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Amazon IPad Multimedia Application

By on March 23, 2010

The latest news is that Amazon has announced the iPad multimedia application. It has been completely redesigned to provide large screen tablets computers. The player can customize the playback page by changing  the font, background color and many more.  Its home page has been revised. Now the  books will be published under the  logo of  Kindle. Few adjust  has  also been made for the brightness of the screen.

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Amazon basic strategy is selling ebooks on any plateform.  It  has developed  iPad applications to ensure  success. According to survery Barnes  & Noble also developing an application for the Apple tablet and Amazon will wait for the device in order to test the program in real situations. Here users will have an access to the catalog distributor where they  can acquire books directly. Regarding access to the digