia-privatizarii-petrom-si-a-bcr-la-vanzarea-a-10-din-petrom-nu-vindeti-fara-cel-putin-2-mld-euro-mozilla-firefox-4-vs-ie9-vs-google-chrome-10-ce-browser-sa-alegeti-cati-pensionari-avem-de-fapt-raportul-real-dintre-salariati-si/ business-report-lectia-privatizarii-petrom-si-a-bcr-la-vanzarea-a-10-din-petrom-nu-vindeti-fara-cel-putin-2-mld-euro-mozilla-firefox-4-vs-ie9-vs-google-chrome-10-ce-browser-sa-alegeti-cati-pensionari-avem-de-fapt-raportul-real-dintre-salariati-si Thu, 7 Apr 2011 04:42:09 +0300 Refinantarea creditelor in franci elvetieni, solutie doar pentru unii. Multi clienti cu imprumuturi in franci elvetieni au platit cumulat mai putin decat daca ar fi optat pentru un credit in euro, dar pentru unii efortul a devenit mai mare din 2010. Deprecierea accentuata din ultimele 12 luni a leului in raport cu francul elvetian (CHF) a starnit multa emotie si suferinta printre cei cu credite in moneda elvetiana. Pe acest fond, o buna parte dintre cei imprumutati in franci elvetieni a inceput sa se gandeasca la solutia refinantarii cu un credit in euro. Astfel, unii au constatat ca au in continuare cea mai avantajoasa oferta din piata, altii au gasit solutii de refinantare prin care si-au redus rata lunara si cu 20%, iar multi au realizat ca sunt captivi in aceste credite, in special din cauza deprecierii garantiilor, scrie Capital.In articolul "Lectia privatizarii Petrom si a BCR la vanzarea a 10% din Petrom. Nu vindeti fara cel putin 2 mld. euro", redactorul-sef al ZF, Sorin Paslaru, scrie: "Fortat de imprejurari sau prin slabiciunea conducatorilor tarii, inca nu se stie exact, pe cea mai mare companie din Romania, Petrom, statul a incasat efectiv in 2004 doar 670 milioane de euro pentru 33% din actiuni si a cedat controlul neparticipand la o majorare de capital prin care OMV a ajuns la 51%. Petrom a facut numai anul trecut un profit net total de 520 milioane de euro, la afaceri de 4,2 miliarde de euro". Integral in Ziarul Financiar.Cat de degradata este calea ferata: peste doua luni de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/povestea-gsp-sati-audienta-siteurilor-romanesti-intre-vizitatori-curati-vizitatori-din-tari-exotice-si-unici-din-surse-necunoscute/ povestea-gsp-sati-audienta-siteurilor-romanesti-intre-vizitatori-curati-vizitatori-din-tari-exotice-si-unici-din-surse-necunoscute Wed, 6 Apr 2011 21:21:06 +0300 Corectitudinea datelor de audienta ale siteurilor din Romania, pusa in discutie inca de acum doi ani inclusiv la initiativa HotNews.ro, revine in actualitate. Miercuri, ​Gazeta Sporturilor a cerut Biroului Roman de Audit al Tirajelor (BRAT), institutie in cadrul careia se desfasoara Studiul de Audienta si Trafic Internet (SATI), sa ia o decizie in privinta transparentizarii surselor din care aceste siteuri isi atrag vizitatorii. GSP a reluat initiativa in contextul in care au aparut din nou acuzatii cum ca anumite siteuri apeleaza la practici neortodoxe pentru a avea mai multi vizitatori. Printre publisherii acuzati recent de asemenea practici s-a numarat inclusiv Gazeta Sporturilor. Datele de audienta corecte sunt esentiale pentru eficienta cheltuielilor de publicitate ale companiilor. Ce a cerut, miercuri, Gazeta Sporturilor:ca la BRAT sa fie discutata transparentizarea datelor privind "referrerii" siteurilor incluse in SATI - singurul masurator al audientelor online, general recunoscut de piata. Referrerii sunt sursele (pagini online, motoare de cautare, servicii de e-mail etc.) de unde provin vizitatorii unui site. Mai multi publisheri online sunt de acord, de principiu, ca aceasta chestiune sa fie dezbatuta la SATI. HotNews.ro a anuntat ca sprijina initiativa GSP.Este un lucru general acceptat pe piata de publicitate ca audientele in mediul online pot fi masurate cel mai bine, dintre toate mediile de comunicare. Insa, pe plan local, accentul se pune adesea pe un numar limitat de date in campaniile media, cel mai important criteriu fiind, in cazul multor campanii, numarul de vizitatori unici ai unui site. In aceste conditii, informatiile privind referrerii unui site nu sunt accesibile celorlalti ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-google-heineken-si-orange-advertising-network-vin-la-interact-2011/ microsoft-google-heineken-si-orange-advertising-network-vin-la-interact-2011 Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:49:07 +0300 Branduri si agentii se vor aduna in Barcelona pe 8-9 iunie, anul acesta, pentru conferinta Interact 2011 organizata de IAB Europe. Tema conferintei este “Mereu impreuna? Online versus media traditionale”.

 Russ Listone, CEO al Euro RSCG London, va da detalii despre campania castigatoare Dulux ‘Let’s colour’ prin care comunitati din toata lumea au folosit culorile ca sa revigoreze spatii publice si private. Russ va povesti despre noile inovatii in advertising si despre modul in care brandurile de toate dimnesiunile pot crea idei cu un real potential viral.Mark Read, Director de Strategie/CEO la WPP Digital, va vorbi despre campaniile cross-media si despre nevoia de adaptare a industriei la provocarile curente, cea mai importanta fiind legata de privacy. “Pe scurt, daca nu vom reusi sa ne auto-reglementam, industria va fi reglementata masiv din exterior si nu isi doreste nimeni acest lucru.”Steven Van Belleghem, Managing Partner la InSites Consulting si Denise Price, Consumer Planning Manager la Diageo Northern Europe, vor povesti cum au reusit sa interactioneze eficient cu clientii Diageo si cu agentia media dupa ce au invatat mai multe despre fanii brandului. Guy Phillipson, CEO al IAB UK, va gazdui unul dintre panelurile lui deja legendare. Alaturi de el vor fi: Konrad Feldman, CEO Quantcast, Laurent Delaporte, Vice Presedinte al EMEA Microsoft Advertising si Anthony Rhind, Co-Chief Executive Officer la Havas Digital. Ei vor discuta despre avantajele campaniilor TV sau online video, despre eficacitatea si viitorul lor.Conferinta va cuprinde prezentari din partea WPP, Heineken, Orange Advertising Network si PRISA, paneluri de debatere si studii de caz de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tinerii-care-au-schimbat-lumea-araba/ tinerii-care-au-schimbat-lumea-araba Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:28:08 +0300 La inceputul acestui an, "revolutia Facebook" a schimbat fata lumii arabe. In spatele milioanelor de demonstranti iesiti pe strazile din Cairo, Tunis sau Alger s-au aflat cativa tineri, intelectuali sau simpli muncitori, care au aprins scanteia revoltelor. Unde sunt si ce fac ei acum, la trei luni de la inceputul demonstratiilor? Raspunsul la aceasta intrebare explica efectele prezente ale revolutiilor arabe mai bine decat o suta de analisti. Care sunt motivele psihologice care au catalizat revoltele tinerilor arabi? Raspunsul intr-un text semnat de Vlad Mixich, aparut si in cadrul dosarului "Butoiul cu pulbere arab" din Dilema Veche. TERAPEUTUL LUMII ARABE  „De ce esti ingrijorat? Vrei sa-mi spui ceva? Nu-ti fie frica!”, spune barbatul brunet aplecat amenintator peste banca din care un pusti il priveste topit de frica. Asa incepe videoclipul pentru „Rais Lebled”, cantecul care a devenit imnul revolutiei din Tunisia fiind preluat si de tinerii din celelalte tari arabe razvratite. „Generatia Facebook” sau „generatia miraculoasa” a scris media occidentala excitata de aparitia unei noi legende: lupta tineretului arab pentru idealurile democratice. Prea corect politic, prea simplu ca sa fie in intregime adevarat.Cheia care a descatusat valul revoltelor a fost atat de cautata incat analistii s-au oprit la cea mai evidenta: presiunea sociala si economica creata de numarul coplesitor al tinerilor din tarile arabe. Doar ca in adancul mlastinos al inconstientului colectiv, cel care bolboroseste frustrari si dorinte, de ani de zile un proces psihologic isi cauta o finalizare. Nicio imagine nu surprinde mai bine acest conflict precum cea a barbatului brunet din ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/interviu-maria-tudor-zenith-anul-de-uzura-2011-a-inceput-in-forta-desi-trimestrul-1-nu-a-stralucit-prognoza-de-primavara-stagnare-la-nivelul-intregului-an-la-valoarea-finala-de-340-350-milioane-euro/ interviu-maria-tudor-zenith-anul-de-uzura-2011-a-inceput-in-forta-desi-trimestrul-1-nu-a-stralucit-prognoza-de-primavara-stagnare-la-nivelul-intregului-an-la-valoarea-finala-de-340-350-milioane-euro Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:14:05 +0300 Anul 2011 este mai degraba unul de uzura pentru piata de publicitate, in pofida miscarilor intense petrecute in mass-media pe parcursul ultimelor luni, apreciaza Maria Tudor, managing director Zenith Media. Ea vorbeste, intr-un interviu HotNews.ro, despre schimbarile prin care trec sistemele de masurare a audientelor, despre cum vede ultimele lansari si relansari de posturi TV si despre cresterea “senzationala” din online, fara sa-si ascunda nemultumirea fata de cum s-a desfasurat agentie-furnizori, cand vine vorba de Internet. Maria Tudor estimeaza ca al doilea trimestru va fi foarte bun pentru publicitate, iar evolutia pietei de publicitate, potrivit estimarilor Zenith, este de "aproximativ 0 la nivel anual", la o valoare finala de 340-350 milioane de euro, doar online-ul urmand sa aiba cresteri substantiale.Maria Tudor conduce din 2000 agentia Zenith Media, parte a retelei Zenith Optimedia, detinuta de grupul Publicis. Pe piata locala, agentia de media reprezinta in achizitia de spatiu publicitar clienti mari, printre care Nestle, L'Oreal, Carrefour, ING Group si Reckitt-Benckiser.Informatia pe scurt:2011 "este mai curand un an de uzura" pentru piata de publicitate. Tot ce se intampla acum pe piata media "sunt fie o consecinta a intamplarilor din ultimii ani, fie incercari proactive ale unor oameni care mai sunt inca responsabili si care incearca sa vada si luminita de la capatul tunelului".Trimestrul unu nu a fost foarte bun (...) Dar mai dificil de atat nu cred ca are cum sa fie.Reprezentantul Zenith in selectia viitorului furnizor de date de audienta TV, Kantar Media, "ne-a spus ca procesul a fost extrem de dificil, (...) pentru ca au ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/larry-page-este-oficial-de-luni-noul-sef-al-google-si-are-in-fata-o-perioada-tensionata/ larry-page-este-oficial-de-luni-noul-sef-al-google-si-are-in-fata-o-perioada-tensionata Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:28:04 +0300 Larry Page, co-fondator al Google, revine luni oficial la conducerea companiei dupa un deceniu in care functia cea mai importanta a fost ocupata de experimentatul Eric Scmidt. Acum zece ani actionarii au considerat ca Page nu era pregatit sa detina o functie atat de importanta, insa in prezent s-a maturizat, iar alegerea sa e considerata importanta pentru grabirea luarii deciziilor in companie. Schmidt ramane unul dintre cei mai importanti trei oameni din companie si va gestiona relatia cu guvernele si partenerii, insa mandatul sau la sefia Google s-a incheiat cu dezvaluiri jenante.Astfel, intr-o carte scrisa de Steven Levy despre Google se mentioneaza ca Schmidt a incercat sa convinga unul dintre directorii importanti ai Google - Cheryl Sandberg care acum e director operational la Facebook - sa scoata din rezultatele cautarii referirile la o donatie pe care Schmdit ar fi facut-o unui partid politic. Cartea confirma si faptul ca pana de curand cei doi fondatori ai Google: Larry Pge si Sergey Brin nu erau inca pregatiti pentru a avea o pozitie puternica in discutiile dificile cu autoritatile unor tari importante, cum ar fi China. Astfel, dupa o vizita in China acum sapte ani, atitudinea lor a fost perceputa de autoritatile de acolo ca fiind una plina de aroganta, iar problemele Google cu China au continuat si s-au accentuat in ultimele luni.Schmdit va ramane in "triumviratul" de conducere alaturi de cei doi fondatori si va gestiona relatia cu guvernele si diversi parteneri. In orice caz, in mandatul sau Google a ajuns o companie cu aproape 25.000 de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-celebreaza-119-ani-de-la-inventarea-inghetatei-sundae-printr-un-logo-special/ google-celebreaza-119-ani-de-la-inventarea-inghetatei-sundae-printr-un-logo-special Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:07:03 +0300 Google şi-a modificat logoul, duminică, pentru a celebra 119 ani de existenţă a îngheţatei Sundae, noul logo al Google prezentând în titlu, în locul celor două litere "o", imaginea unei cupe cu deliciosul desert, despre care se spune că a fost inventat pe 3 aprilie 1892. Sundae este un desert pe bază de îngheţată care îşi are originea în Statele Unite. Acest preparat este compus dintr-o cupă de îngheţată peste care se adaugă sirop, nuci, alune, ciocolată, frişcă şi o cireaşă confiată. Potrivit Oxford English Dictionary, originea cuvântului "sundae" nu este pe deplin cunoscută. Se pare că termenul reprezintă o "deformare" a cuvântului "sunday" (duminică, în limba engleză - n.r.), fie pentru că era vorba despre un preparat servit doar în ziua de duminică, fie pentru că era vorba de acea îngheţată preparată duminică, dar rămasă nevândută, şi care era apoi comercializată, luni, la un preţ mai mic. Oraşul Ithaca din statul american New York este cel mai des considerat drept locul în care a fost inventată îngheţata Sundae. Potrivit reprezentanţilor acestui oraş, în ziua de 3 aprilie 1892, pastorul unitarian John M. Scott şi Chester Platt, patronul Platt & Colt Pharmacy au creat împreună acest sortiment, adăugând sirop de cireşe şi câteva cireşe confiate deasupra unei cupe de îngheţată cu frişcă. Entuziasmaţi de gustul şi aspectul noului desert, ei l-au numit "Cherry Sunday". În numărul din 5 aprilie 1892 din cotidianul Ithaca Daily Journal au apărut câteva anunţuri publicitare referitoare la îngheţata Cherry Sunday. Acestea sunt cele mai vechi referinţe despre o îngheţată Sundae. În prezent, există opt sortimente de îngheţată Sundae, iar cea mai scumpă dintre ele costă 1.000 de dolari. Această varietate se numeşte Golden Opulence Sundae, este ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-facebook-si-youtube-ii-pacalesc-pe-utilizatori-de-1-aprilie/ google-facebook-si-youtube-ii-pacalesc-pe-utilizatori-de-1-aprilie Fri, 1 Apr 2011 18:42:02 +0300 Google, Facebook, YouTube, dar şi alte mari companii au profitat de ziua de 1 Aprilie, pentru a-i păcăli pe utilizatori despre introducerea unur noi servicii, precum Google Motion, care le permite internauţilor să controleze Gmail doar prin câteva mişcări ale corpului. Potrivit TechCrunch, şi Spotify un serviciu online muzical, foarte popular în Europa, le-a făcut o glumă utilizatorilor săi, anunţându-i că îşi va închide operaţiunile europene pentru a se concentra pe piaţa americană. Tot Tech Crunch anunţa că Google intră în industria de armament nuclear după ce a cumpărat o fabrică de profil. În buna tradiţie a farselor de 1 Aprilie, YouTube anunţa că îşi va transforma toate videoclipurile astfel încât să arate ca la 1911, cu imagini în sepia care vor rula în ritmul unui pian. Google a ţinut să marcheze Ziua Păcălelilor prin mai multe farse. În dimineaţa zilei de 1 Aprilie, compania americană de internet anunţa că angajează un "autocompletator". "În fiecare zi, oamenii introduc peste un miliard de cuvinte pe motorul Google şi se aşteaptă ca Google să estimeze ce vor ei să caute. Pentru a face acest lucru, la aceste proporţii, avem nevoie de ajutorul vostru... În calitate de autocompletator al Google trebuie să ghiciţi corect intenţiile internauţilor cu privire la ce anume vor să scrie. Într-o fracţiune de secundă trebuie să scrieţi sugestiile voastre pentru fiecare utilizator. Nu vă faceţi griji. După câteva milioane de sugestii, veţi căpăta deja reflexele necesare", anunţa Google. De asemenea, site-urile americane de specialitate anunţau un parteneriat între Google şi Virgin care urma să se numească Project Virgle. Serghei Brin, Larry Page şi Richard Branson au anunţat că intenţionează să conducă un grup de oameni pe Marte pentru a coloniza ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-incepe-sa-limiteze-modificarile-ce-pot-fi-aduse-sistemului-android-pentru-a-evita-fragmentarea/ google-incepe-sa-limiteze-modificarile-ce-pot-fi-aduse-sistemului-android-pentru-a-evita-fragmentarea Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:49:07 +0300 Google a inceput un proces de limitare a modificarilor care pot fi aduse sistemului de operare Android, companiile fiind practic fortate sa ceara acordul Google pentru a face schimbari daca vor sa continue sa primeasca acces prioritar la noile versiuni ale sistemului de operare, informeaza Bloomberg Businessweek.Conform publicatiei americane, informatiile sunt confirmate de mai multe persoane importante din cadrul partenerilor-cheie ai Google din domeniul telecomunicatiilor. Noua abordare Google este radical diferita fata de modelul initial, open-source, unde oricine putea prelua codul-sursa al sistemului de operare si il putea modifica dupa propriile nevoi si preferinte.Posibilitatea de a folosi un sistem de operare mobil robust si gratuit a reprezentat un lucru foarte important pentru mai multe companii, care au economisit astfel miliarde de dolari. Relevant este mai ales cazul Motorola, care era intr-o situatie destul de proasta inainte de aparitia Google Android, si care acum este o forta importanta pe piata. De asemenea, gratuitatea si disponibilitatea codului sursa a reprezentat si un punct forte al politicii de marketing a Google, care si-a promovat sistemul de operare ca o alternativa la alte ecosisteme informatice inchise, cum ar fi Apple iOS sau Blackberry. Cota de piata a Google a crescut spectaculos in ultimii ani, de la 9% in 2009, la 31% in 2010 la nivel global. Numarul mare de variante de Android disponibile simultan pe piata si numarul de terminale extrem de diferite ca specificatii a dus, in timp, la o fragmentare destul de importanta a platformei. Astfel, producatorii de aplicatii nu pot garanta ca programele lor vor functiona ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-reclama-google-la-ce-pentru-abuz-de-pozitie-dominanta-pe-piata-motoarelor-de-cautare/ microsoft-reclama-google-la-ce-pentru-abuz-de-pozitie-dominanta-pe-piata-motoarelor-de-cautare Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:07:03 +0300 Microsoft a depus la CE o plangere oficiala in care acuza Google de abuz de pozitie dominanta in cautarile pe internet si sustine ca actiunile companiei din Mountain View au afectat ascensiunea produselor Microsoft. Google a acuzata ca face o serie de lucruri menite sa puna bete in roata concurentei, insa compania nu se arata surprinsa de acuzatiile Microsoft si adauga ca va colabora cu CE. Microsoft a fost amendata dur in trecut pentru incalcari ale legilor concurentei, insa iata ca in cazul de fata rolurile s-au schimbat.Google este investigata inca din toamna de catre CE pentru incalcari ale legilor concurentei pe piata de internet search dupa ce trei companii au depus plangeri. Intrarea Microsoft in acest caz ar putea insa da greutate anchetei fiindca acuzatiile sunt dure si e vorba de o companie foarte mare.Printre altele, Microsoft acuza Google ca impiedica motorul de cautare Bing sa indexeze o parte din continutul YouTube si ingreuneaza accesul la site-ul de video-sharing a unor smartphone-uri care utilizeaza sistemul de operare Windows.Google spune ca se astepta la plangerea oficiala, promite ca va continua colaborarea cu CE si adauga ca va explica de cate ori e nevoie cum functioneaza modelul de afaceri al Google. Datele arata ca Google are peste 90% pe piata cautarii pe internet, iar motorul de cautare Bing al Microsoft nu si-a marit prea mult cota de piata dupa momentul lansarii din 2009.Microsoft e de data aceasta in tabara acuzatorilor, dupa ce in trecut a fost amendata cu sume record de CE pentru abuz de pozitie ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/responsabilul-pentru-strategie-de-la-microsoft-nu-stiu-daca-tabletele-au-un-viitor/ responsabilul-pentru-strategie-de-la-microsoft-nu-stiu-daca-tabletele-au-un-viitor Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:42:03 +0300 “Exista o distinctie intre <mobil> si <portabil>. Mobil este ceva ce este folosit atunci cand esti in miscare. Portabil este ceva ce poti lua cu tine si apoi folosi. Spatiul dintre aceste doua concepte incepe sa fie ocupat tot felul de aparate, tablete. Nu stiu daca aceasta categorie, a tabletelor cu ecran mare, are un viitor”, a declarat Craig Mundie, responsabilul cu strategie al Microsoft la o intalnire organizata de Comitetul pentru Dezvoltare Economica al Australiei (CEDA), citat de ziarul Sunday Morning Herald.Mundie a declarat ca in viitor, telefoanele inteligente vor deveni principalul computer pentru multi utilizatori, iar cu ajutorul unor tehnologii experimentale, cum ar fi proiectarea unei imagini direct pe retina folosind un sistem laser, utilizarile lor vor putea fi extinse. Microsoft a fost primul jucator major din industria IT care a incercat sa promoveze tabletele, in urma cu aproape 10 ani, cand compania a propus utilizarea unor computere cu ecrane tactile operate cu ajutorul unui stylus special. Conceptul Microsoft nu a fost adoptat la scara larga, prima tableta cu adevarat de succes fiind produsa de Apple in anul 2010. Intre timp, concurenta in acest segment s-a intensificat, Google lansand un sistem de operare dedicat pentru aparatele de acest tip. Pe langa Apple si Google, care sunt vazuti ca jucatorii principali in acest segment in viitorul apropiat, RIM (Blackberry) va lansa o tableta proprie numita Playbook, iar HP a anuntat deja tableta TouchPad, bazata pe sistemul de operare propriu WebOS. Microsoft nu are la ora actuala un sistem de operare destinat in mod special ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-acuzat-ca-abuzeaza-de-pozitia-dominanta-de-pe-piata-cautarilor-pe-internet-din-ue/ google-acuzat-ca-abuzeaza-de-pozitia-dominanta-de-pe-piata-cautarilor-pe-internet-din-ue Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:56:01 +0300 Microsoft a depus la autoritatea antitrust a Uniunii Europene (UE) o plângere în care acuză Google că abuzează de poziţia dominantă deţinută pe piaţa căutărilor pe Internet din regiune, prin restricţionarea accesului motoarelor de căutare ale concurenţilor la site-ul YouTube, transmite Bloomberg. "Plângerea se concentrează pe o serie de acţiuni prin care Google vizează consolidarea poziţiei dominante de pe piaţa căutărilor pe Internet şi a publicităţii online în detrimentul utilizatorilor europeni", a afirmat directorul departamentului juridic al Microsoft, Brad Smith. El precizează că Google controlează aproape 95% din piaţa europeană de profil şi două treimi din cea americană. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-il-omagiaza-pe-chimistul-robert-wilhelm-bunsen/ google-il-omagiaza-pe-chimistul-robert-wilhelm-bunsen Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:35:02 +0300 Google şi-a modificat, joi, logoul de pe pagina principală pentru a marca 200 de ani de la naşterea chimistului german Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, coautor al lămpii cu gaz care îi poartă numele. Noul logo al Google este alcătuit din mai multe eprubete şi ustensile de laborator în culorile specifice companiei americane de internet. Bunsen a studiat chimia, geologia şi industria manufacturieră. Împreună cu britanicul Michael Faraday a inventat, în 1855, lampa cu gaz. Împreună cu Gustav Robert Kirchhoffau, în 1859, Bunsen a inventat spectroscopul. Folosind această nouă invenţie, el a descoperit două noi elemente chimice: cesiu şi rubidiu. Pe de altă parte, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen a elaborat conceptul arzătorului Bunsen, deşi, propriu-zis, nu a fost el cel care l-a creat. Totodată, Bunsen a lucrat în domeniul geologiei. El a studiat rocile vulcanice şi a testat actualele teorii despre gheizere. De altfel, Bunsen a fost primul care a explicat în mod ştiinţific, în anul 1846, cum se formează un gheizer. Google îşi modifică frecvent logoul pentru a omagia diferite personalităţi ale culturii universale sau pentru a marca evenimente speciale din istorie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-google-lanseaza-un-rival-pentru-butonul-like-al-facebook/ video-google-lanseaza-un-rival-pentru-butonul-like-al-facebook Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:00:04 +0300 Google a lansat joi serviciul “+1”, care va indeplini o functie similara cu cea a butonului “Like” al retelei de socializare Facebook. Practic, orice utilizator care are activat un Profil Google si noua functie va avea posibilitatea sa recomande orice link dintr-o pagina Google si prietenilor sai printr-un singur click. Intra in articol pentru a citi in detaliu cum functioneaza noul serviciu Google.Intr-o incercare de a deveni relevant si in lumea retelelor sociale, dupa esecul proiectului Buzz, Google va promova in viitor serviciul Profiluri Google, care ofera utilizatorilor o pagina proprie similara unui profil al unei retele de socializare. Odata ce serviciul +1 este activ, toate link-urile preferate vor aparea intr-o lista din cadrul profilului Google al utilizatorului si vor aparea automat si in cautarile celor din cercul sau de prieteni. Sistemul inca nu este functional pentru toate conturile Google, dar poate fi activat ca experiment pe pagina Google Labs, daca nu este disponibil in pagina Profil. La fel ca si butonul Like de la Facebook, butonul +1 va putea fi integrat in aproape orice site. Dincolo de oferirea de rezultate de cautare mai relevante, bazate pe preferintele prietenilor unui utilizator, Google va folosi rezultatele generate de noul serviciu pentru a oferi “publicitate mai relevanta”. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/business-report-razbunarea-bancilor-cum-ajungi-sa-figurezi-ca-restant-fara-sa-fii-dator-un-leu-lista-cartierelor-vii-si-moarte-ale-pietei-imobiliare-din-capitala-vezi-care-sunt-zonele-cu-cele-mai-cautate-apartamente-ce-poti-sa-cumperi-cu-100000-de/ business-report-razbunarea-bancilor-cum-ajungi-sa-figurezi-ca-restant-fara-sa-fii-dator-un-leu-lista-cartierelor-vii-si-moarte-ale-pietei-imobiliare-din-capitala-vezi-care-sunt-zonele-cu-cele-mai-cautate-apartamente-ce-poti-sa-cumperi-cu-100000-de Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:07:04 +0300 In articolul "Tariceanu renunta la afacerea Citroen si se concentreaza pe Ford si Harley Davidson", ZF scrie: "Activitatea Automotive Trading Services in ceea ce priveste marca Citroen va continua in Baneasa doar pentru service, nu si vanzarea de masini. Angajatii de la showroomul Citroen din Pipera vor fi mutati la centrul din Baneasa", a spus Bogdan Bucurescu, directorul general al Automotive Trading Services (ATS). Integral in Ziarul Financiar.Creste riscul in sistemul bancar. Provizioanele au depasit 24 de miliarde de lei. A cincea parte din volumul total de credite inregistreaza intarzieri la plata mai mari de 60 de zile. Povara creditelor neperformante ramane in continuare semnificativa. La finalul lunii ianuarie 2011, nivelul provizionarii a urcat la un nou maxim, de 24,1 miliarde de lei, in crestere cu 543 de milioane de lei fata de nivelul inregistrat cu o luna in urma. In acelasi timp, rezervele pentru restantele mai mari de 90 de zile au depasit 21 mld. lei, cu peste 574 de milioane de lei mai mult fata de decembrie 2010, scrie Financiarul. Google: Telefonul va fi folosit in locul cardurilor de credit. Google va dezvolta un sistem ce va permite telefoanelor mobile sa fie utilizate drept carduri de credit. Expertii spun ca este o metoda de plata mai sigura decat cardurile cu banda magnetica. Google si-a inceput colaborarea cu Citigroup si Mastercard pentru a dezvolta un sistem de plata special pentru telefoanele care folosesc sistemul Android, scrie ItPlay.ro.Razbunarea bancilor - Cum ajungi sa figurezi ca restant fara sa fii dator un leu. Razboiul clientilor cu ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-lucreaza-la-o-versiune-windows-care-sa-permita-efectuarea-de-plati-cu-telefonul-mobil/ microsoft-lucreaza-la-o-versiune-windows-care-sa-permita-efectuarea-de-plati-cu-telefonul-mobil Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:49:02 +0300 Microsoft lucrează la o versiune a Windows Phone care să permită utilizatorilor plata cumpărăturilor prin apropierea telefonului mobil de un senzon, au declarat două persoane apropiate situaţiei, citate de Bloomberg. Grupul intenţionează să includă tehnologia pentru efectuarea de plăţi prin smartphone-uri în noile versiuni ale sistemului său de operare, în cadrul efortului de reducere a decalajului faţă de Google. Wall Street Journal a relatat recent că Google colaborează cu MasterCard şi Citigroup la dezvoltarea unui sistem care va transforma smartphone-urile în "portofele electronice", astfel ca utilizatorii să-şi poată plăti cumpărăturile prin apropierea telefonului de un senzor amplasat la casele de marcat din magazine. Primele aparate prevăzute de Microsoft cu astfel de opţiuni ar putea fi lansate în acest an, au spus sursele. Microsoft se alătură astfel unei liste tot mai mari de furnizori de software care vor să profite de cererea mare de instrumente mobile de plată a produselor şi serviciilor. În 2014, ar putea fi efectuate plăţi de 245 miliarde de dolari prin telefoanele mobile, comparativ cu 32 de miliarde de dolari în 2010, potrivit companiei de cercetare a pieţei Gartner. Directorul general al Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, este sub presiunea de a recâştiga din cota de piaţă pierdută de grup în favoarea Apple, producătorul iPhone, şi Android, creat de Google. Este probabil ca Microsoft să fie sprijinit în domeniul plăţilor prin telefon de Nokia, care a anunţat recent că va dota aparatele sale cu soft Windows Phone. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/review-multimedia-google-nexus-s-noul-standard-android/ review-multimedia-google-nexus-s-noul-standard-android Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:00:49 +0300 HotNews.ro a testat cea mai noua platforma hardware de referinta pentru sistemul de operare Google Android, terminalul Nexus S, lansat in urma cu cateva zile si pe piata din Romania. Ajuns la varianta 2.3, noul Android aduce o serie de noutati care imbunatatesc sistemul pe aproape toate palierele.HardwareConsiderat de Google ca platforma hardware de referinta pentru sistemul de operare Android, Nexus S este, pe hartie cel putin, deja depasit de noile aparitii de pe piata. Google a ales Samsung pentru productia celei  de-a doua generatii a seriei Nexus, dupa ce Nexus One, lansat in 2010, a fost produs de HTC. La nivelul procesorului, noul Nexus este mai asemanator cu “batranul” Galaxy S decat cu noua generatie de telefoane bazate pe procesoare dual-core. Procesorul pe care este bazat Nexus S este identic cu cel din Galaxy S, fiind vorba de acelasi ARM Cortex A8 “Hummingbird” la o frecventa de 1Ghz. In ciuda utilizarii unui procesor de generatie “mai veche”, nu am observat nici un fel de probleme de performanta in utilizarea de zi cu zi, ceva de asteptat, de altfel, dat fiind ca primele procesoare mobile cu doua nuclee abia incep sa apara pe piata, iar software-ul inca nu este optimizat exclusiv pentru ele. Memoria RAM de 512MB este si ea mai mica decat majoritatea noilor oferte de pe piata, dar, din nou, nu a influentat negativ performanta telefonului. Nexus S este disponibil intr-o singura varianta in ceea ce priveste spatiul de stocare, cu 16GB disponibili pentru fisierele utilizatorului.In mod neobisnuit, Samsung a ales sa foloseasca ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-samsung-modifica-galaxy-tab-101-pentru-a-fi-mai-subtire-decat-ipad-2-si-lanseaza-un-nou-tab-de-89-inci/ video-samsung-modifica-galaxy-tab-101-pentru-a-fi-mai-subtire-decat-ipad-2-si-lanseaza-un-nou-tab-de-89-inci Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:00:47 +0300 Samsung a lansat marti o noua varianta a tabletei Galaxy Tab 10.1, prezentata de HotNews.ro in urma cu o luna. Schimbarea cea mai semnificativa a noului design este grosimea foarte redusa, de doar 8,6 mm. Pe langa noul design al Tabletei de 10 inci, Samsung a prezentat si o varianta mai mica, de 8,9 inci, cu aceleasi specificatii tehnice. Compania coreeana a modificat in mod radical si preturile noilor gadgeturi, acestea fiind mult mai ieftine decat estimarile initiale.Ambele tablete vor fi bazate pe un procesor la 1Ghz cu doua nuclee, vor avea 1GB de memorie RAM si vor fi disponibile in trei variante, cu 16, 32 sau 64GB spatiu de stocare. La fel ca si Apple iPad, tabletele vor fi disponibile in variante cu sau fara 3G, cu preturi pornind de la 469$ pentru varianta WiFi/16GB/8,9 inci in Statele Unite. Pe langa noul design, seria Tab aduce si prima interfata personalizata a sistemului de operare Google Android 3.0. Interfata TouchWiz va avea un meniu Live Panel pe care utilizatorii îl vor putea personaliza pentru a afişa conţinut variat pe ecranul principal incluzând fotografii digitale, site-urile favorite şi feed-urile reţelelor sociale. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/windows-phone-va-deveni-in-2015-al-doilea-sistem-de-operare-pentru-smartphone-uri-ca-si-cota-de-piata-idc/ windows-phone-va-deveni-in-2015-al-doilea-sistem-de-operare-pentru-smartphone-uri-ca-si-cota-de-piata-idc Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:00:08 +0300 Datorita parteneriatului recent incheiat cu Nokia, sistemul de operare Microsoft pentru smartphone-uri va deveni al doilea ca si cota de piata in 2015, fiind devansat doar de Google Android care va avea peste 45%, estimeaza compania de cercetare IDC. In 2010 s-au vandut 303 milioane de telefoane cu sistem de operare, iar in acest an se va depasi nivelul de 450 milioane unitati, iar Android va ajunge sa detina 39% din piata, aproape dublu fata de Symbian.IDC estimeaza ca Android va avea peste patru ani o cota de 45,4% la smartphone-uri, cu sase puncte procentuala fata de situatia din prezent. IDC vede insa o schimbare uriasa la cota de piata a Windows Phone care va ajunge de la 5,5% in prezent, la 20,9% in 2015 datorita partneriatului cu Nokia.Un alt efect al intelegerii Microsoft - Nokia va fi si disparitia aproape totala a sistemului de operare Symbian care, de la peste 20% din piata in prezent, va ajunge la doar 0,2% in 2015.IDC estimeaza ca Blackberry va scadea cu doar un punct procentual in urmatorii patru ani, ramanand insa aproape de 15% din piata, la fel cum se va intampla si cu Apple iOS care se va mentine la peste 15%. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/webrelease-conferinta-marketing-b2b-primul-eveniment-dedicat-exclusiv-profesionistilor-din-segmentul-business-to-business/ webrelease-conferinta-marketing-b2b-primul-eveniment-dedicat-exclusiv-profesionistilor-din-segmentul-business-to-business Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:00:09 +0300 Conferinta Marketing B2B vine astfel in completarea portofoliului de evenimente adresate profesionistilor din publicitate, relatii publice, Internet si social media si este organizat cu sprijinul partenerilor Bancpost si Star Storage.Evenimentul Marketing B2B isi propune sa creeze un spatiu relevant pentru practicieni, sa ofere oportunitati consistente de schimb de idei si expertiza si, de asemenea, sa dezvolte interactiunea intre jucatorii din aceasta piata, atat din partea furnizorilor, cat si a clientilor. Panelul vorbitorilor invitati la eveniment acopera principalele zone de expertiza, fiind prezenti nume sonore de companii si profesionisti, lideri de opinie  in marketing, comunicare corporativa si de brand si marketing online.Participantii la conferinta vor avea ocazia sa discute despre strategii de marketing B2B cu: Aneta Bogdan (Brandient), Bogdan Naumovici (23 Communication Ideas), Kyriakos Xydis (Bancpost), Silvius Neagu (Star Storage), Florina Pinzaru (GDF SUEZ Energy Romania), Iulian Mangalagiu (Ceramica SA), Norbert Simionescu (Google), Adrian Stanescu (Think Digital), Radu Ionescu (Kinecto), Andrei Georgescu (White Image), Ciprian Gavriliu (PlayTheBalls), Andrei Rosca (Spada). In cadrul conferintei de o zi, vor fi analizate strategiile adaptate la realitatile mediului de business  din perspectiva marketingului B2B. Astfel, cele 4 sesiuni ale conferintei vor oferi participantilor analize utile de business cu privire la: modalitatile de pozitionare diferentiata fata de concurenta a unui brand, strategii de marketing integrat pentru jucatorii B2B, tactici si solutii reale pentru derularea campaniilor in mediul digital sau integrarea si rolul retelelor sociale in tot mai conturata disciplina de marketing digital.Pentru mai multe detalii cu privire la eveniment, va invitam sa accesati site-ul oficial al evenimentului: http://www.marketingb2b.ro/2011/ Despre EvensysEvensys este ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-va-colabora-cu-mastercard-si-citigroup-pentru-a-implementa-un-sistem-de-plati-cu-telefonul-mobil/ google-va-colabora-cu-mastercard-si-citigroup-pentru-a-implementa-un-sistem-de-plati-cu-telefonul-mobil Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:00:13 +0300 Googla va colabora cu Mastercard si Citigroup pentru a implementa un sistem de plati bazat pe standardul NFC (Near Field Communication), care va permite utilizatorilor sa faca plati folosind doar telefonul mobil. Sistemul va fi folosit in viitor pentru tranzactii cotidiene de valoare mica: utilizatorii vor putea plati mici cumparaturi prin intermediul unei simple atingeri a telefonului mobil, informeaza Wall Street Journal.Acest sistem este deja utilizat in Bucuresti de catre Metrorex pentru plata rapida a biletelor de calatorie si se prevede ca va fi implementat la scara larga in urmatorii ani. Principalele companii emitatoare de carduri bancare deja desfasoara teste in mai multe tari pentru a finisa sistemul in vederea unei lansari in viitorul apropiat. Conform unui studiu comandat de MasterCard si citat de WSJ, platile de acest tip vor atinge 618 miliarde de dolari in anul 2016. Google colaboreaza cu cele doua institutii financiare pentru a implementa noua tehnologie in platforma Google Android. Platforma de referinta pentru telefoanele inteligente bazate pe sistemul de operare Android, telefonul Nexus S, are deja implementat un cip NFC, care permite la nivel hardware efectuarea de plati.Din informatiile disponibile la ora actuala, Google nu va primi un procent din tranzactiile facute cu telefoanele ce folosesc tehnologia NFC pentru plati, dar va avea acces la informatii privind produsele cumparate, ceea ce va permite companiei sa ofere publicitate personalizata in functie de obiceiurile comerciale ale fiecarui utilizator. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/video-lenovo-a-lansat-tableta-lepad-care-isi-propune-sa-concureze-ipadul-creat-de-apple/ video-lenovo-a-lansat-tableta-lepad-care-isi-propune-sa-concureze-ipadul-creat-de-apple Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:00:33 +0300 Producatorul chinez de computere Lenovo a lansat o tableta denumita "LePad", care incearca sa-si gaseasca un loc pe o piata dominata de iPad-ul creat de Apple, a anuntat societatea, intr-un comunicat citat de AFP.Tableta - care functioneaza cu sistemul de operare Android al Google - a fost prezentat luni in cadrul unui eveniment rezervat presei din China.Lenovo incearca sa-si continue expansiunea pe piata telefoniei mobile gratie noului sau produs, care este comercializat incepand cu aceasta saptamana in China si va fi exportat din a doua jumatate a lunii iunie, a declarat un purtator de cuvant al producatorului, Jay Chen, pentru agentia Dow Jones. Concurent al iPad, tableta LePad va trebui sa se impuna si in fata altor concurenti precum Dell, Samsung sau Research in Motion, producatorul telefonului BlackBerry.Tableta LePad - prezentata pentru prima oara la Salonul de la Las Vegas, in ianuarie - are un ecran color de 26 de centimetri si se va conecta la internet prin WiFi sau 3G.Ea va fi vanduta la preturi incepand cu 3.499 yuani (378 euro) pentru cel mai ieftin model, echipat cu un hard disk de 16 GB.Lenovo, care a cumparat in 2004 divizia PC a IBM, are o cota de piata de 27% in China si se claseaza pe locul patru in randul producatorilor de PC-uri, potrivit cabinetului de consultanta IDC.Cabinetul de marketing Gartner estimeaza ca vanzarile de tablete vor ajunge la 54,8 milioane de unitati in 2011 in intreaga lume, afectand piata laptop-urilor.Apple a vandut anul trecut 15 milioane de iPad-uri, pentru peste 7 miliarde ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/paul-baran-unul-dintre-pionierii-internetului-a-murit/ paul-baran-unul-dintre-pionierii-internetului-a-murit Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:42:02 +0300 Paul Baran, un inginer polonez care a contribuit la inventarea de către guvernul american a sistemului Arpanet, precursorul internetului, a murit la vârsta de 84 de ani. Potrivit publicaţiei New York Times, Paul Baran a murit din cauza unui cancer pulmonar, sâmbătă, în reşedinţa sa din Palo Alto din statul California. Într-o serie de documente tehnice publicate în anii 1960, el sugera guvernului american să construiască o reţea de comunicaţii ce ar fi mai puţin vulnerabilă în faţa atacurilor sau a perturbaţiilor cu care se confruntă reţelele convenţionale. Dar invenţia lui, realizată la mijlocul anilor 1960, îşi devansa epoca atât de mult, încât atunci când Paul Baran şi-a prezentat ideea în faţa conducerii AT&T, această companie americană de telefonie a respins-o. "Paul (Paul Baran, n.r.) nu se temea să urmeze direcţii contrare faţă de ceea ce alţii considerau ca fiind singura cale de urmat", a declarat Vinton Cerf, unul dintre vicepreşedinţii Google şi, totodată, un bun prieten al lui Baran. Sistemul Arpanet a fost pus în funcţiune în anul 1969 de către ministerul american al Apărării. În cele din urmă, acest sistem a fost înlocuit de internet. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-dezvolta-un-sistem-care-va-permite-efectuarea-de-plati-prin-intermediul-telefonului-mobil/ google-dezvolta-un-sistem-care-va-permite-efectuarea-de-plati-prin-intermediul-telefonului-mobil Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:56:01 +0300 Google colaborează cu MasterCard şi Citigroup la dezvoltarea unui sistem care va transforma smartphone-urile în "portofele electronice", astfel ca utilizatorii să-şi poată plăti cumpărăturile prin apropierea telefonului de un senzor amplasat la casele de marcat din magazine, potrivit WSJ. Noul sistem de plăţi va permite Google să ofere retailerilor mai multe date despre clienţii lor şi să-i ajute în prezentarea ofertelor, potrivit unor surse apropiate situaţiei. Sistemul face parte, totodată, din eforturile gigantului de Internet de a da un impuls afacerilor proprii cu publicitate. Proiectul, aflat în stadiu incipient, va permite deţinătorilor de carduri de debit şi credit emise de Citigroup să plătească pentru cumpărături prin activarea unei aplicaţii de pe telefonul mobil. În acest fel, smartphone-ul este transformat într-un portofel electronic. Utilizatorii vor putea, printr-o altă aplicaţie, să-şi gestioneze conturile şi să ţină evidenţa cheltuielilor. În parteneriat este implicată şi compania VeriFone Systems, un producător de cititoare de cărţi de credit. Sistemul ar putea fi lansat în acest an, menţionează sursele. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/larry-page-va-prelua-vineri-conducerea-google-hotarat-sa-reduca-birocratia-din-companie/ larry-page-va-prelua-vineri-conducerea-google-hotarat-sa-reduca-birocratia-din-companie Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:49:01 +0300 Cofondatorul Google Larry Page revine la finele săptămânii viitoare, pe 4 aprilie, în poziţia de director general, şi pare hotărât să simplifice procesul decizional la vârful companiei, să reducă birocraţia şi să consolideze solidaritatea dintre angajaţi. Page a luat deja măsuri pentru a reduce birocraţia gigantului cu 24.000 de angajaţi şi pentru a schimba comportamentul companiei, de o structură greoaie la start-up vioi, potrivit unui material Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Google a anunţat în luna ianuarie că CEO-ul Eric Schmidt (55 de ani) va fi înlocuit de Larry Page (38 de ani). Noul şef a cerut managerilor de producţie şi engineering să descrie, în mesaje e-mail, proiectele la care lucrează, cel mai probabil pentru a renunţa la iniţiativele în care nu crede, au declarat pentru WSJ surse apropiate situaţiei. Printre programele care ar putea fi în pericol se numără Google Health, proiect care ar permite utilizatorilor să stocheze, pe serverele Google, fişe medicale şi alte informaţii legate de sănătate. El a convins directorii executivi să-şi desfăşoare o parte din activitate într-o zonă publică a sediului din Mountain View, California, pentru ca angajaţii să-i poată aborda direct. Page a început de asemenea în ultimele săptămâni să comunice cu managerii pentru a afla ce probleme are compania la mijlocul ierarhiei de conducere şi a cerut angajaţilor să schimbe modul în care îşi desfăşoară şedinţele pentru a simplifica procesul decizional. Printre măsurile recomandate de noul CEO se numără desemnarea unui lider de şedinţă care să aibă un cuvânt greu de spus în privinţa unei decizii şi renunţarea la lucrul pe laptop în timpul întrunirilor, potrivit sursei citate. Page nu a comentat până acum strategia sa ca director general, însă a declarat anterior că procesul decizional ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-doneaza-27-milioane-de-dolari-la-international-press-institute/ google-doneaza-27-milioane-de-dolari-la-international-press-institute Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:40:02 +0200 International Press Institute (IPI), organizaţia globală care militează pentru libertatea presei, a primit 2,7 milioane de dolari de la Google, pentru a ajuta la dezvoltarea unor proiecte digitale de presă, în Europa, Orientul Mijlociu şi Africa (EMEA), informează Brand Republic. IPI News Innovation Contest doreşte să încurajeze ideile inovatoare care pot avea impact pe termen lung în industria presei. Granturile vor fi acordate atât organizaţiilor non-profit, dar şi celor comerciale, care lucrează în domeniul digital, inclusiv mobil şi cel tehnologic, create de jurnalişti şi/ sau pentru jurnalişti. Toate proiectele trebuie să se înscrie în trei arii de activitate: platformă de ştiri, sustenabilitate şi training. Sponsorizarea Google are ca scop transformarea IPI într-o instituţie care susţine puternic inovaţia în segmentul media. "Suntem foarte bucuroşi să lucrăm la acest proiect cu IPI, o organizaţie care are o istorie în rezolvarea problemelor care afectează lumea jurnalismului", a declarat Peter Barron, director de relaţii externe pentru Google EMEA În ultimele săptămâni, rolul vital al inovaţiilor digitale a fost pus în evidenţă de evenimentele sociale şi politice din Tunisia, Egipt şi mai recent Bahrain. "În aceste momente de schimbare şi conflict, fluxurile gratuite de informaţii sunt mai importante ca niciodată. O presă liberă le dă oamenilor putere, iar o industrie media independentă şi inovativă este vitală pentru dezvoltarea oricărei ţări", a declarat Alison McKenzie, reprezentant al IPI. Jurnalişti de toate naţionalităţile îşi pot înscrie proiectul pe site-ul http://www.ipinewscontest.org/, până la 1 iunie. IPI reprezintă o reţea globală de editori, executivi din domeniul media şi jurnalişti de renume, care militează pentru libertatea presei, protejarea libertăţii de expresie, promovarea fluxurilor de informaţii gratuite şi îmbunătăţirea practicilor jurnalistice. Fondată în 1950, la Universitatea Columbia din New York, IPI este una ditntre cele mai vechi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/masaj-sau-tae-bo-la-birou-topul-celor-mai-apreciate-companii-dupa-beneficiile-pe-care-le-ofera-angajatilor/ masaj-sau-tae-bo-la-birou-topul-celor-mai-apreciate-companii-dupa-beneficiile-pe-care-le-ofera-angajatilor Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:40:01 +0200 Aţi auzit probabil de şedinţele gratuite de masaj, de exerciţiile de căţărat sau de prânzurile cu sushi pe care le oferă Google. Chiar dacă poate părea greu de crezut, într-unele dintre cele mai cunoscute companii din toată lumea, angajaţii beneficiază de tot felul de stimulente şi de activităţi peste programul de lucru, tocmai pentru a-i face să se simtă la birou ca acasă şi pentru a veni de plăcere la muncă. Într-un top realizat de Business Insider, pe baza părerilor angajaţilor din cele mai mari corporaţii ale Americii, exprimate pe site-ul Glassdoor, se regăsesc, printre altele, Southwest Airlines, Google, Apple sau Goldman Sachs. 1. Southwest Airlines a fost catalogată de către angajaţi ca având o atmosferă familială la birou, cu salarii şi beneficii excelente, cu vacanţe gratis şi cu şefi foarte apropiaţi de angajaţi. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/probleme-pentru-google-sute-de-mii-de-conturi-gmail-au-fost-sterse/ probleme-pentru-google-sute-de-mii-de-conturi-gmail-au-fost-sterse Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:40:01 +0200 Zeci de mii de conturi Gmail au fost şterse, inclusiv fiecare email, aplicaţie, contact sau informaţii din calendar, a confirmat compania Google, informează dailymail.co.uk. Problema a apărut duminică după-amiază, când mii de oameni s-au plâns că tot conţinutul conturilor lor a dispărut. "Am pierdut toate emailurile/folderele din Gmail. De ce s-a întâmplat asta? Cum pot să recuperez totul?" sau "toate conturile, setările emailurile, contactele mele au dispărut pur ţi simplu" sunt doar câteva dintre mesajele trimise de utilizatorii Gmail către companie. Se pare că aproape 600.000 de utilizatori au fost afectaţi, iar Google a încercat timp de câteva ore să repare problema serviciului care este utilizat de aproximativ 2 milioane de oameni. Unul dintre utilizatorii Gmail a scris într-o postare pe blog: "Din mesajele postate pe forumuri şi pe Twitter este clar că sute, dacă nu cumva mii de oameni au rămas fără conturi Gmail". În seara de duminică, un purtător de cuvânt al Google a declarat pentru Huffington Post: "Am rezolvat problema pentru o parte dintre utilizatori. Inginerii noştri lucrează şi încearcă să readucă totul la normal cât mai repede posibil. Ne pare foarte rău pentru neplăcerile create utilizatorilor noştri". Primele estimări au arătat că 0,23 la sută dintre utilizatorii Gmail au fost afectaţi, însă acestea au fost revizuite de Google la 0,08 la sută. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/brazilia-se-pregateste-de-carnaval-constructia-carelor-alegorice-si-repetitiile-pentru-defilare-galerie-foto/ brazilia-se-pregateste-de-carnaval-constructia-carelor-alegorice-si-repetitiile-pentru-defilare-galerie-foto Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:30:02 +0200 Brazilia este, de joi, cuprinsă încă o dată de febra carnavalului, cu celebrele ei baluri stradale la care participă milioane de persoane, la Salvador da Bahia dându-se startul unei săptămâni de petreceri ce vor culmina cu carnavalul de la Rio, considerat cel mai mare spectacol live din lume. Numeroşi parlamentari au plecat deja din capitala Brasilia. "Carnavalul este o tradiţie în Brazilia. Nimeni nu rezistă dorinţei de a participa", a declarat José Sarney, preşedintele Senatului brazilian, încercând să justifice, miercuri, absenţa multor aleşi, deşi carnavalul începe oficial abia vineri seară şi se va încheia miercuri, 9 martie. Însă oraşul Salvador da Bahia va da încă de joi semnalul de începere a celor şapte zile de petreceri, în timpul cărora sute de mii de persoane dansează în spatele acelor "trio-eletrico" - camioane uriaşe încărcate cu megafoane care circulă prin întregul oraş. O noutate în acest an: grupul Google a anunţat că va difuza în direct pe internet principalele momente ale carnavalului din Salvador da Bahia, pe site-ul YouTube. În oraşul Recife şi în "vecinul" său Olinda, sunt aşteptaţi un milion de petrecăreţi pentru a dansa pe ritmurile frenetice "frevo" ale grupului carnavalesc Galo da Madrugada, cel mai mare din Brazilia. Însă, pentru ceilalţi oameni de pe planetă, carnavalul brazilian este înainte de toate sinonim cu carnavalul de la Rio de Janeiro şi cu dansatoarele sale pe jumătate goale. În timpul celor două nopţi de defilare, duminică şi luni, pe sambodrom, 12 şcoli de samba, aproape 5.000 de dansatori şi care alegorice uriaşe îşi dispută prestigiosul titlu de campion al carnavalului. În acest an, peste 760.000 de turişti sunt aşteptaţi, din care peste o treime vor veni din străinătate, care vor aduce bugetului local aproape ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-a-creat-un-site-pentru-contactarea-persoanelor-dupa-cutremurul-din-japonia/ google-a-creat-un-site-pentru-contactarea-persoanelor-dupa-cutremurul-din-japonia Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:00:01 +0200 Google a pus la dispoziţie un instrument online pentru contactarea persoanelor din Japonia, întrucât reţelele telefonice sunt supraaglomerate sau perturbate după puternicul seism de vineri, informează ziarul Le Monde. În afară de reţelele de socializare, Japan Person Finder, un motor de căutare pus la dispoziţie de Google, le permite utilizatorilor de Internet să semnaleze situaţia. Baza de date este un instrument util pentru a afla veşti despre rude sau prieteni prin simpla tastare a numelui persoanei căutate. Site-ul este accesibil în japoneză şi engleză. Potrivit Le Monde, în prezent, pe site există informaţii doar despre aproximativ 1.200 de persoane, dar numărul numelor introduse creşte cu 200 la fiecare cinci minute. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bono-steven-spielberg-si-serghei-brin-in-cursa-pentru-obtinerea-premiului-gorbaciov/ bono-steven-spielberg-si-serghei-brin-in-cursa-pentru-obtinerea-premiului-gorbaciov Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:00:02 +0200 Muzicianul Bono, cineastul Steven Spielberg şi Serghei Brin - cofondatorul companiei Google - figurează pe lista celor nouă personalităţi nominalizate la premiul Mihail Gorbaciov, aflat în acest an la ediţia inaugurală, informează cyberpresse.ca. Fostul lider al Uniunii Sovietice a anunţat, joi, că laureaţii premiului pe care l-a înfiinţat - "Omul care a schimbat lumea" - vor fi anunţaţi pe 30 martie la Londra, cu ocazia unui concert special organizat pentru a marca cea de-a 80-a aniversare a sa. La categoria "Perestroika" (Restructurare) vor concura britanicul Timothy Berners-Lee - inventatorul internetului -, inginerul american Martin Cooper - inventatorul telefonului mobil - şi Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - fostul preşedinte al Braziliei între anii 2003 şi 2011. La categoria "Glasnost" (Deschidere) vor concura Ted Turner - fondatorul postului CNN, cineastul american Steven Spielberg şi cântăreţul Bono - solistul trupei U2. La categoria "Uskorenie" (Accelerarea dezvoltării economice) vor concura Serghei Brin - cofondator al grupului Google -, Jurgen Habermas - un renumit sociolog şi filosof german - şi Evans Wadongo - un tânăr din Kenya care în 2004, la vârsta de 18 ani, a inventat un bec special, alimentat cu energie solară. Mihail Gorbaciov a declarat că fiecare dintre persoanele nominalizate şi-a adus contribuţia "la schimbarea lumii în care trăim". Fostul lider sovietic a împlinit 80 de ani pe 2 martie. Celebru în Occident pentru că a iniţiat reformele care au condus la căderea comunismului în Europa, Mihail Gorbaciov are o cotă de popularitate foarte scăzută în Rusia, conaţionalii săi considerându-l principalul vinovat pentru prăbuşirea imperiului sovietic. În 1990 Mihail Gorbaciov a fost recompensat cu premiul Nobel pentru pace. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-earth-prezinta-imagini-3d-de-pe-intregul-traseu-al-nuntii-regale-a-printului-william/ google-earth-prezinta-imagini-3d-de-pe-intregul-traseu-al-nuntii-regale-a-printului-william Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:30:02 +0200 Google include pe serviciul Google Earth imagini 3D din centrul Londrei, inclusiv de pe întregul traseu al nunţii regale dintre prinţul William şi Kate Middleton, care va avea loc pe 29 aprilie, informează blogul oficial al companiei. Prin intermediul acestor imagini 3D, utilizatorii vor putea vedea aceleaşi obiective londoneze ca şi prinţul William şi Kate Middleton în ziua nunţii lor. Printre acestea se numără Catedrala Westminster, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Hyde Park şi reşedinţa premierului din Downing Street. Kate Middleton, în vârstă de 29 de ani, şi prinţul William, în vârstă de 28 de ani, s-au cunoscut în 2001 la universitatea scoţiană St. Andrews, dar relaţia lor, care a început în 2003, a fost întreruptă de o scurtă despărţire în anul 2007. Pe atunci, William şi Kate studiau amândoi istoria artei, însă prinţul britanic a ales ulterior să studieze geografia. William, fiul cel mare al prinţesei Diana, decedată în 1997, şi Kate Middleton, ambii în vârstă de 28 de ani, s-au logodit în luna octombrie 2010, cu ocazia unei vacanţe private pe care au petrecut-o în Kenya. Căsătoria lui Kate Middleton cu prinţul William - pe 29 aprilie 2011, la catedrala Westminster din Londra - va avea loc la 30 de ani de la somptuoasa căsătorie dintre prinţul Charles şi prinţesa Diana, celebrată în 1981, la Catedrala Saint-Paul din Londra. Cuplul a divorţat în 1996, iar prinţesa Diana a murit în urma unui accident de automobil, la Paris, în 1997. Ulterior, Charles s-a căsătorit cu Camilla, o veche prietenă a sa. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bonusuri-la-google-9-milioane-dolari-pentru-patru-directori/ bonusuri-la-google-9-milioane-dolari-pentru-patru-directori Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:30:02 +0200 Google a acordat prime de aproape nouă milioane de dolari pentru patru dintre principalii directori ai companiei, în baza performanţelor acestora de anul trecut, însă directorul general, Eric Schmidt, nu a primit bonusuri, potrivit agenţiei MarketWatch. Directorul financiar, Patrick Pichette, şi directorul de afaceri, Nikesh Arora, au primit prime de câte 2,7 milioane de dolari fiecare. Compania i-a dat vicepreşedintele pentru cercetare şi dezvoltare, Alan Eustace, un bonus de 1,8 milioane de dolari, iar vicepreşedintelui pentru managementul produselor, Jonathan Rosenberg, o primă de 1,7 milioane de dolari. Cea mai mare sumă care poate fi plătită de Google ca primă unui singur director poate fi de 4,5 milioane de dolari. Directorul general al companiei, Eric Schmidt, şi cofondatorii acesteia Sergey Brin şi Larry Page nu au primit bonusuri, cu toate că fiecare deţine participaţii importante la Google. Veniturile gigantului de Internet au crescut de la 23,7 miliarde de dolari în 2009 la 29,3 miliarde de dolari anul trecut. Profitul a avansat de la 20,41 de dolari pe acţiune la 26,31 de dolari pe acţiune. Google a anunţat recent că va lansa anul acesta un program amplu de angajări, intenţionând să aducă în cadrul companiei un număr record de salariaţi noi. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mobilizare-pe-internet-pentru-donatii-necesare-sinistratilor-din-japonia/ mobilizare-pe-internet-pentru-donatii-necesare-sinistratilor-din-japonia Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:40:02 +0200 Companii precum Apple şi giganţi online precum Google, Facebook şi Twitter oferă posibilitatea unor donaţii prin Internet pentru sinistraţii din Japonia, la trei zile după puternicul seism urmat de un tsunami devastator. "În toţi aceşti ani, Japonia a oferit lumii atât de multe în materie de tehnologie. Acum a venit momentul să le oferim şi noi ceva", scrie Amina Naqvi, o utilizatoare a Facebook. Crucea Roşie utilizează site-ul de socializare Facebook pentru a lansa o campanie de donaţii. Până acum, 1.300 de persoane au donat în total 50.000 de dolari, obiectivul fiind suma de 75.000 de dolari. Grupul american Apple a introdus o opţiune la serviciul iTunes care le permite abonaţilor să doneze între cinci şi 200 de dolari Crucii Roşii. La rândul său, site-ul Twitter actualizează permanent informaţiile şi legăturile utile pentru site-uri de caritate. Zynga, un site specializat în jocuri pe Facebook, speră să colecteze două milioane de dolari pentru Fondul de urgenţă necesar ajutării copiilor japonezi. Zynga oferă posibilitatea cumpărării de bunuri virtuale în unele din jocurile precum CityVille, FrontierVille şi FarmVille. Google a pus la dispoziţie un serviciu de căutare pentru persoanele dispărute sau sinistrate, oferind şi o serie de informaţii utile. Până luni la ora 5.30 GMT (7.30, ora României), aproape 140.000 de mesaje fuseseră lăsate de persoane care încearcă să ia legătura cu prieteni sau rude. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/primul-avion-supersonic-romanesc-construit-de-arca-iar-111/ primul-avion-supersonic-romanesc-construit-de-arca-iar-111 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:30:03 +0200 Avionul supersonic de transport al rachetei spaţiale Haas, pe care Asociaţia Română pentru Cosmonautică şi Aeronautică (ARCA) îl construieşte pentru Competiţia Google Lunar X Prize, a primit oficial numele I.A.R.-111. "Este o mare onoare şi obligaţie pentru ARCA să contribuie la tradiţia I.A.R., care, din 1925 şi până în prezent, a fost purtat de aeronave redutabile pe plan mondial precum: I.A.R.-11CV, I.A.R.-80, I.A.R.-93, I.A.R.-99", potrivit comunicatului. Până în prezent, numele avionului a fost E-111. "Realizarea unui aparat din seria I.A.R. este o şansă de care orice constructor de aeronave din lume ar fi mândru. I.A.R.-111 va trebui nu numai să contribuie la continuarea tradiţiei numelui I.A.R. (Industria Aeronautică Română, n.r.), ci şi să reprezinte aeronava care să zboare mai sus şi mai repede decât predecesoarele sale, ajutând astfel la progresul României. Mulţumim SC I.A.R. SA Braşov pentru această oportunitate", spune Dumitru Popescu, preşedinte ARCA. Asociaţia Română pentru Cosmonautică şi Aeronautică (ARCA) este o organizaţie non-guvernamentală, care doreşte să câştige competiţia Google Lunar X Prize şi să lanseze în cosmos prima rachetă românească capabilă să transporte un cosmonaut. ARCA a anunţat, pe 22 decembrie 2010, într-o conferinţă de presă, un program la care a lucrat în secret în ultimul an, vizând realizarea primului avion supersonic românesc de mare altitudine ce va lansa racheta Haas II, pentru competiţia Google Lunar X Prize. Avionul supersonic la care ARCA a lucrat în ultimul an este destinat extinderii capacităţilor asociaţiei de lansare a rachetei Haas II, pentru competiţia americană Google Lunar X Prize, precum şi dezvoltării tehnologiilor pentru turismul spaţial. Avionul a fost proiectat pentru a înlocui baloanele purtătoare folosite până în prezent de ARCA, necesare transportului deasupra atmosferei a vehiculelor rachetă. Baloanele purtătoare au reprezentat o soluţie ieftină şi rapidă, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/71-dintre-romanii-de-la-oras-folosesc-internetul-zilnic-cele-mai-utilizate-servicii-cautare-google-e-mail-yahoo/ 71-dintre-romanii-de-la-oras-folosesc-internetul-zilnic-cele-mai-utilizate-servicii-cautare-google-e-mail-yahoo Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:10:02 +0200 Aproape două treimi (64%) dintre românii din mediul urban folosesc internetul, iar dintre aceştia 71,4% îl accesează zilnic, în special de acasă, potrivit studiului "Românii şi Internetul", realizat de Institutul Român pentru Evaluare şi Strategie (IRES). Studiul privind utilizarea Internetului în România şi comportamentul internautic al românilor a fost realizată în perioada 23-24 februarie, pe un eşantion de 1.146 de persoane din mediul urban. Un sfert dintre respondenţi se declară "foarte interesaţi" de internet, iar 37% "interesaţi", în timp ce 18% nu se arată atraşi de aceste servicii. O treime dintre utilizatorii români navighează zilnic între o oră şi trei ore, iar aproape 30% între 30 de minute şi o oră. Cele mai răspândite metode de conectare, de acasă, sunt prin telefon fix şi cablu, cu ponderi de 46%, respectiv 45%. Conexiunea prin bandă largă nu este folosită decât de 6% dintre repondenţi. În schimb, conexiunea la internet cea mai răspândită la serviciu şi în şcoli este cea prin cablu, fiind folosită de 26% dintre respondenţi. Conexiunea prin telefon fix are o pondere de 13%%, iar cea broadband de 4%. Dintre furnizorii de servicii de internet, mai mult de jumătate dintre utilizatorii sunt clienţi ClickNet/Romtelecom (52%), următorii clasaţi fiind RCS&RDS (21%) şi UPC (9%). În acelaşi timp, 4% dintre utilizatorii de internet din România se conectează prin servicii furnizate de principalii doi operatori de telefonie mobile, Orange (2%) şi Vodafone (2%). Cel mai utilizat browser, în România, cu o pondere de 34,3% dintre respondenţi, este Google Chrome, acesta fiind urmat de Mozilla Firefox (30,6%) şi de Internet Explorer (27,8%). În acelaşi timp, cel mai utilizat motor de căutare este Google (89,2%), fiind urmat, la mare distanţă, de Yahoo! (8,8%). Cel mai folosit serviciu de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/facebook-a-angajat-un-director-al-google-pentru-fuziuni-si-achizitii/ facebook-a-angajat-un-director-al-google-pentru-fuziuni-si-achizitii Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:20:03 +0200 Facebook a angajat un director al Google, Amin Zoufonoun, care să conducă fuziunile şi achiziţiile operatorului celei mai mari reţele de socializare din lume, care are un interes crescut pentru astfel de tranzacţii. Până în prezent, achiziţiile Facebook s-au limitat la cumpărarea unor companii mici, interesante mai mult pentru talentul ingineresc decât pentru produse. "În timp se aşteaptă la tranzacţii tot mai mari. În mod sigur deţin resursele pentru astfel de operaţiuni", a declarat o sursă apropiată situaţiei. Facebook, aflată în proprietate privată, a obţinut recent 1,5 miliarde de dolari de la investitori precum Goldman Sachs şi Digital Sky Technologies, precum şi printr-o ofertă privată către investitori din străinătate, care a evaluat compania la circa 50 de miliarde de dolari. La începutul lunii martie, compania de investiţii General Atlantic a cumpărat o participaţie la Facebook, într-o tranzacţie care a conferit companiei o valoare de 65 de miliarde de dolari. Zoufonoun a lucrat la Google din 2003 şi deţinea funcţia de director pentru dezvoltare corporatistă. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-stiu-facebook-si-google-despre-tine/ ce-stiu-facebook-si-google-despre-tine Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:07:02 +0200 Mania Facebook a cucerit România, iar acum 3 milioane de români postează fotografii, videoclipuri şi ţin legătura cu prieteni cu ajutorul reţelei americane, informează www.incont.ro. Însă ce ştiu puţini este faptul că doar simpla menţiune a datei naşterii în profilul de Facebook poate duce la spargerea contului. În plus, există anumite aplicaţii periculoase. De exemplu, aplicaţia care promite să redea vechea temă de Facebook. La accesare, se deschide o pagină care anunţă un test de calculare a IQ-ului, la fel de tentant, dar care îţi cere introducerea mai multor date, inclusiv trimiterea unui cod prin SMS. În final, nu vei avea nici vechea temă de Facebook şi nici nu vei şti IQ-ul, în shimb vei putea calcula timpul şi banii pierduţi, spun specialistii BitDefender. "Platforma Facebook este extrem de dinamică şi mereu apar elemente noi, ceea ce creează o serie de oportunităţi dezvoltatorilor de aplicaţii maliţioase; de exemplu, schimbarea temei de Facebook a fost un prilej pentru a crea o aplicaţie ce promite să redea vechea temă. Cel mai bun sfat este să evitaţi accesarea acelor aplicaţii care vă cer să faceţi diverse acţiuni înainte de a şti exact despre ce e vorba", a declarat Cătălin Cosoi, Head of Online Threats al BitDefender. Citeşte mai multe despre ce ştiu Facebook şi Google despre tine pe www.incont.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/programul-teatrelor-bucurestene-in-perioada-21-27-martie/ programul-teatrelor-bucurestene-in-perioada-21-27-martie Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:21:02 +0200 Programul principalelor instituţii de spectacole din Bucureşti în perioada 21 - 27 martie: Teatrul Naţional Sala Mare: marţi, ora 19:00 "Macbeth", de William Shakespeare; miercuri, ora 20:00 "Dineu cu proşti", de Francis Veber; joi, ora 20:00 "S-a sfârşit cum a-nceput", de Sean O'Casey; vineri, ora 20:00 "Molto, gran'impressione", de Romulus Vulpescu; sâmbătă, ora 20:00 "S-a sfârşit cum a-nceput", de Sean O'Casey; duminică, ora 20:00 "Dineu cu proşti", de Francis Veber. Sala Atelier: marţi, ora 19:00 "Egoistul", de Jean Anouilh; miercuri, ora 19:00 "Tectonica sentimentelor", de Eric-Emmanuell Schmitt; joi, ora 19:00 "Camerista", de Hermann Broch; vineri, ora 19:00 "Legenda Mareiu Inchizitor", după Feodor Dostoievski; duminică, ora 19:00 "Şapte dintr-o lovitură", de Lia Bugnar. Sala Amfiteatru: miercuri, ora 19:00 "Iubiri interzise", de Yukio Mishima; joi, ora 19:00 "Livada de vişini", de A. P. Cehov; vineri, ora 19:00 "Cinci femei de tranziţie", de Rodica Popescu Bitănescu; sâmbătă, ora 19:00 "Egoistul, de Jean Anouilh; duminică, ora 19:00 "Încă-i bine!" de Rodica Popescu Bitănescu. Sala 99: sâmbătă, ora 19:00 "Cu uşile închise", de Jean Paul Sartre; duminică, ora 11:00 - Teatrul Naţional pentru Copii. Teatrul Odeon Sala Studio: miercuri, ora 20:30 "Graffiti.drimz", regia Alina Nelega; joi, ora 20:30 "Micul Prinţ", de Antoine de Saint Exupery, regia Carmen Lidia Vidu; duminică, ora 11:00 "Blifat", de Gabriel Pintilei, regia Alexandru Mihail. Teatrul Metropolis: luni, ora 19:00 "Nebuna din Chailott" de Jean Giraudoux; marţi, ora 18:30 "Nevestele vesele din Windsor" de William Shakespeare; miercuri, ora 19:00 "Zaruri şi cărţi" de Sam Henry Kass; joi, ora 19:00 "Tarelkin" de A. V. Suhovo Kobîlin; vineri, ora 19:00 "Floarea de cactus" de Barillet şi Gredy; sâmbătă, ora 19:00 "Peşte cu mazăre" de Ana Maria Bamberger; duminică, ora 19:00 "Fantoma dragostea mea!" de Noel Coward. Teatrul Bulandra Sala "Toma Caragiu": marţi, ora 18:30 "Ivanov", regia Andrei Şerban. Sala Izvor: miercuri, ora 19:00 "Mamouret", regia Dinu Cernescu; joi, ora 19:00 ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/semnificatii-istorice-pentru-21-martie/ semnificatii-istorice-pentru-21-martie Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:21:02 +0200 În 1685 s-a născut, la Eisenach, compozitorul Johann Sebastian Bach (m. 28 iul. 1750) 1804 - A intrat în vigoare codul civil francez - "Codul lui Napoleon" - care, alături de codul comercial (1808) şi de cel penal (1810), a reprezentat baza juridică a noilor relaţii social-economice. 1806 - S-a născut Benito Suarez, revoluţionar, erou naţional al Mexicului (m.1872) 1839 - S-a născut Modest Petrovici Musorgski, compozitor rus devenit cunoscut prin operele sale muzicale pentru pian. Este considerat unul dintre marii compozitori ruşi din secolul al XIX-lea (m. 28 mar. 1881). 1886 - S-a născut poetul George Topîrceanu, membru al Academiei Române. Este autorul volumelor "Balade vesele şi triste" - 1916, "Parodii originale" - 1916, "Scrisori fără adresă" - 1930 (m. 7 mai 1937). 1902 - S-a născut Virgil I. Vătăşianu, istoric de artă recunoscut în Europa pentru contribuţiile aduse la cunoaşterea artei europene, a influenţei ei asupra celei din ţările române; membru al Academiei Române, laureat al Premiului "Herder" (m. 14 noiembrie 1993). 1910 - S-a născut, la Lipovăţ, jud. Vaslui, actorul Ştefan Ciubotăraşu (m. 27 aug 1970). 1930 - S-a născut Tiberiu Utan, poet şi traducător (m. 1994). 1935 - Persia adoptă noul nume: Iran 1939 - Ultimatum adresat Poloniei prin care Germania nazistă cerea Gdansk (Danzig) şi deschiderea unui coridor spre Prusia Orientală 1943 - Un atentat asupra lui Hitler eşuează 1944 - C.I.C. Brătianu şi Iuliu Maniu au adresat mareşalului Ion Antonescu o scrisoare în care i-au cerut să convină cu Germania în privinţa ieşirii României din război. 1945 - A luat fiinţă Universitatea Muncitorească ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-devine-cel-mai-valoros-brand-din-lume-vezi-cat-valoreaza/ google-devine-cel-mai-valoros-brand-din-lume-vezi-cat-valoreaza Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:21:01 +0200 Google a devenit în acest an cel mai valoros brand din lume, estimat la 44,29 miliarde de dolari, şi a înlocuit liderul de anul trecut Walmart într-un top realizat de compania britanică de consultanţă Brand Finance, în care nouă din primele zece poziţii sunt ocupate de mărci americane. În 2010, Google se situa pe locul secund. Primele zece poziţii în clasamentul pentru 2011 al celor mai valoarose 500 de branduri din lume sunt completate de Microsoft (42,8 miliarde de dolari), Walmart (36,22 miliarde de dolari), IBM (36,1 miliarde de dolari), Vodafone (30,67 miliarde de dolari), Bank of America (30,62 miliarde de dolari), General Electric (30,5 miliarde de dolari), Apple (29,54 miliarde de dolari), Wells Fargo (28,9 miliarde de dolari) şi AT&T (28,88 miliarde de dolari). Singura prezenţă în top zece din afara SUA este grupul britanic Vodafone. Pentru prima dată, brandul Coca-Cola nu a fost inclus între primele zece, situaţie explicabilă prin trendul în rândul consumatorilor din statele dezvoltate de a se orienta către băuturi mai sănătoase, necarbonatate, se arată într-un comunicat al Brand Finance. Coca-Cola, cu o valoare de 25,8 miliarde de dolari, a coborât pe poziţia 16, de pe 3 anul trecut. Nokia a avut cel mai mare declin dintre cele 500 de branduri analizate, respectiv 9,9 miliarde de dolari, din cauza dificultăţilor înregistrate pe piaţa smartphone-urilor. Astfel, cel mai mare producător de telefoane mobile din lume a coborât de pe locul 21 pe 94, cu o valoare a mărcii de 9,66 miliarde de dolari. Facebook a intrat în topul Brand Finance şi o valoare de 3,7 miliarde de dolari. Compania britanică a lansat topul celor mai valoaroase branduri în 2007, iar anul următor acesta a fost extins de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-spune-seful-google-romania-despre-afacerile-romanesti/ ce-spune-seful-google-romania-despre-afacerile-romanesti Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:35:01 +0200 Reprezentantul local al companiei care deţine cel mai important motor de căutare de pe internet vorbeşte cu zgârcenie depre afacerile româneşti. Rigorile unei firme listată la bursă fac din el un interlocutor care îşi drămuieşte cu atenţie fiecare răspuns. "Sunt şi în România companii care se promovează la nivel global. Câteva investesc şi peste 1 milion de dolari anual în AdWords (un serviciu care afişează anunţurile de publicitate, iar clienţii plătesc doar atunci când utilizatorii le accesează, n.r. )", spune Dan Bulucea. Vorbim mult, muncim ceva mai puţin. A preluat funcţia de şef al Google România din noiembrie 2010 şi este, în continuare, "mulţumit că a acceptat această provocare". Despre primele neîmpliniri vorbeşte cu greu. După o pauză de câteva secunde în conversaţie spune că "aş vrea să ne mişcăm şi mai repede cu lansarea anumitor produse pe piaţa din România", însă detaliile se opresc aici. Motivul: aceeaşi politică a companiei. Acceptă să formuleze un comentariu cu privire la situaţia actuală a economiei româneşti în ansamblu. "Pierdem foarte multă energie în a dezbate în public problemele în loc să ne focalizăm pe ce avem fiecare de făcut şi să o facem bine", este singura apreciere personală pe care şi-o permite şeful Google România. Citeşte mai multe despre părerea şefului Google România despre afacerile româneşti pe www.gandul.info. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/digitalizarea-cartilor-de-catre-google-oprita-de-o-instanta-americana/ digitalizarea-cartilor-de-catre-google-oprita-de-o-instanta-americana Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:07:02 +0200 Acordul între Google şi mai multe edituri, care permitea digitalizarea a milioane de volume, a fost blocat de o instanţă de judecată din Statele Unite ale Americii, informează BBC News Online. Compania online a scanat deja milioane de cărţi pe care le-a publicat pe platforma Google Books. Pentru această operaţiune, Google a ajuns la un acord cu publisherii care a pus capăt unui proces de şase ani în care era acuzat de încălcarea drepturilor de autor. Totuşi o instanţă din New York consideră că acest acord îi oferă companiei Google un avantaj nedrept pe piaţă. În SUA, Google, Sindicatul scriitorilor şi Asociaţia editorilor americani au semnat un acord în octombrie 2008, în urma unei acţiuni în instanţă înaintate, în 2005, de către autori şi editori, împotriva companiei de internet, pe tema încălcării drepturilor de autor în cazul digitalizării cărţilor. Acordul prevede, printre altele, ca Google să aloce o sumă de 125 de milioane de dolari pentru recompensarea autorilor ale căror volume au fost digitalizate fără autorizaţia lor. În pofida acestui acord, îngrijorarea privind încălcarea drepturilor de autor a persistat, în condiţiile în care pentru multe cărţi scanate de Google nu a putut fi stabilit cui îi aparţin drepturile de autor. "Acest acord i-ar oferi lui Google un avantaj semnificativ în faţa competitorilor, recompensând faptul că a început copierea unor opere aflate sub protecţia legii drepturilor de autor fără permisiune", a declarat judecătorul Denny Chin. Departamentul american de Justiţie a aprobat verdictul, considerându-l corect. Instituţia a criticat Google deoarece acordul dintre companie şi edituri îi oferea gigantului web drepturi exclusive asupra operelor în cazul în care deţinătorii drepturilor de autor nu puteau fi indentificaţi sau găsiţi. Pe de altă parte, repezentanţii Google au declarat că ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-cuvant-este-interzis-in-convorbirile-telefonice-din-china/ ce-cuvant-este-interzis-in-convorbirile-telefonice-din-china Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:35:02 +0200 Guvernul de la Beijing a pus la punct un sistem care monitorizează conversaţiile telefonice şi taie automat liniile telefonice când sunt pronunţate anumite cuvinte interzise, scrie New York Times. Un antreprenor chinez care discuta la telefon cu viitoarea lui soţie despre meniul pe care îl vor avea la nuntă s-a trezit cu telefonul întrerupt. Motivul: a spus de două ori că logodnica sa protestează prea mult, scrie Gândul. Evident, bărbatul nu se referea la vreun protest al populaţiei împotriva regimului, dar sistemul pus la punct de guvernul chinez nu are de unde să ştie acest lucru. În momentul în care cuvântul "protest" este rostit, convorbirea este întreruptă automat. Luni, Google a acuzat guvernul chinez că blochează accesul la serviciul său de e-mail, Gmail. Compania spune că utilizatorii "întâmpină dificultăţi" în folosirea mailului din cauza "unui blocaj foarte bine pus la punct de guvernul chinez, care face să pară că problema este a Gmail-ului", arată Google într-un comunicat. Purtătorul de cuvânt al ministrului de externe al Chinei a respins acuzaţiile, considerându-le "inacceptabile". China "filtrează" de mult timp rezultatele afişate de motoarele de căutare, dar ultimele încercări dovedesc un sistem mult mai complex de cenzură. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-il-omagiaza-joi-pe-celebrul-magician-harry-houdini/ google-il-omagiaza-joi-pe-celebrul-magician-harry-houdini Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:00:02 +0200 Google şi-a modificat, joi, logoul de pe pagina principală pentru a celebra 137 de ani de la naşterea celebrului magician de origine maghiară Harry Houdini. Noul logo al Google, inscripţionat pe un fond roşu, face trimitere la un afiş de spectacol şi include şi o imagine a lui Houdini. Harry Houdini pe numele adevărat Ehrich Weisz, a fost un magician american de origine evreiască şi maghiară, actor şi producător de film. Iluzionistul Harry Houdini, născut pe data de 24 martie 1874, la Budapesta, a fost una dintre figurile legendare ale iluzionismului. Numele lui era asociat întotdeauna cu întâmplări ieşite din comun, eliberări spectaculoase şi cascadorii care sfidau moartea. Chiar dacă Houdini a murit în urmă cu 81 de ani, oamenii îşi mai amintesc de el atunci când sunt rugaţi să menţioneze numele unui faimos magician. Google îşi modifică logoul frecvent pentru a omagia diferite personalităţi ale culturii universale sau pentru a marca evenimente speciale din istorie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-finanteaza-digitalizarea-arhivelor-lui-nelson-mandela/ google-finanteaza-digitalizarea-arhivelor-lui-nelson-mandela Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:30:01 +0200 Fundaţia Nelson Mandela şi compania Google au anunţat că au început digitalizarea arhivelor primului preşedinte de culoare al Africii de Sud, permiţând accesul publicului la milioane de documente. Google a donat Fundaţiei Nelson Mandela o sumă de 1,25 de milioane de dolari pentru acest proiect. "Ceea ce va distinge aceste arhive de alte surse este faptul că ele vor putea fi accesate gratuit în toată lumea", a declarat Achmat Dangor, preşedintele Fundaţiei Nelson Mandela. Jurnalele lui Mandela din timpul închisorii, scrisori private, precum şi notiţele pe care le lua acesta la reuniunile de vârf la care va participa vor fi, de asemenea, puse la dispoziţia publicului, online. Reprezentanţii fundaţiei au precizat că negociază cu guvernele străine şi alte instituţii care deţin alte documente importante ale lui Mandela pentru a le putea arhiva. "Nu ne aşteptăm să ne trimită originalele, dar vom accepta şi copii", a mai spus Achmat Dangor. El a precizat că anumite documente pot să conţină elemente foarte personale sau informaţii care privesc persoane care se află încă în viaţă. Nelson Mandela, care împlineşte 93 de ani la 18 iulie, a avut ultima apariţie publică la 11 februarie 2010, în timpul vizitei la Parlamentul sud-african, care a marcat 20 de ani de la eliberarea sa. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-omagiaza-femeile-printr-un-logo-special-de-8-martie/ google-omagiaza-femeile-printr-un-logo-special-de-8-martie Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:20:02 +0200 Google şi-a schimbat, marţi, logoul de pe pagina principală, pentru a celebra Ziua Internaţională a Femeii, noua imagine sugerând în mod simbolic ipostaze ale femeii moderne. Ziua Internaţională a Femeii, sărbătorită pe 8 martie, a fost mai întâi expresie a luptei acestora pentru dobândirea unor drepturi, confundându-se ulterior cu o sărbătoare a mamelor în ţările din fostul bloc sovietic şi fiind în prezent un prilej de bucurie pentru reprezentantele sexului frumos. În prezent o zi a bucuriei pentru toate femeile, care primesc flori şi diferite cadouri, sărbătoarea de 8 Martie a fost percepută mult timp drept moment în care erau afirmate drepturile sociale şi politice ale femeilor, precum şi progresele făcute în ceea ce le priveşte. Prima Zi Internaţională a Femeii a fost celebrată în urmă cu 100 de ani, pe 19 martie 1911, în Austria, Danemarca, Germania şi Elveţia. Peste un milion de femei şi bărbaţi au participat în această zi la manifestaţii pentru ca femeilor să li se acorde drepturi legate de muncă, dreptul la vot, educaţie şi de a deţine funcţii publice. În prezent, Ziua Femeii, popularizată mai mult ca "Ziua Mamei" în perioada comunistă, este o sărbătoare oficială în Afganistan, Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodgia, China, Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazahstan, Kârgâzstan, Laos, Madagascar, Republica Moldova, Mongolia, Muntenegru, Nepal, Rusia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ucraina, Uzbekistan, Vietnam şi Zambia. Pe de altă parte, este sărbătorită, fără a fi o sărbătoare oficială, în ţări precum Croaţia, Serbia, Bulgaria, România şi Letonia. În această zi se obişnuieşte ca bărbaţii să dăruiască flori şi mici cadouri femeilor din viaţa lor - soţiilor, iubitelor, mamelor, fiicelor şi colegelor. În România şi Bulgaria, se păstrează obiceiurile de dinainte de căderea comunismului, când, de 8 martie, de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-il-omagiaza-pe-will-eisner-scriitor-american-si-parinte-al-benzilor-desenate/ google-il-omagiaza-pe-will-eisner-scriitor-american-si-parinte-al-benzilor-desenate Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:30:02 +0200 Google, cel mai popular motor de căutare din lume, şi-a modificat, duminică, logoul de pe pagina principală, pentru a marca 94 de ani de la naşterea lui Will Eisner, scriitor american, considerat "părinte" al benzilor desenate. Noul logo al Google a devenit, pentru o zi, o secvenţă de bandă desenată. Will Eisner, creatorul celebrei serii "The Spirit", s-a născut pe 6 martie 1917 şi a trecut în nefiinţă în ianuarie 2005. Eisner a deschis şi un studio pentru benzi desenate şi este autorul cărţii "Comics and Sequential Art". Industria benzilor desenate a vrut să aducă un omagiu talentului lui Will Eisner instituind premiile ce poartă numele artistului, acordate, în fiecare an, celor mai talentaţi realizatori de benzi desenate. Google îşi schimbă frecvent logoul pentru a omagia personalităţi marcante ale culturii universale. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/microsoft-ar-putea-lansa-anul-viitor-o-versiune-a-sistemului-windows-pentru-tablet-pc-uri/ microsoft-ar-putea-lansa-anul-viitor-o-versiune-a-sistemului-windows-pentru-tablet-pc-uri Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:30:01 +0200 Microsoft ar putea lansa anul viitor o versiune a sistemului de operare Windows adaptată pentru tablet PC-uri, potrivit unor surse apropiate situaţiei, citate de Bloomberg. Testele publice pentru noua versiune de Windows vor începe la sfârşitul acestui an, au indicat sursele. Microsoft lucrează la adaptarea sistemului de operare Windows 7 pentru utilizarea acestuia pe tablet PC-uri. Însă cu cât lansarea platformei întârzie mai mult, cu atât concurenţii Microsoft în domeniu, printre care Apple şi Google, îşi vor consolida poziţia pe această piaţă, notează Bloomberg. "Dacă 2011 este un an al războiului tabletelor, Microsoft a întârziat foarte mult cu pregătirile de luptă", a afirmat Michael Gartenberg, analist la New Jersey. Tabletele iPad, ale Apple, şi cele bazate pe sistemul Android, al Google, se vor afla în 2012 deja la a treia generaţie, a menţionat el. Până atunci, companiile Hewlett-Packard şi Research In Motion vor lansa şi ele a doua generaţie de PC-uri. Competiţia pe segmentul tebletelor devine tot mai acerbă, în condiţiile în care numai în acest an vor intra pe piaţă peste 100 de modele noi. Apple a introdus a doua versiune de iPad în această săptămână, la mai puţin de un an de la lansarea primului model. Compania a vândut până în decembrie 14.8 milioane de unităţi din prima variantă. Termenele limită pentru lansarea de noi versiuni de Windows sunt schimbate deseori, în funcţie de rezultatele testărilor şi de îmbunătăţirile aduse. Windows Vista a ieşit pe piaţă cu o întârziere de doi ani, iar Windows 7 mai devreme cu câteva luni. Cu sistemele de operare ale Microsoft sunt dotate peste 90% din PC-urile din întreaga lume. Apple deţine o cotă de peste 90% pe piaţa tabletelor, potrivit companiei. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/brazilia-se-pregateste-de-carnaval-constructia-carelor-alegorice-si-repetitiile-pentru-defilare-galerie-foto/ brazilia-se-pregateste-de-carnaval-constructia-carelor-alegorice-si-repetitiile-pentru-defilare-galerie-foto Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:30:02 +0200 Brazilia este, de joi, cuprinsă încă o dată de febra carnavalului, cu celebrele ei baluri stradale la care participă milioane de persoane, la Salvador da Bahia dându-se startul unei săptămâni de petreceri ce vor culmina cu carnavalul de la Rio, considerat cel mai mare spectacol live din lume. Numeroşi parlamentari au plecat deja din capitala Brasilia. "Carnavalul este o tradiţie în Brazilia. Nimeni nu rezistă dorinţei de a participa", a declarat José Sarney, preşedintele Senatului brazilian, încercând să justifice, miercuri, absenţa multor aleşi, deşi carnavalul începe oficial abia vineri seară şi se va încheia miercuri, 9 martie. Însă oraşul Salvador da Bahia va da încă de joi semnalul de începere a celor şapte zile de petreceri, în timpul cărora sute de mii de persoane dansează în spatele acelor "trio-eletrico" - camioane uriaşe încărcate cu megafoane care circulă prin întregul oraş. O noutate în acest an: grupul Google a anunţat că va difuza în direct pe internet principalele momente ale carnavalului din Salvador da Bahia, pe site-ul YouTube. În oraşul Recife şi în "vecinul" său Olinda, sunt aşteptaţi un milion de petrecăreţi pentru a dansa pe ritmurile frenetice "frevo" ale grupului carnavalesc Galo da Madrugada, cel mai mare din Brazilia. Însă, pentru ceilalţi oameni de pe planetă, carnavalul brazilian este înainte de toate sinonim cu carnavalul de la Rio de Janeiro şi cu dansatoarele sale pe jumătate goale. În timpul celor două nopţi de defilare, duminică şi luni, pe sambodrom, 12 şcoli de samba, aproape 5.000 de dansatori şi care alegorice uriaşe îşi dispută prestigiosul titlu de campion al carnavalului. În acest an, peste 760.000 de turişti sunt aşteptaţi, din care peste o treime vor veni din străinătate, care vor aduce bugetului local aproape ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/apple-a-lansat-ipad-2-vezi-cum-arata-noua-tableta-video-galerie-foto/ apple-a-lansat-ipad-2-vezi-cum-arata-noua-tableta-video-galerie-foto Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:10:01 +0200 Apple a lansat miercuri, la San Francisco, cea de-a doua versiune a tabletei iPad, într-un show susţinut de CEO-ul Steve Jobs. Apariţia lui Jobs, aflat în concediu medical de la sfârşitul lunii ianuarie, a împins în sus acţiunile Apple, calmând investitorii şi fanii care se temeau că acesta are probleme de sănătate. GALERIE FOTO Plin de energie, Jobs a atacat companiile rivale şi a ridiculizat tabletele concurente, sfidând informaţiile apărute în unele tabloide cum că ar fi grav bolnav. În stilul său caracteristic, liderul Apple a descris cu pasiune iPad 2, reuşind un show de lansare tipic maşinii de marketing a companiei americane. La un preţ de referinţă de 499 de dolari pentru versiunea de bază, iPad 2 este mai subţire decât un iPhone 4, de două ori mai performant decât prima variantă, lasată cu mai mult de un an în urmă, şi are camere video pe ambele părţi, facilitând videochatul. iPad 2 va intra pe piaţa americană pe 11 martie şi urmează să-şi facă apariţia în alte ţări pe 25 şi 26 martie. Tableta are procesor dual core Apple A5 de 1 GHz, iar performanîele grafice depăşesc de până la nouă ori prima versiune iPad, potrivit Engadget. Schema de preţuri începe de la 499 de dolari pentru varianta de bază, cu 16 GB de stocare şi conectivitate limitată la WiFi, şi ajunge la 829 de dolari pentru versiuena cu WiFi, 3G şi 64 GB de spaţiu. iPad 2 are ieşire HDMI capabilă de a reda clipuri şi filme la rezoliţie 1080p, însă adaptorul necesar pentru conectarea la un display costă încă 39 de dolari. iPad 2 are pe spate o mască mai mare pentru difuzoare, iar displayul este un LCD IPS cu rezoluţie de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/yahoo-negociaza-vanzarea-participatiei-la-yahoo-japan-pentru-opt-mld-dolari/ yahoo-negociaza-vanzarea-participatiei-la-yahoo-japan-pentru-opt-mld-dolari Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:00:01 +0200 Yahoo! se află în negocieri avansate de vânzare a participaţiei de 35% deţinută la compania Yahoo Japan, evaluată la opt miliarde de dolari, în conformitate cu strategia de renunţare la parteneriatele disfuncţionale din Asia şi de concentrare pe concurenţa cu Google şi Facebook. Acordul privind transferul participaţiei de 35% la Yahoo Japan către compania japoneză de media şi telecomunicaţii Softbank, care deţine deja 42% din acţiuni, ar putea avea loc în câteva săptămâni, au declarat surse apropiate discuţiilor, citate de Reuters. Dacă acordul se va concretiza, este probabil ca Yahoo! să îşi concentraze atenţia spre China, unde deţine circa 40% din Alibaba Group, compania mamă a Alibaba.com. Relaţiile dintre Yahoo!, Softbank şi Alibaba s-au înrăutăţit în ultimii ani. Fondatorul Alibaba, Jack Ma, este interesat să răscumpere acţiunile deţinute de Yahoo! la compania sa, iar fondatorul Softbank, Masayoshi Son, a criticat deschis compania americană pentru rezultatele în domeniul inovaţiilor şi strategia adoptată pe piaţa internaţională. Softbank deţine la rândul ei acţiuni la Alibaba. "Este o relaţie de triumvirat între cele trei părţi. Orice se întâmplă la Alibaba implică cele trei părţi", a spus una din surse. Acţiunile Yahoo! au crescut cu 3,7% la bursa din Tokyo, în urma informaţiilor. Titlurile Softbank, al treilea mare operator de telefonie mobilă din Japonia, au închis în scădere cu 3,6% din cauza temerilor legate de finanţarea tranzacţiei, iar acţiunile Alibaba.com au coborât cu 1,3% la Hong Kong. Softbank a anunţat într-un comunicat că nu se află în negocieri cu Yahoo! şi nu intenţionează să cumpere participaţia acesteia la compania mixtă din Japonia. Yahoo! are nevoie de capital pentru relansarea activităţilor, după ce a pierdut din cota de piaţă în favoarea Google şi Facebook. Din 2005, capitalizarea de piaţă a Yahoo! ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lia-bugnar-noi-nu-avem-poezie-in-filmul-romanesc-deoarece-credem-ca-nu-avem-poezie-in-viata/ lia-bugnar-noi-nu-avem-poezie-in-filmul-romanesc-deoarece-credem-ca-nu-avem-poezie-in-viata Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:00:02 +0200 Lia Bugnar, scenarista filmului "Bună! Ce faci?", de Alexandru Maftei, a declarat, într-o conferinţă de presă, că pelicula, care va avea premiera pe marile ecrane din România vineri, este diferită de restul filmelor actuale, deoarece aduce o poezie care lipseşte din producţiile autohtone. Lia Bugnar a spus, miercuri, într-o conferinţă care a urmat vizionării de presă a filmului, că speră ca "Bună! Ce faci" să aducă publicul meritat în cinematografe. "Eu îmi aduc aminte că am fost, când eram mică, la filmul «Buletin de Bucureşti», un film foarte simpatic", a spus ea. Aceasta a spus că lipsa de poezie din filmul românesc poate fi cauzată de lipsa de încredere a realizatorilor în poezia din cotidianul autohton. De altfel, Bugnar a definit filmul la care a lucrat ca fiind "simpatic", însă "nu la modul peiorativ". "Majoritatea filmelor româneşti sunt despre mizerie", a spus aceasta, remarcând, de asemenea, că actorii distribuiţi în film nu fac parte "dintre cei zece pe care îi vedem în toate filmele româneşti", ci vin din teatru. Regizorul filmului, Alexandru Maftei, a declarat că "Bună! Ce faci?" a fost creat în "4 ani, 9 luni şi 14 zile". Regizorul a mai spus că pentru a realiza, în film, imaginea unui Bucureşti curat, plin de poezie, echipa de producţie a trebuit să asfalteze strada George Vraca, din spatele Hotelului Novotel. De asemenea, acesta a spus că, dacă succesul la public va fi cel scontat, ia în considerare şi realizarea unei continuări la "Bună! Ce faci?". La o dezbatere organizată după conferinţa de presă, părerile au fost împărţite. În timp ce Gorzo a considerat filmul ca fiind construit pe scheletul farsei clasice, cu figuri lipsite de personalitate, de o "blajinătate ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vezi-aici-cea-mai-mare-fotografie-realizata-vreodata-parisul-in-cele-mai-mici-detalii/ vezi-aici-cea-mai-mare-fotografie-realizata-vreodata-parisul-in-cele-mai-mici-detalii Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:40:02 +0200 Cea mai mare fotografie realizată vreodată, Paris 26 Gigapixeli, prezintă o vedere panoramică asupra oraşului şi este formată din mai mult de 2000 de fotografii alăturate, informează www.paris-26-gigapixels.com. Pe site-ul www.paris-26-gigapixels.com oricine poate vizita Parisul şi să vadă într-o singură fotografie toate obiectivele turistice din capitala Franţei. Acestea pot fi analizate în cele mai mici detalii, printr-un zoom pe imagine. Proiectul a fost realizat de Kolor, o companie franceză, Arnaud Frich, unul dintre cei mai cunoscuţi fotografi din Franţa şi Martin Loyer, specializat în fotografie panoramică a oraşelor. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/interviu-baconschi-lucrez-in-fundatia-crestin-democrata-pentru-o-motiune-populara-cuprinzatoare/ interviu-baconschi-lucrez-in-fundatia-crestin-democrata-pentru-o-motiune-populara-cuprinzatoare Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:50:01 +0200 Teodor Baconschi declară, într-un interviu pentru MEDIAFAX, că, din ceea ce a citit, moţiunea grupului Macovei-Preda-Voinescu ar fi una "liberal-conservatoare", iar el redactează în cadrul Fundaţiei Creştin-Democrate "capitole de inspiraţie creştin-democrată pentru o moţiune populară cuprinzătoare". Referindu-se la declaraţia lui Cristian Preda potrivit căreia premierul Boc nu mai are energie să fie liderul partidului, Baconschi spune că în calitate de ministru îl vede foarte des pe premier, pe care îl găseşte "plin de energie". Totodată, Baconschi spune că intenţia de a candida pentru un post de prim-vicepreşedinte al partidului este un proiect politic pe care îl menţine, iar scopul său principal este promovarea doctrinei creştin-democrate în PDL. Prezentăm integral interviul acordat de Teodor Baconschi: Reporter: Cum comentaţi iniţiativa Macovei-Preda-Voinescu de introducere a unor clauze de disciplină mai riguroase în PDL ? Teodor Baconschi: Am salutat deja introducerea unor clauze etice mai severe pentru selecţia, promovarea şi sancţionarea membrilor PDL. Am emis şi un comunicat în acest sens. În acest fel, PDL dă dovada că este un partid exigent cu sine, care nu face doar reforma statului, ci şi reforma internă. Confirmă faptul că PDL este în avangarda reformei politice. Rep.: Ce spuneţi despre eliminarea clauzei de vechime în partid? T.B.: Este o decizie care va potenţa competiţia internă pentru membrii de valoare ai partidului, intraţi mai recent în PDL. Cred că este un semnal bun dat de partid. Rep.: Vă alăturaţi unei moţiuni a grupului Macovei-Preda-Voinescu? T.B.: Din ce am citit, ar fi vorba de o moţiune liberal-conservatoare. După cum ştiţi, eu promovez valorile doctrinei creştin-democrate. Îmi propun să particip la o moţiune populară de largă respiraţie, în care valorile creştin-democrate să fie foarte bine reprezentate. De altfel, împreună cu prietenii şi colaboratorii mei din Fundaţia Creştin-Democrată, redactăm ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fortele-lui-khadafi-au-lansat-atacuri-aeriene-in-doua-orase-controlate-de-opozitie-kadhafi-se-adreseaza-poporului-video/ fortele-lui-khadafi-au-lansat-atacuri-aeriene-in-doua-orase-controlate-de-opozitie-kadhafi-se-adreseaza-poporului-video Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:50:01 +0200 Forţele loiale liderului libian Muammar Kadhafi au lansat, miercuri, atacuri aeriene asupra a două oraşe controlate de opoziţie în ultimele zile, relatează presa internaţională. Liderul libian Muammar Kadhafi, contestat în interiorul şi exteriorul ţării, participa miercuri la o ceremonie publică la Tripoli, în cursul căreia urma să ia cuvântul, potrivit televiziunii oficiale. Ceremonia marchează împlinirea a 34 de ani de la stabilirea "puterii maselor" în Libia, a precizat televiziunea. Zeci de persoane au asistat la ceremonie scandând sloganuri în cinstea lui Kadhafi, apoi au cântat împreună imnul naţional libian, potrivit imaginilor difuzate de televiziune. Tabere militare de la periferia oraşului Ajdabiya erau bombardate de avioane militare miercuri dimineaţă, a declarat un lider tribal, citat de CNN. Tineretul din Ajdabiya se îndrepta spre zona de conflict pentru a apăra oraşul. Liderul tribal a mai declarat că forţele colonelului Kadhafi au preluat controlul asupra oraşului al-Brega, situat la circa 80 de kilometri vest. Acest oraş găzduieşte un mic aeroport şi o instalaţie de rafinare a petrolului. Potrivit Sky News, forţele loiale lui Kadhafi au preluat controlul asupra unei instalaţii petroliere din apropierea oraşului Ajdabiya, situat în estul ţării. Martorii declară că două avioane de vânătoare au bombardat estul oraşului, situat la 800 de kilometri de Tripoli, precizând că forţele loiale regimului avansează. Protestatarii şi forţele lui Kadhafi au fost implicaţi în confruntări violente în cursul nopţii, soldate cu 14 morţi. "Este adevărat. A fost un bombardament aerian al oraşului al-Brega şi forţele lui Kadhafi l-au preluat", a declarat Mohamed Yousef, un ofiţer din oraşul Ajdabiya. "Trupele pro-Kadhafi au sosit în zori la Brega, au preluat controlul asupra rafinăriilor pentru câteva ore", a afirmat un alt martor, contabil la o companie petrolieră, menţionând, la fel ca mai multe persoane, "mercenari" din ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ionut-popa-nu-sunt-multumit-de-transferuri-as-fi-vrut-sa-vina-messi/ ionut-popa-nu-sunt-multumit-de-transferuri-as-fi-vrut-sa-vina-messi Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:40:01 +0200 Antrenorul echipei CS Mioveni, Ionuţ Popa, a declarat, miercuri, că şi-ar fi dorit să facă în această iarnă şi câteva transferuri de marcă şi a glumit precizând că l-ar fi vrut pe argentinianul Lionel Messi. "Nu mă pot declara mulţumit de transferuri. Aş fi vrut să vină Messi… Dar mi-a promis domnul primar că şi Messi poate să ajungă aici în condiţiile în care se va naşte un jucător aici care va purta acest nume" a spus Popa, într-o conferinţă de presă. Divizonara secundă şi-a prezentat noile achiziţii cu care echipa argeşeană va lupta în acest retur pentru promovarea în Liga I. Fotbaliştii achizionaţi în pauza competiţională sunt portarul Alberto Cobrea de la Udinese, fundaşii Alexandru Ciucur de la Pandurii, Constantin Bumbac de la Gloria Arad, mijlocaşul Sebastian Sfârlea de la FCM Târgu Mureş şi atacantul Daniel Stan de la Petrolul. "În primele patru etape sperăm să câştigăm toate meciurile. Important va fi însă primul, cel de vineri cu Voinţa Sibiu, ocupanta primului loc în Seria a II-a. Întâlnim liderul, o echipă cotată în clasamentele europene ca având cele mai puţine goluri primite într-un tur de campionat, dar sperăm să învingem", a afirmat Ionuţ Popa. În prima etapă a returului CS Mioveni va juca, vineri, de la ora 19.00, pe teren propriu, cu Voinţa Sibiu. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-prezinta-ingerii-victoria39s-secret-noile-sutiene-ale-companiei-foto/ cum-prezinta-ingerii-victoria39s-secret-noile-sutiene-ale-companiei-foto Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:50:02 +0200 Victoria's Secret a lansat noua linie de sutiene, denumită "Incredible", la magazinul SoHo din New York. Vedetele evenimentului au fost "îngerii" companiei, care au pozat pentru promovarea noilor produse, informează celebritygossip.net. "Îngerii" Lily Aldridge, Erin Heatherton, Adriana Lima, Candice Swanepoel şi Chanel Iman au purat rochii scurte şi strâmte de culori diferite, fiecare prezentând câte un sutien din noua colecţie. Adriana Lima a dat şi câteva sfaturi pentru alegerea sutienului potrivit. De exemplu, atunci când poartă un tricou, femeile ar trebui să poarte un sutien fin şi fără cusături, pentru că acestea sunt neplăcute la vedere. De asemenea, Lima recomandă evitarea purtării sutienelor din dantelă pe sub bluze strâmte. Victoria's Secret este o companie americană de lenjerie şi produse de frumuseţe pentru femei, cunoscută pentru prezentarea anuală - Victoria's Secret Fashion Show - şi pentru cataloagele în care apar fotomodele de top, numite "îngeri". http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/litigiul-dintre-universitatea-craiova-si-victor-piturca-mutat-de-la-lpf-la-frf/ litigiul-dintre-universitatea-craiova-si-victor-piturca-mutat-de-la-lpf-la-frf Wed, 2 Mar 2011 14:40:01 +0200 Comisia pentru Soluţionarea Litigiilor din cadrul LPF şi-a declinat competenţa în litigiul dintre Universitatea Craiova şi antrenorul Victor Piţurcă, cazul urmând să fie judecat de Camera Naţională de Soluţionare a Litigiilor a FRF. "FC U Craiova vs. Piţurcă Victor - pretenţii financiare - Comisia îşi declină competenţa în favoarea CNSL a FRF", se arată într-un comunicat publicat pe site-ul oficial al Ligii Profesioniste de Fotbal. Conducerea grupării oltene solicită o sumă de bani pe care, conform contractului, antrenorul Victor Piţurcă trebuia să îi vireze în contul clubului. Universitatea Craiova susţine că din cauza neachitării acestei sume anumiţi jucători nu au putut fi plătiţi la timp, aceştia devenind ulterior liberi de contract. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/doua-nave-de-razboi-americane-traverseaza-canalul-suez-si-se-indreapta-spre-libia/ doua-nave-de-razboi-americane-traverseaza-canalul-suez-si-se-indreapta-spre-libia Wed, 2 Mar 2011 14:50:02 +0200 Două nave de război americane, între care portelicopterul USS Kearsarge, traversau miercuri Canalul Suez, pentru a ajunge în Marea Mediterană şi a se poziţiona în largul Libiei, au anunţat autorităţile care gestionează canalul. "USS Kearsarge şi USS Ponce au intrat la ora 6.00 (6.00, ora României) în Canalul Suez, prin intrarea de sud, şi se îndreaptă spre Marea Mediterană", a declarat un oficial din cadrul Canalului, într-un comunicat. Între 12 şi 14 ore sunt necesare pentru a traversa Canalul şi a ajunge în Marea Mediterană. "Deplasăm elemente pentru a le apropia" de Libia, a declarat un oficial al Pentagonului. "O navă ca USS Kearsarge este capabilă de mai multe tipuri de misiuni", a adăugat el. USS Kearsarge este un portelicopter care transportă şlepuri de debarcare. Grupul de operaţiuni amfibii ale Kearsarge, cu circa 800 de puşcaşi marini, o flotă de elicoptere şi unităţi medicale, poate asigura un sprijin pentru operaţiuni umanitare, cât şi militare. Oficialii militari americani pregătesc o listă cu opţiuni ce urmează să fie propuse preşedintelui Barack Obama şi sunt în discuţie cu omologii lor europeni, dar incertitudinea rămâne în privinţa probabilităţii unei intervenţii militare. Conform analiştilor, o demonstraţie de forţă simbolică în largul coastelor libiene ar putea fi suficientă pentru a spori presiunea asupra lui Kadhafi. Un portavion american, USS Enterprise, care transportă avioane de vânătoare capabile să impună o zonă de interdicţie aeriană în Libia dacă va fi cazul, ar putea fi de asemenea chemat în sprijin, pentru a răspunde la criza libiană. Acesta este în prezent în nordul Mării Roşii, potrivit site-ului US Navy. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cum-prezinta-ingerii-victorias-secret-noile-sutiene-ale-companiei-foto/ cum-prezinta-ingerii-victorias-secret-noile-sutiene-ale-companiei-foto Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:50:02 +0200 Victoria's Secret a lansat noua linie de sutiene, denumită "Incredible", la magazinul SoHo din New York. Vedetele evenimentului au fost "îngerii" companiei, care au pozat pentru promovarea noilor produse, informează celebritygossip.net. "Îngerii" Lily Aldridge, Erin Heatherton, Adriana Lima, Candice Swanepoel şi Chanel Iman au purat rochii scurte şi strâmte de culori diferite, fiecare prezentând câte un sutien din noua colecţie. Adriana Lima a dat şi câteva sfaturi pentru alegerea sutienului potrivit. De exemplu, atunci când poartă un tricou, femeile ar trebui să poarte un sutien fin şi fără cusături, pentru că acestea sunt neplăcute la vedere. De asemenea, Lima recomandă evitarea purtării sutienelor din dantelă pe sub bluze strâmte. Victoria's Secret este o companie americană de lenjerie şi produse de frumuseţe pentru femei, cunoscută pentru prezentarea anuală - Victoria's Secret Fashion Show - şi pentru cataloagele în care apar fotomodele de top, numite "îngeri". http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/situatia-din-libia-live-fortele-lui-khadafi-au-lansat-atacuri-aeriene-in-doua-orase-controlate-de-opozitie-kadhafi-se-adreseaza-poporului-video/ situatia-din-libia-live-fortele-lui-khadafi-au-lansat-atacuri-aeriene-in-doua-orase-controlate-de-opozitie-kadhafi-se-adreseaza-poporului-video Wed, 2 Mar 2011 14:00:02 +0200 Forţele loiale liderului libian Muammar Kadhafi au lansat, miercuri, atacuri aeriene asupra a două oraşe controlate de opoziţie în ultimele zile, relatează presa internaţională. Liderul libian Muammar Kadhafi, contestat în interiorul şi exteriorul ţării, participa miercuri la o ceremonie publică la Tripoli, în cursul căreia urma să ia cuvântul, potrivit televiziunii oficiale. Ceremonia marchează împlinirea a 34 de ani de la stabilirea "puterii maselor" în Libia, a precizat televiziunea. Zeci de persoane au asistat la ceremonie scandând sloganuri în cinstea lui Kadhafi, apoi au cântat împreună imnul naţional libian, potrivit imaginilor difuzate de televiziune. Tabere militare de la periferia oraşului Ajdabiya erau bombardate de avioane militare miercuri dimineaţă, a declarat un lider tribal, citat de CNN. Tineretul din Ajdabiya se îndrepta spre zona de conflict pentru a apăra oraşul. Liderul tribal a mai declarat că forţele colonelului Kadhafi au preluat controlul asupra oraşului al-Brega, situat la circa 80 de kilometri vest. Acest oraş găzduieşte un mic aeroport şi o instalaţie de rafinare a petrolului. Potrivit Sky News, forţele loiale lui Kadhafi au preluat controlul asupra unei instalaţii petroliere din apropierea oraşului Ajdabiya, situat în estul ţării. Martorii declară că două avioane de vânătoare au bombardat estul oraşului, situat la 800 de kilometri de Tripoli, precizând că forţele loiale regimului avansează. Protestatarii şi forţele lui Kadhafi au fost implicaţi în confruntări violente în cursul nopţii, soldate cu 14 morţi. "Este adevărat. A fost un bombardament aerian al oraşului al-Brega şi forţele lui Kadhafi l-au preluat", a declarat Mohamed Yousef, un ofiţer din oraşul Ajdabiya. "Trupele pro-Kadhafi au sosit în zori la Brega, au preluat controlul asupra rafinăriilor pentru câteva ore", a afirmat un alt martor, contabil la o companie petrolieră, menţionând, la fel ca mai multe persoane, "mercenari" din ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/senatul-a-adoptat-proiectul-de-lege-pentru-punerea-in-aplicare-a-noului-cod-penal/ senatul-a-adoptat-proiectul-de-lege-pentru-punerea-in-aplicare-a-noului-cod-penal Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:50:01 +0200 Senatul a adoptat, miercuri, proiectul de lege pentru punerea în aplicare a Codului penal şi pentru modificarea şi completarea unor acte normative care cuprind dispoziţii penale, iniţiat de Guvern. Ministrul Justiţiei, Cătălin Predoiu, a catalogat acest proiect drept unul "de referinţă pentru ordinea juridică". "Proiectul reprezintă încă un pas important către un obiectiv cheie al MJ - punerea în aplicare a noilor coduri fundamentale ale României. Transmit încă o dată un mesaj fără echivoc - codurile vor fi implementate într-un viitor foarte apropiat. Metodologia elaborării proiectului de către MJ a implicat analiza a aproximativ 300 de acte normative penale speciale sau extrapenale conţinând dispoziţii penale. Aceste aproximativ 300 de legi conţineau suprapuneri de texte, abrogări implicite asupra cărora planează incertitudinea, pedepse între care există diferenţe flagrante. Prin proiect se propune modificarea, completarea sau abrogarea a unui număr de 225 de acte normative. (...) Dezbaterea proiectului în comisiile Senatului a îmbunătăţit conţinutul normativ, amendamentele adoptate fiind în spiritul direcţiilor generale ale proiectului", a declarat Cătălin Predoiu. El a mai spus că este important să se stabilească o dată realistă pentru implementarea codurilor în raport de pregătirea sistemului judiciar. "Codurile vor intra în vigoare prin efectul legii, dar implementarea lor în viaţa reală nu se face de la sine. Pregătirea sistemului judiciar pentru implementarea codurilor presupune măsuri concrete din partea CSM, derularea unui program de pregătire profesională, alocarea ştiinţifică a resurselor umane, dimensionarea corectă a programelor de încărcare optimă pe instanţe şi parchete. Greul instituţional se mută pe umerii CSM. Iată de ce reînnoiesc apelul către dumneavoastră pentru normalizarea cât mai rapidă a situaţiei cvorumului CSM. Această instituţie este pusă acum în situaţia de a demonstra că poate să guverneze sitemul judiciar şi poate să imlementeze un proiect instituţional, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ministerul-economiei-pretul-gazelor-nu-trebuie-sa-creasca/ ministerul-economiei-pretul-gazelor-nu-trebuie-sa-creasca Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:20:02 +0200 Preţul gazelor naturale plătit de populaţie nu ar trebui să crească, nici în această perioadă nici "în viitor", neexistând motive pentru o astfel de evoluţie, apreciază Ministerul Economiei. "Ministerul Economiei monitorizează în permanenţă situaţia aprovizionării cu gaze naturale, atât din producţia internă, cât şi din import. Punctul de vedere al Ministerului Economiei este că, în această perioadă, preţul gazelor nu trebuie să crească. De asemenea, considerăm că nu există motive ca preţul gazelor la populaţie să fie majorat în viitor", se arată într-un comunicat al instituţiei. În primele două luni ale acestui an ponderea gazelor importate de România prin intermediari din Federaţia Rusă, la preţuri mai mari decât cele de producţie internă, a crescut până la circa 40%, de la 21% în decembrie 2010. De asemenea, pentru luna martie Autoritatea Naţională de Reglementare în Domeniul Energiei (ANRE) estimeză o pondere de 40%. Creşterea importurilor de gaze esta cauzată de epuizarea stocurilor de gaze produse în România din depozitele de înmagazinare, care până anul trecut au fost folosite în principal pentru aprovizionarea unor combinate chimice. Guvernul s-a angajat faţă de Fondul Monetar Internaţiunal ca până în luna septembrie să stabilească un calendar de eliminare a preţurilor reglementate la energia electrică şi gaze, iar acest calendar va fi aplicat în perioada 2013-2015. Pe de altă parte, distribuitorii de gaze au cerut ANRE de mai multe ori în ultimii ani majorarea tarifelor, motivând că vând în pierdere şi nu îşi mai pot acoperi costurile, ceea ce i-ar putea determina să întrerupă alimentarea cu gaze a consumatorilor şi să reducă investiţiile. În 2010, ANRE, instituţie care are rolul de a stabili preţurile la energie şi gaze, a anunţat că va comanda un studiu privind impactul renunţării la preţurile ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/situatia-din-libia-live-fortele-lui-khadafi-au-lansat-atacuri-aeriene-in-doua-orase-controlate-de-opozitie-video/ situatia-din-libia-live-fortele-lui-khadafi-au-lansat-atacuri-aeriene-in-doua-orase-controlate-de-opozitie-video Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:30:01 +0200 Forţele loiale liderului libian Muammar Kadhafi au lansat, miercuri, atacuri aeriene asupra a două oraşe controlate de opoziţie în ultimele zile, relatează presa internaţională. Tabere militare de la periferia oraşului Ajdabiya erau bombardate de avioane militare miercuri dimineaţă, a declarat un lider tribal, citat de CNN. Tineretul din Ajdabiya se îndrepta spre zona de conflict pentru a apăra oraşul. Liderul tribal a mai declarat că forţele colonelului Kadhafi au preluat controlul asupra oraşului al-Brega, situat la circa 80 de kilometri vest. Acest oraş găzduieşte un mic aeroport şi o instalaţie de rafinare a petrolului. Potrivit Sky News, forţele loiale lui Kadhafi au preluat controlul asupra unei instalaţii petroliere din apropierea oraşului Ajdabiya, situat în estul ţării. Martorii declară că două avioane de vânătoare au bombardat estul oraşului, situat la 800 de kilometri de Tripoli, precizând că forţele loiale regimului avansează. Protestatarii şi forţele lui Kadhafi au fost implicaţi în confruntări violente în cursul nopţii, soldate cu 14 morţi. "Este adevărat. A fost un bombardament aerian al oraşului al-Brega şi forţele lui Kadhafi l-au preluat", a declarat Mohamed Yousef, un ofiţer din oraşul Ajdabiya. Martorii susţin că peste 100 de vehicule, care ar fi transportat membri ai miliţiei sau forţele loiale lui Kadhafi, au ajuns în al-Brega marţi şi adaugă că elicoptere au fost de asemenea folosite în raid. Un purtător de cuvânt al Guvernului a afirmat însă că informaţiile privind un contraatac asupra oraşelor deţinute de rebeli sunt false. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pandurii-s-a-inteles-cu-dinamo-meciul-de-vineri-se-joaca/ pandurii-s-a-inteles-cu-dinamo-meciul-de-vineri-se-joaca Wed, 2 Mar 2011 10:30:03 +0200 Conducerea clubului Pandurii Târgu Jiu a anunţat, miercuri, pe site-ul oficial, că a ajuns la un acord cu clubul Dinamo, iar meciul cu echipa dinamovistă, din etapa a XX-a se va disputa conform programului stabilit de LPF. Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal nu a programat echipa Pandurii Târgu Jiu în partida cu Oţelul Galaţi, de pe teren propriu, din cadrul etapei a XIX-a a Ligii I, din cauza datoriei gorjenilor către FC Dinamo din transferul jucătorului Ilie Iordache. Gălăţenii vor câştiga acest meci la masa verde. În cazul în care nu s-ar fi stins litigiul în această săptămână, Pandurii nu ar fi fost programată nici la partida cu Dinamo, care este programat vineri, de la ora 20.30, la Bucureşti, în etapa a XX-a a Ligii I. După două neprogramări, gorjenii ar fi fost retrogradaţi din primul eşalon. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/galliano-concediat-din-functia-de-director-de-creatie-al-casei-dior/ galliano-concediat-din-functia-de-director-de-creatie-al-casei-dior Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:00:02 +0200 Casa de modă franceză Dior a anunţat, marţi, că îl va concedia pe directorul său de creaţie, John Galliano, acuzat de comentarii cu caracter antisemit şi rasist, la o zi după ce o înregistrare video în care acesta afirmă că îl adoră pe Hitler a apărut pe internet. În ciuda acestei decizii, parada Dior pentru colecţia toamnă/ iarnă 2011, prevăzută pentru vineri, în cadrul Săptămânii Modei de la Paris, "nu a fost anulată, pentru moment", a declarat purtătorul de cuvânt al casei Dior care vineri îl suspendase din funcţie pe Galliano. "Casa Dior îşi afirmă, cu cea mai mare tărie, politica sa de toleranţă zero faţă de orice lucru cu caracter antisemit sau rasist. În aşteptarea rezultatelor anchetei, Christian Dior l-a suspendat din toate funcţiile pe John Galliano", a anunţat, vineri, preşedintele-director general al Dior, Sidney Toledano, într-un comunicat. Scandalul a început joi seară, când John Galliano a fost arestat la Paris, după o altercaţie cu un cuplu, pe terasa unei cafenele din Marais, ce l-a acuzat de insulte cu caracter antisemit şi rasist. Potrivit cuplului, intervievat de postul de radio Europe 1, creatorul ar fi strigat: "Dirty jewish face, you should be dead" (un nenorocit de evreu, ar trebui să fii mort) şi "Fucking Asian bastard, I will kill you" (nenorocit de bastard asiatic, te voi omorî). John Galliano era în stare de ebrietate în momentul arestării. Avocatul său a negat acuzaţiile. "A fost o altercaţie, Galliano a fost agresat verbal, dar în niciun moment nu au fost rostite astfel de insulte. Avem de altfel martori în acest sens", a spus avocatul Stéphane Zerbib. Arestat imediat de poliţie, creatorul a fost condus la un comisariat parizian din arondismentul 8. ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cristiano-ronaldo-cel-mai-utilizat-jucator-de-camp-in-prima-liga-spaniola/ cristiano-ronaldo-cel-mai-utilizat-jucator-de-camp-in-prima-liga-spaniola Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:10:02 +0200 Portughezul Cristiano Ronaldo, de la Real Madrid, care a jucat 2368 de minute în 25 de meciuri, este jucătorul de câmp cel mai des utilizat în campionatul Spaniei, a anunţat, marţi, gruparea madrilenă. "Portughezul totalizează 2368 minute şi a jucat integral toate cele 25 de meciuri ale Realului în campionat", se arată pe site-ul oficial al madrilenilor. Doar trei portari au petrecut mai mult timp ca el în teren: Iraizoz (Athletic Bilbao), De Gea (Atletico Madrid) şi Diego Alves (Almeria). Internaţionalul portughez, autor a 24 de goluri în 25 de etape, îi devansează pe Torrejon, de la Racing Santander (2313 minute) şi Gabi, de la Real Zaragoza (2280 minute). Cristiano Ronaldo este de departe cel mai utilizat jucător de la Real Madrid, în faţa portarului Iker Casillas (2181 minute) şi fundaşului Marcelo (2071 minute). Xabi Alonso (2066) şi Ricardo Carvalho (2047) completează topul primilor cinci. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/record-mondial-cel-mai-lung-martisor-realizat-de-doi-designeri-romani/ record-mondial-cel-mai-lung-martisor-realizat-de-doi-designeri-romani Wed, 2 Mar 2011 10:10:02 +0200 Designerii de bijuterii români Mirela Harris şi Adrian Haiduc au creat cel mai lung mărţişor din lume - de aproximativ 584,6 metri -, care a fost validat luni de World Records Academy, potrivit site-ului oficial. Cei doi designeri au folosit pentru crearea acestui mărţişor perle, coral roşu, agate, jad, cristale, mărgele de sticlă, scoici, dantelă, puse pe pene de struţ şi păun. Adrian Haiduc nu este la prima aventură de acest tip. El este deţinătorul recordului pentru lansarea de la cea mai mare înălţime a unei colecţii de bijuterii. Astfel, anul trecut, el şi-a lansat colecţia de bijuterii dintr-un avion, de unde paraşutiştii care îi purtau creaţiile au sărit simultan, de la aproape 1.200 de metri. "Dorinţa noastră a fost să exprimăm în creaţiile noastre tendinţele anilor 1960, reprezentate de dantelă, şi 1970, prin intermediul penelor", a spus Haiduc. Acesta a mai explicat că 1 Martie simbolizează în ţara sa natală sosirea primăverii, iar mărţişorul este oferit pentru a aduce noroc. "Am vrut să combin arta românească cu tradiţia, pentru a aduce această tradiţie în ţara mea adoptivă, SUA", a mai spus acesta. "Pentru că am părăsit România de atâţia ani, întotdeauna încerc să fac ceva care să mă lege de familia de acolo", a spus Mirela Harris, care a adăugat că, de câţiva ani, realizează mărţişoare pe care le oferă membrilor comunităţii româneşti, dar şi noilor prieteni. Recordul a fost validat luni, când a mai fost depăşit recordul pentru cea mai scumpă bucată de pâine - un sandviş prăjit vândut pentru 28.000 de dolari pe Ebay. Proprietarul, Diane Duyser din Miami (SUA), era pe punctul de a muşca din sandviş, când a remarcat că el conţinea imaginea fecioarei Maria. L-a băgat ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/de-ce-ai-avea-un-profil-de-facebook-la-70-de-ani/ de-ce-ai-avea-un-profil-de-facebook-la-70-de-ani Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:30:01 +0200 6,5% dintre francezii cu vârste de peste 65 de ani (aproximativ 700.000 de persoane) deţin un cont pe Facebook, potrivit rezultatelor unui studiu de monitorizare a traficului pe internet , "Observatoire des usages Internet de Médiamétrie", informează Le Monde. Faţă de anul trecut în Franţa, numărul celor intraţi în comunitatea virtuală s-a dublat. MOTIVAŢIILE VÂRSTNICILOR: menţinerea legăturilor cu nepoţii lor, reluarea prieteniilor cu vechi cunoştinţe şi regăsirea unor foste iubiri din tinereţe. Unii septuagenari folosesc Facebook-ul ca un remediu împotriva singurătăţii, fiind dispuşi să se înveţe din mers cum să se descurce într-o reţea de socializare. Publicaţia franceză a primit foarte multe mesaje de la sexagenari şi septuagenari care s-au declarat "pro" sau "contra" Facebook-ului. Iată cum şi-au motivat câţiva repondenţi aderarea lor la Facebook * A ales Facebook-ul pentru a întâlni oameni care au aceleaşi pasiuni, aflând despre existenţa site-ului de la nepoţi. "Împreună cu soţia, am intrat în contact cu partenerii noştri de bridge, dar şi cu persoane noi, pasionate de teatru sau operă" , a scris Bertrand pentru Le Monde. * L-a înscris fiul şi a păstrat contul din respect pentru acesta. Jean-Jacques, profesor în ştiinţele comunicării timp de peste 20 de ani, s-a văzut în faţa faptului împlinit. Mai mult, după semnalarea existenţei lui şi-n comunitatea virtuală, el a fost bombardat de cereri de prietenie de la foşti studenţi şi colegi de catedră. "Am oroare de logo-uri, quizz-uri şi alte fantezii de genul ăsta care se schimbă între membri şi pe care le găsesc inutile", a declarat acesta. Citeşte mai multe despre francezii de peste 65 de ani care au un cont de Facebook pe www.gandul.info. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/benzina-mai-scumpa-cu-opt-bani-pe-litru-la-petrom/ benzina-mai-scumpa-cu-opt-bani-pe-litru-la-petrom Tue, 1 Mar 2011 22:30:01 +0200 OMV Petrom (SNP) a anunţat marţi că a majorat preţul carburanţilor, cu până la opt bani pe litru, ca urmare a creşterii accizelor, după eliminarea din Codul Fiscal a unei facilităţi pentru promovarea utilizării biocarburanţilor. Compania arată într-un comunicat că până marţi produsele cu conţinut de biomasă beneficiau de o acciză redusă. Modificarea a determinat o creştere de opt bani pe litru a preţului benzinei care conţine minim 5% biomasă, iar motorina cu conţinut de minim 5% biomasă s-a scumpit cu şase bani pe litru. Compania OMV Petrom este controlată de grupul austriac de petrol şi gaze OMV. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/o-nava-de-razboi-americana-se-indreapta-spre-libia/ o-nava-de-razboi-americana-se-indreapta-spre-libia Tue, 1 Mar 2011 21:10:02 +0200 O navă de război americană, USS Kearsarge, având la bord câteva sute de militari, se îndreaptă marţi către Libia, au anunţat doi oficiali americani din cadrul apărării, într-un moment în care occidentalii îşi sporesc presiunea asupra regimului colonelului Muammar Kadhafi. USS Kearsarge, un portelicopter ce transportă şlepuri, şi două vapoare care îl însoţesc se pregătesc să intre în canalul Suez venind din Marea Roşie, au anunţat aceşti oficiali sub acoperirea anonimatului. "Deplasăm elemente pentru a le apropia" de Libia, a declarat unul dintre ei. Grupul operaţiunilor amfibie ale Kearsarge, cu circa 800 de marinari, o flotă de elicoptere şi instalaţii medicale, poate asigura susţinerea operaţiunilor umanitare dar şi militare. "O navă ca Kearsarge poate efectua numeroase tipuri de misiuni", a adăugat ofiţerul citat. Oficialii militari americani pregătesc o listă cu opţiuni ce urmează să fie propuse preşedintelui Barack Obama şi sunt în discuţie cu omologii lor europeni, dar incertitudinea rămâne în privinţa probabilităţii unei intervenţii militare, potrivit acestei surse. Opţiunile în cauză "merg de la o demonstraţie de forţă la ceva cu o implicare mai mare", a subliniat acest ofiţer, adăugând că "preşedintele (Obama) nu a luat nicio decizie privind rolul armatei". Potrivit analiştilor, o demonstraţie de forţă simbolică în largul coastei libiene ar putea să fie suficientă pentru a creşte presiunea asupra lui Kadhafi. Dar oficialul citat a subliniat că trimiterea de forţe navale şi aeriene în apropierea Libiei nu este un gest anodin. "Sunt marinari pe vapoarele care se îndreaptă în această direcţie, este ceva real", a insistat el. Un portavion american, USS Enterprise, care transportă avioane de vânătoare capabile în caz de necesitate să impună o zonă de interdicţie aeriană, ar putea, de asemenea, să cheme întăriri pentru a răspunde crizei libiene. Acesta se ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/confruntari-intre-politie-si-manifestanti-la-teheran-opozitie/ confruntari-intre-politie-si-manifestanti-la-teheran-opozitie Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:50:01 +0200 Forţele de ordine au lansat gaze lacrimogene, marţi, pentru a-i dispersa pe manifestanţii reuniţi în centrul Teheranului, a anunţat site-ul Kaleme.com. În schimb, site-ul de Internet al cotidianului guvernamental din Iran a afirmat că "toate informaţiile care vin din diferite cartiere din Teheran menţionează o situaţie calmă şi normală". Corespondenţii presei străine nu au autorizaţia de a relata despre aceste manifestaţii. Aceste confruntări au loc în special în jurul universităţii din Teheran şi a pieţii Azadi, potrivit site-urilor Kaleme.com şi Sahamnews.org ale celor doi lideri ai opoziţiei reformatoare, Mir Hossein Moussavi, fost premier, şi Mehdi Karoubi, fost preşedinte al Parlamentului. Acestea s-au produs în timp ce forţele de ordine, mobilizate masiv în capitală, încercau să împiedice mai multe reuniuni, potrivit site-ului citat, care menţionează "un număr mare de manifestanţi". Site-urile Kaleme şi Sahamnews au evocat "tiruri cu gaze lacrimogene" şi "atacuri masive" ale forţelor de ordine împotriva unor "grupuri mici de câteva sute de persoane care se reunesc sporadic". Cel puţin cinci persoane au fost arestate, potrivit unui alt site de opoziţie, Rahesabz. Această manifestaţie, cea de-a treia în ultimele două săptămâni, a fost interzisă de autorităţi. Manifestanţii scandau "Moarte dictatorului", precum şi "Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein", aluzie la numele lui Moussavi, potrivit Kaleme şi Sahamnews. Site-ul cotidianului guvernamental din Iran a afirmat, citând jurnaliştii săi, că "locurile prezentate (de site-urile de opoziţie) ca fiind cele ale reuniunii factorilor turbulenţi sunt calme şi oamenii îşi fac cumpărăturile pentru Anul Nou" iranian, sărbătorit la 21 martie. Mai multe site-uri de opoziţie le-au cerut susţinătorilor fostului premier Mir Hossein Moussavi şi fostului preşedinte al Parlamentului Mehdi Karoubi să protesteze pentru a cere eliberarea celor doi lideri ai opoziţiei reformatoare. Cei doi opozanţi, acuzaţi oficiali că sunt "trădători" ai regimului, au fost plasaţi în ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/legea-privind-combaterea-pornografiei-le-da-batai-de-cap-senatorilor-olympia-lui-manet-a-fost-acuzata-ca-ar-fi-porno/ legea-privind-combaterea-pornografiei-le-da-batai-de-cap-senatorilor-olympia-lui-manet-a-fost-acuzata-ca-ar-fi-porno Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:20:01 +0200 Senatorii Comisiei de cultură şi mass-media au discutat, marţi, iniţiativa Guvernului privind combaterea pornografiei, polemizând pe marginea definiţiei termenului, iar în final au decis să amâne raportul din cauza lipsei de cvorum. Guvernul a propus comisiei modificarea Legii 196/2003 privind combaterea pornografiei, pentru a suplini reglementările în ceea ce priveşte conţinutul pe internet. Varianta Executivului instituia măsuri pentru a îngrădi accesul minorilor la pagini de internet cu conţinut pornografic, obligând realizatorii acestora să introducă sistem de acces parolat. Varianta propusă de Guvern instituia astfel de interdicţii doar pentru site-urile destinate exclusiv distribuirii de materiale pornografice, în timp ce site-urile care conţin astfel de materiale, însă nu exclusiv, pot permite accesul cu simpla condiţie a verificării vârstei utilizatorului. Executivul a modificat şi definiţia legală a materialelor cu caracter pornografic, stabilind că acestea pot fi "obiecte, gravuri, fotografii, holograme, desene, scrieri, imprimate, embleme, publicaţii, filme, înregistrări video sau audio, spoturi publicitare, programe sau aplicaţii informatice, piese muzicale şi orice alte forme de exprimare care prezintă explicit sau sugerează o activitate sexuală". O parte a membrilor comisiei s-au pronunţat pentru eliminarea termenul "sugerează", întrucât ar fi lăsat loc la interpretări. Definiţia dată de Guvern pornografiei nu i-a mulţumit pe unii senatori, social-democratul Georgică Severin apreciind că se impune o definiţie mai strictă. El a ridicat întrebarea dacă poate fi considerată pornografică o fotografie cu o femeie sumar îmbrăcată sau nud, publicată în paginile unui ziar. "Olympia lui Manet, atunci când a fost expusă prima dată, a fost acuzată că ar fi pornografie", a afirmat el. Severin a atras atenţia asupra riscului instituirii cenzurei, dacă se interzice accesul la site-urile destinate adulţilor, el apreciind că ar fi preferabilă reglementarea unei "filtrări" a conţinutului paginilor de internet. "Problema trebuie rezolvată în primul rând prin educaţie şi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/record-guinness-cel-mai-lung-martisor-realizat-de-doi-designeri-romani/ record-guinness-cel-mai-lung-martisor-realizat-de-doi-designeri-romani Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:40:05 +0200 Designerii de bijuterii români Mirela Harris şi Adrian Haiduc au creat cel mai lung mărţişor din lume - de aproximativ 584,6 metri -, care a fost validat luni de World Records Academy, potrivit site-ului oficial. Cei doi designeri au folosit pentru crearea acestui mărţişor perle, coral roşu, agate, jad, cristale, mărgele de sticlă, scoici, dantelă, puse pe pene de struţ şi păun. Adrian Haiduc nu este la prima aventură de acest tip. El este deţinătorul recordului pentru lansarea de la cea mai mare înălţime a unei colecţii de bijuterii. Astfel, anul trecut, el şi-a lansat colecţia de bijuterii dintr-un avion, de unde paraşutiştii care îi purtau creaţiile au sărit simultan, de la aproape 1.200 de metri. "Dorinţa noastră a fost să exprimăm în creaţiile noastre tendinţele anilor 1960, reprezentate de dantelă, şi 1970, prin intermediul penelor", a spus Haiduc. Acesta a mai explicat că 1 Martie simbolizează în ţara sa natală sosirea primăverii, iar mărţişorul este oferit pentru a aduce noroc. "Am vrut să combin arta românească cu tradiţia, pentru a aduce această tradiţie în ţara mea adoptivă, SUA", a mai spus acesta. "Pentru că am părăsit România de atâţia ani, întotdeauna încerc să fac ceva care să mă lege de familia de acolo", a spus Mirela Harris, care a adăugat că, de câţiva ani, realizează mărţişoare pe care le oferă membrilor comunităţii româneşti, dar şi noilor prieteni. Recordul a fost validat luni, când a mai fost inclusă în Cartea Recordurilor cea mai scumpă bucată de pâine - un sandviş prăjit vândut pentru 28.000 de dolari pe Ebay. Proprietarul, Diane Duyser din Miami (SUA), era pe punctul de a muşca din sandviş, când a remarcat că el conţinea imaginea fecioarei Maria. L-a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/wikileaks-si-figuri-ale-primaverii-arabe-pe-lista-candidatilor-la-premiul-nobel-pentru-pace/ wikileaks-si-figuri-ale-primaverii-arabe-pe-lista-candidatilor-la-premiul-nobel-pentru-pace Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:10:02 +0200 Figuri ale "primăverii arabe", WikiLeaks, fondatorii Internetului şi Uniunea Europeană figurează printre cei 241 de candidaţi - un număr record - pentru acordarea Premiului Nobel pentru Pace din acest an. "Numărul definitiv al candidaturilor este de 241, dintre care 53 de organizaţii", a declarat, marţi, directorul Institutului Nobel, Geir Lundestad. Precedentul record data de anul trecut, cu 237 de candidaturi. Lista de pretendenţi rămâne un secret bine păzit timp de cel puţin 50 de ani, în conformitate cu statutul Nobel, dar, fără a trăda identitatea "nominalizaţilor", Lundestad a afirmat că ediţia din 2011 este influenţată de revoltele populare din lumea arabă. "Am primit mai multe propuneri care reflectă situaţia remarcată" în Tunisia, Egipt şi Libia, a spus el. Mii de persoane din întreaga lume - parlamentari şi miniştri, laureaţi precedenţi, membri ai unor instanţe internaţionale, unii profesori de universitate - obişnuiesc să propună o candidatură, data-limită pentru trimiterea propunerilor fiind fixată pentru 1 februarie. Un deputat norvegian, Snorre Valen, a confirmat că a propus WikiLeaks pentru acordarea premiului Nobel, apreciind că site-ul creat de australianul Julian Assange şi specializat în publicarea de informaţii confidenţiale a permis ridicarea vălului care acoperă "corupţia, crimele de război şi tortura". Organizaţia neguvernamentală rusă pentru drepturile omului Memorial şi unul din directorii săi, Svetlana Ganuşkina, au fost nominalizaţi pentru eforturile lor depuse pentru protejarea libertăţilor în Rusia. Figurează de asemenea pe lista persoanelor propuse cei trei bărbaţi creditaţi cu crearea Internetului, americanii Larry Roberts şi Vint Cerf şi britanicul Tim Berners-Lee. Invenţia lor a permis apariţia unor site-uri cum ar fi Twitter şi Facebook, care au jucat un rol important în "primăvara arabă". Alte candidaturi cunoscute sunt: UE, fostul cancelar german Helmut Kohl, preşedinta liberiană Ellen Johnson Sirleaf şi disidentul cubanez Oswaldo Paya Sardinas. Numele laureatului sau ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/wizz-air-a-deschis-la-targu-mures-cea-de-a-patra-baza-operationala-din-romania/ wizz-air-a-deschis-la-targu-mures-cea-de-a-patra-baza-operationala-din-romania Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:10:02 +0200 Operatorul aerian low cost Wizz Air a deschis marţi la Târgu Mureş ce-a de-a patra bază operaţională din România şi va adăuga şapte noi rute celor deja operate spre Budapesta şi Londra, a anunţat compania. Astfel, începând din 18 iunie vor fi operate câte trei zboruri pe săptămână către Barcelona şi Dortmund şi două zboruri către Bergamo. Din 19 iunie vor începe şi câte două zboruri săptămânale spre Paris şi Madrid, iar din 20 iunie Wizz Air va zbura de două ori pe săptămână către Roma şi Bologna. Wizz Air va creşte şi frecvenţa către Londra de la 3 la 4 zboruri pe săptămănă. "La cinci ani după ce Wizz Air a lansat primul zbor din România, inaugurăm cea de-a patra bază operaţională din ţară. Aceasta reprezintă o nouă etapă semnificativă pentru operaţiunile noastre din România. Această extindere ne va consolida în continuare poziţia de lider pe segmentul low cost în România", a declarat József Váradi, Chief Executive Officer Wizz Air. Tarifele pornesc de la 90 lei (22,49 euro) pentru un singur zbor, cu toate taxele incluse. Biletele sunt deja disponibile pe site-ul companiei. Wizz Air a transportat 9,8 millioane de passageri în ultimele 12 luni. Compania operează de pe 12 baze aflate în Polonia, Ungaria, Bulgaria, România, Ucraina si Cehia. Cea de-a 13-a bază, din Belgrad Serbia şi cea de-a 14-a din Vilnius, Lituania vor deveni operaţionale din primăvara anului 2011. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-sarbatoreste-1-martie-printr-un-logo-special/ google-sarbatoreste-1-martie-printr-un-logo-special Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:10:02 +0200 Google şi-a modificat, marţi, logoul pentru a celebra 1 Martie, literele care formează cuvântul având aspectul unui şnur de mărţişor, în culorile alb şi roşu. Google îşi schimbă frecvent logoul pentru a marca evenimente speciale din cultura mondială. Mărţişorul - micul obiect prins într-un şnur alb cu roşu - este un simbol al primăverii, dar şi al speranţei, fiind învestit cu forţa renaşterii şi dăruit celor dragi pentru a le aduce noroc. În general, femeile şi fetele primesc mărţişoare şi le poartă pe durata lunii martie, ca semn al sosirii primăverii. În Moldova însă, obiceiul este ca fetele să dăruiască mărţişoare băieţilor. Împreună cu mărţişorul se oferă adesea şi flori timpurii de primăvară, cea mai reprezentativă fiind ghiocelul. Arheologii au descoperit obiecte cu o vechime de mii de ani care pot fi considerate mărţişoare. Ele au forma unor mici pietre de râu vopsite în alb şi roşu, înşirate pe aţă, pentru a fi purtate la gât. Cele două culori sunt deschise interpretărilor: roşul poate semnifica vitalitatea femeii, iar albul - înţelepciunea bărbatului. Astfel, şnurul mărţişorului exprimă împletirea inseparabilă a celor două principii. Semnificaţia firelor alb şi roşu ce se împletesc într-un şnur de care este prins un mic obiect este relevată şi de unele legende. Astfel se spune că Soarele ar fi coborât pe pământ în chip de fată frumoasă şi ar fi fost ţinut prizonier de un zmeu. Pentru a-l elibera, un voinic s-a luptat cu zmeul vărsându-şi sângele în zăpadă. Soarele a urcat din nou pe cer şi, în locurile în care zăpada s-a topit, au răsărit ghiocei - vestitori ai primăverii. Conform unui mit care circulă în Republica Moldova, în prima zi a lunii martie, frumoasa Primăvară a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/noul-videoclip-al-lui-lady-gaga-artista-da-nastere-unor-monstri-video/ noul-videoclip-al-lui-lady-gaga-artista-da-nastere-unor-monstri-video Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:10:02 +0200 Lady Gaga a lansat cel mai nou videoclip al său, pentru piesa "Born this Way". Dacă ceea ce a realizat până acum a fost de fiecare dată criticat, actualul videoclip se pare că va fi cel mai controversat al artistei. Vedeta a ilustrat în videoclip ideea melodiei, aceea de procreere, astfel că "Born this Way" este povestea naşterii noii rase. Lady Gaga o întruchipează pe Mama Monstru, care la începutul videoclipului povesteşte cum a fost creată o nouă rasă extraterestră. În videoclipul care durează 7 minute vedeta apare îmbrăcată în bikini negri din piele în timp ce dansează alături de mai mulţi bărbaţi şi femei, face gesturi obscene şi mişcări cu tentă sexuală. De asemenea, Gaga apare îmbrăcată într-un costum bărbătesc, cu faţa pictată precum un craniu. Cele mai şocante scene din videoclip sunt însă cele în care artista dă naştere unor creaturi pe care le numeşte "monştrii ei". Lady Gaga a şocat publicul de la începutul campaniei de promovare a piesei "Born this Way". La gala premiilor Grammy, artista a "eclozat" dintr-un ou uriaş ce a fost transportat pe scenă, unde cântăreaţa americană a interpretat noul ei single. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ultimele-evenimente-din-maghreb-si-orientul-mijlociu/ ultimele-evenimente-din-maghreb-si-orientul-mijlociu Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:00:01 +0200 Maghrebul şi Orientul Mijlociu se confruntă cu un val de contestare socială şi politică fără precedent, care este reprimat, adesea în mod sângeros, de regimurile autoritare din aceste regiuni, relatează AFP, care prezintă ultimele evenimente din aceste ţări. LIBIA: Opoziţia libiană controla, luni, vaste teritorii, inclusiv principalele câmpuri petrolifere, în contextul în care colonelul Muammar Kadhafi rămânea indiferent la presiunea internaţională, care se accentuează, minimizând insurecţia sângeroasă cu care se confruntă regimul său. În cea de-a 14-a zi a unei revolte fără precedent, care s-a transformat într-o insurecţie, Kadhafi şi forţele sale mai controlează doar Tripoli şi regiunea capitalei. Opoziţia a anunţat reluarea iminentă a exporturilor de petrol, provenind din estul ţării, regiune pe care o controlează. Forţele loiale lui Kadhafi au deschis focul, luni seara, asupra trecătorilor, la Misrata, la est de Tripoli, două persoane fiind ucise, iar o alta grav rănită, potrivit unui martor. Un avion francez de tip ATR-42 a decolat marţi dimineaţa din regiunea pariziană, cu cinci tone de material medical la bord, cu destinaţia Benghazi, în estul Libiei. Comunitatea internaţională este, din nou, "pusă la încercare", după 70 de ani de la atrocităţile naziste, a apreciat, la Washington, secretarul general al ONU, Ban Ki-moon. El a denunţat atitudinea puterilor din Libia şi din Coasta de Fildeş. OMAN: Noi confruntări au izbucnit, luni, în oraşul Sohar, în Oman, între poliţie şi manifestanţii care denunţă corupţia regimului. Protestatarii au blocat intrarea în port, al doilea cel mai important din acest sultanat din regiunea Golfului. Cel puţin un manifestant a fost ucis, duminică, în timpul confruntărilor cu poliţia. Manifestanţii cereau, până în prezent, o ameliorare a condiţiilor de muncă, dar, de luni, ei au început să denunţe regimul sultanului din Oman, care ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/teroristii-cauta-noi-tactici-de-atac-scorpioni-paianjeni-viespi-sau-serpi-in-avioane/ teroristii-cauta-noi-tactici-de-atac-scorpioni-paianjeni-viespi-sau-serpi-in-avioane Tue, 1 Mar 2011 08:40:02 +0200 Un ucenic terorist a sugerat o nouă tactică pentru a genera panică, şi anume introducerea de scorpioni într-un avion de linie, la câteva zile după apelul lansat de numărul doi din al-Qaida, pentru organizarea de noi atacuri împotriva Occidentului. Într-un mesaj postat pe forumul unui site islamist, un bărbat care se identifică drept Abu Yaqeen al-Askeri scrie: "ceea ce trebuie este un număr mare de scorpioni", potrivit centrului american de supraveghere a site-urilor islamiste SITE. Scorpionii ar fi introduşi într-un "zbor-ţintă", într-un "container de plastic sau într-o sticlă sau o geantă mică" şi ar trece de detectoarele de metale şi explozivi. După ce decolează avionul, containerul cu scorpioni ar fi deschis, făcând din acest zbor un "infern", continuă Abu Yaqeen al-Askeri, încheindu-şi mesajul cu "hahaha". În alte mesaje se sugerează de asemenea introducerea de păianjeni, viespi sau şerpi, ca într-un film de groază, în sistemul de ventilaţie care duce către cabină. "Ar fi mai bine, ar ajunge la piloţi. Dar aţi fi şi voi înţepaţi", scrie un internaut care se semnează Abdullah al-Anbari. Acelaşi bărbat are altă idee: "Iei un lansator de grenade, te duci într-un munte sau o pădure din apropierea unui aeroport şi vizezi primul avion occidental care trece", spune el. "Pentru că de fapt, fratele meu, povestea asta cu înţepătura mă cam perturbă", mărturiseşte el. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/galliano-il-adora-pe-hitler/ galliano-il-adora-pe-hitler Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:00:01 +0200 Designerul britanic John Galliano, suspendat din funcţia de director de creaţie al casei Dior pentru comentarii antisemite, spune că îl "adoră pe Hitler" într-o înregistrare video realizată de un anonim într-o cafenea din Paris, imaginile putând fi vizionate pe site-ul thesun.co.uk. "Îl ador pe Hitler", spune John Galliano în limba engleză unor persoane aşezate într-o cafenea la o masă alăturată. "Oameni ca voi ar fi morţi (pe vremea lui Hitler, n.r.). Mamele voastre, taţii voştri ar fi toţi nişte nenorociţi de gazaţi", mai spune el în această înregistrare. "Aveţi o problemă?", îl întreabă o femeie al cărei chip nu poate fi văzut. "Cu dumneavoastră. Sunteţi urâtă", răspunde John Galliano, vizibil ameţit de băutură. "De unde sunteţi?", întreabă o persoană aşezată la masa vecină celei la care se afla John Galliano. "Târfo", a răspuns designerul. Potrivit tabloidului The Sun, persoanele insultate de John Galliano erau de origine franceză şi engleză, nu evreiască. Persoana care a realizat înregistrarea, care a dorit să rămână anonimă, a povestit cotidianului britanic că "Galliano era singur şi consuma alcool". "Galliano s-a băgat continuu peste conversaţia noastră, făcând comentarii despre noi şi despre ceea ce spuneam. Eram stupefiaţi de ceea ce spunea", a spus acesta. Înregistrarea video a fost realizată, potrivit The Sun, în aceeaşi cafenea pariziană unde John Galliano a fost acuzat de comentarii rasiste şi antisemite, săptămâna trecută, în timpul unei altercaţii cu un cuplu. Tabloidul nu a precizat data la care a fost realizată înregistrarea. John Galliano - care a fost arestat joi, la Paris, după o altercaţie cu un cuplu, ce l-a acuzat de insulte cu caracter antisemit şi rasist -, a fost suspendat în aceeaşi zi din funcţia de director de creaţie al casei ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/galliano-il-adora-pe-hitler-video/ galliano-il-adora-pe-hitler-video Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:10:02 +0200 Designerul britanic John Galliano, suspendat din funcţia de director de creaţie al casei Dior pentru comentarii antisemite, spune că îl "adoră pe Hitler" într-o înregistrare video realizată de un anonim într-o cafenea din Paris, imaginile putând fi vizionate pe site-ul thesun.co.uk. "Îl ador pe Hitler", spune John Galliano în limba engleză unor persoane aşezate într-o cafenea la o masă alăturată. "Oameni ca voi ar fi morţi (pe vremea lui Hitler, n.r.). Mamele voastre, taţii voştri ar fi toţi nişte nenorociţi de gazaţi", mai spune el în această înregistrare. "Aveţi o problemă?", îl întreabă o femeie al cărei chip nu poate fi văzut. "Cu dumneavoastră. Sunteţi urâtă", răspunde John Galliano, vizibil ameţit de băutură. "De unde sunteţi?", întreabă o persoană aşezată la masa vecină celei la care se afla John Galliano. "Târfo", a răspuns designerul. Potrivit tabloidului The Sun, persoanele insultate de John Galliano erau de origine franceză şi engleză, nu evreiască. Persoana care a realizat înregistrarea, care a dorit să rămână anonimă, a povestit cotidianului britanic că "Galliano era singur şi consuma alcool". "Galliano s-a băgat continuu peste conversaţia noastră, făcând comentarii despre noi şi despre ceea ce spuneam. Eram stupefiaţi de ceea ce spunea", a spus acesta. Înregistrarea video a fost realizată, potrivit The Sun, în aceeaşi cafenea pariziană unde John Galliano a fost acuzat de comentarii rasiste şi antisemite, săptămâna trecută, în timpul unei altercaţii cu un cuplu. Tabloidul nu a precizat data la care a fost realizată înregistrarea. John Galliano - care a fost arestat joi, la Paris, după o altercaţie cu un cuplu, ce l-a acuzat de insulte cu caracter antisemit şi rasist -, a fost suspendat în aceeaşi zi din funcţia de director de creaţie al casei ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/directorul-adjunct-al-autoritatii-pentru-fondurile-ue-a-demisionat-considerand-ca-este-ignorat/ directorul-adjunct-al-autoritatii-pentru-fondurile-ue-a-demisionat-considerand-ca-este-ignorat Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:20:01 +0200 Răzvan Cotovelea a demisionat din funcţia de director general adjunct al Autorităţii de Coordonare a Instrumentelor Structurale, după 12 ani de activitate în negocierea şi coordonarea fondurilor europene, motivând că în ultima perioadă experienţa sa a fost ignorată. "Impresia mea este că de mai bine de un an şi ceva experienţa mea nu mai contează, nu mai interesează pe mine, adică 12 ani şi 35 de miliarde de euro negociate pentru România, pe criterii tehnice, nu politice, pentru că n-am avut legături cu zona politică (..) În două cuvinte, după 12 ani şi 35 de miliarde de euro negociate constaţi că experienţa ta nu e bagată în seamă, că nu mai contează nici ce spui, nici dacă vrei să îndrumi Guvernul, să spui dacă face bine sau rău (...) Acum chiar nu mai contează ce experienţă ai sau ce ai făcut, dacă te laudă Comisia Europeană şi FMI. Am decis să plec dacă nu mai are nimeni nevoie de mine", a declarat Cotovelea pentru MEDIAFAX. Cotovelea a demisionat şi din poziţia de coordonator naţional adjunct al asistenţei financiare externe nerambursabile. Anterior, el a fost director general al ACIS, poziţie din care a negociat toate programele operaţionale structurale. Întrebat dacă plecarea de la ACIS are legătură cu intenţia premierului de a lua în subordine directă activitatea de coordonare a fondurilor structurale, Cotovelea a negat că acesta ar fi motivul demisiei, adăugând însă că incertitudinea faţă de viitorul ACIS se înscrie printre lucrurile care l-au deranjat în ultima perioadă. "Opinia strict personală este că nimeni nu ştie absolut nimic. ACIS poate să treacă integral sub premier, poate să fie spart, ceea ce ar fi cel mai rău, sau poate să rămână ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/caietul-licitatiei-pentru-vanzarea-drepturilor-tv-ale-partidelor-din-liga-i-costa-30-000-de-euro/ caietul-licitatiei-pentru-vanzarea-drepturilor-tv-ale-partidelor-din-liga-i-costa-30-000-de-euro Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:20:01 +0200 Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal (LPF) a anunţat, luni, pe site-ul său oficial, că preţul caietului de licitaţie pentru vânzarea drepturilor de televizare a partidelor din următoarele trei sezoane ale Ligii I costă 30.000 de euro fără TVA. Caietul de licitaţie poate fi procurat în perioada 3-10 martie. De asemenea, taxa de înscriere la licitaţie este de 5.000 euro la care se adaugă TVA. Scrisorile de garanţie bancară aferente licitaţiei sunt prevăzute în Caietul de Licitaţie. Deschiderea plicurilor cu documentele de participare la licitaţie se va face în faţa ofertanţilor ce se vor prezenta în data de 24 martie, ora 13.00, la sediul LPF. Preţul de pornire a licitaţiei pentru fiecare pachet, cu excepţia pachetelor 8 şi 9, este de 12.900.000 euro (4.300.000 euro/sezon competiţional) la care se adaugă TVA. Preţul de pornire a licitaţiei pentru pachetele 8 şi 9 este, pentru fiecare dintre ele, de 10.500.000 euro (3.500.000 euro/sezon competiţional) la care se adaugă TVA. Licitaţia publică cu strigare pentru cesiunea drepturilor de televiziune (audiovizuale) prin orice mijloc tehnic a imaginilor în mişcare, însoţite sau nu de sunet, din cadrul meciurilor de fotbal ale competiţiei Liga I "PARTENER" în sezoanele competiţionale 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014 va avea loc în data de 04 aprilie, la ora 12.00 la sediul LPF din Str. Alexandru Vitzu, nr. 2A, sector 5, Bucureşti. Meciurile de fotbal care formează obiectul drepturilor licitate sunt împărţite în nouă pachete distincte, echilibrate în condiţiile Caietului de licitaţie. Drepturile ce urmează a fi cesionate includ: dreptul de televiziune (audiovizual) de difuzare primară sau secundară, în direct sau înregistrat, prin reţele de televiziune proprii sau afiliate, prin orice mijloc tehnic a imaginilor în mişcare corespunzătoare meciurilor de fotbal, grupate în pachete distincte şi echilibrate. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/primul-roman-care-a-ajuns-la-real-madrid-dupa-gica-hagi-are-doar-12-ani-si-marcheaza-79-de-goluri-intr-un-sezon/ primul-roman-care-a-ajuns-la-real-madrid-dupa-gica-hagi-are-doar-12-ani-si-marcheaza-79-de-goluri-intr-un-sezon Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:10:01 +0200 Are doar 12 ani, însă Real Madrid a pariat deja pe el. Nicuşor Craiu este cea mai mare speranţă a României la categoria lui de vârstă, informează sport.ro Madrilenii l-au descoperit pe când juca la Rayo Vallecano şi a stabilit un record incredibil - 79 de goluri într-un singur sezon. Într-un interviu acordat site-ului oficial al Federaţiei Române de Fotbal, puştiul spune că abia aşteaptă să îmbrace tricoul naţionalei noastre. * Nicuşor, eşti unul dintre numeroşii juniori români care evoluează în Spania. Ce calităţi te-au recomandat pentru Real Madrid şi cum ai ajuns aici? Citeşte mai multe despre Nicuşor Craiu pe www.sport.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/robert-turcescu-sport-total-fm-se-va-transforma-in-postul-de-radio-100-fm/ robert-turcescu-sport-total-fm-se-va-transforma-in-postul-de-radio-100-fm Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:10:02 +0200 Postul de radio Sport Total FM, cumpărat în decembrie de Robert Turcescu şi Bobby Păunescu, se va transforma, treptat, în "100% FM", lansarea propriu-zisă a noii staţii urmând să se producă spre începutul toamnei, a declarat pentru MEDIAFAX jurnalistul Robert Turcescu. Potrivit lui Robert Turcescu, în acest moment, Sport Total FM (105,8 FM) are o structură mai plină de informaţii. Noul slogan al postului de radio este "100% FM", care "probabil în timp va deveni numele radioului". "Noi am încărcat liniile de programe. Am introdus o dimensiune de dialog cu ascultătorii. Există şi o redacţie de ştiri care lucrează pentru radio. Radioul are o structură mai plină de informaţii, însă rămâne cu o încărcătură sportivă pronunţată. Vrem să înţeleagă ascultătorii Sport Total FM că dimensiunea de radio preocupat de sport nu se va pierde. Probabil că într-o perioadă rezonabilă de timp, numele radioului va fi «100% FM», iar fostul nume va rămâne în istorie, o istorie frumoasă", a declarat Robert Turcescu. El a precizat că lansarea propriu-zisă a noului post de radio se va produce cel mai probabil la începutul toamnei. În noua grilă a postului de radio se regăsesc emisiunile: "Prime time" (difuzată între 07.00 - 11.00), "11 Metri" (între 11.00 - 14.00) şi "Reţeaua de socializare" (14.00 - 18.00). În curând, şi Robert Turcescu îşi va relua emisiunea "România vorbeşte" la Sport Total FM. Jurnalistul realizează şi emisiunea "100%", la postul B1 TV. Totodată, Robert Turcescu a spus că au fost activate frecvenţele Sport Total FM de la Galaţi, Botoşani şi Slatina, care nu erau puse în funcţiune. Pe aceste frecvenţe ale radioului vor fi retransmise programele produse la Bucureşti. Robert Turcescu şi Bobby Păunescu au cumpărat Sport Total FM, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/gospodina-ingrijorata-versus-diva-senzuala-ipostaze-ale-femeii-in-publicitatea-din-romania/ gospodina-ingrijorata-versus-diva-senzuala-ipostaze-ale-femeii-in-publicitatea-din-romania Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:10:02 +0200 Între gospodina care are coşmaruri cu maşina de spălat stricată şi diva senzuală cu păr strălucitor care face bărbaţii să cadă în fântâni arteziene, publicitatea din România nu oferă alte imagini originale ale femeii, ci mai curând apelează la modele prescrise şi învechite. Regula de aur în publicitate este că o reclamă trebuie să folosească limbajul şi imaginarul colectiv al publicului ţintă, poate de aceea, când vine vorba de promovarea detergenţilor sau a produselor destinate îngrijirii locuinţelor, spoturile apelează la stereotipul femeii gospodine. Aceste stereotipuri care au la bază femeia casnică nu sunt de azi, de ieri. În cultura europeană, ele datează încă din antichitate. "Trebuie să considerăm caracterul femeilor ca suferind de o imperfecţiune naturală", considera filosoful grec Aristotel, în timp ce Ecleziastul caracterizează femeia ca fiind "mai amară decât moartea". În sensul tradiţiei biblice, primii creştini considerau femeile vinovate pentru căderea lui Adam în păcat. Tradiţia iudaică şi cea creştină considerau femeile impure, înclinate spre rău, incapabile de responsabilităţi demne de un cetăţean, destinate plăcerilor sexuale şi funcţiei reproductive. În absenţa acestor funcţii, femeile nu aveau nicio valoare. Situaţia nu s-a schimbat nici mai târziu. În Franţa, în 587 era noastră, s-a ţinut o adunare publică pentru a decide dacă femeia poate fi sau nu considerată cu adevărat o fiinţă umană, iar înainte de 1850, femeile nu erau considerate cetăţeni în Anglia, neavând nici un fel de drepturi personale, până în 1882. Pe fondul acestor influenţe culturale, nu a fost decât un pas până la decretarea socială a faptului că femeile sunt incapabile de performanţe şi locul lor este în gospodărie, rolul lor principal fiind de a îngriji bărbatul şi copii. Chiar şi în arealul funcţiilor gospodăreşti, femeia nu ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ue-a-adoptat-sanctiuni-impotriva-lui-muammar-kadhafi/ ue-a-adoptat-sanctiuni-impotriva-lui-muammar-kadhafi Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:00:02 +0200 Uniunea Europeană a adoptat luni un embargo asupra armelor împotriva Libiei, precum şi îngheţarea conturilor şi interzicerea vizei pentru colonelul Muammar Kadhafi şi 25 dintre apropiaţii săi, mergând dincolo de sancţiunile decise sâmbătă de ONU, potrivit diplomaţilor. "Interdicţiile de călătorie, îngheţarea conturilor bancare, interdicţia de vânzare de arme şi obiecte care pot fi folosite în timpul represaliilor" au fost decise în unanimitatea în timpul unei reuniuni a ambasadorilor celor 27 de ţări la Bruxelles, a declarat un diplomat european. Lista persoanelor vizate de îngheţarea conturilor şi interdicţiile de călătorie este "mai lungă decât cea a ONU", care include şase şi, respectiv, 16 nume, a precizat el. Aceste măsuri trebuie adoptate oficial în cursul zilei, la nivel ministerial, la Bruxelles. Principiul lor a fost validat de vineri, dar rămăsese de finalizat conţinutul. Măsurile ar trebui să poată intra în vigoare încă de luni, a adăugat el. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/charlie-sheen-vrea-sa-dea-in-judecata-cbs/ charlie-sheen-vrea-sa-dea-in-judecata-cbs Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:40:02 +0200 Charlie Sheen vrea să-i dea în judecată pe şefii televiziunii CBS, care au decis să întrerupă producţia serialului "Doi bărbaţi şi jumătate/ Two and A Half Men", actorul cerând despăgubiri de 320 de milioane de dolari, informează contactmusic.com. Reţeaua de televiziune CBS a anulat producţia serialului "Doi bărbaţi şi jumătate/ Two and A Half Men" până la sfârşitul sezonului, după ce vedeta comediei, Charlie Sheen, l-a insultat pe producător, Chuck Lorre. Decizia a fost luată cu câteva zile înainte ca Sheen, cel mai bine plătit actor de televiziune din SUA, să revină pe platourile de filmare, după o absenţă în timpul căreia a fost internat la o clinică de dezintoxicare, pentru a treia oară în ultimele 12 luni. Potrivit New York Post, Sheen vrea să îi dea în judecată pe şefii de la CBS pentru că i-ar fi provocat suferinţe psihice. Pârâţii ar fi creatorul serialului Chuck Lorre şi şefii Warner Bros., dosarul urmând să fie depus la o instanţă din California, luni. Producţia "Doi bărbaţi şi jumătate" a fost suspendată în ianuarie, când Sheen a fost internat, după o petrecere de 36 de ore care a avut loc la locuinţa sa şi s-a încheiat cu internarea sa în spital. Actorul acuza atunci dureri abdominale, care, potrivit presei, ar fi fost provocate de abuzul de droguri şi de alcool. Săptămâna trecută, într-un interviu pentru un post de radio şi în declaraţii publicate pe site-ul TMZ.com, Sheen l-a numit pe producătorul serialului, Chuck Lorre, "un şarlatan care a ales să nu-şi facă datoria" şi "un prostănac". Actorul şi-a bătut joc şi de organizaţia Alcoolicii Anonimi, spunând că el s-a vindecat cu puterea minţii sale după patru ore de tratament cu alcool ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/martisorul-simbolul-renasterii-si-sperantei-marcheaza-trecerea-in-anotimpul-primaverii/ martisorul-simbolul-renasterii-si-sperantei-marcheaza-trecerea-in-anotimpul-primaverii Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:40:02 +0200 Mărţişorul - micul obiect prins într-un şnur alb cu roşu - este un simbol al primăverii care va să vină, dar şi al speranţei, fiind învestit cu forţa renaşterii şi dăruit celor dragi pentru a le aduce noroc. În general, femeile şi fetele primesc mărţişoare şi le poartă pe durata lunii martie, ca semn al sosirii primăverii. În Moldova însă, obiceiul este ca fetele să dăruiască mărţişoare băieţilor. Împreună cu mărţişorul se oferă adesea şi flori timpurii de primăvară, cea mai reprezentativă fiind ghiocelul. Arheologii au descoperit obiecte cu o vechime de mii de ani care pot fi considerate mărţişoare. Ele au forma unor mici pietre de râu vopsite în alb şi roşu, înşirate pe aţă, pentru a fi purtate la gât. Cele două culori sunt deschise interpretărilor: roşul poate semnifica vitalitatea femeii, iar albul - înţelepciunea bărbatului. Astfel, şnurul mărţişorului exprimă împletirea inseparabilă a celor două principii. Semnificaţia firelor alb şi roşu ce se împletesc într-un şnur de care este prins un mic obiect este relevată şi de unele legende. Astfel se spune că Soarele ar fi coborât pe pământ în chip de fată frumoasă şi ar fi fost ţinut prizonier de un zmeu. Pentru a-l elibera, un voinic s-a luptat cu zmeul vărsându-şi sângele în zăpadă. Soarele a urcat din nou pe cer şi, în locurile în care zăpada s-a topit, au răsărit ghiocei - vestitori ai primăverii. Conform unui mit care circulă în Republica Moldova, în prima zi a lunii martie, frumoasa Primăvară a ieşit la marginea pădurii şi a observat cum, într-o poiană, într-o tufă de porumbari, de sub zăpadă răsare un ghiocel. Iarna a chemat vântul şi gerul să distrugă floarea şi ghiocelul a îngheţat, însă ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/dinu-gheorghe-rapid-va-fi-programata-vom-achita-in-timp-util-datoria-catre-fc-brasov/ dinu-gheorghe-rapid-va-fi-programata-vom-achita-in-timp-util-datoria-catre-fc-brasov Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:10:01 +0200 Preşedintele FC Rapid, Dinu Gheorghe, a declarat, luni, agenţiei MEDIAFAX, că Rapid nu riscă neprogramarea la meciul cu Oţelul din etapa a XX-a, deoarece va achita în timp util datoria către FC Braşov. "Suntem Rapid, normal că se doreşte neprogramarea noastră. Dar nu se va întâmpla, staţi liniştiţi. Sută la sută vom achita în timp util datoria către FC Braşov. Asta e problema noastră şi a FC Braşov", a spus Dinu Gheorghe. FC Rapid are o înţelegere cu FC Braşov pentru amânarea până joi a plăţii datoriei de aproximativ 250.000 de euro reprezentând ultima rată din transferul mijlocaşului Mihai Roman. În cazul în care nu achită, formaţia giuleşteană riscă neprogramarea în meciul din deplasare cu Oţelul Galaţi, programat, sâmbătă, în cadrul etapei a XX-a a Ligii I. Preşedintele grupării FC Braşov, Iosif Kovacs, a confirmat că data de 3 martie este termenul limită până la care FC Rapid trebuie să achite datoria. "Am primit o solicitare din partea celor de la Rapid să îi mai păsuim câteva zile. Am ajuns la un acord şi am convenit să ne achite banii până joi", a declarat Iosif Kovacs pentru site-ul oficial al FC Braşov. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/alexandra-dulgheru-a-coborat-un-loc-si-se-afla-pe-29-in-clasamentul-wta/ alexandra-dulgheru-a-coborat-un-loc-si-se-afla-pe-29-in-clasamentul-wta Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:10:01 +0200 Jucătoarea română de tenis Alexandra Dulgheru a coborât o poziţie şi se află pe locul 29, cu 2.000 de puncte, în clasamentul WTA, dat publicităţii luni, informează site-ul wtatour.com. Simona Halep a coborât două poziţii şi se află pe locul 63 (957 de puncte), Monica Niculescu se menţine pe locul 64 (938 de puncte), iar Sorana Cîrstea a urcat două poziţii, pe locul 92 (720 de puncte). În Top 200 se mai află şase sportive din România: Edina Gallovits-Hall, locul 102, cu 665 de puncte, în coborâre 20 de poziţii, Irina-Camelia Begu, locul 139 de puncte, cu 476 de puncte, Mădălina Gojnea, locul 160, cu 375 de puncte, în urcare 12 poziţii, Liana-Gabriela Ungur, locul 162, cu 369 de puncte, în coborâre o poziţie, Ioana Raluca Olaru, locul 170, cu 344 de puncte, în urcare o poziţie, şi Elena Bogdan, locul 199, cu 291 de puncte. În ierarhia de dublu, Monica Niculescu ocupă locul 34, cu 2.470 de puncte, acelaşi ca în clasamentul precedent. Dulgheru se menţine pe locul 52, cu 1.600 puncte, Gallovits-Hall a urcat o poziţie ajungând pe locul 69 (1.124 de puncte), Sorana Cârstea se află pe 74 (în coborâre două locuri), cu 1.087 de puncte, Ioana Raluca Olaru a urcat 28 de poziţii şi se află pe locul 83, cu 982 de puncte, iar Irina-Camelia Begu a urcat 11 poziţii şi se află pe locul 97, cu 824 de puncte. Primele zece locuri ale clasamentului WTA de simplu sunt ocupate de următoarele jucătoare: 1. Caroline Wozniacki (Danemarca) 9.550 puncte 2. Kim Clijsters (Belgia) 8.835 3. Vera Zvonareva (Rusia) 7.565 4. Samantha Stosur (Australia) 5.086 5. Francesca Schiavone (Italia) 5.051 6. Jelena Jankovici (Serbia) 4.825 7. Na Li (China) 4.300 8. Venus ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/victor-hanescu-a-coborat-pe-locul-59-in-clasamentul-atp/ victor-hanescu-a-coborat-pe-locul-59-in-clasamentul-atp Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:10:01 +0200 Tenismanul român Victor Hănescu a coborât două poziţii şi se află pe locul 59, cu 845 de puncte, în clasamentul ATP, dat publicităţii luni, informează site-ul atpworldtour.com. În Top 200 ATP mai figurează doi români: Adrian Ungur pe locul 183, în urcare 12 poziţii, cu 293 de puncte şi Victor Crivoi pe locul 188, în coborâre şapte poziţii, cu 287 de puncte. La dublu, Horia Tecău, care a câştigat împreună cu Victor Hănescu turneul de la Acapulco, a urcat patru poziţii şi se află pe locul 16, cu 3.675 de puncte. Primele 20 de poziţii ale clasamentului ATP de simplu sunt ocupate de următorii jucători: 1. Rafael Nadal (Spania) 12.390 puncte 2. Roger Federer (Elveţia) 7.965 3. Novak Djokovici (Serbia) 7.880 4. Robin Soderling (Suedia) 6.055 5. Andy Murray (Marea Britanie) 5.715 6. David Ferrer (Spania) 4.510 7. Tomas Berdych (Cehia) 4.410 8. Andy Roddick (SUA) 3.735 9. Fernando Verdasco (Spania) 3.095 10. Jurgen Melzer (Austria) 2.730 11. Gael Monfils (Franţa) 2.650 12. Nicolas Almagro (Spania) 2.530 13. Mihail Iujnâi (Rusia) 2.420 14. Stanislas Wawrinka (Elveţia) 2.175 15. Mardy Fish (SUA) 2.121 16. Ivan Ljubicici (Croaţia) 2.055 17. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Franţa) 1.970 18. Viktor Troicki (Serbia) 1.670 19. David Nalbandian (Argentina) 1.655 20. Marin Cilici (Croaţia) 1.500. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bancile-pentru-locuinte-vor-avea-la-sfarsitul-anului-aproape-400-000-de-clienti/ bancile-pentru-locuinte-vor-avea-la-sfarsitul-anului-aproape-400-000-de-clienti Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:20:01 +0200 Băncile pentru locuinţe estimează că portofoliul de clienţi va include 375.000 - 400.000 de români până la finele acestui an, comparativ cu 320.000 de persoane în decembrie 2010, iar economiile acestora vor avansa cu peste 40%, la circa un miliard de lei. "Clienţii sistemului Bauspar, de economisire-creditare, provin în prezent din familii cu venituri medii şi sub-medii, de circa 600 euro/lună/familie, pentru care accesul la produse de finanţare imobiliară este limitat. Numărul persoanelor care au contractat un astfel de produs urmează un trend crescător, de la peste 100.000 în anul 2007 la circa 375.000-400.000 de clienţi estimaţi pentru finalul anului 2011", a declarat într-o conferinţă de presă economistul-şef al BCR, Lucian Anghel, citând un studiu al Asociaţiei Băncilor pentru Domeniul Locativ din România. Economistul a arătat că piaţa potenţială este formată din peste un milion de persoane interesate de produsele Bauspar în viitorul apropiat. El a arătat că sumele economisite în acest sistem au crescut în ultimii trei ani cu peste 50% anual, fiind estimată depăşirea sumei de un miliard lei la finalul acestui an. Pe piaţa de economisire-creditare din România sunt prezente două bănci, Raiffeisen Banca pentru Locuinţe şi BCR Banca pentru Locuinţe, care aveau la finele anului trecut un portofoliu format din peste 320.000 de persoane, care au depus în total aproximativ 700 de milioane de lei. Astfel, sumele economisite prin sistemul de economisire-creditare reprezentau la finele anului trecut sub 1% din totalul depozitelor populaţiei, de peste 104 miliarde de lei. Anghel a precizat că în România procentul persoanelor care trăiesc într-o casă supraaglomerată este de opt ori mai mare decât în Germania şi de două ori mai mare decât în Cehia. Totodată, el a arătat că în plin avânt al sectorului rezidenţial, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/fiorentinanews-va-trebui-sa-mai-asteptam-un-meci-pentru-a-l-vedea-pe-il-fenomeno/ fiorentinanews-va-trebui-sa-mai-asteptam-un-meci-pentru-a-l-vedea-pe-il-fenomeno Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:20:02 +0200 Site-ul fiorentinanews.com a scris că suporterii vor trebui să mai aştepte cel puţin un meci pentru a-l vedea pe "Il Fenomeno", după prestaţia modestă avută de atacantul Adrian Mutu în partida terminată la egalitate, duminică, în deplasare, scor 1-1, cu formaţia Bari, în etapa a XXVII-a din Serie A. Sursa citată i-a acordat nota 5,5 românului, la fel ca şi site-urile calciotoscano.it şi firenzeviola.it. "O jumătate de foarfecă şi o lovitură liberă deviată de zid. Atât a reuşit Mutu. Va trebui să mai aşteptăm un meci pentru a-l vedea pe «Il Fenomeno»", a scris fiorentinanews.com. "Românul s-a văzut puţin în joc şi a avut doar două şuturi spre poarta lui Gillet", a notat calciotoscano.it. "În prima repriză a fost anihilat perfect de apărarea adversă având o singură situaţie, atunci când a reluat di foarfecă. În partea secundă, Mutu s-a văzut foarte puţin", a scris firenzeviola.it. Site-urile calciomercato.it şi violanews.com i-au acordat nota 5 lui Mutu. "A vrut să dea mai mult şi din această cauză i-au ieşit puţine", a scris calciomercato.it. "Al doilea meci consecutiv în care românul are o prestaţie modestă", a notat violanews.com. Atacantul Adrian Mutu a jucat 68 de minute în partida pe care echipa AC Fiorentina a terminat-o la egalitate, duminică, în deplasare, scor 1-1, cu formaţia AS Bari, în etapa a XXVII-a a campionatului Italiei. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/probleme-pentru-google-sute-de-mii-de-conturi-gmail-au-fost-sterse/ probleme-pentru-google-sute-de-mii-de-conturi-gmail-au-fost-sterse Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:40:01 +0200 Zeci de mii de conturi Gmail au fost şterse, inclusiv fiecare email, aplicaţie, contact sau informaţii din calendar, a confirmat compania Google, informează dailymail.co.uk. Problema a apărut duminică după-amiază, când mii de oameni s-au plâns că tot conţinutul conturilor lor a dispărut. "Am pierdut toate emailurile/folderele din Gmail. De ce s-a întâmplat asta? Cum pot să recuperez totul?" sau "toate conturile, setările emailurile, contactele mele au dispărut pur ţi simplu" sunt doar câteva dintre mesajele trimise de utilizatorii Gmail către companie. Se pare că aproape 600.000 de utilizatori au fost afectaţi, iar Google a încercat timp de câteva ore să repare problema serviciului care este utilizat de aproximativ 2 milioane de oameni. Unul dintre utilizatorii Gmail a scris într-o postare pe blog: "Din mesajele postate pe forumuri şi pe Twitter este clar că sute, dacă nu cumva mii de oameni au rămas fără conturi Gmail". În seara de duminică, un purtător de cuvânt al Google a declarat pentru Huffington Post: "Am rezolvat problema pentru o parte dintre utilizatori. Inginerii noştri lucrează şi încearcă să readucă totul la normal cât mai repede posibil. Ne pare foarte rău pentru neplăcerile create utilizatorilor noştri". Primele estimări au arătat că 0,23 la sută dintre utilizatorii Gmail au fost afectaţi, însă acestea au fost revizuite de Google la 0,08 la sută. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/colin-firth-in-rol-de-rege-balbait-intra-in-galeria-personalitatilor-de-la-hollywood/ colin-firth-in-rol-de-rege-balbait-intra-in-galeria-personalitatilor-de-la-hollywood Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:40:02 +0200 Colin Firth, un artist foarte cunoscut în Marea Britanie, în special datorită rolurilor romantice, a intrat cu adevărat în lumea legendelor, duminică seara, când a câştigat Oscarul pentru cel mai bun actor, pentru prestaţia sa din filmul "Discursul regelui". Premiul Academiei americane de film îl face pe Colin Firth - un actor britanic de film, teatru şi televiziune, devenit celebru în 1995 graţie rolului din adaptarea pentru televiziune a romanului "Mândrie şi prejudecată" - să iasă din etapa dedicată rolurilor romantice. Fiul unor profesori universitari, Colin Firth şi-a petrecut o parte din copilărie în Africa şi este în prezent tată a trei copii. Colin Firth a devenit celebru după ce a jucat într-o serie de producţii cinematografice cu mare succes de casă, precum seria "Jurnalul lui Bridget Jones", musicalul "Mamma Mia!" şi filmele "Fata cu cercel de perlă", "Pur şi simplu dragoste" şi "Pacientul englez". În 1995, Colin Firth ieşea ud leoarcă, îmbrăcat cu o cămaşă lipită de trup, dintr-un lac, într-o adaptare a romanului "Mândrie şi prejudecată", pentru BBC. Acesta a fost rolul care i-a adus celebritatea. Cu silueta sa elegantă şi ochii profunzi, Colin Firth a devenit încarnarea domnului Darcy. Mai mult, Colin Firth a jucat rolul lui Mark Darcy şi în "Bridget Jones's Diary/ Jurnalul lui Bridget Jones" (2001), alături de Renée Zellweger. Deşi a demonstrat că poate juca şi un alt gen de roluri, domnul Darcy a rămas lipit foarte mult timp de actorul britanic. "Numele acesta, Darcy, este ca o fantomă care nu mă lasă în pace", se plângea Colin Firth într-un interviu. Dincolo de rolul domnului Darcy, actorul britanic Colin Firth, în vârstă de 50 de ani, este renumit şi pentru celelalte prestaţii ale sale. Astfel, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/membrii-pdl-arestati-preventiv-sau-trimisi-in-judecata-ar-putea-fi-suspendati-pana-la-3-ani-din-partid/ membrii-pdl-arestati-preventiv-sau-trimisi-in-judecata-ar-putea-fi-suspendati-pana-la-3-ani-din-partid Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:50:01 +0200 Arestarea preventivă, trimiterea în judecată sau condamnarea pentru fapte penale poate duce la suspendarea din PDL pe o perioadă de până la 3 ani sau chiar la excluderea din partid, prevăd propunerile de modificare a Statutului formaţiunii formulate de Macovei, Preda şi Voinescu. Conform propunerilor formulate la Statutul PDL de Monica Macovei, Cristian Preda şi Sever Voinescu şi publicate pe blogul Monicăi Macovei, poate deveni membru al partidului orice persoană care: are vârsta de cel puţin 18 ani; recunoaşte şi respectă Statutul, Programul şi toate celelalte documente sau regulamente ale partidului; este apreciată şi cunoscută ca un cetăţean onest şi competent, cu o bună reputaţie, înregistrarea sa ca membru nefiind de natură să dăuneze activităţii sau imaginii partidului; nu este trimisă în judecată sau nu a fost condamnată în România sau în orice altă ţara democratică pentru fapte săvârşite cu intenţie; nu a fost angajat al Securităţii sau colaborator al acesteia; nu promovează şi nu a promovat idei sau acţiuni de rasism, xenofobie, antisemitism şi intoleranţă; nu îi este interzisă, prin hotărâre judecătorească definitivă, exercitarea drepturilor politice sau cetăţeneşti. Documentul face şi o clasificare a faptelor pentru care un membru PDL poate fi sancţionat. Astfel, sunt considerată fapte foarte grave: falsul în CV-ul şi declaraţia pe propria răspundere privind îndeplinirea condiţiilor de înscriere în partid; incompatibilităţile constatate definitiv de instanţele judecătoreşti pe baza sesizărilor Agenţiei Naţionale de Integritate; constatarea calităţii de lucrător sau colaborator al Securităţii de către Consiliul Naţional de Studiere a Arhivelor Securităţii; arestarea preventivă, trimiterea în judecată sau condamnarea pentru fapte de natură penală comise în România sau în orice altă ţara democratică; tentativa de a cumpăra voturi sau de a influenţa intenţia de vot, în cadrul şi în afara ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/barbatii-isi-petrec-10-500-de-ore-din-viata-in-baruri-vezi-cati-ani-stau-in-fata-televizorului/ barbatii-isi-petrec-10-500-de-ore-din-viata-in-baruri-vezi-cati-ani-stau-in-fata-televizorului Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:40:01 +0200 Media timpului petrecut de către bărbaţii din Marea Britanie de-a lungul vieţii în baruri este de 10.585 ore şi stau în faţa televizorului 11 ani, potrivit unui studiu făcut de site-ul dailymail.co.uk. Acelaşi studiu indică faptul că bărbaţii britanici se culcă în medie cu nouă partenere de-a lungul vieţii, ştiu să gătească doar patru feluri de mâncare şi pierd aproximativ o lună pentru a-şi găsi şosetele. Citeşte mai multe despre cum îşi petrec bărbaţii timpul pe www.zf.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/barbatii-petrec-10-500-de-ore-in-baruri-si-stau-11-ani-in-fata-televizorului/ barbatii-petrec-10-500-de-ore-in-baruri-si-stau-11-ani-in-fata-televizorului Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:00:01 +0200 Media timpului petrecut de către bărbaţii din Marea Britanie de-a lungul vieţii în baruri este de 10.585 ore şi stau în faţa televizorului 11 ani, potrivit unui studiu făcut de site-ul dailymail.co.uk. Acelaşi studiu indică faptul că bărbaţii britanici se culcă în medie cu nouă partenere de-a lungul vieţii, ştiu să gătească doar patru feluri de mâncare şi pierd aproximativ o lună pentru a-şi găsi şosetele. Citeşte mai multe despre cum îşi petrec bărbaţii timpul pe www.zf.info http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/canabisul-benefic-bolnavilor-de-cancer/ canabisul-benefic-bolnavilor-de-cancer Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:00:01 +0200 Cercetători canadieni de la Universitatea din Alberta susţin că o substanţă din canabis, care dă senzaţia de euforie şi stimulează apetitul, ar putea ajuta bolnavii de cancer să-şi redobândească simţul gustului, informează site-ul rawstory.com. Experimentul este primul care a explorat proprietăţile substanţei THC din canabis prin selectarea bolnavilor de cancer în mod aleatoriu şi utilizarea unui grup "de control" pentru a putea face comparaţie. Rezultatele studiului arată că 73% din voluntarii care au luat pastilele cu THC au spus că a început să le placă mâncarea, iar 55% au declarat că medicamentele au "făcut mâncarea să aibă un gust mai bun". Citeşte mai multe despre beneficiile canabisului pentru bolnavii de cancer pe www.gandul.info http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/premiul-pus-in-joc-la-tragerea-loto-649-de-duminica-necastigat/ premiul-pus-in-joc-la-tragerea-loto-649-de-duminica-necastigat Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:50:02 +0200 Report de 25 de milioane de lei la loto 6/49 s-a înregistrat după tragerea de duminică, informează site-ul loteriei române. Numerele extrase duminică la categoria I 6/49 au fost 8, 33, 24, 29, 7 şi 48, iar numărul "noroc" a fost 6270067. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/mircea-lucescu-a-refuzat-o-oferta-de-a-reveni-la-besiktas/ mircea-lucescu-a-refuzat-o-oferta-de-a-reveni-la-besiktas Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:10:02 +0200 Tehnicianul formaţiei Şahtior Doneţk, Mircea Lucescu, a refuzat o ofertă a conducerii clubului Beşiktaş de a reveni la conducerea tehnică a echipei din Istanbul, informează site-ul tumspor.com. Potrivit sursei citate, Lucescu a fost abordat de preşedintele clubului, Yildirim Demiroren, dar i-a spus oficialului că este fericit la Şahtior şi nu se gândeşte la o revenire în Turcia atâta timp cât nu se va confrunta o vreo problemă importantă. Cotidianul Fotospor notează în schimb că Lucescu i-a cerut lui Demiroren să discute din nou după meciul echipei Şahtior cu AS Roma, din manşa secundă a optimilor de finală ale Ligii Campionilor, programat la 8 martie. "Mai întâi să vă rezolvaţi problemele interne, iar eu să mă concentrez pentru meciul cu Roma. Să discutăm mai detaliat în funcţie de rezultatul acestui meci. Să acţionăm în funcţie de ce se întâmplă", i-ar fi spus Mircea Lucescu lui Demiroren. Lucescu a antrenat echipa Beşiktaş în perioada 2002-2004 şi a câştigat cu aceasta campionatul Turciei, în 2003. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/evacuarile-masive-ale-strainilor-din-libia-continua/ evacuarile-masive-ale-strainilor-din-libia-continua Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:40:02 +0200 Evacuările masive de străini din Libia au continuat duminică, în contextul sosirii unei nave militare italiene la Catania, în Sicilia, cu peste 260 de persoane la bord, în timp ce aproximativ 100.000 de persoane au părăsit, deja, ţara. "Aproximativ 100.000 de persoane", în principal muncitori egipteni şi tunisieni, au părăsit Libia pentru a se refugia în ţări vecine, potrivit Înaltului Comisariat ONU pentru Refugiaţi (UNHCR), care încearcă să le vină în ajutor, iar exodul continuă. La Malta, o navă, Toscana, era aşteptată duminică la prânz, cu peste 1.800 de muncitori la bord, în special coreeni şi filipinezi. În Tunisia vecină, o filială locală a Semilunii Roşii vorbeşte despre o "criză umanitară" şi face apel la ajutor. "Peste 10.000 de persoane, majoritatea egipteni", au plecat din Libia numai sâmbătă, prin principalul punct de trecere a frontierei, Ras Jedir. "Peste 10.000 de persoane au trecut (frontiera) ieri, prin (punctul) Ras Jedir. Este o criză umanitară. Lansez un apel insistent ca toată lumea să ajute la soluţionarea acestei probleme", a declarat Monji Slim, preşedintele Comitetului Regional al Semilunii Roşii, la Ben Guerdane, primul oraş de la frontieră. Peste 40.000 de persoane au tranzitat acest post de frontieră într-o săptămână, dintre care peste 15.000 sunt egipteni, iar acest flux continua duminică. În Germania, Ministerul Apărării a anunţat duminică, pe site-ul său, că două dintre avioanele sale Transall C-160 au evacuat, cu o zi înainte, 133 de persoane, din Libia. Avioanele au efectuat această operaţiune către Creta, cu soldaţi înarmaţi la bord. Sute de vietnamezi, indieni sau filipinezi, care au părăsit, deja, bogatul stat petrolier, unde munceau în cadrul unor multinaţionale, au declarat că s-au temut că nu se vor putea întoarce acasă, în viaţă. "Am crezut că nu voi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/obama-si-merkel-au-discutat-despre-relansarea-economica-globala-si-stabilitatea-din-zona-euro/ obama-si-merkel-au-discutat-despre-relansarea-economica-globala-si-stabilitatea-din-zona-euro Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:30:01 +0200 Preşedintele Statelor Unite, Barack Obama, şi cancelarul german Angela Merkel au discutat despre relansarea economică globală şi stabilitatea din zona euro. Cei doi oficiali au vorbit despre "nevoia unor instrumente concrete de promovare a stabilităţii economice în zona euro", potrivit unui comunicat al Casei Albe. Discuţia telefonică a avut loc sâmbătă. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/programul-etapei-a-xx-a-a-ligii-i/ programul-etapei-a-xx-a-a-ligii-i Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:40:01 +0200 Programul partidelor care vor avea loc vineri, 4 martie, sâmbătă, 5 martie, duminică, 6 martie, şi luni, 7 martie, în etapa a XX-a a Ligii I, anunţat de site-ul oficial al LPF. Vineri, 4 martie: Unirea Urziceni - FCM Târgu Mureş, ora 18.00, GSP TV Dinamo - Pandurii Târgu Jiu, ora 20.30, Antena 1 Sâmbătă, 5 martie: Oţelul Galaţi - Rapid, ora 14.30, Digi Sport Gloria Bistriţa - Sportul Studenţesc, ora 17.00, GSP TV CFR Cluj - FC Timişoara, ora 19.00, Digi Sport Duminică, 6 martie: Gaz Metan Mediaş - Astra Ploieşti, ora 16.00, GSP TV Steaua - FC Braşov, ora 20.00, Digi Sport Luni, 7 martie: Universitatea Craiova - Victoria Brăneşti, ora 18.00, GSP TV SC Vaslui - Universitatea Cluj, ora 20.30, Digi Sport. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/masaj-sau-tae-bo-la-birou-topul-celor-mai-apreciate-companii-dupa-beneficiile-pe-care-le-ofera-angajatilor/ masaj-sau-tae-bo-la-birou-topul-celor-mai-apreciate-companii-dupa-beneficiile-pe-care-le-ofera-angajatilor Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:40:01 +0200 Aţi auzit probabil de şedinţele gratuite de masaj, de exerciţiile de căţărat sau de prânzurile cu sushi pe care le oferă Google. Chiar dacă poate părea greu de crezut, într-unele dintre cele mai cunoscute companii din toată lumea, angajaţii beneficiază de tot felul de stimulente şi de activităţi peste programul de lucru, tocmai pentru a-i face să se simtă la birou ca acasă şi pentru a veni de plăcere la muncă. Într-un top realizat de Business Insider, pe baza părerilor angajaţilor din cele mai mari corporaţii ale Americii, exprimate pe site-ul Glassdoor, se regăsesc, printre altele, Southwest Airlines, Google, Apple sau Goldman Sachs. 1. Southwest Airlines a fost catalogată de către angajaţi ca având o atmosferă familială la birou, cu salarii şi beneficii excelente, cu vacanţe gratis şi cu şefi foarte apropiaţi de angajaţi. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ultimul-zbor-pentru-cea-mai-veche-naveta-din-flota-spatiala-nasa-discovery-a-ajuns-pe-iss/ ultimul-zbor-pentru-cea-mai-veche-naveta-din-flota-spatiala-nasa-discovery-a-ajuns-pe-iss Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:00:03 +0200 Naveta Discovery, având la bord şase astronauţi, s-a conectat la Staţia Spaţială Internaţională (ISS) sâmbătă, la ora 19.14 GMT, aceasta fiind ultima sa misiune în spaţiu. Naveta Discovery a fost lansată spre Staţia Spaţială Internaţională (ISS) joi, la ora 21.53 GMT, de la Centrul spaţial Kennedy din Cape Canaveral (Florida). Aceasta a fost a 133-a lansare a unei navete americane în cei 30 de ani ai acestui program al NASA. Acesta este ultimul zbor pentru Discovery şi, totodată, al 39-lea pentru navetă, cea mai veche din flota spaţială a NASA. Prima sa misiune a avut loc în 1984. Aceasta este, de asemenea, penultima sau antepenultima lansare a unei navete americane, înainte de retragerea lor din circulaţie şi trimiterea la un muzeu tehnic, din cauza costurilor operaţionale mari. NASA vrea să economisească bani pentru a dezvolta noi vehicule capabile să călătorească dincolo de orbita ISS. Ultimul zbor al unei navete americane va fi efectuat, în principiu, de Endeavour, cel mai probabil pe 19 aprilie. O lansare suplimentară a unei navete americane - Atlantis - ar putea avea loc mai târziu anul acesta, dacă Congresul american deblochează fondurile pentru acest lucru. După retragerea din circulaţie a navetelor americane - Discovery, Atlantis şi Endeavour -, SUA va depinde de capsulele ruseşti Soyuz pentru transportarea astronauţilor americani pe ISS, până la intrarea în funcţiune a capsulelor americane Orion, prevăzută pentru cel mai devreme 2016. Discovery a adus pe ISS, printre altele, un nou modul de stocare şi cercetare, o platformă externă pentru piese de schimb, dar şi un prototip de robot umanoid - Robonaut 2 sau R -, construit în parteneriat cu General Motors Co. Totodată, un experiment realizat de cercetătorii români a fost transportat pe Staţia ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-solutii-ai-daca-iti-sunt-divulgate-date-personale-pe-internet/ ce-solutii-ai-daca-iti-sunt-divulgate-date-personale-pe-internet Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:10:01 +0200 Aţi avut vreodată curiozitatea să daţi o căutare pe internet cu propriul nume? Şi, mai ales, ce vă faceţi dacă nu vă place ce găsiţi? Dacă vă vorbeşte cineva de rău pe vreun forum sau blog, nu trebuie să staţi cu mâinile în sân, relatează stirileprotv.ro. De când a apărut internetul, oricine are o opinie şi-o poate face cunoscută unui număr foarte mare de oameni. E de ajuns să intre pe un forum sau să comenteze blogul propriu sau al altcuiva. Problema e că unele opinii nu pică bine tuturor. O simplă căutare şi puteţi găsi pe internet fotografii compromiţătoare, comentarii sau informaţii pe care aţi prefera să nu le mai ştie şi alţii. După ce vă calmaţi, puteţi lua măsuri. Mai întâi aflaţi cui aparţine site-ul cu pricina căutându-l pe www.whois.com. Apoi îi contactaţi. Un tânăr a facut asta pentru un consultant financiar din New York, despre care s-a scris pe internet căe vinovat de fraudă - lucru care l-a costat milioane de dolari şi a pierdut clienţi. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/protestele-din-africa-de-nord-si-orientul-mijlociu-vezi-cele-mai-recente-evenimente-foto-video/ protestele-din-africa-de-nord-si-orientul-mijlociu-vezi-cele-mai-recente-evenimente-foto-video Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:00:04 +0200 Valul de contestare din Africa de Nord şi Orientul Mijlociu continuă, relatează AFP, care prezintă ultimele evenimente din aceste ţări. LIBIA: Confruntările continuă în Libia, în timp ce hotărârea opozanţilor de a-l înlătura de la putere pe colonelul Muammar Kadhafi nu a slăbit, iar liderul libian menţine în continuare controlul în capitala Tripoli. "Se pare că (Muammar) Kadhafi nu mai controlează situaţia", a apreciat premierul italian, Silvio Berlusconi, criticat în trecut pentru că l-a primit cu fast pe liderul libian. În timp ce regiunea orientală petroliferă este în mâinile opoziţiei armate care instaurează o nouă administraţie, au fost auzite din nou focuri de armă în unele cartiere din Tripoli în cursul nopţii. YEMEN: Lideri tribali importanţi şi-au anunţat ralierea la mişcarea de contestare a preşedintelui Yemenului, Ali Abdallah Saleh, în timp ce adevărate scene de război au avut loc în Sud, unde s-au soldat cu trei morţi. Această raliere, după cea a opoziţiei parlamentare şi a rebelilor şiiţi din nord, extinde şi mai mult cercul contestatarilor ai regimului lui Saleh, aflat la putere de 32 de ani. BAHRAIN: Oficiali din cadrul opoziţiei au declarat că "dialogul naţional" care ar trebui să scoată regatul din criza în care a plonjat de aproape două săptămâni nu a început încă, în aşteptarea unor "clarificări" din partea Guvernului. Mii de manifestanţi au început să defileze sâmbătă la Manama scandând "pleacă Hamad", regele Bahrainului, Hamad ben Issa Al-Khalifa, la o zi de la un marş cu participare masivă care cerea plecarea Guvernului. TUNISIA: Douăzeci şi unu de poliţişti au fost răniţi şi cel puţin trei comisariate incendiate sau jefuite în timpul confruntărilor de vineri cu manifestanţii care au atacat Ministerul de Interne în plin centrul Tunisului, a anunţat sâmbătă ministerul. Peste 100.000 de persoane, mobilizate prin ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/protestele-din-africa-de-nord-si-orientul-mijlociu-vezi-cele-mai-recente-evenimente-foto-video/ protestele-din-africa-de-nord-si-orientul-mijlociu-vezi-cele-mai-recente-evenimente-foto-video Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:00:04 +0200 Valul de contestare din Africa de Nord şi Orientul Mijlociu continuă, relatează AFP, care prezintă ultimele evenimente din aceste ţări. LIBIA: Confruntările continuă în Libia, în timp ce hotărârea opozanţilor de a-l înlătura de la putere pe colonelul Muammar Kadhafi nu a slăbit, iar liderul libian menţine în continuare controlul în capitala Tripoli. "Se pare că (Muammar) Kadhafi nu mai controlează situaţia", a apreciat premierul italian, Silvio Berlusconi, criticat în trecut pentru că l-a primit cu fast pe liderul libian. În timp ce regiunea orientală petroliferă este în mâinile opoziţiei armate care instaurează o nouă administraţie, au fost auzite din nou focuri de armă în unele cartiere din Tripoli în cursul nopţii. YEMEN: Lideri tribali importanţi şi-au anunţat ralierea la mişcarea de contestare a preşedintelui Yemenului, Ali Abdallah Saleh, în timp ce adevărate scene de război au avut loc în Sud, unde s-au soldat cu trei morţi. Această raliere, după cea a opoziţiei parlamentare şi a rebelilor şiiţi din nord, extinde şi mai mult cercul contestatarilor ai regimului lui Saleh, aflat la putere de 32 de ani. BAHRAIN: Oficiali din cadrul opoziţiei au declarat că "dialogul naţional" care ar trebui să scoată regatul din criza în care a plonjat de aproape două săptămâni nu a început încă, în aşteptarea unor "clarificări" din partea Guvernului. Mii de manifestanţi au început să defileze sâmbătă la Manama scandând "pleacă Hamad", regele Bahrainului, Hamad ben Issa Al-Khalifa, la o zi de la un marş cu participare masivă care cerea plecarea Guvernului. TUNISIA: Douăzeci şi unu de poliţişti au fost răniţi şi cel puţin trei comisariate incendiate sau jefuite în timpul confruntărilor de vineri cu manifestanţii care au atacat Ministerul de Interne în plin centrul Tunisului, a anunţat sâmbătă ministerul. Peste 100.000 de persoane, mobilizate prin ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vezi-aici-cele-mai-recente-evenimente-din-cadrul-miscarilor-impotriva-regimurilor-din-africa-de-nord-si-orientul-mijlociu-foto-video/ vezi-aici-cele-mai-recente-evenimente-din-cadrul-miscarilor-impotriva-regimurilor-din-africa-de-nord-si-orientul-mijlociu-foto-video Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:40:02 +0200 Valul de contestare din Africa de Nord şi Orientul Mijlociu continuă, relatează AFP, care prezintă ultimele evenimente din aceste ţări. LIBIA: Confruntările continuă în Libia, în timp ce hotărârea opozanţilor de a-l înlătura de la putere pe colonelul Muammar Kadhafi nu a slăbit, iar liderul libian menţine în continuare controlul în capitala Tripoli. "Se pare că (Muammar) Kadhafi nu mai controlează situaţia", a apreciat premierul italian, Silvio Berlusconi, criticat în trecut pentru că l-a primit cu fast pe liderul libian. În timp ce regiunea orientală petroliferă este în mâinile opoziţiei armate care instaurează o nouă administraţie, au fost auzite din nou focuri de armă în unele cartiere din Tripoli în cursul nopţii. YEMEN: Lideri tribali importanţi şi-au anunţat ralierea la mişcarea de contestare a preşedintelui Yemenului, Ali Abdallah Saleh, în timp ce adevărate scene de război au avut loc în Sud, unde s-au soldat cu trei morţi. Această raliere, după cea a opoziţiei parlamentare şi a rebelilor şiiţi din nord, extinde şi mai mult cercul contestatarilor ai regimului lui Saleh, aflat la putere de 32 de ani. BAHRAIN: Oficiali din cadrul opoziţiei au declarat că "dialogul naţional" care ar trebui să scoată regatul din criza în care a plonjat de aproape două săptămâni nu a început încă, în aşteptarea unor "clarificări" din partea Guvernului. Mii de manifestanţi au început să defileze sâmbătă la Manama scandând "pleacă Hamad", regele Bahrainului, Hamad ben Issa Al-Khalifa, la o zi de la un marş cu participare masivă care cerea plecarea Guvernului. TUNISIA: Douăzeci şi unu de poliţişti au fost răniţi şi cel puţin trei comisariate incendiate sau jefuite în timpul confruntărilor de vineri cu manifestanţii care au atacat Ministerul de Interne în plin centrul Tunisului, a anunţat sâmbătă ministerul. Peste 100.000 de persoane, mobilizate prin ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/robert-gates-posibilitatea-unei-interventii-americane-intr-o-tara-straina-este-redusa/ robert-gates-posibilitatea-unei-interventii-americane-intr-o-tara-straina-este-redusa Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:50:02 +0200 Există puţine riscuri ca Statele Unite să intervină într-o ţară străină aşa cum s-a întâmplat în Irak sau Afganistan, a declarat vineri secretarul american al Apărării, Robert Gates. Gates, unul dintre puţinii republicani din administraţia Obama, numit în funcţie de George W. Bush, a vorbit despre viitorul conflictelor cu care riscă să se confrunte armata americană, în cadrul unui discurs susţinut la prestigioasa şcoală militară din West Point (est). "Riscul unui nou Afganistan sau unui nou Irak, referitor la invadarea, procesul de pace şi administrarea unei ţări mari din lumea a treia, este probabil scăzut", a declarat Gates, care urmează să renunţe la funcţie în cursul acestui an şi care şi-a luat rămas bun de la cadeţii din West Point. Potrivit lui, "orice viitor secretar al Apărării care îl va sfătui pe preşedinte să trimită o nouă forţă terestră americană vastă în Asia, Orientul Mijlociu sau Africa ar face mai bine să se trateze la cap, pentru a relua o expresie delicată a generalului MacArthur". Eroul războiului din Pacific a făcut această declaraţie în faţa preşedintelui Kennedy în 1961, în legătură cu Asia. În timp ce comunitatea internaţională îşi pune întrebări cu privire la modalităţile de a pune capăt băii de sânge din Libia, Gates nu a evocat această ţară în discursul său, enumerând simplu "revoluţiile din Orientul Mijlociu" printre "provocările la adresa securităţii" Statelor Unite. Gates a apreciat că viitoarele intervenţii militare americane în străinătate vor lua mai degrabă forma unor expediţii rapide care să răspundă ameninţării terorismului sau unei catastrofe. "Scenariile cele mai probabile pentru militarii americani sunt mai întâi angajamentele navale sau aeriene, fie că sunt în Asia, în Golful Persic sau în altă parte", a anticipat el. Secretarul american s-a ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/legatura-dintre-nivelul-testosteronului-si-dieta-zilnica-studiu-despre-potenta-masculina/ legatura-dintre-nivelul-testosteronului-si-dieta-zilnica-studiu-despre-potenta-masculina Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:30:02 +0200 Deşi medicii nutriţionişti recomandă ca zilnic să mâncăm fructe şi legume, un grup de cercetători britanici de la Şcoala Farmaceutică din cadrul Universităţii din Londra susţine că aceste alimente afectează calitatea lichidului seminal bărbătesc, informează Daily Mail. Potrivit experţilor, coordonaţi de prof. Andreas Kortenkamp, pesticidele sunt responsabile de scăderea libidoului şi alterarea calităţii spermei. În plus, substanţele chimice folosite în agricultură diminuează acţiunea testosteronului, hormon sexual masculin. Citeşte mai multe despre studiul privind "potenţa masculină" pe www.gandul.info http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/turnurile-eiffel-si-montparnasse-evacuate-vineri-seara-in-urma-unei-alerte-cu-bomba/ turnurile-eiffel-si-montparnasse-evacuate-vineri-seara-in-urma-unei-alerte-cu-bomba Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:50:02 +0200 Turnurile Eiffel şi Montparnasse din Paris au fost evacuate vineri seara în urma unor apeluri telefonice anonime care menţionau prezenţa unei bombe în fiecare dintre aceste construcţii, a anunţat o sursă din cadrul poliţiei. Aceste două apeluri, iniţiate de la un telefon public, vineri seara, în jurul orei 20.00 (21.00 ora României), au condus la evacuarea imediată a celor două construcţii din Paris, potrivit acestei surse, care a confirmat informaţiile apărute pe site-ul cotidianului Le Parisien. Aproximativ 1.700 de persoane au fost evacuate din Turnul Eiffel de către compania exploatatoare. Monumentul a rămas închis toată seara. Aproximativ 300 de persoane au fost evacuate din turnul Montparnasse, care a fost redeschis la ora 22.30 (23.30 ora României). Geniştii au fost trimişi să inspecteze zona dar nu au găsit nimic. Aceasta este a treia oară în câteva luni când Turnul Eiffel, unul dintre cele mai vizitate construcţii din lume, este ţinta unei alerte false. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bunele-maniere-moderne-e-mailul-de-serviciu-si-cel-privat/ bunele-maniere-moderne-e-mailul-de-serviciu-si-cel-privat Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:50:02 +0200 Afacerile trăiesc şi respiră prin e-mail. Chiar dacă îl consideri un lucru bun sau unul rău, felul în care redactezi un e-mail arată cât de profesionist şi de încredere eşti şi reprezintă prin extensie imaginea întregii tale companii. Formalităţile erau obligatorii în corespondenţa de afaceri, însă nu mai e aşa. Urmând acelaşi tipar în privinţa e-mailurilor ca şi la întâlnirile faţă în faţă, dacă întâlneşti un client nou care îţi este prezentat ca Brian, sau aşa i se adresează restul echipei, nu trebuie să i te adresezi cu domnule Carson în e-mailul pe care i-l vei scrie apoi. Însă, şi opusul se aplică: până nu îţi cere să i te adresezi cu Brian, rămâi la domnule Carson. Când eşti în dificultate, spune-le "domnule" sau "doamnă" simplu şi te vor scoate ei din încurcătură, spunând cum vor dori să te adresezi. Cele mai multe e-mailuri au doar câteva fraze, însă e bine să începi cu formula de salut şi cea de încheiere: "Dragă", atât standard, cât şi formal, "Bună ziua" este profesional şi prietenos, iar "Salut", pentru prieteni. Evită "Hei", poate suna juvenil. Sunt mai multe modalităţi şi de a încheia un e-mail. Atunci când eşti în dubiu poţi folosi "Cu sinceritate" sau "Salutări", sunt cele mai sigure variante. Alte variante sunt "Toate cele bune", "Toate bune", "Vă doresc numai bine", "Mulţumesc". Dacă este vorba de un schimb de e-mailuri, e acceptat să mai renunţi la salutări, fiind o conversaţie în desfăşurare. Să pui smiley sau să nu pui, asta e întrebarea. Dacă nu eşti sigur de felul în care sunt primite aceste lucruri, mai bine nu le folosi. Pentru anumite persoane pot părea juvenile când vine vorba de afaceri. Acelaşi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-avere-are-seful-anaf/ ce-avere-are-seful-anaf Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:40:01 +0200 Preşedintele ANAF, Sorin Blejnar, deţine, conform ultimei declaraţii de avere publicată pe site-ul instituţiei în luna octombrie 2010, trei locuinţe şi mai multe conturi în lei şi valută. Sorin Blejnar are o casă în Bucureşti dobâdită în 2009 prin cumpărare, cu valoare impozabilă de aproape 900.000 de lei, cu un teren aferent de 400 mp. Blejnar menţionează în declaraţia de avere că principala sursă de finanţare pentru achiziţia casei a fost un teren din Arad vândut în 2006 contra sumei de 2.000.000 de lei. Preşedintele ANAF mai deţine două locuinţe, în Arad şi Bucureşti. Cea din Arad a fost dobândită în 2000 şi are o suprafatţă de 77 mp, iar cea din Bucureşti a fost dobândită de către soţia lui Blejnar anterior căsătoriei şi are aceeaşi suprafaţă. Blejnar mai notează în declaraţia de avere şi bijuterii care aparţin soţiei, cu o valoare estimată între 15.000 şi 25.000 de euro. De asemenea, preşedintele ANAF are conturi şi depozite la şase bănci în lei, euro şi lire sterline. Sorin Blejnar a fost numit în funcţia de preşedinte al Agenţiei Naţionale de Administrare Fiscală în ianuarie 2009. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vlad-petreanu-demisioneaza-de-la-antena-3-si-merge-la-b1-tv/ vlad-petreanu-demisioneaza-de-la-antena-3-si-merge-la-b1-tv Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:30:04 +0200 Jurnalistul Vlad Petreanu a declarat, joi, pentru MEDIAFAX că demisionează de la Antena 3 şi îşi va înceta colaborarea cu trustul Intact, urmând să preia un nou proiect la postul B1 TV. Vlad Petreanu, prezentatorul emisiunii "Săptămâna de ştiri" de la Antena 3, alături de Alice Iacobescu, a scris joi pe blogul său că a anunţat conducerea acestui post că va demisiona, urmând să fie încheiate formalităţile necesare. "Conducerea a zis, în esenţă, că a înţeles. Urmează formalităţi. Rămânem, deci, cu un trecut comun - până la un punct, când fiecare începuse, oricum, să vadă viitorul altfel. Restul a fost doar aşteptare", comentează jurnalistul pe blogul său. În final, Petreanu le mulţumeşte celor cărora le datorează atât "bunele", cât şi "relele" din ultimii 13 ani din viaţa sa profesională. Contactat de MEDIAFAX, Petreanu a declarat că presupune că va urma o despărţire amiabilă şi că a acceptat o ofertă din partea postului B1 TV, unde va prelua un nou proiect, tot în zona actualităţilor. Directorul general al postului Antena 3, Mihai Gâdea, a declarat pentru MEDIAFAX că se va urmări o despărţire amiabilă şi că îi doreşte mult succes lui Petreanu în noul său proiect. Până în septembrie 2010, Vlad Petreanu a coordonat şi prezentat la Antena 3 emisiunea "Reporter Special". Pe 24 septembrie, Mihai Gâdea a anunţat că această emisiune a fost suspendată , iar echipa care o realiza se va ocupa de un proiect mai mare. Anterior, Vlad Petreanu a ocupat, până la 1 decembrie 2007, funcţia de director editorial al Departamentului Ştiri Antena 3, departament care realizează şi "Observatorul", emisiunea de ştiri a postului Antena 1. El a realizat şi emisiunea "Blog FM", la News FM, radioul de ştiri ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/expertii-ue-vor-evalua-din-nou-in-aprilie-sau-mai-pregatirea-romaniei-si-bulgariei-pentru-schengen/ expertii-ue-vor-evalua-din-nou-in-aprilie-sau-mai-pregatirea-romaniei-si-bulgariei-pentru-schengen Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:50:01 +0200 Experţii UE vor evalua încă o dată, la sfârşitul lunii aprilie sau începutul lunii mai, pregătirea României şi Bulgariei pentru aderarea la Schengen, anunţă ministrul ungar de Interne, Sandor Pinter, citat de site-ul Novinite.com. "Plănuim să admitem România şi Bulgaria în Schengen. Nu ştim când vor adera", a declarat Pinter. În cursul zilei de joi, Preşedinţia ungară a UE a anunţat că Bulgaria nu este pregătită să adere la Schengen, spre deosebire de România. De altfel, potrivit site-ului Novinite.com, Preşedinţia ungară a UE a precizat că trei ţări se opun aderării rapide a Bulgariei la Schengen, după ce ministrul bulgar de Interne anunţase că doar Franţa se mai opune acestui demers. Două dintre cele trei state şi-au exprimat preocuparea, în declaraţii scrise, în legătură cu perspectiva aderării Bulgariei la Schengen, a precizat Gergey Polnar, purtătorul de cuvânt al Preşedinţiei ungare a UE. Ministrul bulgar de Interne, Ţvetan Ţvetanov, a declarat joi că doar Franţa mai cere amânarea aderării României şi Bulgariei la Schengen, subliniind că Germania şi-a modificat poziţia. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/benzina-si-motorina-la-cote-istorice-se-anunta-preturi-de-7-leilitru/ benzina-si-motorina-la-cote-istorice-se-anunta-preturi-de-7-leilitru Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:20:01 +0200 Preţurile carburanţilor au urcat din nou, vineri. Cele mai mari companii de pe piaţă au majorat costul unui litru de benzină sau motorină cu 9 bani. Petroliştii estimează însă că am putea ajunge să dăm 7 lei pe 1 litru de combustibil. OMV Petrom nu a mai comunicat noile preţuri ci le-a publicat direct pe site. Astfel, toţi carburanţii au primit 9 bani în plus la tarifele de referinţă, în fiecare staţie acestea putând varia cu +/-5%. Preţurile la Petrom Benzina Premium Fara Plumb 95 - 4,99 lei Top Premium fara plumb 99+ - 5,37 lei OMV Carrera 95 - 5,13 lei OMV Carrera 100 - 5,79 lei Motorina Top Euro Diesel 5 / Top Nordic Diesel - 5,20 lei OMV Sprint Diesel - 5,22 lei Euro Diesel 5 - 5,00 lei OMV Alpin Diesel - 5,54 lei Preţurile la Rompetrol EFIX Benzina 95 - 5.13 lei Benzina ALTO 101 - 5.8 lei EFIX Diesel - 5.2 Diesel ALTO 55 - 5.54 Citeşte mai multe despre preţurile benzinei şi motorinei pe www.stirileprotv.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/barbatul-care-i-a-amenintat-cu-moartea-pe-producatorii-south-park-condamnat-la-25-de-ani-de-inchisoare/ barbatul-care-i-a-amenintat-cu-moartea-pe-producatorii-south-park-condamnat-la-25-de-ani-de-inchisoare Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:30:01 +0200 Zachary Adam Chesser, un bărbat care i-a ameninţat cu moartea pe producătorii serialului de animaţie "South Park" - Matt Stone şi Trey Park -, a fost condamnat la 25 de ani de închisoare, informează contactmusic.com. Bărbatul în vârstă de 21 de ani a fost acuzat de terorism după ce i-a ameninţat cu moartea pe producătorii "South Park", pentru că aceştia l-au ironizat pe profetul Mohamed într-un episod controversat. În toamna anului trecut, Chesser a pledat vinovat la acuzaţia că i-a îndemnat pe telespectatori să îi atace pe producătorii programului, postând online adresele lor de acasă şi adăugând "Faceţi-le o vizită". Chesser, originar din Virginia, s-a înfuriat după ce a vizionat un episod, difuzat pe 10 aprilie 2010, în care Mohamed a fost prezentat îmbrăcat în urs. El a mai recunoscut că a furnizat materie primă unui grup terorist şi a incitat la violenţă. Chesser a intrat pentru prima oară în atenţia FBI în urma mai multor postări pe site-ul revolutionmuslim.com. După difuzarea episodului care îl ironiza pe profetul Mahomed, el a postat o notă sub pseudonimul Abu Talhah Al-Amerikee, prin care îi ameninţa cu moartea pe creatorii serialului, Trey Parker şi Matt Stone. Serialul "South Park" este difuzat de postul TV Comedy Central, divizie a grupului media Viacom. "South Park", serialul de desene animate destinat adulţilor şi care prezintă aventurile unui grup de copii dintr-o staţiune montană din statul american Colorado, a generat numeroase controverse de la debutul său, prin parodierea celebrităţilor, politicienilor, clericilor, căsătoriei între homosexuali şi a unor lideri politici, precum Saddam Hussein şi Vladimir Putin şi prin atacarea deschisă, provocatoare şi fără menajamente a subiectelor controversate, cum ar fi avortul, violenţa şi sexul în mass-media, religia, războiul din Irak, alegerile prezidenţiale ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lady-gaga-depasita-in-privinta-numarului-de-fani-de-pe-facebook-vezi-de-catre-cine/ lady-gaga-depasita-in-privinta-numarului-de-fani-de-pe-facebook-vezi-de-catre-cine Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:30:02 +0200 Eminem a depăşit-o pe Lady Gaga, ajungând artistul în viaţă care a primit "Like" pe Facebook din partea celor mai mulţi utilizatori ai reţelei sociale - 28.883.000. Lady Gaga a primit în schimb "Like" de la 28.872.000 de fani pe Facebook. Rapperul din Detroit, în vârstă de 38 de ani, primeşte în prezent în jur de 500.000 "Like" pe zi, potrivit Famecount. Dacă acest fenomen va continua, Eminem îl va depăşi în curând şi pe Michael Jackson, artistul cu cei mai mulţi fani pe Facebook, care a primit "Like" de 29,1 milioane de ori. Pe de altă parte, Lady Gaga este mai populară pe Twitter, unde are 5 milioane de fani în plus faţă de Eminem. La începutul acestei săptămâni, Eminem a ajuns la 1 miliard de vizualizări pe YouTube, devenind al treilea artist cu această performanţă. El este depăşit de Lady Gaga, cu 190 de milioane de vizualizări, şi de Justin Bieber, cu 340 de milioane de accesări. Eminem a lansat, de-a lungul carierei sale, şase albume, care s-au vândut în 60 de milioane de exemplare în toată lumea. După ce şi-a făcut debutul în 2002 în calitate de actor cu rolul din "8 Mile", pentru care a fost lăudat de criticii de specialitate, Eminem a preferat să se concentreze asupra carierei sale de muzician. Cel mai recent album al său, intitulat "Recovery", a fost discul cu cele mai mari vânzări din Statele Unite în anul 2010. Lady Gaga are 24 de ani şi este câştigătoare a cinci premii Grammy. Ea este considerată una dintre cele mai interesante şi originale artiste din noul val şi se bucură de un imens succes comercial. Lady Gaga a devenit celebră graţie unor hituri ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/andreea-vass-codul-muncii-trebuie-flexibilizat-chiar-cu-riscul-demiterii-guvernului/ andreea-vass-codul-muncii-trebuie-flexibilizat-chiar-cu-riscul-demiterii-guvernului Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:10:01 +0200 Andreea Paul-Vass, consilier al premierului Emil Boc, a declarat, vineri, la o dezbatere, că este necesară flexibilizarea Codului Muncii, chiar cu riscul demiterii actualului Cabinet. Potrivit acesteia, Guvernul are două iniţiative "pe partea de cerere" şi altele două "pe partea de ofertă". "Pe partea de cerere prima prioritate ţine de flexibilizarea Codului Muncii, chiar cu riscul demiterii actualului Guvern", a spus Paul-Vass. "Al doilea obiectiv ţine de aplicarea reformelor în educaţie", a spus ea. În ceea ce priveşte "partea de ofertă", Andreea Paul-Vass a spus că principalele obiective sunt "aplicarea unei strategii guvernamentale profesioniste şi coerente pentru promovarea IMM-urilor" şi "reforma sistemului de asistenţă socială". Ea a spus că reforma sistemului de asistenţă socială este necesară pentru că "Europa socială se dovedeşte retrogradă". "În zona reformei sistemului asistenţei sociale, trebuie să pornim de la următoarea realitate: românii beneficiază de 202 drepturi de natură socială, peste 84% dintre români sunt acoperiţi de cel puţin un beneficiu monetar în mod direct sau indirect, peste jumătate din populaţia României beneficiază de ajutoare necontributorii", a spus ea. Consilierul premierului Emil Boc a mai spus, în contextul unei discuţii despre greşelile care au afectat situaţia din România că în opinia sa "cea mai mare greşeală ţine de hiperpolitizarea instituţiilor statului". "În clipa în care s-a decis legiferarea politizării instituţiilor - practică de altfel constantă - am fost singura dintr-un partid politic aflat în arcul guvernamental care a m ieşit şi am spus «Nu este corect». Şi din păcate s-a făcut cu acordul clasei politice aflate în acel moment la guvernare", a spus ea. Totodată, Paul-Vass a mai spus că Guvernul îşi propune crearea unui număr de 1,28 milioane de locuri de muncă, ea spunând că aceste date nu sunt fanteziste ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cine-a-depasit-o-pe-lady-gaga-la-numarul-de-fani-de-pe-facebook/ cine-a-depasit-o-pe-lady-gaga-la-numarul-de-fani-de-pe-facebook Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:20:01 +0200 Eminem a depăşit-o pe Lady Gaga, ajungând artistul în viaţă care a primit "Like" pe Facebook din partea celor mai mulţi utilizatori ai reţelei sociale - 28.883.000. Lady Gaga a primit în schimb "Like" de la 28.872.000 de fani pe Facebook. Rapperul din Detroit, în vârstă de 38 de ani, primeşte în prezent în jur de 500.000 "Like" pe zi, potrivit Famecount. Dacă acest fenomen va continua, Eminem îl va depăşi în curând şi pe Michael Jackson, artistul cu cei mai mulţi fani pe Facebook, care a primit "Like" de 29,1 milioane de ori. Pe de altă parte, Lady Gaga este mai populară pe Twitter, unde are 5 milioane de fani în plus faţă de Eminem. La începutul acestei săptămâni, Eminem a ajuns la 1 miliard de vizualizări pe YouTube, devenind al treilea artist cu această performanţă. El este depăşit de Lady Gaga, cu 190 de milioane de vizualizări, şi de Justin Bieber, cu 340 de milioane de accesări. Eminem a lansat, de-a lungul carierei sale, şase albume, care s-au vândut în 60 de milioane de exemplare în toată lumea. După ce şi-a făcut debutul în 2002 în calitate de actor cu rolul din "8 Mile", pentru care a fost lăudat de criticii de specialitate, Eminem a preferat să se concentreze asupra carierei sale de muzician. Cel mai recent album al său, intitulat "Recovery", a fost discul cu cele mai mari vânzări din Statele Unite în anul 2010. Lady Gaga are 24 de ani şi este câştigătoare a cinci premii Grammy. Ea este considerată una dintre cele mai interesante şi originale artiste din noul val şi se bucură de un imens succes comercial. Lady Gaga a devenit celebră graţie unor hituri ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/uefa-ameninta-croatia-si-serbia-ca-vor-fi-excluse-din-competitii-din-cauza-violentei-fanilor/ uefa-ameninta-croatia-si-serbia-ca-vor-fi-excluse-din-competitii-din-cauza-violentei-fanilor Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:20:01 +0200 Preşedintele UEFA, Michel Platini, a avertizat Croaţia şi Serbia că echipele naţionale şi de club vor fi excluse din competiţiile internaţionale pentru o lungă perioadă dacă fanii din cele două ţări vor continua sa recurgă la violenţe, informează site-ul oficial al forului fotbalistic european. Platini a vizitat, joi, Belgradul şi Zagrebul şi s-a întâlnit cu preşedinţii Serbiei şi Croaţiei, Boris Tadici, respectiv Ivo Josipovici. Preşedintele UEFA le-a solicitat celor doi şefi de stat sprijinul guvernelor lor în lupta pentru combaterea violenţei la meciurile echipelor sârbe şi croate. "Violenţa în fotbal este o preocupare de bază pentru noi şi trebuie să acţionăm urgent. Am văzut că atât preşedintele croat, cât şi cel sârb împărtăşesc îngrijorarea noastră şi doresc să se angajeze în găsirea unor soluţii. Am căzut de acord că trebuie să punem la punct un plan concret de măsuri, care necesită sprijin guvernamental la toate nivelurile. Însă trebuie să subliniez că există un risc serios de suspendare a echipelor naţionale şi de club din competiţiile UEFA dacă nu constatăm semne pozitive clare cu privire la măsurile puse în aplicare în acest an. Trebuie să vedem o reală îmbunătăţire a situaţiei, în caz contrar nu vom ezita să acţionăm cu fermitate", a declarat Platini după întâlnirea cu cei doi lideri. Planul cerut de UEFA ar trebui să includă măsuri cum ar fi modernizarea stadioanelor, interzicerea deplasării fanilor violenţi, dezvoltarea cooperării între forţele de ordine, crearea unor baze de date şi schimbul de informaţii, judecarea rapidă a celor care creează probleme şi sancţionarea severă a celor găsiţi vinovaţi. UEFA se angajează să ofere suport şi consultanţă în realizarea şi aplicarea acestui plan şi, totodată, va monitoriza cu atenţie situaţia din cele două ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/zf-lanseaza-un-anuar-despre-cum-isi-imagineaza-oamenii-de-afaceri-si-managerii-economia-anului-2015/ zf-lanseaza-un-anuar-despre-cum-isi-imagineaza-oamenii-de-afaceri-si-managerii-economia-anului-2015 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:00:01 +0200 Ziarul Financiar va lansa, luni, Anuarul România 2015, în care oamenii de afaceri şi managerii vor anticipa tendinţele din business, domeniile de viitor, cele mai mari riscuri pentru următorii ani şi evoluţia principalelor industrii până în 2015. Care va fi preţul unui apartament peste cinci ani? Câţi elevi şi studenţi vor învăţa în şcoli şi universităţi private? Cât va fi dobânda la credite? Care va fi numărul investitorilor pe bursă, al maşinilor vândute, al utilizatorilor de Internet, al centrelor comerciale din ţară? Jurnaliştii ZF au răspuns la aceste întrebări cu ajutorul managerilor, antreprenorilor şi analiştilor. România 2015 include previziuni pentru macroeconomie şi pentru majoritatea sectoarelor economice: bănci, asigurări, bursă, energie electrică, petrol & gaze, farmaceutice, industria alimentară, bunuri de larg consum, retail, construcţii & imobiliare, auto, turism, telecom, industrie, resurse umane şi avocatură. Anuarul este continuarea unui proiect editorial din 2004, intitulat România 2010 - un demers asemănător de a anticipa direcţiile de dezvoltare din economie. Prin urmare, pe lângă faptul că vor afla ce va fi în 2015, cititorii noului anuar pot compara ce s-a previzionat în 2004 pentru 2010 şi ce s-a întâmplat cu adevărat. Printre principalele aşteptări pe care le au executivii şi proprietarii de business-uri intervievaţi de Ziarul Financiar pentru România 2015 se numără: • Un român va cheltui în medie pe an 2.150 de euro pe alimente, băuturi, haine, încălţăminte, cărţi, produse farmaceutice şi produse de îngrijire. • Jucătorii de pe segmentul hipermarketurilor vor acoperi toate judeţele din ţară. • Pe termen mediu, preţurile apartamentelor îşi vor relua creşterea, dar la un nivel comparabil cu inflaţia, astfel că în 2015 ar putea reveni la 1.200-1.300 euro/mp. • Vânzările de autoturisme noi vor accelera spre nivelul din 2007, de peste 370.000 de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/balba-a-semnat-cu-gloria-bistrita/ balba-a-semnat-cu-gloria-bistrita Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:00:01 +0200 Atacantul Ionuţ Bâlbă, în vârstă de 29 de ani, a semnat cu gruparea Gloria Bistriţa un contract până la sfârşitul actualului sezon, cu opţiune de prelungire. Ionuţ Bâlbă a debutat în Liga I pentru Politehnica Iaşi, la data de 30 iulie 2004, 1-2 cu Rapid Bucureşti, meci în care a şi marcat un gol. Are 137 de jocuri şi 32 de goluri în prima ligă. "Sunt bucuros că voi juca pentru Gloria. Am şansa să demonstrez că încă nu mi-am spus ultimul cuvânt în Liga I. Sper ca prin golurile mele să îi mulţumesc preşedintelui Jean Pădureanu pentru încrederea acordată", a declarat Bâlbă pentru site-ul oficial al grupării bistriţene. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vlad-petreanu-demisoneaza-de-la-antena-3-si-merge-la-b1-tv/ vlad-petreanu-demisoneaza-de-la-antena-3-si-merge-la-b1-tv Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:10:02 +0200 Jurnalistul Vlad Petreanu a declarat, joi, pentru MEDIAFAX că demisionează de la Antena 3 şi îşi va înceta colaborarea cu trustul Intact, urmând să preia un nou proiect la postul B1 TV. Vlad Petreanu, prezentatorul emisiunii "Săptămâna de ştiri" de la Antena 3, alături de Alice Iacobescu, a scris joi pe blogul său că a anunţat conducerea acestui post că va demisiona, urmând să fie încheiate formalităţile necesare. "Conducerea a zis, în esenţă, că a înţeles. Urmează formalităţi. Rămânem, deci, cu un trecut comun - până la un punct, când fiecare începuse, oricum, să vadă viitorul altfel. Restul a fost doar aşteptare", comentează jurnalistul pe blogul său. În final, Petreanu le mulţumeşte celor cărora le datorează atât "bunele", cât şi "relele" din ultimii 13 ani din viaţa sa profesională. Contactat de MEDIAFAX, Petreanu a declarat că presupune că va urma o despărţire amiabilă şi că a acceptat o ofertă din partea postului B1 TV, unde va prelua un nou proiect, tot în zona actualităţilor. Directorul general al postului Antena 3, Mihai Gâdea, a declarat pentru MEDIAFAX că se va urmări o despărţire amiabilă şi că îi doreşte mult succes lui Petreanu în noul său proiect. Până în septembrie 2010, Vlad Petreanu a coordonat şi prezentat la Antena 3 emisiunea "Reporter Special". Pe 24 septembrie, Mihai Gâdea a anunţat că această emisiune a fost suspendată , iar echipa care o realiza se va ocupa de un proiect mai mare. Anterior, Vlad Petreanu a ocupat, până la 1 decembrie 2007, funcţia de director editorial al Departamentului Ştiri Antena 3, departament care realizează şi "Observatorul", emisiunea de ştiri a postului Antena 1. El a realizat şi emisiunea "Blog FM", la News FM, radioul de ştiri ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/directorul-teatrului-din-arad-claudiu-bleont-este-un-om-liber/ directorul-teatrului-din-arad-claudiu-bleont-este-un-om-liber Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:10:02 +0200 Laurian Oniga, directorul Teatrului "Ioan Slavici" din Arad, unde va fi jucat spectacolul "Căutându-l pe Shakespeare prin Richard al III lea", a declarat pentru MEDIAFAX că gestul lui Claudiu Bleonţ, de a se dezbrăca într-o conferinţă de presă, nu va afecta reprezentaţia de pe scena teatrului. Laurian Oniga a spus că a discutat cu Claudiu Bleonţ, "ca între colegi", doar înainte de conferinţa de presă, organizată joi la Teatrul "Ioan Slavici" din Arad, în care actorul s-a dezbrăcat în faţa jurnaliştilor. Totodată, Oniga a precizat că reprezentaţia spectacolului "Căutându-l pe Shakespeare prin Richard al III lea", programată pentru data de 8 martie, la Teatrul "Ioan Slavici" din Arad, nu va avea de suferit. "Gestul acesta nu are nicio legătură cu spectacolul. Nu mai există cenzură", a adăugat Laurian Oniga. Directorul Teatrului "Ioan Slavici" din Arad a mai spus că Bleonţ este "un om liber, un actor important, care îşi asumă faptele". Actorul Claudiu Bleonţ şi-a dat jos chiloţii în faţa jurnaliştilor, la o conferinţă de presă pe care a susţinut-o, joi, la Arad, pentru promovarea unui spectacol. Claudiu Bleonţ a susţinut o conferinţă de presă la Teatrul Clasic "Ioan Slavici" Arad, pentru a promova spectacolul "Căutându-l pe Shakespeare prin Richard al III-lea", iar în timpul discuţiilor cu jurnaliştii şi-a dat jos pantalonii şi chiloţii şi şi-a arătat penisul. Bleonţ a făcut gestul în timp ce povestea despre starea de spirit pe care o are la vârsta actuală, afirmând că nu îi este jenă că "e aşa de mică" şi că "suntem o ţară de farseuri". "V-am şocat sau am fost sincer?", i-a întrebat Bleonţ pe jurnaliştii care au fost de faţă. Spectacolul "Căutându-l pe Shakespeare prin Richard al III lea" va fi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/psihiatru-despre-gestul-lui-bleont-o-incercare-de-a-castiga-notorietate-si-impact-public/ psihiatru-despre-gestul-lui-bleont-o-incercare-de-a-castiga-notorietate-si-impact-public Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:20:01 +0200 Doctorul Cristian Andrei a declarat, pentru MEDIAFAX, că gestul actorului Claudiu Bleonţ, care s-a dezbrăcat în faţa jurnaliştilor, la o conferinţă de presă, poate fi "un act deliberat", într-o situaţie marcată de presiunea de a-şi promova spectacolul, "în faţa unui public surd şi orb". Potrivit doctorului Cristian Andrei, dacă nu au mai existat astfel de manifestări din partea lui Claudiu Bleonţ, nu se poate considera că gestul lui de a se dezbrăca într-o conferinţă de presă "ar rezulta dintr-un discernământ scăzut". "Poate fi un act deliberat, într-o situaţie marcată de presiune. Presiunea poate fi nevoia de a-şi promova spectacolul, în faţa unui public surd şi orb", a declarat Cristian Andrei, medic specialist neuropsihiatru, care practică psihiatria în sistem privat. Vezi ce spune actorul despre gestul său. Vezi reacţia directorului Teatrului din Arad. În plus, Cristian Andrei spune că, în străinătate, artiştii sunt în general "destul de dezinhibaţi", fapt pentru care mass media adaugă bipuri sau blurează anumite imagini. "Nu se ştie dacă mass media din România şi comunitatea română sunt pregătite pentru astfel de gesturi din partea artiştilor", a explicat Cristian Andrei. Totodată, Cristian Andrei interpretează gestul lui Claudiu Bleonţ ca pe "un fel de concurenţă" între actor şi, spre exemplu, mediatizarea intensă a situaţiei vameşilor. "Eu interpretez gestul ca o încercare din partea domnului Bleonţ de a câştiga măcar o oră sau două de notorietate, de impact public", a mai spus Cristian Andrei. Actorul Claudiu Bleonţ şi-a dat jos chiloţii în faţa jurnaliştilor, la o conferinţă de presă pe care a susţinut-o, joi, la Arad, pentru promovarea unui spectacol, potrivit corespondentului MEDIAFAX. Claudiu Bleonţ a susţinut o conferinţă de presă la Teatrul Clasic "Ioan Slavici" Arad, pentru a promova spectacolul "Căutându-l pe Shakespeare prin Richard ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/peter-eckstein-kovacs-un-consilier-prezidential-care-vrea-schimbarea-in-udmr/ peter-eckstein-kovacs-un-consilier-prezidential-care-vrea-schimbarea-in-udmr Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:30:01 +0200 Consilierul prezidenţial Peter Eckstein Kovacs candidează, la al X-lea Congres al UDMR, pentru şefia Uniunii, el susţinând că se impune o schimbare la vârful UDMR "şi ca persoane, şi ca mod de a politiza". Candidatura sa este susţinută de organizaţia judeţeană Cluj a UDMR, de Platforma Cercul Liberal, respectiv de Platforma Uniunea Femei pentru Femei. Eckstein şi-a anunţat oficial candidatura pentru funcţia de preşedinte al organizaţiei în decembrie 2010, de la tribuna Consiliului Reprezentanţilor Unionali, subliniind că ar dori să găsească "un loc de cinste" pentru preşedintele Marko Bela, care nu mai candidează. "Valoarea UDMR e perseverenţa. Îl sprijin pe Marko Bela şi îl invit să găsim acel loc de cinste pentru personalitatea dânsului şi îi spun că am dori să contăm în continuare pe el", a arătat Eckstein. Totuşi, înainte ca actualul lider al UDMR, Marko Bela, să anunţe că nu va mai candida pentru un nou mandat, Peter Eckstein Kovacs susţinea că Marko are o problemă de "uzură" având în vedere perioada lungă în care a condus UDMR. Consilierul prezidenţial candidează sub sloganul "Eu doresc schimbarea". În campania pentru alegerile din UDMR, Eckstein a criticat faptul că, în prezent, comunitatea maghiară din Transilvania a ajuns în situaţia de a avea "trei partide" (UDMR, Partidul Civic Maghiar şi viitorul partid al lui Tokes Laszlo), apreciind că în acest sens există şi o responsabilitate a UDMR. "Avem şi noi partea noastră de vină. Să deschidem noi o umbrelă. Pe cei care au plecat nu-i mai putem aduce înapoi, dar îi putem aduce pe cei care sunt apatici şi simt efectele crizei", considera Eckstein. El s-a declarat de acord cu declaraţiile preşedintelui UDMR, Marko Bela, referitoare la prezenţa UDMR în mai multe ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ion-tiriac-a-trimis-o-cu-avionul-la-o-clinica-din-austria-pe-cristina-neagu/ ion-tiriac-a-trimis-o-cu-avionul-la-o-clinica-din-austria-pe-cristina-neagu Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:30:01 +0200 Handbalista echipei Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea, Cristina Neagu, a plecat astăzi, la bordul unui avion privat al lui Ion Ţiriac, în Austria, spre o clinică recomandată de omul de afaceri, unde ar putea să îşi rezolve problema de la umăr chiar fără a se supune unei operaţii chirurgicale, potrivit Prosport. La începutul săptămânii, Cristina Neagu a făcut coltroale medicale în Danemarca şi Belgia pentru a afla dacă problema de la umăr se poate rezolva cu un tratament sau trebuie să suporte o intervenţie chirurgicală. Fostul şef al COSR, Ion Ţiriac, i-a recomandat Cristinei o clinică din Salzburg unde ar putea să se vindece, chiar fără operaţie. Neagu a plecat la bordul unui avion privat al magnatului român, urmând să ajungă la clinica unde a fost tratată şi Camelia Potec, înaintea Jocurilor Olimpice de la Beijing, potrivit site-ului Prosport. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-schimba-algoritmul-de-cautare-vor-iesi-din-primele-rezultate-site-urile-care-fac-spam/ google-schimba-algoritmul-de-cautare-vor-iesi-din-primele-rezultate-site-urile-care-fac-spam Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:20:02 +0200 Google a lansat un nou algoritm de căutare, care ar urma să afecteze negativ site-urile de calitate slabă, care copiază informaţii din alte părţi sau care nu au conţinut util, scrie blogul oficial al companiei. Noul algoritm, care va afecta aproape 12% din rezultatele afişate de Google, va acorda prioritate site-urilor cu conţinut original şi complex. "Scopul nostru e simplu: să le dăm oamenilor cele mai relevante răspunsuri la căutări, cât mai repede posibil. Şi cum conţinutul online - fie bun, fie rău - apare continuu, asta implică o permanentă îmbunătăţire a algoritmului de căutare. Multe din schimbările pe care le facem sunt insesizabile, dar acum am lansat un algoritm care va afecta 11,8% din rezultatele afişate de Google", scrie pe blogul oficial al companiei, informează Gândul. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/productia-serialului-doi-barbati-si-jumatate-a-fost-anulata/ productia-serialului-doi-barbati-si-jumatate-a-fost-anulata Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:40:05 +0200 Reţeaua de televiziune CBS a anulat producţia serialului "Doi bărbaţi şi jumătate/ Two and A Half Men" până la sfârşitul sezonului, după ce vedeta comediei, Charlie Sheen, l-a insultat pe producător. Decizia a fost luată cu câteva zile înainte ca Sheen, cel mai bine plătit actor de televiziune din SUA, să revină pe platourile de filmare, după o absenţă în timpul căreia a fost internat la o clinică de dezintoxicare, pentru a treia oară în ultimele 12 luni. Producţia "Doi bărbaţi şi jumătate" a fost suspendată în ianuarie, când Sheen a fost internat, după o petrecere de 36 de ore care a avut loc la locuinţa sa şi s-a încheiat cu internarea sa în spital. Actorul acuza atunci dureri abdominale, care, potrivit presei, ar fi fost provocate de abuzul de droguri şi de alcool. Joi, într-un interviu pentru un post de radio şi în declaraţii publicate pe site-ul TMZ.com, Sheen l-a numit pe producătorul serialului, Chuck Lorre, "un şarlatan care a ales să nu-şi facă datoria" şi "un prostănac". Actorul şi-a bătut joc şi de organizaţia Alcoolicii Anonimi, spunând că el s-a vindecat cu puterea minţii sale după patru ore de tratament cu alcool şi droguri, la el acasă. "În urma afirmaţiilor, comportamentului şi stării lui Charlie Sheen, CBS şi Warner Bros. Television au decis să întrerupă producţia serialului «Doi bărbaţi şi jumătate» pentru restul sezonului", au declarat reprezentanţii reţelei de televiziune şi producătorii. Charlie Sheen a ripostat rapid într-o scrisoare deschisă publicată de TMZ.com, în care s-a referit din nou la Lorre într-o manieră denigratoare. "Le cer minunaţilor şi loialilor mei fani care au îndrăgit acest serial timp de aproape 10 ani să fie alături de mine în marşul meu către justiţie ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pandurii-targu-jiu-dna-face-investigatii-in-cazul-lui-iordache/ pandurii-targu-jiu-dna-face-investigatii-in-cazul-lui-iordache Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:20:01 +0200 Clubul Pandurii Târgu Jiu a anunţat că DNA anchetează gruparea în cazul transferului jucătorului Ilie Iordache la gruparea AEK Atena. Pandurii susţine în documentul transmis la Liga Profesionistă că transferul lui Ilie Iordache la clubul AEK Atena nu s-a realizat legal: "Legitimarea jucătorului Ilie Iordache la AEK Atena s-a realizat în baza unor documente false emise de Federaţia Româna de Fotbal cu complicitatea Comitetului Executiv din care faceţi şi dumneavoastră parte. De altfel, aceste fapte fac obiectul unor dosare penale aflate în curs de cercetare la Direcţia Naţionala Anticorupţie". DNA s-a autosesizat în acest caz şi verifică Pandurii care a plătit o parte din banii din milionul de euro către clubul Dinamo deşi are o hotărâre definitivă şi irevocabilă dată de instanţele civile în acest caz, prin care se demonstrează că Ilie Iordache nu putea deveni liber de contract pentru că gruparea gorjeană nu avea datorii către jucător. Marin Condescu susţine în documentul transmis către Dumitru Dragomir că hotărârile care s-au dat în cazul Iordache şi care au obligat apoi clubul Pandurii la plata a un milion de euro către Dinamo sunt nelegale: "Pandurii a informat în mod repetat instituţia pe care dumneavoastră o conduceţi asupra faptului ca Hotărârea nr. 13 din 09/07/2009 a CSL şi Decizia nr. 6 din 06/08/2009 a Comisiei de Recurs sunt ilegale fiind adoptate cu încălcarea Statutelor şi Regulamentelor FIFA şi FRF. În consecinţă, aceste hotărâri sunt lipsite de efecte juridice fiind pronunţate de organisme jurisdicţionale care funcţionau în afara dispoziţiilor legale şi statutare în vigoare. Totodată, vă reamintim ca decizia nr. 77/CF/2009 pronunţată de Curtea de Arbitraj pentru Fotbal care a stat la baza adoptării hotărârilor sus-menţionate a fost desfiinţată de către instanţele judecătoreşti din România, iar LPF este obligată ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/claudiu-bleont-si-a-dat-jos-chilotii-in-fata-jurnalistilor-video/ claudiu-bleont-si-a-dat-jos-chilotii-in-fata-jurnalistilor-video Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:40:01 +0200 Actorul Claudiu Bleonţ şi-a dat jos chiloţii în faţa jurnaliştilor, la o conferinţă de presă pe care a susţinut-o, joi, la Arad, pentru promovarea unui spectacol. Claudiu Bleonţ a susţinut o conferinţă de presă la Teatrul Clasic "Ioan Slavici" Arad, pentru a promova piesa "Căutându-l pe Shakespeare prin Richard al III-lea", iar în timpul discuţiilor cu jurnaliştii şi-a dat jos pantalonii şi chiloţii şi şi-a arătat penisul. Bleonţ a făcut gestul în timp pe povestea despre starea de spirit pe care o are la vârsta actuală, afirmând că nu îi este jenă că "e aşa de mică" şi că "suntem o ţară de farseuri". "V-am şocat sau am fost sincer?", i-a întrebat Bleonţ pe jurnaliştii care au fost de faţă. Spectacolul "Căutându-l pe Shakespeare prin Richard al III lea" va fi jucat la Arad în 8 martie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/moby-revine-in-romania-video/ moby-revine-in-romania-video Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:50:01 +0200 Moby va fi prezent din nou în România pentru un nou concert live, la The Mission Dance Weekend, ce va avea loc în staţiunea Năvodari, pe 5 şi 6 august, informează site-ul nights.ro, precum şi pagina de Facebook a organizatorilor, The Mission. Moby va concerta în ziua a doua de festival, pe 6 august, de la ora 20.00, fiind capul de afiş al The Mission Dance Weekend Day 2. Moby a fost prezent pentru prima dată în România în deschiderea concertului The Prodigy, din Bucureşti, în anul 1995. Cea mai recentă apariţie pe o scenă din România a lui Moby a fost în anul 2009, la B'estfest din Bucureşti. Concertul lui Moby de la The Mission Dance Weekend face parte din turneul de promovare a celui mai recent album al său, "Destroyed", ce urmează să fie lansat pe 16 mai. The Mission Dance Weekend va avea loc pe 5 şi 6 august pe litoralul Mării Negre, în staţiunea Năvodari, pe plaja Hanul Piraţilor. Moby, pe numele său adevărat Richard Herman Melville, a început să facă muzică încă de la vârsta de 9 ani, la 13 ani având deja prima sa trupă de muzică punk, "Vatican Comandoes", alături de care a şi lansat un EP, "Hit Squad For God". Deşi cariera sa muzicală a căpătat în timp valenţe dintre cele mai diverse, ajungând de la rock, punk şi heavy metal la dance, techno şi chiar ambiental, Moby s-a afirmat mai întâi ca DJ. Primul său single, "Go", a fost lansat în 1991, fiind extrem de bine primit de public şi inclus de revista Rolling Stone în topul celor mai bune piese din toate timpurile. De-a lungul timpului, pasiunea neobosită de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ponta-o-cunostinta-mi-a-transmis-un-mesaj-de-la-blejnar-sa-fiu-mai-atent-ce-spun-la-tv/ ponta-o-cunostinta-mi-a-transmis-un-mesaj-de-la-blejnar-sa-fiu-mai-atent-ce-spun-la-tv Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:00:01 +0200 Preşedintele PSD, Victor Ponta, susţine, într-o postare pe blogul său, că o cunştinţă a ţinut să ajungă la el pentru a-i transmite "priteneşte" un mesaj de la şeful ANAF, Sorin Blejnar, respectiv să fie mai atent ce spune la TV pentru că acesta are nişte "documente" despre el. "Ieri, o cunoştinţă a ţinut să ajungă la mine să-mi transmită «prieteneşte» un mesaj de la marele şi puternicul Domn Sorin Blejnar - că să fiu mai atent ce spun pe la TV că are el nişte «documente» despre mine şi că s-ar putea să le dea pe la presă dacă nu mă potolesc! Să zic ce vreau de Udrea, nu-i pasă, dar nu de el! Nu am fost foarte uimit (Răzvan Dumitrescu dar şi alţi prieteni m-au avertizat că şantajul şi banii sunt armele cel mai des folosite de Blejnar); am răspuns cu îndemnul să le dea cât mai repede la cine vrea el documentele şi cu promisiunea că nu va trece o zi fără să pomenesc de el ca fiind cheia acestui uriaş scandal de corupţie! Aşa am fost eu învăţat, când eram procuror, la Direcţia Naţională Antimafia de la Roma, să-i tratez pe cei care mă şantajează! Şi uite aşa fac pe surdul şi la ameninţările Domnului Blejnar!", scrie Ponta pe blogul său. El precizează că nu tace şi nu se întoarce din drum. "Nu tac şi nu mă întorc din drum orice îmi fac; o s-o ţin aşa cât timp ei o să facă pe surzii când le spunem toţi că au furat şi au distrus ţara prea mult! Şi sunt convins că toţi cetăţenii României (fie ei români, maghiari sau ce ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/brosuri-care-incearca-sa-convinga-locuitorii-sa-se-declare-romani-distribuite-in-bulgaria/ brosuri-care-incearca-sa-convinga-locuitorii-sa-se-declare-romani-distribuite-in-bulgaria Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:10:01 +0200 Broşuri care încearcă să convingă persoanele din nordul Bulgariei să se declare români la recensământul naţional au fost distribuite în regiunea Vidin, potrivit televiziunii naţionale bulgare (BNR), citate de site-ul Novinite.com. Potrivit acestor broşuri, cei care decid să se declare români vor primi burse şi subvenţii pentru a studia în România sau vor beneficia de tabere de vară gratuite. Broşurile au fost distribuite în mai multe localităţi din regiunea Vidin, în timpul concertelor unei formaţii româneşti de muzică folk, organizate de o mişcare etnică din România. Mişcarea neagă însă că ar fi implicată în această acţiune. Mai mulţi studenţi din cadrul unei organizaţii neguvernamentale cu sediul în Republica Moldova ar fi fost distribuitorii acestor broşuri. Partidul naţionalist bulgar VMRO a notificat Agenţia de stat pentru securitate naţională, DANS, în legătură cu acest incident. La ultimul recensământ din Bulgaria, doar 0,4 dintre persoanele care locuiesc în regiunea Vidin au declarat că sunt români. Actualul recensământ se va încheia la 28 februarie. Potrivit datelor Institutului Naţional de Statistică, 6.712.251 de cetăţeni bulgari sau 90 la sută din populaţie au luat parte la recensământ, începând din 22 februarie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/grupul-bcr-a-avut-anul-trecut-cel-mai-mic-profit-dupa-privatizare-si-pierderi-in-trimestrul-patru/ grupul-bcr-a-avut-anul-trecut-cel-mai-mic-profit-dupa-privatizare-si-pierderi-in-trimestrul-patru Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:30:01 +0200 Grupul BCR a avut anul trecut un profit net după impozitare şi interesele minoritare de 465 milioane de lei, în scădere cu 46,7% faţă de 2009, cel mai redus câştig înregistrat după privatizarea băncii, şi a raportat pierderi de 29,5 milioane de lei în trimestrul al patrulea. În primele nouă luni ale anului trecut, grupul BCR a raportat un profit net consolidat după impozitare şi plata intereselor minoritare de 494,5 milioane lei. Potrivit datelor de pe site-ul instituţiei, profitul net după impozitare şi plata intereselor minoritare al grupului BCR a avansat treptat de la 649,9 milioane de lei în 2005 la nivelul record de 2,03 miliarde de lei în 2008. Câştigul net al grupului BCR a scăzut la 871,7 milioane de lei în 2009. Profitul net după impozitare şi plata intereselor minoritare a scăzut anul trecut în principal din cauza "nivelului încă ridicat de provizionare şi a diminuării venitului net", potrivit unui comunicat transmis de instituţia de credit. Grupul BCR a obţinut anul trecut un profit operaţional de 2,85 miliarde de lei, în scădere cu 12,5% faţă de 2009, ca urmare a reducerii venitului operaţional şi în pofida eficienţei sporite. Venitul operaţional net al grupului a scăzut anul trecut de la 4,97 miliarde de lei la 4,52 miliarde de lei, în principal din cauza diminuării ratelor dobânzilor. "Principalul factor al acestui declin (al venitului operaţional - n.r.) l-a constituit diminuarea ratelor dobânzilor având ca efect reducerea venitului din dobânzi cu 21,8%, la 6,91 miliarde de lei, sub presiunea suplimentară a reducerii cererii eligibile de credite şi a creşterii concurenţei pentru afaceri de calitate", potrivit comunicatului instituţiei. Veniturile nete din dobânzi ale grupului BCR au scăzut anul trecut cu 2,3%, la 3,75 miliarde de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/al-qaida-cere-planificarea-de-noi-atentate-impotriva-occidentului/ al-qaida-cere-planificarea-de-noi-atentate-impotriva-occidentului Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:20:02 +0200 Ayman al-Zawahiri, numărul doi în ierarhia al-Qaida, a cerut pregătirea de noi atacuri împotriva Occidentului, a anunţat, joi, centrul american pentru supravegherea site-urilor islamiste SITE. Înregistrarea video, care durează 35 de minute, este cea de-a doua difuzată într-o serie intitulată "Mesaj de speranţă şi veşti bune pentru poporul Egiptului" şi a fost produsă de divizia de comunicare a reţelei teroriste, as-Sahab. Mesajul este însoţit de o imagine statică a lui al-Zawahiri. "Dacă suntem capabili să producem arme echivalente cu armele cruciaţilor Occidentului, putem sabota sistemele lor economice şi industriale, putem să le distrugem puterea care se luptă fără o cauză până când vor fugi", afirmă el. Combatanţii "trebuie să inventeze noi modalităţi (de luptă), modalităţi care nu au fost niciodată luate în considerare în spiritul occidental", a adăugat al-Zawahiri. "Recurgerea la avioane pentru a le transforma în arme puternice, aşa cum s-a întâmplat în cursul invaziilor binecuvântate de la New York, Washington şi din Pennsylvania, este un exemplu de astfel de gândire curajoasă", a declarat el, referindu-se la atentatele de la 11 septembrie 2001. Atentatele din Statele Unite, soldate cu aproape 3.000 de victime, au fost comise cu avioane de linie deturnate, care au lovit turnurile gemene de la World Trade Center şi clădirea Pentagonului. Un al treilea aparat s-a prăbuşit în statul american Pennsylvania. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/naveta-discovery-a-fost-lansata-cu-succes-spre-iss-pentru-ultima-ei-misiune-in-spatiu/ naveta-discovery-a-fost-lansata-cu-succes-spre-iss-pentru-ultima-ei-misiune-in-spatiu Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:40:01 +0200 Naveta Discovery, având la bord şase astronauţi, a fost lansată spre Staţia Spaţială Internaţională (ISS) joi, la ora 21.53 GMT, de la Centrul spaţial Kennedy din Cape Canaveral (Florida), pentru ultima sa misiune în spaţiu. Lansarea a fost amânată cu trei minute din cauza unei defecţiuni tehnice care a fost rezolvată foarte repede. Cel puţin patru bucăţi de spumă izolatoare s-au desprins de pe navetă în timpul urcării pe orbită, însă niciuna nu a reprezentat un pericol pentru Discovery, informează NASA. Bucăţile de spumă izolatoare care se desprind de navete în timpul lansărilor a reprezentat o sursă de nelinişte pentru NASA, mai ales pentru că acesta a fost motivul pentru care naveta Columbia s-a dezintegrat, în 2003, la intrarea în atmosferă. La începutul lui ianuarie, NASA a anunţat că a reuşit să remedieze problema fisurilor din rezervorul extern al navetei Discovery şi că intenţionează să o lanseze spre Staţia Spaţială Internaţională (ISS) pe 24 februarie. John Shannon, responsabilul programului de lansare a navetei Discovery (misiunea NASA STS-133), dădea atunci asigurări că a fost rezolvată problema fisurilor din rezervorul extern al Discovery, care a ţinut la sol naveta încă de la începutul lui noiembrie 2010. Modificările tehnice urmau să fie încheiate până pe 23 ianuarie. Lansarea navetei Discovery a fost amânată de mai multe ori, începând din noiembrie 2010, din cauza unei scurgeri de hidrogen în timpul umplerii cu combustibil a rezervorului extern. Aceasta a fost a 133-a lansare a unei navete americane în cei 30 de ani ai acestui program al NASA. Acesta este ultimul zbor pentru Discovery şi, totodată, al 39-lea pentru navetă, cea mai veche din flota spaţială a NASA. Aceasta este, de asemenea, penultima sau antepenultima lansare a unei navete ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ce-fac-programele-software-cu-datele-tale-personale/ ce-fac-programele-software-cu-datele-tale-personale Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:00:01 +0200 Navighezi pe internet, îţi updatezi statusul pe Facebook şi asculţi muzică. Te-ai gândit însă cât de multe informaţii poţi să divulgi doar atunci când te loghezi pe o reţea socială sau cauţi informaţii pe internet? Poate că nu, însă softurile şi aplicaţiile pentru telefon îţi înregistrează orice informaţie, informează www.incont.ro. Foursquare, site-ul de localizare lansat acum doi ani, a ajuns la şase milioane de utilizatori, din care un milion îşi updatează profilul zilnic, spun cei de la PCMag. Ce înseamnă acest lucru? Practic, dacă ai cont pe acest site, fiecare dintre prietenii din reţea poate afla locul în care te afli în momentul în care postezi ceva nou aici. Asta inseamnă că mulţi dintre ei îţi ştiu programul zilnic, orele între care nu poţi fi găsit acasă, află atunci când ai de gând să pleci în vacanţă şi ştiu exact când te întorci. Rezultatul: până la o spargere de locuinţă sau atacuri nu este decât un pas foarte uşor de făcut. Iar, din păcate, mulţi tineri din SUA şi Marea Britanie au aflat pe pielea lor care sunt consecinţele divulgării unor informaţii personale, potrivit analiştilor în securitate IT, citaţi de site-ul de tehnologie TechCrunch. Citeşte mai multe despre ce fac programele software cu datele tale personale pe www.incont.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/basescu-ziaristilor-temele-europeane-nu-sunt-de-importanta-unor-situatii-ca-divortul-lui-irinel/ basescu-ziaristilor-temele-europeane-nu-sunt-de-importanta-unor-situatii-ca-divortul-lui-irinel Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:40:01 +0200 Preşedintele Traian Băsescu a declarat, joi, la începutul conferinţei de presă pe teme europene, că subiecte precum Pactul european de stabilitate sau cel pentru competitivitate nu sunt de interes pentru ziarişti pentru că nu au "importanţa unor situaţii dramatice ca divorţul lui Irinel". "Fiind probleme de interes european, cu o reflectare puternică în ceea ce trebuie să se întâmple în România, sunt convins că nu sunt de interes pentru dumneavoastră, dar eu am obligaţia să-mi fac datoria de a le aduce la cunoştinţa publicului, urmând ca dumneavoastră să faceţi ce vreţi cu aceste puncte de vedere. Nu sunt de importanţa unor situaţii dramatice, ca divorţul lui Irinel sau... Nu. Sunt lucruri mult mai simple astea şi cred că nu vă interesează", le-a spus preşedintele ziariştilor, în debutul conferinţei de presă de la Cotroceni pe teme europene. Băsescu a prezentat, apoi, pe larg, subiectele pe care le-a discutat, în cursul dimineţii, cu preşedintele Consiliului Europen, Herman Van Rompuy. Monica Columbeanu vrea să divorţeze de Irinel Columbeanu, procesul urmând să înceapă la Judecătoria Buftea pe 21 martie, potrivit site-ului instanţei. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/claudiu-bleont-si-a-dat-jos-chilotii-in-fata-jurnalistilor/ claudiu-bleont-si-a-dat-jos-chilotii-in-fata-jurnalistilor Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:20:02 +0200 Actorul Claudiu Bleonţ şi-a dat jos chiloţii în faţa jurnaliştilor, la o conferinţă de presă pe care a susţinut-o, joi, la Arad, pentru promovarea unui spectacol. Claudiu Bleonţ a susţinut o conferinţă de presă la Teatrul Clasic "Ioan Slavici" Arad, pentru a promova piesa "Căutându-l pe Shakespeare prin Richard al III-lea", iar în timpul discuţiilor cu jurnaliştii şi-a dat jos pantalonii şi chiloţii şi şi-a arătat penisul. Bleonţ a făcut gestul în timp pe povestea despre starea de spirit pe care o are la vârsta actuală, afirmând că nu îi este jenă că "e aşa de mică" şi că "suntem o ţară de farseuri". "V-am şocat sau am fost sincer?", i-a întrebat Bleonţ pe jurnaliştii care au fost de faţă. Spectacolul "Căutându-l pe Shakespeare prin Richard al III lea" va fi jucat la Arad în 8 martie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ministrul-bulgar-de-interne-doar-franta-mai-cere-amanarea-aderarii-romaniei-si-bulgariei-la-schengen/ ministrul-bulgar-de-interne-doar-franta-mai-cere-amanarea-aderarii-romaniei-si-bulgariei-la-schengen Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:30:02 +0200 Germania şi-a schimbat poziţia privind aderarea Bulgariei şi României la Schengen, iar acum numai Franţa mai cere amânarea acesteia, a declarat ministrul bulgar de Interne, Ţvetan Ţvetanov, citat joi de site-ul Novinite.com. "Poziţia Germaniei este acum chiar diferită de cea expusă în scrisoarea franco-germană din decembrie 2010", a afirmat Ţvetanov, citat de postul public bulgar de radio (BNR). El a participat joi la o reuniune a miniştrilor de Interne din Uniunea Europeană, la Bruxelles. Franţa şi Germania, cărora li s-au alăturat ulterior Finlanda şi Olanda, şi-au exprimat în mod repetat opoziţia faţă de aderarea României şi Bulgariei la Schengen în martie, argumentând că cele două ţări au în continuare probleme cu justiţia şi aplicarea legii. Potrivit lui Ţvetanov, Finlanda şi Olanda înclină mai degrabă să urmeze poziţia actuală a Germaniei, decât pe cea a Franţei. El a subliniat că Franţa nu are argumente clare pentru amânarea aderării Bulgariei, ci doar vrea condiţionarea ei de Mecanismul de Cooperare şi Verificare. Premierul bulgar, Boiko Borisov, care se străduieşte să asigure aderarea ţării sale la Schengen, a afirmat că Bulgaria va fi total pregătită pentru aderare la sfârşitul lui martie. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/un-remake-dupa-bodyguard-va-fi-realizat-anul-acesta/ un-remake-dupa-bodyguard-va-fi-realizat-anul-acesta Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:00:05 +0200 Un remake după celebrul film "Bodyguard" din 1992, cu Kevin Costner şi Whitney Houston, urmează să fie produs anul acesta de Warner Bros., informează contactmusic.com. Scenariul peliculei va fi semnat de Jeremiah Friedman şi Nick Palmer. Dacă filmul original spunea povestea unui agent al serviciilor secrete, interpretat de Kevin Costner, care are de apărat o cântăreaţă (Whitney Houston), ameninţată de un fan care o urmăreşte, în noua versiune, bodyguard-ul este un veteran din Irak, angajat de asemenea pentru protecţia unei interprete. Fostul soldat descoperă că reţele precum Twitter şi Facebook şi site-urile de bârfe au înlesnit mai mult ca niciodată accesul la viaţa privată a celebrităţilor. Chiar dacă nu au ales încă actori care să interpreteze rolurile principale în acest remake, producătorii ar dori să aibă în distribuţie o tânără cântăreaţă căreia să-i ofere aceeaşi rampă de lansare pe care a reprezentat-o "Bodyguard" pentru Whitney Houston. Filmul "Bodyguard" a avut încasări de 411 milioane de dolari în întreaga lume. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vlad-petreanu-demisoneaza-de-la-antena-3/ vlad-petreanu-demisoneaza-de-la-antena-3 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:30:02 +0200 Jurnalistul Vlad Petreanu a anunţat, joi, pe blogul personal, că a demisionat din funcţia pe care o avea la postul Antena 3. Potrivit site-ului postului de televiziune, jurnalistul realiza şi prezenta împreună cu Alice Iacobescu emisiunea "Săptămâna de ştiri". "Conducerea a zis, în esenţă, că a înţeles. Urmează formalităţi. Rămânem, deci, cu un trecut comun - până la un punct, când fiecare începuse, oricum, să vadă viitorul altfel. Restul a fost doar aşteptare", comentează jurnalistul pe blogul său. În final, Petreanu le mulţumeşte celor cărora le datorează atât "bunele", cât şi "relele" din ultimii 13 ani din viaţa sa profesională. Până în septembrie 2010, Vlad Petreanu a coordonat şi prezentat la Antena 3 emisiunea "Reporter Special". Pe 24 septembrie, Mihai Gâdea, directorul general al postului a anunţat că această emisiune a fost suspendată, iar echipa care o realiza se va ocupa de un proiect mai mare. "Emisiunea «Reporter Special» se suspendă pentru o perioadă. Veţi vedea un nou proiect remarcabil, echipa de la «Reporter Special» împreună cu alţi oameni se pregătesc de un proiect remarcabil. Ne pregătim de ceva important şi mai mare. Se va organiza un departament de corespondenţi speciali, din care va face parte echipa de la «Reporter Special», împreună cu alţi oameni care se vor alătura postului", explica Mihai Gâdea la acea vreme. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bilantul-cutremurului-din-christchurch-a-depasit-100-de-morti/ bilantul-cutremurului-din-christchurch-a-depasit-100-de-morti Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:30:02 +0200 Bilanţul cutremurului de marţi din Christchurch a ajuns la 102 morţi şi aproximativ 200 de dispăruţi, a anunţat poliţia din Noua Zeelandă, într-un comunicat publicat pe site-ul său. O echipă americană de căutare şi salvare a ajuns în Noua Zeelandă pentru a se alătura echipelor neozeelandeze şi celor din Australia, Japonia, Taiwan, Singapore şi China. O echipă din Marea Britanie este de asemenea în drum spre Noua Zeelandă şi, după ce va sosi, numărul militarilor şi voluntarilor care participă la operaţiunile de salvare va fi de aproape 700, precizează poliţia. Cutremurul, cu magnitudinea 6,3, s-a produs marţi şi este considerat cel mai grav care a afectat Noua Zeelandă în ultimii 80 de ani. Epicentrul a fost localizat la 5 kilometri de oraşul Christchurch (390.000 de locuitori), la o adâncime de numai 4 kilometri. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/posturile-tv-radio-trebuie-sa-asigure-accesul-persoanelor-cu-deficiente-de-auz-la-principalele-stiri/ posturile-tv-radio-trebuie-sa-asigure-accesul-persoanelor-cu-deficiente-de-auz-la-principalele-stiri Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:30:03 +0200 Posturile de televiziune şi radio trebuie să asigure, în mod gradual, până la 1 ianuarie 2015, accesul persoanelor cu deficienţe de auz la principalele emisiuni informative pe care le difuzează zilnic, potrivit unei modificări a Codului audiovizualului, adoptată joi de membrii CNA. Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (CNA) a discutat în şedinţa de joi, pe articole, proiectul de modificare a actualului Cod de reglementare a conţinutului audiovizual, adoptând unele modificări ale acestuia. Astfel, CNA a decis - la propunerea lui Attila Szasz, membru al Consiliului - că posturile de televiziune şi radio trebuie să asigure, în mod gradual, până la 1 ianuarie 2015, acces persoanelor cu deficienţe de auz la principalele emisiuni informative, pe care le difuzează zilnic. Articolul nou introdus în Codul audiovizualului vine în continuarea unui articol din Legea audiovizualului, care a fost preluat din Directiva privind Serviciile Media Audiovizuale. În mod concret, articolul 10, alineatul 3, litera K din actuala Lege a audiovizualului prevede că "în calitate de garant al interesului public în domeniul comunicării audiovizuale, Consiliul are obligaţia să asigure: încurajarea furnizorilor de servicii media audiovizuale în vederea asigurării de condiţii ca serviciile furnizate să devină accesibile persoanelor cu deficienţe de văz sau de auz". O altă modificare a Codului audiovizualului, adoptată în şedinţa de joi a CNA, vizează campaniile sociale care vor fi transmise în mod gratuit de către radiodifuzori şi nu vor fi contorizate în cele 12 minute de publicitate pe oră (în cazul televiziunilor private) şi, respectiv, 8 minute de publicitate pe oră (în cazul televiziunii publice). Astfel, în cazul în care posturile de televiziune şi radio organizează teledonuri sau campanii care presupun strângerea de fonduri de la public, atunci respectivii radiodifuzori trebuie, după un anumit timp, să ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/liceenii-cel-mai-frumos-film-de-dragoste-romanesc/ liceenii-cel-mai-frumos-film-de-dragoste-romanesc Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:40:02 +0200 "Liceenii", regizat de Nicolae Corjos, prima parte a unei serii de lungmetraje de succes, este cel mai frumos film de dragoste românesc, potrivit rezultatelor unui chestionar online postat pe www.mediafax.ro. Filmul "Liceenii" a fost ales de 36,19% dintre cei aproximativ 970 de votanţi de pe site, fiind urmat, la mică distanţă, de "Declaraţie de dragoste", semnat tot de Nicolae Corjos, care a obţinut 36,08% din voturi. "Liceenii" (1987) este povestea de dragoste a doi "boboci" care se îndrăgostesc. Mihai (Ştefan Bănică) este un provincial ajuns la un liceu din Bucureşti, unde pasiunea sa pentru filosofie şi matematică va fi eclipsată de iubire, iar Dana (Oana Sârbu) este o împătimită a campionatelor de şah. Iubirea celor doi este presărată cu certuri, surprize inocente şi probe de prietenie. Pe lângă cei doi îndrăgostiţi se mai remarcă simpaticul Ionică (Mihai Constantin), prietenul lui Mihai, dar şi dura profesoară de matematică Isoscel (Tamara Buciuceanu) şi dirigintele Socrate (Ion Caramitru). Un film despre iubire şi viaţa de liceu care a umplut cinematografele, "Declaraţie de dragoste" (1985) poate fi considerat unul dintre primele "love story-uri" româneşti. Cuplul îndrăgostiţilor este format din Adrian Păduraru şi Teodora Mareş, iar Ion Caramitru şi Tamara Buciuceanu fac două roluri de neuitat în ipostaza faimoşilor profesori Socrate, respectiv Isoscel. Utilizatorii site-ului MEDIAFAX au fost invitaţi să voteze cel mai frumos film de dragoste românesc, putând opta, pe lângă cele două filme care în final au ajuns pe primele poziţii ale clasamentului, pentru "Buletin de Bucureşti", de Virgil Calotescu, şi mai recentele "California Dreamin' (nesfârşit)", de Cristian Nemescu, sau "Marţi, după Crăciun", de Radu Muntean. Pe locul al treilea s-a clasat filmul "Buletin de Bucureşti", cu 18,45% din voturi, urmat de "California Dreamin' (nesfârşit)", cu 4,95% din ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bulgaria-va-fi-pregatita-pentru-aderarea-la-schengen-la-sfarsitul-lui-martie-afirma-boiko-borisov/ bulgaria-va-fi-pregatita-pentru-aderarea-la-schengen-la-sfarsitul-lui-martie-afirma-boiko-borisov Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:00:04 +0200 Premierul bulgar, Boiko Borisov, care se străduieşte să asigure aderarea ţării sale la Schengen, a afirmat că Bulgaria va fi total pregătită pentru aderare la sfârşitul lui martie, relatează site-ul Novinite.com. "Bulgaria se pregăteşte pentru aderarea sa la Schengen conform programului şi sunt încrezător că vom fi total pregătiţi pentru aderare la 24-25 martie, când va fi efectuată ultima verificare a securităţii graniţelor noastre", a declarat Borisov pentru postul privat de televiziune bTV. Bulgaria speră să adere la spaţiul de circulaţie fără paşaport în martie, dar Franţa şi Germania au cerut deja Bruxelles-ului să amâne această aderare, din cauza îngrijorărilor privind abilitatea sa de a combate corupţia şi criminalitatea. Premierul bulgar susţine însă că unele state importante ale UE, inclusiv Germania, şi-au îmblânzit poziţia. "Ultimele informaţii pe care le-am primit de la ministrul de Interne, Ţvetan Ţvetanov, care se află în prezent la Bruxelles, arată că celelalte state membre, inclusiv Germania, şi-au schimbat opinia destul de mult", a precizat el. Bulgaria şi România, care au aderat la Uniunea Europeană în 2007, sperau să intre în spaţiul Schengen în martie 2011, susţinând că au îndeplinit toate criteriile tehnice. Mai multe state UE consideră însă că aderarea la această dată ar fi prematură, aşa că Bulgaria ar putea intra în Schengen în noiembrie, potrivit novinite.com. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/julian-assange-poate-fi-extradat-in-suedia/ julian-assange-poate-fi-extradat-in-suedia Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:00:04 +0200 Fondatorul site-ului WikiLeaks, australianul Julian Assange, poate fi extrădat în Suedia, a decis tribunalul londonez Belmarsh, în urma cererii de extrădare înaintate de Stockholm în cadrul unei anchete privind un presupus viol şi agresiuni sexuale. "Trebuie să ordon extrădarea lui Assange către Suedia", a declarat judecătorul Howard Riddle. Justiţia suedeză a emis un mandat de arestare european împotriva lui Assange pentru a-l audia în cazul unui dosar de presupuse "violenţe sexuale" împotriva a două tinere suedeze. Fondatorul WikiLeaks a fost arestat în decembrie, în Marea Britanie, şi eliberat condiţionat. În prezent, el se află în arest la domiciliu. "Vom face apel", a declarat imediat Geoffrey Robertson, şeful echipei de avocaţi a lui Julian Assange. Prin validarea mandatului de arestare european emis de Suedia, judecătorul Riddle a evidenţiat "respectul reciproc şi încrederea tribunalului în alte instanţe europene". Julian Assange, în vârstă de 39 de ani, neagă acuzaţiile de agresiune sexuală şi viol. Avocaţii săi au argumentat că este vorba de "un abuz", subliniind că justiţia suedeză nu ar avea nevoie de extrădarea lui Assange pentru a-l audia. Judecătorul Riddle a apreciat că Julian Assange "a avut relaţii sexuale cu una dintre cele două suedeze, profitând în mod necinstit de faptul că aceasta adormise". "În Suedia, acest lucru echivalează cu un viol", a argumentat judecătorul britanic. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/victor-becali-nu-am-discutat-prelungirea-contractului-lui-cristian-chivu/ victor-becali-nu-am-discutat-prelungirea-contractului-lui-cristian-chivu Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:20:02 +0200 Impresarul Victor Becali a declarat, joi, într-un interviu acordat site-ului fcinternews.it, că nu a discutat cu oficialii clubului Internazionale Milano prelungirea contractului fundaşului Cristian Chivu, care expiră în vara anului 2012. "Nu am discutat încă despre prelungirea contractului lui Chivu. Suntem dispuşi să ne întâlnim cu oficialii clubului Inter Milano pentru a asculta propunerea lor, dacă va exista o propunere de prelungire a înţelegerii. Chivu se simte bine la Inter, echipă alături de care a câştigat tot. În vara viitoare, când îi va expira contractul, va avea 31 de ani, dar toată lumea cunoaşte potenţialul şi valoarea sa", a spus Becali. Impresarul internaţionalului român a afirmat că nu va apela la articolul 17 din regulamentul de transferuri al FIFA. "Nu, nu vom apela la această prevedere. Jucătorul este mult prea legat de Inter Milano şi nu ar putea face aşa ceva", a precizat Becali. Articolul 17 din regulamentul de transferuri al FIFA prevede că un jucător poate să întrerupă unilateral contractul după trei ani, dacă plăteşte clubului salariul pe care urma să îl primească pentru perioada rămasă din acord, dar şi un procent din suma de cumpărare a fotbalistului. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/dinamo-a-imprumutat-cinci-jucatori-la-unirea-urziceni/ dinamo-a-imprumutat-cinci-jucatori-la-unirea-urziceni Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:20:02 +0200 FC Dinamo i-a împrumutat pe jucătorii George Curcă, Sergiu Scărlatescu, Marius Ioniţă, Sergiu Homei şi Georgian Marcu, până la finalul sezonului, la gruparea Unirea Urziceni, informează site-ul oficial al grupării din Şoseaua Ştefan cel Mare. Celor cinci jucători dinamovişti le expiră contractele de împrumut cu Unirea Urziceni la 30 iunie 2011. În lotul formaţiei Dinamo au fost păstraţi 25 de jucători, cu următoarele numere pe tricouri: 12. Emilian Dolha, 23. Kristijan Naumovski, 34. Cristian Bălgrădean (portari), 2. Zie Diabate, 3. Oscar Rubio, 4. Cosmin Moţi, 16. Valeriu Bordeanu, 17. Eugen Crăciun, 21. Dragoş Grigore, 29. Ersin Mehmedovici, 31. Raul Crişan (fundaşi), 5. Djakaridja Kone, 6. Andrei Mărgăritescu, 7. Cătălin Munteanu, 8. Bogdan Pătraşcu, 15. Dorin Mărmăneanu, 20. Elis Bakaj, 22. Gabriel Torje, 30. Vlad Munteanu, 33. Raphael Stănescu (mijlocaşi), 9. George Ţucudean, 10. Marius Alexe, 14. Georgian Păun, 19. Liviu Ganea, 25. Ionel Dănciulescu (atacanţi). http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/kelly-osbourne-este-noua-imagine-a-creatiilor-vestimentare-semnate-de-madonna/ kelly-osbourne-este-noua-imagine-a-creatiilor-vestimentare-semnate-de-madonna Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:20:02 +0200 Kelly Osbourne a devenit noua imagine a liniei vestimentare "Material Girl", creată de Madonna împreună cu fiica sa în vârstă de 14 ani, Lourdes "Lola" Leon, potrivit stylelist.com. Kelly Osbourne, care este designer, cântăreaţă şi vedetă TV, a fost lăudată de Madonna pentru stilul său. "Kelly este o adevărată Material Girl. (...) Are stilul pe care eu şi Lola îl iubim", a declarat Madonna. "Regina muzicii pop" şi fiica ei au ales-o pe Kelly Osbourne, în vârstă de 26 de ani, să fie protagonista campaniei de promovare a colecţiei lor pentru primăvara anului 2011, după ce au renunţat la serviciile vedetei din "Gossip Girl", Taylor Momsen, care a fost iniţial imaginea liniei vestimentare "Material Girl". Momsem, în vârstă de 17 ani, a fost "expediată" după ce a descris hainele la care făcea reclamă drept similare ca stil cu cele purtate de "o prostituată de lux". Prin urmare, Kelly Osbourne a avut de semnat un contract foarte strict prin care era obligată să fie atentă la tot ce spune, dat fiind că "Material Girl" este destinată adolescentelor, a dezvăluit o sursă pentru dailymail.co.uk Pe de altă parte, şi Osbourne a lăudat stilul Madonnei din anii '80, mărturisind că o inspiră, dar şi felul în care se îmbracă Lola. Adolescenta, în vârstă de 14 ani, admiră la rândul ei stilul eclectic al fiicei lui Ozzy Osbourne. Totodată, Kelly Osbourne a lăudat-o pe Madonna pentru calităţile sale de părinte, insistând că are o fată foarte bine crescută în comparaţie cu alţi copii de celebrităţi. "Cred că (Lourdes, n.r.) este cel mai dulce copil. Este cea mai manierată, bine crescută, dulce, iubitoare şi normală fată pe care am întâlnit-o în situaţia sa. Nu sunt mulţi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/randamentele-fondurilor-de-pensii-si-perspectivele-acestora-la-mediafax-talks-about-private-pensions/ randamentele-fondurilor-de-pensii-si-perspectivele-acestora-la-mediafax-talks-about-private-pensions Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:50:01 +0200 Randamentele fondurilor de pensii private la sfârşitul anului 2010 şi evoluţia acestora în următorii ani vor fi analizate de reprezentanţi ai autorităţilor şi ai administratorilor la conferinţa Mediafax Talks about Private Pensions din 3 martie. Evenimentul cu tema "Importanţa pensiilor private. Forecast 2011-2016" se va desfăşura la Hotel Howard Johnson, sala Platinum, de la ora 9.30 şi va reuni reprezentanţi ai Guvernului şi ai asociaţiilor din domeniu, administratori de fonduri de pensii private, directori generali şi de resurse umane din mari companii, consultanţi şi sociologi. Cea de-a patra ediţie Mediafax Talks about Private Pensions îi va avea ca speakeri, printre alţii, pe Mircea Oancea - preşedintele Comisiei de Supraveghere a Sistemului de Pensii Private (CSSPP), Doina Pârcălabu - preşedintele Casei Naţionale de Pensii şi alte Drepturi de Asigurări Sociale, Cornelia Coman - preşedinte al Consiliului de Administraţie al ING Pensii, Crinu Andănuţ - preşedinte al Asociaţiei pentru Pensiile Administrate Privat din România (APAPR) şi director general al Allianz Ţiriac Pensii Private, Radu Brăgărea - director general Eureko Pensii şi Mihai Bobocea - secretar general al APAPR. Lectorii vor aduce în discuţie unele dintre cele mai importante evenimente pentru piaţa pensiilor private obligatorii (Pilonul II) în acest an: majorarea contribuţiei de la 2,5% la 3% din venitul brut lunar al participanţilor, integrarea în fondurile de pensii private obligatorii a bugetarilor din structurile militarizate, măsurile ce vor fi adoptate de CSSPP pentru o bună funcţionare a sistemului de pensii private şi excluderea "costului bugetar" al Pilonului II din calculul deficitului şi al datoriei publice. În ceea ce priveşte fondurile de pensii private facultative (Pilonul III), speakerii vor discuta impactul pe care îl are extinderea deductibilităţii fiscale asupra CAS de la începutul acestui an şi perspectiva ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/justitia-britanica-decide-ca-julian-assange-poate-fi-extradat-in-suedia/ justitia-britanica-decide-ca-julian-assange-poate-fi-extradat-in-suedia Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:00:01 +0200 Fondatorul site-ului WikiLeaks, australianul Julian Assange, poate fi extrădat în Suedia, a decis tribunalul londonez Belmarsh, în urma cererii de extrădare înaintate de Stockholm în cadrul unei anchete privind un presupus viol şi agresiuni sexuale. "Trebuie să ordon extrădarea lui Assange către Suedia", a declarat judecătorul Howard Riddle. Justiţia suedeză a emis un mandat de arestare european împotriva lui Assange pentru a-l audia în cazul unui dosar de presupuse "violenţe sexuale" împotriva a două tinere suedeze. Fondatorul WikiLeaks a fost arestat în decembrie, în Marea Britanie, şi eliberat condiţionat. În prezent, el se află în arest la domiciliu. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cna-radio-zu-si-realitatea-fm-amendate-cu-cate-10-000-de-lei-guerrilla-somat-public/ cna-radio-zu-si-realitatea-fm-amendate-cu-cate-10-000-de-lei-guerrilla-somat-public Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:40:01 +0200 CNA a decis, joi, să amendeze cu câte 10.000 de lei posturile Radio Zu şi Realitatea FM şi a somat public Radio Guerrilla, pentru încălcări ale legislaţiei audiovizuale. Radio Zu a fost amendat cu 10.000 de lei, pentru încălcarea legislaţiei audiovizuale privind protecţia minorilor, în mai multe ediţii ale emisiunii matinale "Morning Zu", difuzate în luna ianuarie. Potrivit Consiliului Naţional a Audiovizualului (CNA), emisiunea "Morning Zu" din 12 ianuarie a conţinut bancuri cu un conţinut sexual. În emisiunea "Morning Zu" din 25 ianuarie, unul dintre realizatori, Daniel Buzdugan, a povestit că în noaptea care tocmai trecuse, în blocul în care locuieşte, s-au auzit zgomote puternice, care la început păreau a fi de natură violentă, dar apoi a înţeles că ar fi legate de sex. "Cred că la mine în bloc s-au mutat nişte actori porno", a spus, printre altele, Daniel Buzdugan. În ediţiile din 28 şi 31 ianuarie ale aceleiaşi emisiuni, conversaţiile cuprinse în farsele lui Buzdugan au fost pe teme sexuale. Astfel, CNA a amendat cu 10.000 de lei Radio Zu, pentru încălcarea articolului 39, alineatul 2 din Legea audiovizualului, potrivit căruia "Difuzarea în serviciile de televiziune şi de radiodifuziune a programelor care pot afecta dezvoltarea fizică, mentală sau morală a minorilor se poate face numai dacă, prin alegerea intervalului orar de difuzare, prin codare sau ca efect al altor sisteme de acces condiţionat, se asigură faptul că minorii din zona de transmisie, în situaţii normale, nu pot auzi sau vedea emisiunile respective", şi a articolului 16, alineatul 1 din Codul de reglementare a conţintului audiovizual, potrivit căruia "(1) Criteriile în funcţie de care se apreciază producţiile difuzate în serviciile de programe au drept scop asigurarea protecţiei copilului şi informarea publicului cu ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/presa-italiana-chivu-a-avut-probleme-cu-robben/ presa-italiana-chivu-a-avut-probleme-cu-robben Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:50:01 +0200 Presa italiană notează că fundaşul echipei Internazionale Milano, Cristian Chivu, a avut probleme la meciul de miercuri, cu Bayern Munchen, scor 0-1, cu fotbalistul olandez al grupării germane, Arjen Robben, care a fost foarte rapid. "Mai multe inexactităţi: probleme împotriva rapidului atacant olandez...", notează calciomercato.it, care i-a acordat lui Chivu nota 5,5. Sportevai.it scrie că românul, notat cu 5, "nu a reuşit să îl oprească pe Robben". Chivu a primit nota 5 şi din partea site-ului milanoogginotizie.it, iar datasport.it a menţionat că fundaşul român nu a fost "tocmai un zid". Echipa Internazionale Milano, cu Cristian Chivu integralist, a fost învinsă, miercuri, pe teren propriu, cu scorul de 1-0, de echipa germană Bayern Munchen, în prima manşă a optimilor de finală ale Ligii Campionilor. Unicul gol al meciului a fost marcat de Gomez '90. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-doneaza-2-7-milioane-de-dolari-la-international-press-institute/ google-doneaza-2-7-milioane-de-dolari-la-international-press-institute Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:40:02 +0200 International Press Institute (IPI), organizaţia globală care militează pentru libertatea presei, a primit 2,7 milioane de dolari de la Google, pentru a ajuta la dezvoltarea unor proiecte digitale de presă, în Europa, Orientul Mijlociu şi Africa (EMEA), informează Brand Republic. IPI News Innovation Contest doreşte să încurajeze ideile inovatoare care pot avea impact pe termen lung în industria presei. Granturile vor fi acordate atât organizaţiilor non-profit, dar şi celor comerciale, care lucrează în domeniul digital, inclusiv mobil şi cel tehnologic, create de jurnalişti şi/ sau pentru jurnalişti. Toate proiectele trebuie să se înscrie în trei arii de activitate: platformă de ştiri, sustenabilitate şi training. Sponsorizarea Google are ca scop transformarea IPI într-o instituţie care susţine puternic inovaţia în segmentul media. "Suntem foarte bucuroşi să lucrăm la acest proiect cu IPI, o organizaţie care are o istorie în rezolvarea problemelor care afectează lumea jurnalismului", a declarat Peter Barron, director de relaţii externe pentru Google EMEA În ultimele săptămâni, rolul vital al inovaţiilor digitale a fost pus în evidenţă de evenimentele sociale şi politice din Tunisia, Egipt şi mai recent Bahrain. "În aceste momente de schimbare şi conflict, fluxurile gratuite de informaţii sunt mai importante ca niciodată. O presă liberă le dă oamenilor putere, iar o industrie media independentă şi inovativă este vitală pentru dezvoltarea oricărei ţări", a declarat Alison McKenzie, reprezentant al IPI. Jurnalişti de toate naţionalităţile îşi pot înscrie proiectul pe site-ul http://www.ipinewscontest.org/, până la 1 iunie. IPI reprezintă o reţea globală de editori, executivi din domeniul media şi jurnalişti de renume, care militează pentru libertatea presei, protejarea libertăţii de expresie, promovarea fluxurilor de informaţii gratuite şi îmbunătăţirea practicilor jurnalistice. Fondată în 1950, la Universitatea Columbia din New York, IPI este una ditntre cele mai vechi ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/muammar-kadhafi-nu-intentioneaza-sa-se-retraga-total-in-cazul-unui-nou-regim-sustine-fiul-acestuia/ muammar-kadhafi-nu-intentioneaza-sa-se-retraga-total-in-cazul-unui-nou-regim-sustine-fiul-acestuia Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:40:02 +0200 Muammar Kadhafi va fi "părintele" sfătuitor al oricărui nou regim libian, susţine unul dintre fiii acestuia, care consideră că violenţele cu care se confruntă ţara în prezent reprezintă un "cutremur pozitiv" care va pava calea către reformele necesare, relatează Financial Times. Potrivit lui Saadi Kadhafi, care a acceptat să ofere un interviu prin telefon cotidianului britanic, 85 la sută din ţară este în prezent "foarte calmă şi foarte sigură". "Acum este ora 14.00 în Tripoli şi este foarte calm şi linişte - 50 sau 60 la sută dintre cetăţeni lucrează normal", a declarat fostul fotbalist. Părând relaxat şi nu un membru al unei familii conducătoare care se aşteaptă să fie înlăturată în viitorul apropiat, Saadi Kadhafi a dezvăluit că fratele său, Seif al-Islam, lucrează la o nouă Constituţie şi va face un anunţ în legătură cu aceasta în curând. El a precizat, de asemenea, că tatăl său se pregăteşte să lucreze cu orice nou regim. "Tata va fi un părinte care sfătuieşte", a declarat el. El nu a oferit informaţii despre starea industriei de hidrocarburi a Libiei, dar a declarat că armata va fi trimisă pentru a păzi facilităţile, dacă va fi necesar. Întrebat în legătură cu diplomaţii care demisionează din funcţii în lumea întreagă, el a declarat: "Nu îmi pasă de aceşti indivizi. Diplomaţia mea este să fiu onest şi să spun adevărul". El a recunoscut că au fost folosite nave şi avioane pentru bombardarea depozitelor de muniţie din apropiere de Benghazi, în estul ţării, dar a subliniat că acestea erau departe de zonele populate. El a încercat să justifice această măsură prin faptul că Al-Qaida a profitat de "haos" pentru a prelua controlul regiunilor estice de la ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ultimele-evenimente-in-revoltele-din-tarile-din-africa-de-nord-si-orientul-mijlociu/ ultimele-evenimente-in-revoltele-din-tarile-din-africa-de-nord-si-orientul-mijlociu Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:00:01 +0200 Revoltele din Africa de Nord şi Orientul Mijlociu continuă, fiind adeseori sângeroase, transmite AFP, prezentând principalele evenimente petrecute în ultimele ore în aceste ţări. LIBIA: Regimul lui Muammar Kadhafi pare să fi pierdut controlul vastelor regiuni din estul ţării, unde militarii s-au alăturat insurgenţilor, dar rămâne hotărât să înăbuşe revolta care s-a soldat deja cu sute de morţi din 15 februarie. "Baie de sânge", "genocid", "crime împotriva umanităţii", toate aceste sintagme au fost folosite de comunitatea internaţională pentru a condamna reprimarea revoltei din această ţară, care deţine cele mai importante rezerve de petrol din Africa. Uniunea Europeană pregăteşte sancţiuni împotriva regimului. Preşedintele Barack Obama a calificat drept "scandaloasă şi inacceptabilă" "suferinţa şi baia de sânge" din Libia, în timp ce secretarul general al ONU, Ban Ki-moon, a afirmat că cei care sunt responabili de vărsare de sânge nevinovat trebuie pedepsiţi". Al-Qaida în Maghrebul Islamic (AQMI) a dat asigurări că susţine total manifestanţii libieni, promiţând să "facă tot posibilul pentru a ajuta insurgenţa împotriva colonelului Kadhafi, a declarat joi centrul american pentru supravegherea site-urilor islamiste(SITE). Adjunctul ministrului libian pentru Afaceri Externe, Khaled Kaim, a declarat că jurnaliştii intraţi ilegali în Libia vor fi consideraţi ca fiind "în afara legii". El a afirmat că Al-Qaida a înfiinţat un emirat islamic la Derna, în estul Libiei, ceea ce locuitorii au dezminţit. Insurgenţa împotriva lui Kadhafi, aflat la putere de 42 de ani, a provocat 640 de morţi, din 15 februarie, potrivit Federaţiei internaţionale a drepturilor omului (FIDH) şi "peste 1.000", potrivit unui fost şef de protocol al liderului libian. Revoltele au provocat fuga către Tunisia a mii de emigranţi. Ţările din Europa de Sud au cerut înfiinţarea, la Bruxelles, a unui fond de solidaritate pentru a face faţă ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/boiko-borisov-aderarea-in-2011-la-spatiul-schengen-ar-reprezenta-o-incurajare-pentru-bulgaria/ boiko-borisov-aderarea-in-2011-la-spatiul-schengen-ar-reprezenta-o-incurajare-pentru-bulgaria Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:10:01 +0200 Aderarea în 2011 la spaţiul Schengen ar încuraja Bulgaria să fie mai activă şi să îşi îndeplinească îndatoririle de protejarea a graniţei externe a UE, a declarat, miercuri, premierul bulgar Boiko Borisov, la întâlnirea sa cu preşedintele UE, Herman Van Rompuy, relatează site-ul Novinite.com. "L-am asigurat pe Herman Van Rompuy că aderarea în acest an a Bulgariei la Schengen (...) ne-ar încuraja să fim mai activi şi să ne îndeplinim îndatoririle de protejarea a graniţei externe a Uniunii Europene, care este în prezent securizată probabil în cel mai bun mod posibil în Europa", a spus Borisov. Premierul şi-a exprimat încrederea că ţara poate face faţă preconizatei presiuni imigraţioniste. "Ne vom descurca, pentru că avem un personal mărit în cadrul poliţiei de frontieră şi sperăm că acesta va fi tolerat când UE ia o decizie, după verificarea sa finală pentru (aderarea la) Schengen, la 24 martie. Am încredere că toate rapoartele tehnice vor fi perfecte", a afirmat Borisov. Acesta şi-a exprimat de asemenea speranţa că eforturile Bulgariei în acest sens vor fi recunoscute de Consiliul pentru Integrarea Romilor, care va fi organizat în iulie. El a precizat că Bulgaria are pregătită o propunere pentru modificarea Constituţiei, prin amendamente care să garanteze stabilitatea finanţelor statului, propunere intitulată "Pactul de Stabilitate Financiară". "Vă pot asigura că ceea ce facem în prezent este benefic pentru Europa şi vom continua pe această cale", a subliniat el. La rândul său, Herman Van Rompuy a declarat că aderarea Bulgariei şi României la Schengen continuă să reprezinte o prioritate a preşedinţiei ungare a Uniunii Europene, cu condiţia ca ele să îndeplinească toate condiţiile impuse. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cel-putin-98-de-morti-si-226-de-disparuti-in-urma-cutremurului-din-noua-zeelanda/ cel-putin-98-de-morti-si-226-de-disparuti-in-urma-cutremurului-din-noua-zeelanda Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:10:01 +0200 Cutremurul din Noua Zeelandă s-a soldat cu cel puţin 98 de victime, iar 226 de persoane sunt date dispărute, conform unui nou bilanţ, anunţat, joi, de poliţia neo-zeelandeză. Un bilanţ anterior, anunţat joi dimineaţă de premierul John Kay, indica 92 de morţi şi 300 de dispăruţi. "Pot confirma că avem un total de 98 de victime", a declarat comandantul districtual Dave Cliff. "Avem 226 de dispăruţi, pentru care suntem extrem de îngrijoraţi" a adăugat el. Cutremurul, cu magnitudinea 6,3, s-a produs marţi şi este considerat cel mai grav care a afectat Noua Zeelandă în ultimii 80 de ani. Epicentrul a fost localizat la 5 kilometri de oraşul Christchurch (390.000 de locuitori), la o adâncime de numai 4 kilometri. Şcoala Kings Education a anunţat joi că 48 de persoane, printre care se numără şi cel puţin zece japonezi, sunt date dispărute după prăbuşirea clădirii şcolii. Pe site-ul acesteia a fost publicată o listă cu numele elevilor şi profesorilor daţi dispăruţi, elaborată pe baza declaraţiilor martorilor şi a unor reprezentanţi ai Ministerului Educaţiei. În afara elevilor japonezi, lista include şi sud-coreeni. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cel-putin-92-de-morti-si-300-de-disparuti-in-urma-cutremurului-din-noua-zeelanda/ cel-putin-92-de-morti-si-300-de-disparuti-in-urma-cutremurului-din-noua-zeelanda Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:40:02 +0200 Cutremurul din Noua Zeelandă s-a soldat cu cel puţin 92 de victime, iar 300 de persoane sunt date dispărute, conform unui nou bilanţ, care riscă însă să crească, a declarat, joi, premierul John Key. "Ultimele cifre de care dispun arată că la morgă se află 92 de trupuri neînsufleţite, însă încă mai descoperim victime printre dărâmături, în diferite locuri din oraş", a afirmat el. Precendentul bilanţ, anunţat miercuri, indica 75 de morţi. Cutremurul, cu magnitudinea 6,3, s-a produs marţi şi este considerat cel mai grav care a afectat Noua Zeelandă în ultimii 80 de ani. Epicentrul a fost localizat la 5 kilometri de oraşul Christchurch (390.000 de locuitori), la o adâncime de numai 4 kilometri. Şcoala Kings Education a anunţat joi că 48 de persoane, printre care se numără şi cel puţin zece japonezi, sunt date dispărute după prăbuşirea clădirii şcolii. Pe site-ul acesteia a fost publicată o listă cu numele elevilor şi profesorilor daţi dispăruţi, elaborată pe baza declaraţiilor martorilor şi a unor reprezentanţi ai Ministerului Educaţiei. În afara elevilor japonezi, lista include şi sud-coreeni. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vrei-sa-lucrezi-la-dacia-sau-la-ford-sute-de-joburi-disponibile-in-industria-auto/ vrei-sa-lucrezi-la-dacia-sau-la-ford-sute-de-joburi-disponibile-in-industria-auto Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:50:01 +0200 Anul acesta a debutat cu mult mai bine decât anteriorul în ceea ce priveşte locurile de muncă vacante, industria auto situându-se pe primele locuri când vine vorba de recrutare, informează www.incont.ro. Fie că vorbim despre cei doi mari producători de autorurisme de pe piaţa autohtonă, Dacia-Renault şi Ford, fie despre producătorii de componente auto pentru companii din afară ca Volvo, Mazda, Volkswagen sau Opel, site-urile de recrutare pun la dispoziţia celor interesaţi sute de anunţuri de angajare în acest domeniu. Dacia, de exemplu, a scos la concurs mai multe posturi la uzina de la Mioveni. Producătorul autohton de automobile vrea să angajeze specialişti în mentenanţă, sculeri matriţeri sau specialişti în turnare sub presiune. Candidaţii trebuie să fi absolvit studii superioare tehnice şi să aibă cunoştinţe de construcţie şi de funcţionare a maşinilor, de desen tehnic şi de proiectare. Pentru a avea şanse de angajare, solicitanţii trebuie să aibă o experienţă de minimum trei ani în domeniu şi să cunoască limbile franceză şi engleză. Citeşte mai multe pe www.incont.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/obiectiv-in-curs-in-raportul-lui-ponta-presedintele-psd-isi-asuma-candidatura-la-postul-de-premier/ obiectiv-in-curs-in-raportul-lui-ponta-presedintele-psd-isi-asuma-candidatura-la-postul-de-premier Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:30:01 +0200 Preşedintele PSD îşi asumă candidatura la funcţia de premier, chiar din 2012, menţionează raportul lui Victor Ponta după un an de mandat la şefia partidului, la capitolul "obiective în curs", un "obiectiv realizat" fiind că "PSD a decis că nu mai acceptă să guverneze dacă nu are premier propriu". Raportul preşedintelui PSD Victor Ponta după un an de mandat notează că, din 22 de obiective asumate prin programul "România Corectă", 7 sunt realizate, 10 demarate, 2 în curs şi 3 nerealizate. Obiectivul potrivit căruia "liderul partidului este candidatul PSD la viitoarele alegeri" este menţionat ca fiind "în curs", consemnându-se că "preşedintele PSD îşi asumă candidatura la funcţia de prim-ministru, chiar din 2012" şi că "decizia va fi supusă aprobării forurilor interne de conducere". Un "obiectiv realizat", referitor la definirea politicii de alianţe, este, potrivit raportului lui Ponta, faptul că deciziile privind alianţele sunt luate transparent, în foruri statutare, iar la Congres s-a decis necolaborarea cu PDL şi apropierea de PNL. "PSD a decis că nu mai acceptă să guverneze dacă nu are premier propriu! În baza acestei decizii s-a demarat dialogul în opoziţie şi s-a format USL", se arată în materialul publicat de site-ul lui Victor Ponta. "Întărirea departamentelor şi implicarea mai mare a liderilor în construirea de politici" este un "obiectiv demarat", în raport fiind consemnat că "viitorul program al USL va fi construit în jurul ofertei prezentate la Congresul PSD". În ceea ce priveşte asumarea trecutului şi atragerea de electorat nou, "obiectiv realizat", este menţionat faptul că 2010 a fost anul în care "vocile liderilor istorici, Ion Iliescu şi Adrian Nastase, au redevenit importante în PSD". "Au fost chemaţi, din nou, alături de partid, oameni de valoare, precum Alexandru Athanasiu", se ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/berlusconi-cel-mai-costisitor-oaspete-al-premierului-bulgar-boiko-borisov/ berlusconi-cel-mai-costisitor-oaspete-al-premierului-bulgar-boiko-borisov Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:40:01 +0200 Premierul italian, Silvio Berlusconi, a fost cel mai costisitor oaspete al omologului său bulgar, Boiko Borisov, potrivit unor informaţii furnizate de Consiliul de Miniştri, la solicitarea ziarului Trud, în baza legii Accesului la informaţii publice, relatează site-ul Novinite.com. În timpul vizitei lui Berlusconi la Sofia, în octombrie 2009, 40 de persoane, dintre care numai nouă erau italieni, au fost invitate la dineul oficial. Factura a fost de 9.038 de leva (circa 4.500 de euro), sau 227 de leva (circa 110 euro) de persoană. Al doilea cel mai scump dineu a fost pentru premierul georgian Nika Gilauri şi a avut loc la restaurantul hotelului Sheraton. Patru persoane au participat la această cină, iar costurile s-au ridicat la 632 de leva (circa 300 de euro) sau 158 de leva (80 de euro) de persoană. Borisov şi Gilauri au participat la o altă cină împreună, la hotelul Kempinski Zografski, în prezenţa a 40 de invitaţi. Factura pentru aceasta a fost de 5.909 leva (aproape 3.000 de euro) sau 148 de leva (75 de euro) de persoană. Dineul organizat pentru cancelarul german, Angela Merkel, a costat 86 de leva (circa 40 de euro) de persoană. De la începutul mandatului său de premier, Borisov a avut 478 de invitaţi la cine oficiale, costul total ridicându-se la 55.289 de leva (peste 27.000 de euro) sau în medie 116 leva (58 de euro) de persoană. Prin comparaţie, un oaspete la cină al preşedintelui american Barack Obama costă contribuabilii americani în medie 1.660 de dolari (circa 1.200 de euro), scrie ziarul Trud. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/emil-boc-joi-la-tvr-1/ emil-boc-joi-la-tvr-1 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:00:01 +0200 Premierul Emil Boc va fi invitatul unei "Ediţii speciale", difuzată joi, de la ora 21.00, la TVR 1, potrivit site-ului Televiziunii Publice. "Primul ministru vine la TVR după o perioadă de foc, în care s-a discutat chiar despre un posibil nou ocupant al fotoliului de la Palatul Victoria", se spune pe site-ul TVR. Potrivit Televiziunii Publice, în această săptămână, subiectele sociale au revenit în prim plan, odată cu declanşarea dezbaterii privind modalitatea de adoptare a noului Cod al Muncii. Luni, şeful Executivului a anunţat că liderii coaliţiei de guvernare propun asumarea răspunderii Guvernului în Parlament pe acest document. Dezbaterea continuă, iar Emil Boc s-a întâlnit luni şi marţi cu liderii politici din arcul guvernamental, pe fondul anunţării unor noi proteste sindicale. Telespectatorii vor putea afla detalii despre toate aceste subiecte, joi, de la ora 21.00, într-o "Ediţie specială", moderată, la TVR 1, de Ramona Avramescu. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/munteanu-nu-e-niciun-motiv-de-bucurie-ca-luam-asa-cele-trei-puncte/ munteanu-nu-e-niciun-motiv-de-bucurie-ca-luam-asa-cele-trei-puncte Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:20:01 +0200 Tehnnicianul Oţelului, Dorinel Munteanu, a declarat, miercuri, agenţiei MEDIAFAX, că este o pierdere pentru echipa sa faptul că nu va juca în compania formaţiei Pandurii Târgu Jiu, în etapa a XIX-a a Ligii I, chiar dacă va câştiga la masa verde cele trei puncte puse în joc. "Nu e niciun motiv de bucurie faptul că luăm aşa cele trei puncte. Regulamentul este regulament şi trebuie aplicat. Vor fi trei puncte câştigate, dar ca formă sportivă vom avea de pierdut. Noi ne-am pregătit pentru acest început şi e o pieredere faptul că nu jucăm", a declarat Munteanu. Munteanu a precizat că autocarul echipei s-a întos din drumul spre Drobeta Turnu Severin, după ce s-a aflat de decizia neprogramării formaţiei Pandurii. Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal a publicat, miercuri, pe site-ul oficial, un comunicat prin care anunţă clubul Pandurii Târgu Jiu că nu este programat în etapa a XIX-a a Ligii I din cauza datoriilor către SC FC Dinamo 1948 SA Bucureşti. Preşedintele executiv al clubului Pandurii, Eugen Pârvulescu, aflat la Bucureşti, a declarat că încă speră să rezolve problema datoriilor grupării, astfel ca meciul cu Oţelul să se dispute. "Pe noi nu ne-a anunţat nimeni că suntem neprogramaţi până acum, încă mai purtăm discuţii şi sperăm să rezolvăm problemele în vreun fel", a spus Pârvulescu. Pandurii avea de achitat datorii de circa 600.000 de euro către diverse cluburi şi jucători, printre care se numără Dinamo (aproximativ 460.000 de euro) şi fotbaliştii Cosmin Tilincă şi Ionuţ Stancu. Preşedintele executiv al CS Pandurii, Eugen Pârvulescu, declarase marţi că gruparea gorjeană a plătitit datoriile către jucători, dar nu a ajuns încă la un acord cu FC Dinamo în cazul sumei de bani pe care o ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/udrea-ipocrizia-il-caracterizeaza-pe-oprescu-actiunile-sale-sunt-demagogice-si-lipsite-de-continut/ udrea-ipocrizia-il-caracterizeaza-pe-oprescu-actiunile-sale-sunt-demagogice-si-lipsite-de-continut Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:40:01 +0200 Preşedintele PDL Bucureşti, Elena Udrea, a declarat, miercuri, la videochat-ul Realitatea TV, că "ipocrizia îl caracterizează pe Sorin Oprescu", acţiunile şi declaraţiile primarului general al Capitalei fiind demagogice şi lipsite de conţinut. "Ipocrizia îl caracterizează pe Sorin Oprescu", a declarat Udrea la videochat-ul Realitatea TV, care a susţinut că acesta "taie panglici" la proiecte demarate de către Traian Băsescu, atunci când era primar general al Capitalei. Preşedintele PDL Bucureşti a mai susţinut că Oprescu este un manager care "îşi dovedeşte limitele", întrucât propune "noi şi noi proiecte SF", deşi bugetul Capitalei nu ajunge nici pentru finanţarea proiectelor deja începute. Ea a susţinut că, de aceea, Ministerul Dezvoltării Regionale, pe care îl conduce, a venit cu co-finanţare la construcţia stadionului "Lia Manoliu". Elena Udrea a mai criticat "demagogia şi lipsa de conţinut a acţiunilor şi declaraţiilor lui Sorin Oprescu", despre care a spus că face "declaraţii bombastice", cum ar fi cea privind găzduirea de către Bucureşti a Olimpiadei din anul 2020. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/adrian-iordache-si-a-reziliat-contractul-cu-pandurii-targu-jiu/ adrian-iordache-si-a-reziliat-contractul-cu-pandurii-targu-jiu Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:40:02 +0200 Atacantul Adrian Iordache şi-a reziliat contractul cu clubul Pandurii Târgu Jiu după ce jucătorul s-a antrenat în pauza competiţională cu echipa a doua a grupării gorjene, informează site-ul oficial al formaţiei din Liga I. Adrian Iordache a evoluat 465 de minute în turul campionatului pentru Pandurii Târgu Jiu şi nu a reuşit să marcheze. Orac şi Chibulcutean, alţi doi jucători trimişi de antrenorul Petre Grigoraş la Pandurii II, vor evolua în retur pentru echipa din Liga a III-a. Petre Grigoraş a promovat mai mulţi jucători de la echipa a doua a clubului, Ionuţ Tătaru, Ionuţ Rada, Alexandru Avramescu şi Marian Pleaşcă, şi a apelat şi la serviciile lui David Lazăr şi George Neagu, împrumutaţi în turul campionatului la Voinţa Sibiu şi UTA Arad. Antrenorul gorjenilor a menţionat că a fost mulţumit de prestaţia tinerilor promovaţi de la echipa a doua a clubului. "Am avut ocazia să urmăresc o serie de jucători tineri, să le urmăresc potenţialul de urcare de la echipa a doua la prima, chiar titularizarea unora dintre ei. Mi-am făcut o imagine completă a potenţialului lor şi, spre bucuria mea, doi-trei dintre ei s-au prezentat destul de bine şi îmi dau speranţe că pe viitor mai putem promova şi din propria pepinieră jucători, nu neapărat să cumpărăm din altă parte", a spus Petre Grigoraş. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/monica-divorteaza-de-irinel-columbeanu/ monica-divorteaza-de-irinel-columbeanu Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:00:01 +0200 Monica Columbeanu vrea să divorţeze de Irinel Columbeanu, procesul urmând să înceapă la Judecătoria Buftea pe 21 martie, potrivit site-ului instanţei. În acest dosar, cererea de divorţ a fost introdusă de Monica Columbeanu. Ea solicită şi custodia fiicei lor, Irina, în vârstă de patru ani, printr-o procedură de urgenţă care îi permite încredinţarea copilului până la pronunţarea divorţului, astfel că a chemat în instanţă şi Primăria Sectorului 1, ca autoritate tutelară. Acţiunea a fost depusă marţi. Potrivit informaţiilor postate pe site-ul Judecătoriei Buftea, primul termen de judecată în dosarul 1775/94/2011 a fost stabilit pentru 21 martie. Omul de afaceri Irinel Columbeanu şi modelul Monica Gabor s-au căsătorit în 2006, la aproximativ cinci luni după ce s-au cunoscut. Până la ora difuzării acestei ştiri, nici Irinel Columbeanu, nici soţia sa nu au putut fi contactaţi. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/internetul-poate-merge-mult-mai-bine-cum-poti-sa-cresti-viteza-de-navigare/ internetul-poate-merge-mult-mai-bine-cum-poti-sa-cresti-viteza-de-navigare Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:50:01 +0200 Trăim în era vitezei şi ne-am obişnuit ca tot ce ţine de tehnologie să fie simplu de folosit, util şi să se mişte repede. Nu face excepţie nici Internetul. Ne enervăm foarte tare atunci când încercăm să navigăm printre site-uri sau să deschidem o poză, iar calculatorul se mişcă în reluare, potrivit www.incont.ro. Viteza cu care navighezi pe Internet depinde foarte mult în primul rând de browser-ul pe care îl foloseşti. Există numeroase discuţii, teste, păreri, pe tema : "Care este cel mai rapid, bun, util, complet, securizat, etc. browser?". Unii spun că Google Chrome, alţii că Mozilla Firefox şi mai sunt şi fanii Internet Explorer. Dar nu acesta este scopul acestui material, sa facă un top al browserelor, ci, în cazul în care foloseşti Mozilla Firefox sau Internet Explorer, să te ajute să le faci să meargă mai repede. Mozilla Firefox este în general un browser rapid, dar odata cu trecerea timpului incepe să se mişte mai încet. Acelaşi lucru se întâmplă şi cu Internet Explorer. Citeşte mai multe despre cum poţi să creşti viteza de navigare pe www.incont.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cine-sunt-primii-10-tineri-care-ar-putea-primi-10-000-de-euro-de-la-stat-pentru-a-si-infiinta-o-afacere/ cine-sunt-primii-10-tineri-care-ar-putea-primi-10-000-de-euro-de-la-stat-pentru-a-si-infiinta-o-afacere Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:40:02 +0200 Neculai Pantelimon, 24 de ani, este administratorul primei firme înregistrate la Registrul Comerţului în baza legii prin care Guvernul acordă 10.000 de euro pentru tinerii întreprinzători, potrivit Ziarului Financiar. Absolvent al Facultăţii de Drept şi Sociologie din cadrul Universităţii Transilvania din Braşov, Pantelimon a creat un plan de afaceri pentru realizarea unui sistem de software care să fie disponibil online firmelor care vor să îşi promoveze produsele şi ofertele periodice, să îşi uploadeze prezentări ale firmei, să participe la traininguri online din domeniul afacerilor, să socializeze cu alţi antreprenori din ţară, prin intermediul portalului www.promania.ro (care încă nu există), administrat prin noua companie, Pro-Mania Group. "Nu am depus încă proiectul pe site, dar probabil că îl voi depune în cursul zilei de astăzi (ieri - n.red.). Estimez că bugetul total al proiectului ar trebui să fie undeva între 25.000 şi 30.000 de euro, de aceea cred că fondurile acordate de stat, de 10.000 de euro, sunt prea mici pentru a realiza ceva măreţ şi prea mari pentru a realiza ceva nesemnificativ. Voi apela şi la finanţarea bancară, iar dacă nu mi se aprobă, voi încerca să susţin din fonduri proprii restul de finanţare", a spus Pantelimon. Află cine sunt tinerii întreprinzători pe www.zf.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/oscar-2011-de-ce-merita-the-social-network-premiile-academiei-de-film/ oscar-2011-de-ce-merita-the-social-network-premiile-academiei-de-film Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:00:01 +0200 "The Social Network", filmul regizat de David Fincher care spune povestea naşterii Facebook, s-a bucurat de succes la gala Globurilor de Aur, unde a primit premiile pentru cea mai bună dramă, cea mai bună regie, cel mai bun scenariu şi cea mai bună coloană sonoră, informează Gândul. "The Social Network" este principalul contracandidat al "The King's Speech", favoritul la Oscar de anul acesta, în care actorul Colin Firth interpretează rolul regelui George al VI-lea al Marii Britanii. Opt nominalizări la premiile Academiei a primit pelicula care vorbeşte despre începutul Facebook, care are astăzi 550 de milioane de membri şi valorează 50 de miliarde de dolari. Iar criticul de film Andrei Gorzo speră să o vadă câştigând cât mai multe trofee. "Dramatizarea unor evenimente reale atât de apropiate în timp este un pariu tehnic dificil", spune Andrei Gorzo despre complicata intrigă a peliculei. "Cei care au început reţeaua de socializare s-au dat în judecată unii pe alţii cu atâta energie, încât e foarte complicat să stabileşti cine a nedreptăţit pe cine. Filmul dramatizează aceste hăţişuri juridice şi morale în care a eşuat o poveste care începuse simplu, cu nişte studenţi de la Harvard care se adunaseră să facă un site", a declarat Andrei Gorzo pentru gândul, fascinat de ambiguitatea lungmetrajului. Citeşte mai multe pe www.gandul.info. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-acuzat-de-rusi-ca-a-agitat-spiritele-in-egipt/ google-acuzat-de-rusi-ca-a-agitat-spiritele-in-egipt Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:30:02 +0200 Igor Sechin, adjunctul premierului rus Vladimir Putin, a acuzat Google, într-un interviu difuzat marţi, că a agitat spiritele în timpul revoluţiei din Egipt care l-a îndepărtat de la putere pe liderul egiptean Hosni Mubarak. "Uitaţi-vă ce au făcut în Egipt aceşti manageri cu funcţii înalte de la Google, ce manipulare a energiilor oamenilor a avut loc acolo", a declarat vicepremierul rus, într-un interviu pentru Wall Street Journal. Un asemenea comentariu venit de la unul dintre oamenii de încredere ai lui Putin este un semn clar al îngrijorării liderilor ruşi în privinţa rolului tot mai important pe care internetul îl joacă în conflictele din lumea arabă. Sechin nu a dat detalii privind propriile sale îngrijorări. Spre deosebire de televiziunea de stat, internetul este liber în Rusia, fiind, totodată, şi mediul în care apar critici la adresa preşedintelui rus Dmitri Medvedev şi a întregii clase politice. Până la acest moment, Rusia nu a impus restricţii pe internet, dar sunt analişti care asigură că apropiaţi ai lui Putin ar dori implementarea unui sistem de cenzură asemănător cu cel din China. Sâmbătă, preşedintele chinez Hu Jintao a cerut un management mai strict al internetului şi a dat avertizări liderilor Partidului Comunist privind posibilitatea ca reţelele de socializare să pună la grea încercare abilitatea comuniştilor de a menţine un control strict al populaţiei. Hosni Mubarak, în vârstă de 82 de ani, a renunţat, pe 11 februarie, la funcţia de preşedinte al Egiptului şi a transferat puterea armatei egiptene, după 18 zile de proteste, provocând o explozie de bucurie în ţara pe care a condus-o aproape 30 de ani. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/amcham-este-nevoie-de-abrogarea-prevederilor-privind-ccm-la-nivel-national-si-de-flexibilizare/ amcham-este-nevoie-de-abrogarea-prevederilor-privind-ccm-la-nivel-national-si-de-flexibilizare Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:35:44 +0200 Modificările legislaţiei muncii trebuie să ţină cont de principii precum reglementarea performanţei ca principiu de bază în ceea ce priveşte relaţiile de muncă, flexibilizarea acestui domeniu şi abrogarea prevederilor privind contractul colectiv de muncă la nivel naţional, potrivit AmCham România. "Prin cele aproximativ 150 de propuneri de modificare a Codului muncii înaintate Ministerului Muncii, Familiei şi Protecţiei Sociale în perioada de consultare publică, Camera de Comerţ Americană în România (AmCham România) promovează patru principii majore: reglementarea performanţei ca principiu de bază în ceea ce priveşte relaţiile de muncă; flexibilizarea relaţiilor de muncă; aplicarea contractului colectiv de muncă încheiat la nivel de ramură doar părţilor semnatare şi abrogarea prevederilor referitoare la contractul colectiv de muncă încheiat la nivel naţional; clarificarea şi simplificarea unor prevederi legale", se arată într-un comunicat al organizaţiei. Ultima formă a proiectului Codului Muncii, obţinută şi prezentată joi de MEDIAFAX, relevă că toate prevederile referitoare la contractul colectiv de muncă unic la nivel naţional sunt abrogate, măsură respinsă de sindicate. Premierul Emil Boc a anunţat, vineri, că există posibilitatea ca Guvernul să îşi angajeze răspunderea în Parlament pentru modificările Codului Muncii, o decizie urmând să fie luată după discuţii în Coaliţie şi în Guvern. Cosmin Bordea, Country HR Manager la Microsoft România, a declarat în comunicatul AmCham că necesitatea introducerii performanţei în deciziile angajatorului este o condiţie fără de care nu poate exista o economie competitivă. "Atâta timp cât performanţa companiilor le decide existenţa pe piaţă, imposibilitatea utilizării acestui principiu în sistemul relaţiilor de muncă nu face decât să conducă la disfuncţii care sunt în detrimentul majorităţii salariaţilor, majoritate cu un interes clar pentru performanţă şi capabilă de performanţă. Lipsa de claritate în transmiterea mesajului merituluiperformanţei pune angajatorii în incapacitatea recompensării performanţei la adevărata ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/echipajul-romaniei-de-bob-pentru-doua-persoane-locul-8-la-cm-din-germania/ echipajul-romaniei-de-bob-pentru-doua-persoane-locul-8-la-cm-din-germania Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:35:48 +0200 Echipajul României format din Nicolae Istrate şi Florin Cezar Crăciun a ocupat locul opt în proba de bob pentru două persoane, la Campionatele Mondiale de la Königssee (Germania), informează site-ul oficial al competiţiei. Istrate şi Crăciun au încheiat cele patru manşe cu timpul de trei minute, 22 de secunde şi şase sutimi. Titlul mondial a revenit echipajului rus Alexsandr Zubkov/Alexei Voeveda (3:20.72). Pe locul doi s-au clasat, la egalitate, echipajele germane: Thomas Florschütz/Kevin Kuske şi Manuel Machata/Andreas Bredau (GER) la 18 sutimi. La proba de bob pentru două persoane au participat 31 de echipaje. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/alina-dumitru-si-corina-caprioriu-medaliate-cu-bronz-la-grand-prix-ul-de-judo-de-la-dusseldorf/ alina-dumitru-si-corina-caprioriu-medaliate-cu-bronz-la-grand-prix-ul-de-judo-de-la-dusseldorf Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:35:48 +0200 Sportivele române Alina Dumitru şi Corina Căprioriu au obţinut medaliile de bronz ale categoriilor 48 de kilograme, respectiv 57 de kilograme, sâmbătă, la Grand Prix-ul de judo de la Dusseldorf, informează site-ul oficial al competiţiei. La categoria 48 de kilograme, Alina Dumitru a trecut în rundele preliminare de Luz Alvarez (Columbia), Sumeyye Akkus (Turcia) şi Severine Pesch (Germania). În semifinale, românca a fost învinsă de Charline Van Snick, din Belgia. Tot la 48 de kilograme, Carmen Bogdan s-a impus în primul meci, cu Julia Pohl (Germania), însă l-a pierdut pe al doilea din rundele preliminare, cu Birgit Ente (Olanda). Corina Căprioriu s-a impus la categoria 57 de kilograme în faţa sportivelor Juul Franssen (Olanda), Ana Leon (Mexic) şi Marlen Hein (Germania), dar a pierdut apoi semifinala cu japoneza Kaori Matsumoto. La aceeaşi categorie, Andreea Chiţu a învins-o pe Fatima Chakir (Maroc) în primul meci şi a fost învinsă în al doilea de portugheza Telma Monteiro. La masculin 66 de kilograme, românul Laszlo Szoke a trecut în primul meci din rundele preliminare de Islam Baialinov, din Kârgâzstan, dar a fost învins în a doua confruntare a preliminariilor, de spanioul Sugoi Uriarte. La categoria 73 de kilograme, Costel Danculea a câştigat două meciuri, cu brazilianul Marcelo Contini şi Raşit Kulbaiev din Kazahstan, şi a fost învins în al treilea, de belgianul Dirk Van Tichelt, tatând accederea în semifinale. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bulgarul-valentin-iliev-a-semnat-un-contract-pe-un-an-si-jumatate-cu-steaua/ bulgarul-valentin-iliev-a-semnat-un-contract-pe-un-an-si-jumatate-cu-steaua Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:35:49 +0200 Fundaşul central bulgar Valentin Iliev, declarat liber de contract de Comisia pentru Soluţionarea Litigiilor după ce ultima dată a evoluat la Universitatea Craiova, a semnat un contract pe un an şi jumătate cu Steaua, informează site-ul oficial al clubului din Bulevardul Ghencea. "Este o zi foarte fericită din viaţa mea pentru că am semnat cu Steaua Bucureşti, un club foarte important în Europa, cu multă tradiţie. Mă bucur foarte mult că am ajuns aici, chiar dacă am avut foarte multe oferte, dar întâlnirea cu patronul echipei a contat foarte mult în alegerea mea. Dânsul m-a apreciat tot timpul, iar acest lucru m-a bucurat, iar de acum înainte voi da totul pe teren pentru a-l mulţumi pe patron, pe antrenor şi pe suporterii echipei Steaua Bucureşti. Voi face tot posibilul ca alături de coechipierii mei, să îndeplinim obiectivele pe care echipa şi le-a propus în acest sezon", a spus Iliev (30 de ani) pentru sursa citată. Valentin Iliev a fost declarat liber de contract, pentru că gruparea Universitatea Craiova nu i-a achitat sumele prevăzute în contracte. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/noi-proteste-in-nordul-africii-si-orientul-mijlociu/ noi-proteste-in-nordul-africii-si-orientul-mijlociu Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:35:55 +0200 Valul de contestare a regimurilor autoritare din nordul Africii şi Orientul Mijlociu s-a extins şi sâmbătă, când au avut loc noi confruntări sângeroase între manifestanţi şi forţele de ordine din mai multe state din regiune. LIBIA: Forţele de securitate au ucis, în ultimele zile, mai mult de 80 de persoane care manifestau împotriva regimului condus de colonelul Muammar Kadhafi, aflat la putere de 40 de ani. Bilanţul a fost anunţat sâmbătă de organizaţia pentru drepturile omului Human Rights Watch. Conform CNN, forţele de securitate au deschis focul din elicoptere asupra manifestanţilor la Benghazi, surse medicale afirmând că zeci de persoane au fost internate în spital, cu răni provocate de arme de foc. BAHRAIN: Mii de manifestanţi au revenit în piaţa centrală din Manama, după retragerea armatei, iar sindicatele au cerut declanşarea unei greve generale pe termen nelimitat. Poliţia a recurs la gaze lacrimogene, într-o încercare de a-i dispersa pe manifestanţi, însă ulterior s-a retras din zonă şi nu a mai intervenit, iar demonstranţii au început să instaleze corturi în centrul capitalei. YEMEN: Manifestanţii şi susţinătorii regimului au fost implicaţi şi sâmbătă în confruntări violente la Sanaa, iar la Aden au izbucnit noi violenţe. IRAN: Autorităţile au avertizat împotriva manifestaţiilor opoziţiei, după ce mai multe site-uri de opoziţie au transmis un apel pentru convocarea, duminică, a unei demonstraţii de comemorare a victimelor înregistrate în timpul protestelor antiguvernamentale din 14 februarie de la Teheran. IRAK: Zece manifestanţi au fost răniţi în cursul unor confruntări cu forţele de securitate kurde la Suleimaniyeh, în nordul Irakului, unde principalele două mişcări kurde sunt acuzate de corupţie. ALGERIA: Cel puţin zece manifestanţi au fost răniţi la Alger, în cursul unei manifestaţii a opoziţiei, blocată de poliţie, a anunţat Coordonarea naţională pentru schimbare şi democraţie. Un deputat al opoziţiei ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/protestele-iau-amploare-in-orientul-mijlociu-si-africa-de-nord/ protestele-iau-amploare-in-orientul-mijlociu-si-africa-de-nord Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:35:56 +0200 Mişcările de contestare a regimurilor autoritare din mai multe state din Orientul Mijlociu şi Africa de Nord au fost reprimate brutal de forţele de securitate, însă manifestanţii continuă să participe la proteste zilnice. ALGERIA: Importante forţe de securitate şi vehicule blindate patrulează piaţa 1 Mai, aflată în centrul capitalei Alger, loc de întâlnire pentru un marş al opoziţiei. BAHRAIN: Opoziţia a respins sâmbătă o ofertă de dialog prezentată de prinţul moştenitor, cerând drept condiţii prealabile demisia guvernului şi retragerea armatei din capitală, unde confruntările s-au soldat cu cel puţin şase morţi. Sâmbătă dimineaţă, armata s-a retras din capitală, însă poliţia a recurs la gaze lacrimogene pentru a-i îndepărta pe manifestanţii care încercau să ajungă în centrul oraşului. EGIPT: Guvernul, care asigură activităţile curente, urmează să se reunească sâmbătă, în timp ce armata, care a preluat puterea după plecarea preşedintelui Hosni Mubarak, a avertizat că nu va mai tolera manifestaţii care afectează economia ţării. IRAK: Câteva sute de văduve şi orfani, ale căror rude au fost victimele violneţelor declanşate după înlăturarea regimului lui Saddam Hussein, în 2003, au manifestat sâmbătă la Bagdad, pentru a cere o îmbunătăţire a condiţiilor de viaţă. IRAN: Fostul premier Mir Hossein Moussavi, unul dintre liderii opoziţiei reformatoare, este izolat la domiciliu, conform unui anunţ publicat pe site-ul său Internet. Zeci de mii de susţinători ai regimului de la Teheran au cerut vineri executarea lui Moussavi şi a altor lideri ai opoziţiei. LIBIA: Mai mult de 80 de persoane au murit în urma confruntărilor dintre manifestanţi şi forţele de ordine, potrivit unui bilanţ realizat de Human Rights Watch (HRW). Mişcarea de contestare a regimului condus de Muammar Kadhafi, aflat la putere din 1969, ia amploare în estul ţării, unde riscă să se transforme în insurecţie. MAROC: Tineretul mişcării islamiste ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/dancefm-cel-mai-nou-radio-din-portofoliul-profm-va-fi-lansat-luni/ dancefm-cel-mai-nou-radio-din-portofoliul-profm-va-fi-lansat-luni Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:35:56 +0200 Portofoliul ProFM se măreşte de luni, 21 februarie, cu încă un post de radio, DanceFM, care va emite pe frecvenţa 89,5 FM şi va fi dedicat celor mai buni DJ ai momentului, celor mai noi piese dance şi celor mai tari mixuri, informează un comunicat remis MEDIAFAX. DanceFM este mixul dance-electronic perfect ce va revoluţiona piaţa radiofonică din România. Cei mai buni DJ ai momentului, cele mai noi piese dance, cele mai tari mixuri vor fi difuzate din studioul DanceFM pentru a încânta ascultătorii cu cea mai bună muzică de dans. Într-o perioadă în care acest trend muzical ia proporţii la nivel mondial, iar artiştii români promovează noul curent, 89,5 FM va fi fără îndoială frecvenţa care va combina toate elementele spiritului tânăr. În fiecare zi, între orele 20:00 şi 1:00, ascultătorii vor avea ocazia să asculte cinci dintre DJ-ii care fac senzaţie în toată ţara, precum Resident DJ's, Narcotic Sound, DJ Sava sau David DJ. Astfel, la pupitrul DanceFM vor mixa, în fiecare săptămână, 35 dintre cei mai cunoscuţi DJ români. Nu va lipsi nici Miki Love, cunoscută pentru apariţiile topless pe care le are în timpul mixurilor de club. Frumoasa Miki Love, fosta prezentatoare a emisiunii "Goluri şi goale" de pe Sport.ro, va încinge spiritele ascultătorilor DanceFM, iar nume mari precum Livio & Roby Ali Nasser, The Model, Mahony sau Negru îşi vor face apariţia direct din club în studio de unde vor lansa on-air mixuri care mai de care mai dinamice. De luni până vineri, între 17:00 şi 20:00, VJ Oana şi DJ Mircea Ivan vor prezenta emisiunea "Decadance", în care cei doi vor interacţiona cu ascultătorii DanceFM prin mesaje, telefoane sau pe pagina de Facebook. În ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/filmul-iranian-nader-and-simin-a-separation-marele-invingator-la-berlinala-2011/ filmul-iranian-nader-and-simin-a-separation-marele-invingator-la-berlinala-2011 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:35:57 +0200 Lungmetrajul iranian "Jodaeiye Nader az Simin/ Nader And Simin, A Separation", în regia lui Asghar Farhadi, a primit, sâmbătă seară, Ursul de Aur pentru cel mai bun film, la cea de-a 61-a ediţie a Festivalului Internaţional de Film de la Berlin. Lungmetrajul iranian "Nader And Simin, A Separation" este considerat marele învingător al galei de la Berlin, deoarece aceeaşi peliculă a fost recompensată şi cu ambele premii pentru interpretare, respectiv Ursul de Argint pentru cea mai bună actriţă şi Ursul de Argint pentru cel mai bun actor. Totodată, "Nader And Simin, A Separation" a primit şi premiul juriului ecumenic pentru cel mai bun film din competiţie, potrivit site-ului evenimentului. VEZI LISTA PREMIILOR DE LA BERLINALA 2011 Ceremonia de premiere s-a desfăşurat sâmbătă seara la Berlin. Juriul ediţiei din acest an, prezidat de actriţa Isabella Rossellini, a ţinut să îi aducă un omagiu cineastului iranian Jafar Panahi, membru al juriului, care nu a putut să participe la eveniment, din cauză că autorităţile din Iran i-au interzis să părăsească ţara. Ca şi la Festivalul de Film de la Cannes, în 2010, cineastul iranian a fost reprezentat pe scena galei Berlinalei de un scaun gol, pe care se afla o inscripţie cu numele său. Anul trecut, România a fost reprezentată tot de două scurtmetraje la Berlinale Shorts: "Derby" de Paul Negoescu şi "Colivia" de Adrian Sitaru. Acestea s-au alăturat filmelor "Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier", inclus în competiţia oficială, şi "Portretul luptătorului la tinereţe"- prezentat în secţiunea Forum. De altfel, "Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier" a câştigat două distincţii la Berlinala din 2010: trofeul "Alfred Bauer" şi Marele premiu al juriului - Ursul de argint. În plus, Adrian Sitaru a câştigat premiul serviciului ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/romanii-au-talent-record-absolut-de-audienta-in-randul-programelor-de-divertisment-din-romania/ romanii-au-talent-record-absolut-de-audienta-in-randul-programelor-de-divertisment-din-romania Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:35:57 +0200 Emisiunea "Românii au talent" a înregistrat un record absolut de audienţă în rândul show-urilor de divertisment din România, prima ediţie a programului de la Pro TV fiind urmărită vineri seara de peste patru milioane de telespectatori din întreaga ţară în minutul de aur, înregistrat la ora 21.17. Seara de vineri, când a debutat show-ul "Românii au talent", a fost la Pro TV una plină de recorduri absolute. Cifrele de audienţă au plasat "Românii au talent" în topul celor mai urmărite emisiuni de divertisment din 2004 până în prezent, potrivit unui comunicat remis MEDIAFAX. "Românii au talent", prezentată de Smiley şi Pavel Bartoş şi jurizată de Andra, Andi Moisescu şi Mihai Petre, a înregistrat un record absolut de audienţă în rândul show-urilor de divertisment din România, numărul celor care au urmărit emisiunea de la Pro TV depăşind 4 milioane de telespectatori din întreaga ţară, în minutul de aur înregistrat la ora 21.17. Astfel, pe întreg publicul comercial din mediul urban cu vârste cuprinse între 18-49 de ani, audienţa înregistrată în minutul de aur de la 21.17 a fost de 22,2 puncte de rating şi o cotă de piaţă de 52,9 procente. Astfel, mai mult de jumătate din totalul persoanele aflate în faţa televizoarelor erau cu ochii pe Pro TV şi urmăreau prestaţiile incredibile ale românilor dornici să îşi arate talentul. Show-ul de la Pro TV a fost vineri seara lider absolut de audienţă pe toate targeturile. Fie că vorbim de întreg publicul din mediul urban, de publicul comercial din mediul urban cu vârste cuprinse între 18-49 de ani sau de întreg publicul din România, emisiunea "Românii au talent" a dominat toate topurile. Audienţa medie înregistrată de show-ul de la Pro ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/google-celebreaza-nasterea-lui-brancusi-printr-un-logo-special/ google-celebreaza-nasterea-lui-brancusi-printr-un-logo-special Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:35:58 +0200 Google şi-a modificat, sâmbătă, logoul pentru a celebra 135 de ani de la naşterea lui Constantin Brâncuşi, noul logo fiind alcătuit din lucrări realizate de celebrul sculptor, printre care "Domnişoara Pogany" şi "Sărutul". Logoul Google cuprinde şapte lucrări realizate de Constantin Brâncuşi. Astfel, alături de "Domnişoara Pogany" şi "Sărutul", logoul prin care Google îl celebrează pe sculptorul român cuprinde şi imagini ale lucrărilor: "Muza adormită în bronz", "Pasăre în spaţiu", "Nou-născut", "Prometeu" şi "Leda". Constantin Brâncuşi va fi sărbătorit şi la Bucureşti. Un cerc uman în memoria lui Constantin Brâncuşi, care va reuni circa 300 de participanţi, printre care Victor Ponta şi Varujan Vosganian, va fi format, sâmbătă, în jurul Ateneului Român, cu ocazia împlinirii a 135 de ani de la naşterea artistului. Evenimentul - iniţiat de Laurian Stănchescu, membru al Uniunii Scriitorilor din România - se va desfăşura între orele 12.00 - 14.00. Constantin Brâncuşi (născut pe 19 februarie 1876, în localitatea Hobiţa, judeţul Gorj - decedat pe 16 martie 1957, Paris) a fost un sculptor român cu contribuţii majore la înnoirea limbajului şi viziunii plastice în sculptura contemporană. Figură centrală în mişcarea artistică modernă, Constantin Brâncuşi este considerat unul din cei mai mari sculptori ai secolului al XX-lea. Sculpturile sale se remarcă prin eleganţa formei şi utilizarea sensibilă a materialelor. Verticalitatea, orizontalitatea, greutatea, densitatea şi importanţa acordată luminii şi spaţiului sunt trăsăturile caracteristice ale creaţiei lui Brâncuşi. Opera sa a influenţat profund conceptul modern de formă în sculptură, pictură şi desen. Google îşi schimbă frecvent logoul pentru a marca evenimente speciale din cultura mondială. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/semnificatii-istorice-pentru-19-februarie/ semnificatii-istorice-pentru-19-februarie Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:36:01 +0200 În 1876 s–a născut sculptorul Constantin Brâncuşi, membru post-mortem al Academiei Române; artist al secolului XX, Brâncuşi a exprimat în creaţia sa, esenţializată şi purificată în liniile ce o compun, o viziune cu totul nouă asupra lumii, în care sunt regăsite miturile primordiale ale omenirii, dar şi elementele inconfundabile ale artei populare româneşti (m. 16 martie 1957, Paris). 1473 - S-a născut Nicolaus Copernicus, astronom polonez, autor al teoriei heliocentrismului. (m. 1543) 1841 - S-a născut Felipe Pedrell, compozitor, muzicolog, folclorist, fondator al şcolii naţionale muzicale spaniole (m. 19 august 1922) 1864 - S-a născut Arthur Gorovei, folclorist, etnograf şi scriitor (m. 19 martie 1951) 1866 - A apărut lucrarea cercetătorului ceh Gregor Mendel "Cercetări asupra plantelor hibride", în care sunt formulate legile fundamentale ale eredităţii ("legile lui Mendel"). 1878 - A fost încheiat Tratatul de pace ruso-turc de la San Stefano, care stipula recunoaşterea independenţei României, alături de cea a Serbiei şi Muntenegrului. Totodată, Dobrogea a fost cedată Rusiei, care-şi rezerva dreptul de a o schimba "cu partea Basarabiei detaşată la 1856". 1896 - S-a născut André Breton, poet şi prozator, teoretician şi principalul animator al mişcării suprarealiste - "Manifestul suprarealismului", 1924 (m. 28 septembrie 1966) 1897 - A încetat din viaţă matematicianul Karl Weierstrass, unul dintre fondatorii teoriei funcţiilor analitice de variabilă complexă (n. 1815). 1901 - S-a născut Hans Grundig, pictor şi grafician german antifascist; experienţa lagărelor de concentrare naziste a fost relatată în romanul autobiografic "Între carnaval şi miercurea cenuşii", tradus în limba română în 1963 (m. 11 septembrie 1958). 1936 - S-a născut Marin Sorescu, poet, dramaturg şi eseist (m. 1996). 1951 - A încetat din viaţă scriitorul francez André Gide (n. 22 noiembrie 1869). 1959 - Statul Cipru devine independent. 1988 - A încetat din viaţă poetul francez ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/site-ul-www-sport-ro-record-de-vizitatori-unici-in-ro/ site-ul-www-sport-ro-record-de-vizitatori-unici-in-ro Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:36:01 +0200 Site-ul www.sport.ro şi-a consolidat, joi, poziţia de lider în România atât la categoria site-urilor "generale", cât şi la categoria "sport", potrivit unui comunicat remis MEDIAFAX. Conform rezultatelor SATI, 277.101 de vizitatori unici au accesat site-ul, iar portalul a avut 516.874 de vizite şi 2.099.376 afişări, situându-se pe primul loc între site-urile din .ro. www.sport.ro a transmis joi meciuri din Europa League şi a fost cel mai vizitat şi cel mai afişat site din România, fiind urmat de cancan.ro, la 8.000 de unici distanţă, şi de libertatea.ro, la 20.000 de unici distanţă. De la începutul lunii februarie, www.sport.ro este liderul zilnic al site-urilor din categoria "sport" şi îşi păstrează prima poziţie în România în ultimele trei luni la capitolul vizite pe site şi pe telefonul mobil. m.sport.ro se află pe primul loc în clasamentul tuturor site-urilor mobile şi, conform datelor SATI, joi înregistra 24.683 unici, fiind urmat de m.gsp.ro, cu 16.805, şi m.realitatea.net, cu 12.964 unici. www.sport.ro oferă mereu un conţinut exclusiv, cu multe transmisiuni live următorul eveniment fiind transmiterea maratonului de skandenberg unde campionul mondial la skandenberg, Ion Oncescu, se bate cu 500 de oameni în Băneasa Shopping City. Acest eveniment va putea fi urmărit şi live video pe telefonul mobil pe m.sport.ro. De asemenea, şi pe www.sport.ro şi pe mobil, săptămâna viitoare se vor vedea live video patru meciuri din returul 16-imilor Europa League. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/kate-moss-isi-va-crea-singura-rochia-de-mireasa/ kate-moss-isi-va-crea-singura-rochia-de-mireasa Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:36:02 +0200 Kate Moss îşi va crea singură rochia de mireasă, căsătoria celebrului model cu iubitului ei, muzicianul Jamie Hince, urmând să aibă loc în această vară, informează dailymail.co.uk. Deşi este unul dintre cele mai de succes fotomodele din lume şi mulţi designeri ar putea să îi creeze rochia de mireasă, Kate Moss a decis să se ocupe singură de principalul obiect vestimentar al nunţii sale. Decizia lui Kate Moss este de înţeles, mai ales că fotomodelul în vârstă de 37 de ani a lansat mai multe colecţii de articole vestimentare, vândute prin intermediul lanţului de magazine Topshop. Celebra creatoare de modă Vivienne Westwood, prietenă cu Kate Moss de peste 15 ani, a dezvăluit săptămâna trecută secretul rochiei de mireasă pe care modelul o va îmbrăca. Întrebată dacă a fost abordată de Kate Moss pentru a-i crea rochia de mireasă, Vivienne Westwood a spus: "Nu, cred că o să îşi creeze singură rochia de mireasă". Potrivit lui Vivienne Westwood, Kate Moss are experienţă în crearea obiectelor vestimentare şi cunoaşte multe lucruri despre designul hainelor. "Ştie ce face. Nu are nevoie de ajutorul meu", a mai spus Vivienne Westwood. Top modelul Kate Moss s-a logodit cu iubitul ei, muzicianul Jamie Hince, la începutul lunii februarie. Căsătoria lor este programată pe 2 iulie. Zvonuri despre logodna celor doi au mai circulat anul trecut, când tabloidele chiar au relatat că Hince a cerut-o de soţie pe Kate Moss într-o vacanţă petrecută la începutul lui 2010 în Caraibe. Un ziar britanic susţinea chiar că cei doi s-au căsătorit în secret în vara anului 2010. La începutului lunii februarie, anul acesta, perechea a fost surprinsă însă la cumpărături la magazinul de bijuterii S.J. Phillips Ltd din zona centrală a Londrei. De ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/dana-rogoz-a-filmat-sub-trei-tone-de-apa-rece-pentru-videoclipul-lacrimi-de-coniac/ dana-rogoz-a-filmat-sub-trei-tone-de-apa-rece-pentru-videoclipul-lacrimi-de-coniac Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:36:04 +0200 Dana Rogoz a filmat sub trei tone de apă rece pentru videoclipul "Lacrimi de coniac" al trupei Vunk, informează Pro TV International. Dezvăluirea a fost făcută de Cornel Ilie şi Gabi Maga, de la trupa Vunk, pentru emisiunea "Ascultă-ţi muzica de acasă", prezentată de Julia Jianu şi difuzată la Pro TV International, duminica, de la ora 18.00. Aflaţi în platoul emisiunii, Cornel şi Gabi au vorbit despre colaborarea pe care au avut-o cu Dana Rogoz pentru filmările celui mai recent videoclip al trupei Vunk - "Lacrimi de coniac". "Dana (Rogoz, n.r.) chiar a jucat în clip, noi doar am apărut. A avut un rol mult mai important şi chiar mai intes decât noi", a declarat Cornel Ilie. El a explicat că "a fost interesant, dar şi puţin periculos, mai ales pentru Dana care a stat o bună parte din filmare în apă, la o temperatură nu tocmai caldă". "Noi am avut geci pe noi dar ea, în pantaloni scurţi şi într-o bluză, a filmat în această ploaie de interior creată special cu ajutorul a nu mai puţin de 3 tone de apă", a mai spus Cornel. "Cred că a intrat în şoc termic", l-a completat colegul său de la Vunk. Cu toate acestea, Dana Rogoz - prezentatoarea emisiunii "De Suflet" la Pro TV International şi interpreta Andreei Popeangă din serialul "Moştenirea" de la Pro TV - nu a răcit, filmările videoclipului încheindu-se cu bine. Astfel, românii din afara ţării au ocazia, începând de duminică, să o vadă pe Dana Rogoz într-o ipostază romantică, în videoclipul "Lacrimi de coniac", pe site-ul www.protvi.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/calvitia-precoce-un-posibil-indiciu-pentru-depistarea-cancerului-la-prostata/ calvitia-precoce-un-posibil-indiciu-pentru-depistarea-cancerului-la-prostata Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:36:11 +0200 Căderea părului în jurul vârstei de 20 de ani dublează riscul de apariţie a cancerului la prostată, potrivit unui studiu francez ale cărui rezultate ar putea fi folosite pentru o mai bună depistare a acestei boli. Cancerul la prostată şi alopecia androgenică - pierderea părului la o vârstă precoce - au în comun influenţa hormonilor masculini (androgeni) asupra organismului. Însă precedentele studii despre legătura dintre alopecia precoce şi cancerul la prostată au dat rezultate contradictorii, două dintre ele relevând faptul că o creştere a riscului de cancer are legătură cu căderea părului, însă un al treilea studiu a demonstrat contrariul acestei ipoteze. Medicul Philippe Giraud, de la spitalul Georges Pimpidou din Paris, a coordonat un nou studiu, retrospectiv, comparând 338 de bărbaţi suferind de cancer la prostată, monitorizaţi de specialiştii de la Institutul Curie din Paris şi Institutul Claudius Regaud din Toulouse, cu 281 de "cazuri ţintă", care nu sufereau de cancer. Participanţii au fost invitaţi să îşi descrie propriul nivel de calviţie, cu ajutorul unor imagini tip, la vârstele de 20 de ani, 30 de ani şi 40 de ani. Rezultatele au relevat că bărbaţii suferind de cancer la prostată prezintă un risc de două ori mai mare de a avea calviţie la vârsta de 20 de ani. În ceea ce priveşte celelalte vârste, studiul nu a permis evidenţierea vreunei legături semnificative din punct de vedere statistic. Specialiştii francezi consideră că rezultatele acestui studiu trebuie să fie validate de un studiu viitor ce va fi efectuat pe eşantioane mult mai mari. Un bărbat din doi suferă de calviţie, însă dintre cei 50% care îşi pierd podoaba capilară, doar 10-15% prezintă o alopecie androgenică. Studiul a fost publicat în Annals of Oncology, revista editată de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/un-experiment-romanesc-va-fi-transportat-pe-iss-la-ultimul-zbor-al-discovery/ un-experiment-romanesc-va-fi-transportat-pe-iss-la-ultimul-zbor-al-discovery Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:36:11 +0200 Un experiment realizat de cercetătorii români va fi transportat pe Staţia Spaţială Internaţională (ISS) la ultimul zbor al navetei spaţiale Discovery, programat pentru 24 februarie, a declarat pentru MEDIAFAX directorul general al Agenţiei Spaţiale Române (ROSA), Marius-Ioan Piso. Experimentul românesc a fost realizat de Institutul de Ştiinţe Spaţiale din Bucureşti. "Creşterea şi Supravieţuirea Fungilor Coloraţi în Spaţiu" (CFA-A) este un experiment ce are ca scop determinarea efectelor pe care le are microgravitaţia şi radiaţiile cosmice asupra creşterii şi supravieţuirii speciilor de fungi, potrivit site-ului rosa.ro. Experimentul a fost coordonat de Dumitru Haşegan, de la Institutul de Ştiinţe Spaţiale din Bucureşti (ESA), care a plecat deja la centrul spaţial Kennedy de la Cape Canaveral (Florida, SUA), pentru a pregăti experimentul, a declarat Piso pentru MEDIAFAX. La începutul lui ianuarie, NASA a anunţat că a reuşit să remedieze problema fisurilor din rezervorul extern al navetei Discovery şi că intenţionează să o lanseze spre Staţia Spaţială Internaţională (ISS) pe 24 februarie. John Shannon, responsabilul programului de lansare a navetei Discovery (misiunea NASA STS-133), dădea atunci asigurări că a fost rezolvată problema fisurilor din rezervorul extern al Discovery, care a ţinut la sol naveta încă de la începutul lui noiembrie. Modificările tehnice urmau să fie încheiate până pe 23 ianuarie. Lansarea navetei Discovery a fost amânată de mai multe ori, începând din noiembrie 2010, din cauza unei scurgeri de hidrogen în timpul umplerii cu combustibil a rezervorului extern. Acesta este ultimul zbor pentru Discovery şi, totodată, al 39-lea pentru navetă, cea mai veche din flota spaţială a NASA. Aceasta este, de asemenea, penultima lansare a unei navete americane, înainte de retragerea lor din circulaţie şi trimiterea la un muzeu tehnic. Ultimul zbor al unei navete americane va fi efectuat, în principiu, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/biletele-pentru-meciul-bosnia-hertegovina-romania-s-au-pus-in-vanzare-vezi-cat-costa/ biletele-pentru-meciul-bosnia-hertegovina-romania-s-au-pus-in-vanzare-vezi-cat-costa Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:49:43 +0200 Federaţia Română de Fotbal a pus în vânzare 600 de bilete repartizate suporterilor români pentru partida Bosnia-Herţegovina - România, din cadrul preliminariilor Euro 2012, programat la Zenica pe 26 martie, de la ora 20.15, informează site-ul oficial al FRF. Operaţiunea se va derula pe site-ul specializat www.biletefotbalonline.ro, preţul unui bilet fiind de 9 Euro, căruia i se vor adăuga taxele de expediere. O persoană va putea achiziţiona maxim două bilete, forul bosniac punând la dispoziţie, într-o primă fază, un număr de 600 de bilete. Delegaţia naţionalei României va decola spre Sarajevo, de pe aeroportul "Henri Coandă", la 24 martie, la ora 17.00, drumul de la Sarajevo la Zenica urmând să fie efectuat cu autocarul. De la Sarajevo, reprezentativa României se va deplasa direct la Bacău, decolarea fiind prevăzută pentru 27 martie, la ora 12.00. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/alexandra-dulgheru-a-urcat-doua-locuri-pana-pe-28-in-clasamentul-wta/ alexandra-dulgheru-a-urcat-doua-locuri-pana-pe-28-in-clasamentul-wta Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:49:43 +0200 Jucătoarea română Alexandra Dulgheru a urcat două poziţii şi se află pe locul 28, cu 2.000 de puncte, în clasamentul WTA dat publicităţii luni, informează site-ul wtatour.com. Simona Halep a rămas pe locul 61 (981 puncte), Monica Niculescu a urcat trei poziţii, pe locul 64 (938 puncte), Edina Gallovits-Hall a coborât şase locuri (pe 82, cu 794 de puncte), iar Sorana Cârstea a coborât o treaptă, pe locul 94 (720 puncte). În Top 200 se mai află cinci sportive din România: Liana Ungur, locul 161, cu 369 de puncte, în urcare două poziţii, Ioana Raluca Olaru, locul 171, cu 339 de puncte, în urcare opt poziţii, Mădălina Gojnea, locul 172, cu 338 de puncte, în urcare cinci poziţii, şi Elena Bogdan, locul 199, cu 291 de puncte (plus două poziţii). În ierarhia de dublu, Monica Niculescu ocupă locul 34, cu 2.470 de puncte, acelaşi ca în clasamentul precedent. Dulgheru se află pe locul 52, cu 1.600 puncte (în urcare două trepte), Gallovits-Hall a urcat, de asemenea, două locuri, ajungând pe 70 (1.124 de puncte), iar Sorana Cârstea se află pe 72 (în urcare un loc), cu 1.087 de puncte. Primele zece locuri ale clasamentului WTA de simplu sunt ocupate de următoarele jucătoare: 1. Caroline Wozniacki (Danemarca) 9.430; 2. Kim Clijsters (Belgia) 8.835 de puncte; 3. Vera Zvonareva (Rusia) 7.155; 4. Samantha Stosur (Australia) 5.086; 5. Francesca Schiavone (Italia) 5.051; 8. Jelena Jankovici (Serbia) 4.655; 7. Na Li (China) 4.300; 6. Venus Williams (SUA) 3.745; 9. Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 3.440; 10. Agnieszka Radwanska (Polonia) 3.170. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/ronaldo-va-infiinta-o-agentie-de-consiliere-sportiva/ ronaldo-va-infiinta-o-agentie-de-consiliere-sportiva Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:49:44 +0200 Fostul atacant brazilian Ronaldo a anunţat că va înfiinţa o agenţie de consiliere şi de gestiune a afacerilor în sport, informează cotidianul O Globo. Agenţia, care se va numi "9ine sports & entertainment", cu referire la cifra 9 de pe tricoul de fotbalist al brazilianului, va fi deţinută în proporţie de 45 la sută de Ronaldo, 45 la sută de agentul său, Sergio Amado (preşedintele unei agenţii de publicitate), iar restul de 10 procente se va afla în proprietatea unui partener local. Societatea va fi condusă de Ronaldo şi va avea sediul la Sao Paulo. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/victor-hanescu-a-coborat-pe-locul-57-in-clasamentul-atp/ victor-hanescu-a-coborat-pe-locul-57-in-clasamentul-atp Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:49:44 +0200 Tenismanul român Victor Hănescu a coborât o poziţie şi se află pe locul 57, cu 880 de puncte, în clasamentul ATP, dat publicităţii luni, informează site-ul atpworldtour.com. În Top 200 ATP mai figurează doi români: Victor Crivoi pe locul 181, în urcare opt poziţii, cu 307 puncte şi Adrian Ungur pe 195, în coborâre două poziţii, cu 279 de puncte. La dublu, Horia Tecău se menţine pe locul 20, cu 3.265 de puncte. Primele 10 de poziţii ale clasamentului ATP de simplu sunt ocupate de următorii jucători: 1. Rafael Nadal (Spania) 12.390 de puncte 2. Roger Federer (Elveţia) 7.965 3. Novak Djokovici (Serbia) 7.880 4. Robin Soderling (Suedia) 6.055 5. Andy Murray (Marea Britanie) 5.760 6. David Ferrer (Spania) 4.510 7. Tomas Berdych (Cehia) 4.270 8. Andy Roddick (SUA) 3.735 9. Fernando Verdasco (Spania) 3.140 10. Jurgen Melzer (Austria) 2.865. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/reprimari-sangeroase-ale-protestelor-din-africa-de-nord-si-orientul-mijlociu-vezi-ultimele-eveni/ reprimari-sangeroase-ale-protestelor-din-africa-de-nord-si-orientul-mijlociu-vezi-ultimele-eveni Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:49:46 +0200 Un val de contestare socială şi politică fără precedent este reprimat, adeseori sângeros, de regimurile autoritare din Africa de Nord şi Orientul Mijlociu. Iată ultimele evenimente din aceste ţări. LIBIA: Bilanţul manifestaţiilor nu încetează să crească, depăşind, luni dimineaţă, 230 de morţi potrivit Human Rights Watch, în timp ce Seif Al-Islam, fiul colonelului Muammar Kadhafi, a cărui plecare este cerută de manifestanţi, a recunoscut că ţara este în pragul războiului civil. Potrivit martorilor oculari din Tripoli, sediul unei televiziuni şi al unui post de radio publice au fost atacate. Posturi de poliţie şi "sala poporului", o importantă clădire guvernamentală din centrul capitalei, au fost incendiate. YEMEN: Preşedintele Ali Abdallah Saleh, aflat la putere de 32 de ani, a dat asigurări că nu va pleca decât prin "intermediul urnelor", în timp ce mii de persoane manifestau la Sanaa şi bilanţul confruntărilor de la Aden (est)î ntre protestatari şi forţele de ordine a crescut la 12 morţi luni dimineaţă. BAHRAIN: Opozantul şiit în exil Hassan Machaimaa, judecat în absenţă pentru terorism, a anunţat de la Londra că se va întoarce marţi la Manama, unde mii de persoane ocupau în continuare Piaţa Perlei pentru a cere schimbarea regimului. IRAK: Un adolescent a fost ucis şi alţi 48 de manifestanţi au fost răniţi duminică seara în confruntările cu forţele de ordine la Suleimaniyeh, al doilea oraş ca mărime din Kurdistanul irakian, teatrul unor incidente sângeroase în ultimele cinci zile. SUDAN: Preşedintele Omar el-Bashir nu va candida pentru un alt mandat la viitoarele alegeri prezidenţiale, a anunţat luni un oficial din cadrul Partidului Naţional al Congresului (NCP, aflat la putere), dând asigurări că această decizie nu are de-a face cu valul de contestaţii din lumea arabă. MAROC: Mii de marocani au manifestat ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/razboiul-firmelor-de-a-ajunge-pe-prima-pagina-in-google-cat-platesti-sa-ti-depasesti-con/ razboiul-firmelor-de-a-ajunge-pe-prima-pagina-in-google-cat-platesti-sa-ti-depasesti-con Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:49:49 +0200 Dacă nu apari la căutările Google, teoretic nu exişti. Drept urmare, toate companiile care investesc în strategii de dezvoltare iau în calcul indexarea în Google, motorul de căutare pe Internet care acaparează peste 70% din toate căutările. Plus că, pentru a fi cu un pas înaintea mişcărilor Google, firmele trebuie să monitorizeze activ impresiile clienţilor via Internet, potrivit cotidianului Gândul. Sheila LaPierre, manager independent din Glastonbury, Anglia, susţine că firmele trebuie să fie conştiente de modul în care evoluează algoritmul de indexare Google ca să îşi poată ajuta clienţii să le găsească cât mai uşor brandul. Iar motoarele de căutare monitorizează ce spun oamenii pe site-urile de socializare şi media despre brandurile companiilor. Acestă supraveghere este tot mai frecventă în ultimii ani, cu frecventele lansări de site-uri noi, ieftine şi facile care le oferă directorilor şansa să vadă ce spun clienţii, posibili clienţi şi chiar competitorii şi să le poată răspunde rapid şi cu efect. Citeşte mai multe despre războiul firmelor pentru prima pagină din Google pe www.gandul.info http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lady-gaga-scandalizeaza-din-nou-vezi-de-ce-foto/ lady-gaga-scandalizeaza-din-nou-vezi-de-ce-foto Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:49:50 +0200 Lady Gaga a stârnit din nou controverse cu una dintre ţinutele sale din timpul turneului "Monster Ball", informează dailymail.co.uk. Cântăreaţa în vârstă de 24 de ani se află în plin turneu de promovare şi se pare că vrea să depăşească orice limite de fiecare dată când urcă pe scenă. La concertul pe care l-a susţinut în New Jersey, vedeta a purtat o ţinută transparentă prin care se vedea aproape totul. Acest lucru nu ar fi neobişnuit pentru Gaga, însă vedeta şi-a acoperit capul, asemănător unei călugăriţe. Lady Gaga a cântat şi a dansat alături de dansatori pe jumătate dezbrăcaţi. Pe parcursul spectacolului, vedeta şi-a dat jos accesoriul de pe cap, lăsându-şi la vedere părul colorat în galben strident. Mai târziu, aceasta a apărut pe scenă purtând o ţinută roşie asemănătoare cu a unui diavol, cu umeri înalţi şi o fundă uriaşă. Aceasta nu este prima dată când Lady Gaga se îmbracă în haine de inspiraţie religioasă. Cântăreaţa a folosit mai multe imagini şi ţinute catolice în videoclipul pentru melodia "Alejandro". http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/inna-recompensata-cu-un-disc-de-aur-in-olanda/ inna-recompensata-cu-un-disc-de-aur-in-olanda Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:49:50 +0200 Cântăreaţa Inna a fost recompensată cu un disc de aur în Olanda, pentru 25.000 de unităţi vândute ale albumului "Hot", informează un comunicat remis MEDIAFAX. Distincţia i-a fost înmânată cântăreţei joi, pe scena galei School Awards, la Heineken Music Hall din Amsterdam. În prezent, Inna se află în Franţa pentru un turneu şi o campanie de promovare a piesei "Sun is Up", actualul său single, care se află pe poziţia a cincea în clasamentul de vânzări francez, fiind cel de-al cincilea hit al artistei care a intrat în Top 10. Inna este considerată un fenomen pe scena muzicii dance, cucerind, în foarte scurt timp, cluburile din Europa şi Orientul Mijlociu. În doar doi ani, Inna a devenit un nume important în întreaga Europă, iar piese precum "Hot", "Amazing" şi "Deja Vu" au ajuns pe primele locuri în topurile muzicale internaţionale. Recent, ea a fost nominalizată la trofeul pentru artistul anului, la cea de-a IX-a ediţie a Premiilor Muzicale Radio România Actualităţi, ce se va desfăşura pe 13 martie, în Bucureşti. În decembrie 2010, Inna a primit European Border Breakers' Award (EBBA), distincţie acordată artiştilor noi pentru succesul obţinut cu primul album lansat. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sexul-oral-mai-periculos-decat-fumatul/ sexul-oral-mai-periculos-decat-fumatul Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:49:50 +0200 Sexul oral a depăşit în ultimii ani fumatul în clasamentul celor mai periculoşi factori de risc asociaţi cu declanşarea cancerului orofaringian, mai ales în cazul tinerilor americani, potrivit unui studiu care nu explică pe deplin cauzele acestui fenomen. Punctul comun constă în prezenţa la nivelul tumorilor canceroase a unor papiloma virusuri (HPV), responsabile de cel mai frecvent întâlnite infecţii transmisibile pe cale sexuală şi care sunt, totodată, principala cauză a apariţiei cancerului de col uterin. Persoanele infectate cu aceste virusuri, în special cu tulpina HPV-16, "se confruntă cu un risc de cancer orofaringian de 32 de ori mai mare decât restul populaţiei, acest risc fiind considerabil mai mare faţă de cel asociat cu fumatul, care este doar de trei ori mai mare", a declarat Maura Gillison, medic la Universitatea din Ohio, cu ocazia conferinţei anuale organizate în această săptămână la Washington de Asociaţia americană pentru promovarea ştiinţei (AAAS). Medicul american, care studiază această temă de peste 15 ani, a declarat cu această ocazie că persoanele care întreţin raporturi bucogenitale cu mai mult de şase parteneri pe parcursul vieţii se confruntă cu un risc de cancer orofaringian de peste opt ori mai mare comparativ cu restul populaţiei. În plus, progresia cea mai rapidă a fost înregistrată în rândul bărbaţilor albi, a precizat Maura Gillison, adăugând că acest fenomen "rămâne însă inexplicabil". În total, cancerele cavităţii bucale şi ale gâtului au crescut cu 225% din 1974 până în 2007, cele mai multe dintre aceste cazuri fiind înregistrate la pacienţi care au recunoscut că au întreţinut raporturi bucogenitale. Medicul american a precizat, totodată, că această concluzie a fost obţinută în urma unor studii observaţionale şi că ele trebuie să fie confirmate prin alte cercetări statistice viitoare. "Nu ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/simptomul-ochiului-uscat/ simptomul-ochiului-uscat Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:49:51 +0200 Lacrimile, uneori simbol al durerii şi tristeţii, alteori al emoţiei şi bucuriei, alteori al slăbiciunii. Cine are nevoie de lacrimi?! Ei bine, fiecare dintre noi şi mai ales în acest anotimp, informează www.jurnalul.ro. Aerul rece şi uscat de afară, vân­tul, fumul, precum şi aerul uscat din cauza instalaţiilor de încălzire din interior, suflul fierbinte al aparatelor de aer condiţionat, uscătoarele de păr folosite zilnic, activitatea concentrată la calculator sau la condusul maşinii (care face ca ochiul să clipească mai rar), toate acestea afec­tea­ză ochiul, determinând apariţia ochiu­lui uscat. Fireşte, ochiul uscat nu apare numai iarna, dar deseori condiţiile specifice anotimpului agravează sau declanşează afecţiunea. Se apreciază că 20%-30% din populaţie a suferit măcar o dată de "ochiul uscat". Persoanele cu vârsta peste 50 de ani şi în special femeile după menopauză sunt mai afectate. Unele maladii: diabetul zaharat, afecţiuni tiroidiene, poliartrita reumatoidă, lupus, deficitul de vitamina A, infecţiile cronice ale pleoapelor (blefarite), dar şi medicamente (antihistaminice, diuretice, decongestive, beta blocante, antidepresive, contraceptive orale, antiacneice, antiinflamatorii) pot favoriza apariţia afecţiunii. Iniţial, doar deranjant, dacă este neglijat, ochiul uscat poate duce la complicaţii (de exemplu, infecţii sau ulceraţii) ce pot afecta permanent vederea. Citeşte mai multe despre simptomul ochiului uscat pe www.jurnalul.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/tinerii-pot-depune-de-marti-planuri-de-afaceri-pentru-a-primi-sprijin-de-10-000-euro-de-la-stat/ tinerii-pot-depune-de-marti-planuri-de-afaceri-pentru-a-primi-sprijin-de-10-000-euro-de-la-stat Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:40:02 +0200 Întreprinzătorii în vârstă de până la 35 de ani pot depune de marţi planurile de afaceri în cadrul Programului de sprijinire a debutanţilor în afaceri, prin care pot beneficia de finanţare de până la 10.000 de euro şi pentru care este alocat în acest an un buget de 21 milioane de lei. Planul de afaceri trebuie să cuprindă investiţii în active corporale şi/sau necorporale, pe o perioadă determinată, în scopul realizării unor obiective clare, concrete şi reale, se arată în Ghidul Solicitantului aferent Programului pentru stimularea înfiinţării şi dezvoltării microîntreprinderilor de către tinerii întreprinzători. Anterior, tinerii întreprinzători şi-au înregistrat microîntreprinderile la oficiile registrului comerţului, operaţiune care a început pe 11 februarie. Înscrierea în program este continuă şi se face online pe site-ul Agenţiei Naţionale de Implementarea a Programelor pentru IMM-uri (ANIPIMM). Vor fi finanţate achiziţia de terenuri pentru construcţii şi/sau amenajări efectuate în cadrul proiectului, construirea sau achiziţia de spaţii destinate realizării activităţii pentru care s-a solicitat finanţare, de mobilier, echipamente tehnologice, maşini, utilaje şi instalaţii de lucru, aparate şi instalaţii de măsură, control şi reglare, tehnică de calcul, de mijloace de transport, cu excepţia achiziţiei de vehicule de transport rutier de mărfuri, solicitate de întreprinderile care efectuează transport rutier de mărfuri în numele terţilor. Solicitantul trebuie să facă dovada deţinerii în proprietate a terenului pe care urmează să se realizeze construcţia sau a unui drept de uzufruct, contract de concesiune ori închiriere a terenului respectiv, valabil pe o perioadă de minimum 5 ani de la finalizarea investiţiei, iar activele achiziţionate trebuie să fie noi. Totodată, tinerii pot primi finanţări nerambursabile pentru brevete, licenţe, mărci comerciale şi alte drepturi şi active similare (francize, etichetare ecologică, etc), autorizaţii, materii prime, mărfuri, pentru acoperirea costurilor de personal, de ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/premiile-gopo-2011-vezi-aici-lista-completa-a-nominalizarilor/ premiile-gopo-2011-vezi-aici-lista-completa-a-nominalizarilor Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:40:04 +0200 "Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier", debutul în lungmetraj al lui Florin Şerban, are cele mai multe nominalizări la premiile Gopo 2011 - 13 - , fiind marele favorit în cursa pentru trofeele care vor fi acordate pe 28 martie, în Bucureşti. Printre filmele cu cele mai multe nominalizări se numără un alt debut în lungmetraj, "Morgen", de Marian Crişan (11), şi "Marţi, după Crăciun", de Radu Muntean (10). Cea de-a cincea ediţie a galei premiilor Gopo va avea loc la Crystal Palace Ballrooms, o sală amplasată în apropierea Palatului Parlamentului, care va deveni, pe 28 martie, spaţiul în care regizori, scenarişti, actori, compozitori, directori de imagine, sunetişti, producători, distribuitori de film din România vor face bilanţul anului cinematografic 2010. Cea de-a cincea ediţie a galei premiilor Gopo va fi transmisă în direct şi în exclusivitate la TV de ProCinema, iar românii de pretutindeni o vor putea urmări înregistrat, pe ProTV Internaţional. Gala va putea fi urmărită şi online, pe www.premiilegopo.ro şi www.procinema.ro, dar şi pe cea mai mare mediafaţadă din România, Cocor Media Channel, situată în inima Capitalei. Gala premiilor Gopo este organizată de Asociaţia Pentru Promovarea Filmului Românesc (APFR), cu sprijinul Centrului Naţional al Cinematografiei (CNC) şi al Ministerului Culturii şi Patrimoniului Cultural, dar şi al Babel Communications. Prezentăm mai jos lista completă a nominalizărilor la premiile Gopo 2011: Cel mai bun lungmetraj: "Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceauşescu" (regia: Andrei Ujică), "Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier" (regia: Florin Şerban), "Marţi, după Crăciun" (regia: Radu Muntean), "Medalia de onoare" (regia: Călin Netzer), "Morgen" (regia: Marian Crişan) Cel mai bun regizor (lungmetraj): Peter Călin Netzer - "Medalia de onoare", Florin Şerban - "Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier", Marian Crişan - "Morgen", Radu Muntean - "Marţi, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/filme-porno-la-un-infochiosc-din-sectorul-6/ filme-porno-la-un-infochiosc-din-sectorul-6 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:40:04 +0200 Sistemul informatic al unui infochioşc al Serviciului Public pentru Finanţe Publice Locale (SPFPL) din Sectorul 6 a fost spart, luni, iar pe ecranul acestuia au apărut imagini din filme pornografice, reprezentanţii instituţiei anunţând poliţia. Aplicaţia master a sistemului informatic a fost deconectată, luni şi în locul ei a fost deschis un site video care prezenta imagini pornografice, se arată într-un comunicat de presă al Primăriei Sectorului 6. Evenimentul a fost sesizat în jurul orei 13.00, astfel că cinci minute mai târziu terminalul a fost închis, iar reprezentanţii SPFPL a anunţat poliţia. "Menţionăm că agresiunea asupra sistemului a fost realizată local (direct de la terminal), folosindu-se în acest sens proceduri informatice avansate. Pentru o verificare amănunţită şi pentru evitarea repetării unor astfel de evenimente, infochioşcul a fost oprit temporar", a precizat sursa citată. Primăria Sectorului 6 a fost informată de incident la aproximativ o oră după ce reprezentanţii SPFPL au închis infochioşcul, prin e-mail, chiar de către persoana care a sesizat imaginile pornografice care rulau pe ecran. Poliţiştii bucureşteni fac cercetări pentru prinderea celor care au deconectat aplicaţia şi au deschis un site video cu imagini pornografice. La începutul anului trecut, un cetăţean a sesizat faptul că la un infochioşc al Primăriei Sectorului 2 din Parcul Naţional, în faţa Teatrului de Vară de lângă patinoar, era proiectat un film pornografic în loc de clipurile informative referitoare la administraţia de sector. Valentin Ifrim, de la Departamentul IT al Primăriei Sectorului 2, spune atunci că o persoană a accesat filmul de la infochioşc, după ce, în prealabil, îl postase pe o pagină de internet personală. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/moby-va-lansa-un-nou-album-pe-16-mai/ moby-va-lansa-un-nou-album-pe-16-mai Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:40:04 +0200 Moby va lansa pe 16 mai cel de-al nouălea album din carieră, intitulat "Destroyed", atât în format digital, cât şi pe vinil şi pe CD, potrivit unui comunicat. Albumul va fi lansat de propria casă de discuri a artistului, Little Idiot, şi va fi acompaniat de un album fotografic de 128 de pagini în care sunt postate 55 de fotografii realizate de Moby în lumea întreagă. Cu ocazia acestei lansări, fanii Moby vor putea descărca gratuit primul EP al discului, intitulat "Be The One", care conţine trei piese extrase de pe album. EP-ul poate fi descărcat de pe site-ul oficial Moby (www.moby.com). De asemenea, vor fi realizate trei scurtmetraje pentru cele trei piese de pe EP, iar aceste videoclipuri vor fi lansate online. Discul "Destroyed" este o "odisee internaţională", care prezintă viaţa lui Moby din spatele scenei, se afirmă în comunicat. Albumul şi cartea au fost realizate în acelaşi timp, iar inspiraţia a venit în timpul turneelor susţinute de artist. Piesele de pe acest nou material de studio au fost compuse în diverse camere de hotel de pe tot globul şi reprezintă, de fapt, un soundtrack pentru oraşele goale de la ora 02.00 dimineaţa. "Destroyed" evocă sentimente nocturne de anxietate şi izolare, dar şi confortul singurătăţii. Pentru a sarbători lansarea cărţii, Moby va organiza şi o galerie de fotografii, în Camden (Marea Britanie), în perioada 18 mai - 19 iunie. Albumul "Destroyed" va fi disponibil în Romania prin Mediaservices / EMI. Moby, pe numele său adevărat Richard Herman Melville, a început să facă muzică încă de la vârsta de 9 ani, la 13 ani având deja prima sa trupă de muzică punk, "Vatican Comandoes", alături de care a şi lansat un EP, "Hit ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/steve-vai-vrea-sa-stabileasca-un-record-mondial-vezi-cum/ steve-vai-vrea-sa-stabileasca-un-record-mondial-vezi-cum Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:40:04 +0200 Chitaristul american Steve Vai a lansat un apel către ceilalţi virtuozi ai chitarei din lumea întreagă, cerându-le să îl ajute să stabilească un record mondial, pe 3 martie, prin participarea lor la cel mai mare curs de chitară din toate timpurile, difuzat pe internet, informează femalefirst.co.uk. Rockerul american va fi ajutat în tentativa lui de foştii săi colegi de la Universitatea muzicală Berklee din Massachusetts, care vor participa, pe 3 martie, la acest curs inedit de chitară. Steve Vai speră că această iniţiativă îi va ajuta pe toţi cântăreţii la chitară din lumea întreagă să îşi cultive un stil propriu. "Acest curs online, realizat prin bunăvoinţa Universităţii Berklee şi care se va adresa studenţilor din lumea întreagă, este un excelent exemplu al colaborării ce are loc în fiecare zi la Berklee. Indiferent dacă vă aflaţi la Boston, Mumbai sau Bruxelles, vom fi cu toţii împreună pe 3 martie", a declarat Steve Vai. Cursul gratuit susţinut de Steve Vai va dura 30 de minute şi le va oferi participanţilor o privire unică asupra tehnicii sale. Steve Vai este unul dintre cei mai cunoscuţi şi apreciaţi chitarişti din lume, fiind şi un foarte bun compozitor, producător şi vocalist. În 1974, Steve Vai lua lecţii de chitară de la un alt celebru chitarist, Joe Satriani. El şi-a continuat, în anii '80, ucenicia în preajma celebrului chitarist Frank Zappa, care a fost impresionat de calităţile sale muzicale şi care, mai apoi, i-a marcat cariera. În 1984, a început o bogată carieră solo, lansând numeroase albume, precum "Passion and Warfare" (1990), "Sex and Religion" (1993), "Naked Tracks" (2008), "Where the Wild Things Are" (2009), "Where the Other Wild Things Are" (2010). În afara carierei solo, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/victime-si-pagube-materiale-in-noua-zeelanda-in-urma-unui-cutremur-cu-magnitudinea-6-3/ victime-si-pagube-materiale-in-noua-zeelanda-in-urma-unui-cutremur-cu-magnitudinea-6-3 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:20:01 +0200 Mai multe persoane au murit, marţi, în Noua Zeelandă, în urma unui cutremur cu magnitudinea 6,3 care a provocat prăbuşirea unor clădiri şi declanşarea de incendii şi a determinat autorităţile să declare stare de urgenţă în oraşul Christchurch. Seismul s-a produs la ora locală 12.51 (2.51, ora României), la o distanţă de 5 kilometri de Christchurch şi la o adâncime de 4 kilometri, conform Institutului american de geofizică (USGS). Cutremurul a fost urmat de mai multe replici, cu magnitudini de până la 5,6. Oraşul Christchurch, cu o populaţie de 340.000 de locuitori, a fost afectat, la 4 septembrie 2010, de un cutremur cu mangitudinea 7, care nu a provocat însă pagube importante. Seismul de marţi "a fost mai grav, nu ca intensitate, ci din punct de vedere al pagubelor, iar mulţi oameni sunt blocaţi în clădirile afectate", a declarat un purtător de cuvânt al serviciilor de pompieri. Televiziunile neo-zeelandeze au difuzat imagini cu oameni răniţi ieşind din clădirile avariate şi mergând pe străzi, sprijinindu-se unii de alţii, dar şi scene de panică imediat după producerea cutremurului. "Au fost anunţate mai multe decese, în diferite zone din centrul oraşului, unde două autobuze au fost lovite de moloz căzut de la înălţime. La faţa locului se află un medic şi echipe de urgenţă", a anunţat poliţia locală. În urma cutremurului, turla catedralei din Christchurch s-a prăbuşit, iar postul de televiziune local TV3 a afirmat că în ruinele unui hotel au fost găsite mai multe trupuri neînsufleţite. Primarul Bob Parker a decretat stare de urgenţă, blocând accesul în centrul oraşului, pentru a asigura securitatea locuitorilor şi a facilita activitatea echipelor de intervenţie. El a povestit că a fost trântit la pământ în timpul cutremurului. "În timp ce ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/lista-fructelor-si-legumelor-nesanatoase-cum-poti-elimina-pesticidele/ lista-fructelor-si-legumelor-nesanatoase-cum-poti-elimina-pesticidele Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:30:01 +0200 Alimentele sunt tratate chimic înainte de a ajunge pe masa noastră, ceea ce poate duce la intoxicarea ficatului, a rinichilor şi a sistemului nervos central, avertizează nutriţioniştii, potrivit Gândul. Ţelina, piersicile, merele, căpşunile, afinele, spanacul, varza, cartofii şi cireşele sunt alimente care pot "otrăvi" organismul cu tot felul de substanţe chimice, pentru că se folosesc în procesul cultivării, dar şi al transportului lor se folosesc numeroase chimicale, informează shine.yahoo.com. După ce au analizat alimentele, specialiştii au realizat o listă a celor mai nesănătoase fructele şi legumele. Ţelina ocupă locul 1 în top. Potrivit experţilor americani, planta conţine până la 67 de compuşi chimici, deşi cercetările anterioare arătau că ţelina conţine în jur de 13. Piersicile sunt stropite cu tot felul de substanţe care le fac să reziste mai mult timp în rafturile din magazine, precizează cercetătorii. Din cauza structurii fragile, aceste fructe sunt expuse tratamentelor chimice. Căpşunile conţin până la 53 de pesticide. Specialiştii susţin că acestea sunt lipsite de substanţe nutritive deoarece agricultorii folosesc tot felul de substanţe toxice pentru ca producţia să fie mare. Citeşte mai multe despre lista fructelor şi legumelor nesănătoase pe www.gandul.info. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cel-putin-65-de-victime-in-urma-unui-cutremur-cu-magnitudinea-6-3-in-noua-zeelanda/ cel-putin-65-de-victime-in-urma-unui-cutremur-cu-magnitudinea-6-3-in-noua-zeelanda Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:50:01 +0200 Cel puţin 65 de persoane au murit în urma cutremurului înregistrat marţi în Noua Zeelandă, a anunţat premierul John Key, citat de site-ul postului de televiziune TVNZ. El a precizat că până în prezent au fost confirmate 65 de decese, însă bilanţul riscă să crească, şi a descris oraşul Christchurch drept "o scenă de devastare totală". "Este posibil să asistăm la cea mai neagră zi a Noii Zeelande", a spus Key. "Este o comunitate aflată în agonie totală. Avem nevoie ca această comunitate să se unească, iar oamenii să se ajute unii pe alţii, aşa cum au mai făcut-o în trecut şi o vor face din nou", a adăugat el. Cutremurul, cu magnitudinea 6,3, s-a produs la ora locală 12.51 (2.51, ora României), la 5 kilometri de Christchurch şi la o adâncime de numai 4 kilometri, conform Institutului de geofizică american (USGS). Seismul a fost urmat de mai multe replici, cu magnitudini de până la 5,6, şi a provocat distrugeri masive. Christchurch, cu o populaţie de 340.000 de locuitori, a mai fost afectat, la 4 septembrie 2010, de un cutremur cu magnitudinea 7, care nu s-a soldat însă cu victime. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/pericolele-noilor-tehnologii-ce-risti-cand-navighezi-pe-internet/ pericolele-noilor-tehnologii-ce-risti-cand-navighezi-pe-internet Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:10:03 +0200 Internetul a revoluţionat afacerile, comerţul, comunicarea, cultura, entertainmentul, politica, dar şi multe alte aspecte ale vieţii. Dezvoltarea tehnologiei a revoluţionat lumea, iar oamenii au devenit dependenţi de mediul online, potrivit www.incont.ro. Fie că vorbim despre informare, discuţii cu prietenii pe messenger sau pe site-urile de socializare ori despre facturile pe care le plătim online, toţi suntem ancoraţi în mediul virtual. Internetul a adus numeroase beneficii, în toate domeniile, şi ne-a uşurat existenţa. Dar, ca orice tehnologie performantă, are şi câteva dezavantaje, printre care frauda electronică, piaţa neagră sau infracţionalitatea sexuală. La sfârşitul anului trecut, la nivel global, s-au înregistrat peste 2 miliarde de utilizatori de internet, dintre care 475 de milioane doar în Europa, potrivit pingdom.com În plus, peste 1,8 de miliarde de utilizatori ai serviciilor de e-mail au trimis, pe tot parcursul lui 2010, 107 trilioane de mail-uri. În 2010, erau înregistrate peste 255 de milioane de site-uri, 152 de milioane de bloguri, 600 de milioane de utilizatori Facebook, două miliarde de clipuri vizionate, în medie, zilnic pe YouTube şi peste opt miliarde de fotografii urcate lunar, pe Facebook şi Flicker. Citeşte mai multe despre pericolele noilor tehnologii pe www.incont.ro. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/cel-putin-65-de-victime-in-urma-unui-cutremur-cu-magnitudinea-6-3-in-noua-zeelanda-video/ cel-putin-65-de-victime-in-urma-unui-cutremur-cu-magnitudinea-6-3-in-noua-zeelanda-video Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:30:01 +0200 Cel puţin 65 de persoane au murit în urma cutremurului înregistrat marţi în Noua Zeelandă, a anunţat premierul John Key, citat de site-ul postului de televiziune TVNZ. El a precizat că până în prezent au fost confirmate 65 de decese, însă bilanţul riscă să crească, şi a descris oraşul Christchurch drept "o scenă de devastare totală". "Este posibil să asistăm la cea mai neagră zi a Noii Zeelande", a spus Key. "Este o comunitate aflată în agonie totală. Avem nevoie ca această comunitate să se unească, iar oamenii să se ajute unii pe alţii, aşa cum au mai făcut-o în trecut şi o vor face din nou", a adăugat el. Cutremurul, cu magnitudinea 6,3, s-a produs la ora locală 12.51 (2.51, ora României), la 5 kilometri de Christchurch şi la o adâncime de numai 4 kilometri, conform Institutului de geofizică american (USGS). Seismul a fost urmat de mai multe replici, cu magnitudini de până la 5,6, şi a provocat distrugeri masive. Christchurch, cu o populaţie de 340.000 de locuitori, a mai fost afectat, la 4 septembrie 2010, de un cutremur cu magnitudinea 7, care nu s-a soldat însă cu victime. http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/bulgaria-vrea-sa-ia-masuri-pentru-reducerea-taxei-de-tranzit-pe-podul-giurgiu-ruse/ bulgaria-vrea-sa-ia-masuri-pentru-reducerea-taxei-de-tranzit-pe-podul-giurgiu-ruse Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:10:01 +0200 Guvernul bulgar va include subiectul taxei de trecere a podului peste Dunăre între Giurgiu şi Ruse pe agenda sa săptămânală şi va lua măsuri pentru reducerea acesteia, a declarat, luni, un parlamentar bulgar din partidul aflat la putere GERB, citat de site-ul Nivinite.com. Cabinetul lui Boiko Borisov va include subiectul pe agenda sa săptămânală în această miercuri sau miercurea viitoarea, potrivit lui Plamen Nunev. În prezent, taxa pentru autoturisme pentru o călătorie dus-întors pe singurul pod operaţional în sectorul româno-bulgar al Dunării este de 12 euro. Locuitorii oraşului Ruse au protestat de mai multe ori faţă de existenţa acestei taxe, sperând că ea va fi anulată sau redusă substanţial. "Premierul Boiko Borisov a spus clar, când a vizitat ultima oară România, că Bulgaria va lua măsuri pentru a reduce taxa de pod peste Dunăre. Acesta a fost unul dintre primele subiecte discutate în timpul vizitei sale la Bucureşti. Bulgaria aşteaptă o poziţie din partea României, dar ministrul nostru pentru Dezvoltare Regională, Rosen Plevneliev, lucrează asupra unei analize a situaţiei şi o propunere în acest sens va fi prezentată în curând Consiliului de Miniştri, pentru a reduce taxa de pod peste Dunăre", a afirmat, luni, Nunev. Potrivit agenţiei BGNES, parlamentarul bulgar a subliniat că, dacă Guvernul adoptă decizia de reducere a taxei, mai mulţi miniştri bulgari vor merge la Ruse în următoarele săptămâni pentru a anunţa schimbarea. Pentru autoturisme, taxa de pod într-o singură direcţie este de şase euro, camioanele uşoare trebuie să plătească 12 euro, camioanele sub 12 tone, 18 euro, iar camioanele peste 12 tone, 25 de euro. În decembrie 2010, ministrul bulgar de Externe, Nikolai Mladenov, şi-a exprimat speranţa că Guvernul va reduce rapid această taxă. În septembrie 2010, în timpul unei ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/care-sunt-cele-mai-tari-accesorii-pentru-telefonul-tau/ care-sunt-cele-mai-tari-accesorii-pentru-telefonul-tau Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:10:01 +0200 Gadgeturile sunt amuzante, interesante, ne fac viaţa mai frumoasă şi, de cele mai multe ori, nu sunt doar nişte simple accesorii pentru telefoane. Tocmai de aceea, NokiaGsm.ro a întocmit un top al gadgeturilor performante şi inovatoare. 1. Display Bluetooth LiveView de la Sony Ericsson Ceea ce îl diferenţiază de restul produselor sunt designul simplu, dar şi calităţile sale aparte. Acest dispozitiv oferă posibilitatea de a vizualiza notificări, aşa cum sunt mesajele text, mesajele multimedia, apelurile sosite, evenimentele din calendar, actualizările de pe Facebook şi Twitter. Totul este foarte simplu: dispozitivul LiveView utilizează o conexiune Bluetooth cu telefonul tău, iar la fiecare notificare importantă, acesta va vibra. Află care sunt cele mai tari accesorii pentru telefon pe www.incont.ro http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/sixto-peralta-si-a-prelungit-cu-un-sezon-contractul-cu-cfr-cluj/ sixto-peralta-si-a-prelungit-cu-un-sezon-contractul-cu-cfr-cluj Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:50:01 +0200 Mijlocaşul argentinian Sixto Peralta şi-a prelungit contractul cu gruparea CFR Cluj, noua înţelegere urmând să expire la finalul sezonului viitor, informează site-ul oficial al campioanei României. "Suntem deosebit de bucuroşi că «Mumo» va lupta alături de noi şi în acest an şi cu siguranţă prezenţa sa în echipă e un motiv în plus să credem că ne putem atinge obiectivele propuse", se arată în comunicatul postat pe site-ul oficial, www.cfr1907.ro. Jucătorul în vârstă de 31 de ani evoluează pentru CFR Cluj din 2008, el reuşind să înscrie cinci goluri în cele 55 de partide disputate în Liga I. Peralta a mai evoluat de-a lungul carierei la Huracan, Racing Club, Torino, Ipswich Town, Santos Laguna, Tigres şi River Plate. De asemenea, în 2000, Peralta a fost transferat de Internazionale Milano, însă jucătorul a evoluat sub formă de împrumut pentru AC Torino (2000-2001), Ipswich Town (2001-2002) şi Racing Club (2002-2003). http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/maicon-sper-sa-fac-o-treaba-buna-la-steaua-multa-lume-isi-pune-sperante-in-mine/ maicon-sper-sa-fac-o-treaba-buna-la-steaua-multa-lume-isi-pune-sperante-in-mine Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:50:01 +0200 Atacantul brazilian Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, care a semnat un contract cu Steaua până la sfârşitul sezonului, a declarat că îşi doreşte să facă o impresie bună la formaţia "roş-albastră" pentru că multă lume şi-a pus speranţe în el, informează site-ul oficial al grupării din Bulevardul Ghencea. "Sunt foarte bucuros că am ajuns la Steaua, e un club cunoscut în toată lumea. Sper să fac o treabă bună aici, pentru că multă lume îşi pune speranţe în mine. Am auzit că suporterii sunt extraordinari, trebuie să dau totul pe teren pentru a-i mulţumi", a spus Maicon. Atacantul brazilian va evolua cu numărul 99 la Steaua. Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, 22 de ani, a semnat un contract valabil pe patru luni cu Steaua, cu drept de prelungire din partea grupării "roş-albastre". http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/seful-vamilor-din-r-moldova-daca-partea-romana-ne-comunica-informatii-despre-implicarea-vamesilor-moldoveni-in-contrabanda-acestea-vor-fi-examinate/ seful-vamilor-din-r-moldova-daca-partea-romana-ne-comunica-informatii-despre-implicarea-vamesilor-moldoveni-in-contrabanda-acestea-vor-fi-examinate Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:00:02 +0200 Autorităţile din Republica Moldova au rămas indiferente faţă de arestările care au avut loc la vama Albiţa, în timp ce jurnaliştii s-au întrebat retoric cum a fost posibil ca mărfurile considerate de contrabandă în România să iasă legal din Moldova sau neobservate de vameşii moldoveni. Este cât se poate de limpede că nu pot exista cazuri de contrabandă cu ţigări la vama Albiţa, fără ca acestea să fi trecut ilegal mai întâi prin vama moldovenească Leuşeni, relatează site-ul Deutsche Welle. Cu toate acestea, după descinderea de luni a mascaţilor la Albiţa, vameşilor moldoveni nu li s-a întâmplat absolut nimic. Reprezentanţii Centrului Anticorupţie şi ai Serviciului Vamal din Republica Moldova susţin că nu au probe pentru a demara o anchetă. "Atâta timp cât nu avem certitudinea că angajaţii vamali din Republica Moldova ar fi implicaţi în anumite situaţii, nu putem să ne dăm cu părerea sau să planificăm anumite acţiuni", a spus purtătorul de cuvânt al Centrului Anticorupţie, Angela Starinschi. Directorul Serviciului Vamal din Republica Moldova, Tudor Baliţchi, a susţinut că dacă autorităţile române vor comunica Chişinăului anumite informaţii despre implicarea vameşilor moldoveni în cazuri de contrabandă, aceste informaţii vor fi examinate inclusiv sub aspect penal. "Voi lua legătura cu colegii mei din România, pentru a vedea dacă au informaţii şi despre lucrătorii noştri din acel post vamal. În cazul în care partea română are suficientă informaţie despre activitatea colegilor mei din Serviciul Vamal, sigur că această informaţie va fi prelucrată şi transmisă organelor de drept care au ca scop combaterea corupţiei", a declarat Tudor Baliţchi. Potrivit Deutsche Welle, în conformitate cu algoritmul de repartizare a funcţiilor în cadrul alianţei de guvernare de la Chişinău, funcţia de şef al vămilor i-a revenit Partidului Liberal Democrat, ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/vezi-aici-clipul-cu-natalie-portman-pentru-dior-regizat-de-sofia-coppola-video/ vezi-aici-clipul-cu-natalie-portman-pentru-dior-regizat-de-sofia-coppola-video Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:30:01 +0200 Actriţa americană Natalie Portman este protagonista noului clip promoţional din campania de promovare a parfumului Miss Dior Chérie, regizat de Sofia Coppola, informează allocine.fr. Natalie Portman pare să fie prezentă peste tot în această perioadă: pe afişele a două filme ce rulează în aceste zile pe marile ecrane - "Lebăda neagră/ Black Swan" şi "Fără obligaţii/ No Strings Attached" -, la apropiata ceremonie de decernare a premiilor Oscar la Kodak Theatre din Los Angeles, dar şi în clipul promoţional pentru campania de promovare a parfumului Miss Dior Chérie. Turnat la Paris, în regia Sofiei Coppola, clipul a fost lansat la o lună de la lansarea afişului promoţional al acestei campanii, în care actriţa americană a pozat topless. Acompaniate de acordurile piesei "Je t'aime, moi non plus" de Serge Gainsbourg, imaginile acestui clip se încadrează în stilul obişnuit al regizoarei americane, caracterizat prin blândeţe, candoare şi senzualitate. Clipul Sofiei Coppola contrastează puternic cu spotul regizat de Roman Polanski pentru campania de promovare a parfumului "Greed" de Francesco Vezzoli, în care aceeaşi Natalie Portman se luptă cu Michelle Williams pentru un flacon cu parfum. Natalie Portman, care are mari şanse să câştige la sfârşitul acestei săptămâni premiul Oscar pentru rolul din drama "Black Swan", a fost desemnată noua imagine a parfumului Miss Dior Cherie, pe 9 decembrie anul trecut. Potrivit unor informaţii apărute la mijlocul lunii decembrie în presa internaţională, actriţa americană, celebră şi pentru faptul că este vegetariană, a acceptat să devină noua ambasadoare a brandului Dior, după ce renumita casă franceză i-ar fi oferit câteva perechi din modelele sale preferate de pantofi, realizate din materiale sintetice şi nu din piele naturală. Actriţa în vârstă de 29 de ani a anunţat la sfârşitul lunii decembrie că ... http://www.promovaregoogle.ro/kanye-west-acuzat-ca-a-plagiat-filmul-enter-the-void-vezi-asemanarile-video/ kanye-west-acuzat-ca-a-plagiat-filmul-enter-the-void-vezi-asemanarile-video Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:40:02 +0200 Rapperul american Kanye West a fost acuzat că a plagiat filmul franţuzesc "Soudain le vide/ Enter The Void", de Gaspar Noe, din care s-ar fi inspirat pentru a realiza videoclipul celui mai recent single al său, intitulat "All Of The Lights", informează contactmusic.com. Videoclipul, lansat weekendul trecut, o prezintă pe Rihanna, cu care Kanye West a colaborat la această piesă, pozând în ipostaze provocatoare, în timp ce rapperul cântă urcat pe capota unei maşini de poliţie. Starul american a fost însă acuzat de fanii săi că videoclipul piesei "All Of The Lights", regizat de Hype Williams, a copiat temele centrale din filmul "Enter The Void" (2009) al lui Gaspar Noe. "Fie este vorba de un omagiu adus, în mod intenţionat, acestui film, fie... ei bine, poate că nimeni nu a crezut că fanii lui Kayne West ar putea cunoaşte câte ceva despre relativ obscurele melodrame franţuzeşti. Greu de spus", se afirmă într-un articol publicat pe blogul TheStir de criticul Linda Sharps. "De acum înainte va avea reputaţia de a fi leneş şi viclean. E păcat pentru un regizor cunoscut pentru stilul său unic", a comentat un fan al cântăreţului pe site-ul PopDash.com. Filmul "Enter The Void" prezintă povestea unui tânăr care moare şi a spiritului său care vizitează locurile pe care le-a cunoscut şi încearcă să o ocrotească pe sora sa. Cu o tehnică impresionantă, "Enter the Void" redă starea de lipsă de corporalitate, dar şi dependenţa de droguri a personajelor, toate într-un Tokyo psihedelic. Pelicula a rulat în competiţia oficială la Cannes în 2009. Rapperul şi producătorul american Kanye West, în vârstă de 33 de ani, a devenit cunoscut la începutul anului 2000. Cel de-al treilea album al său, "Graduation", ...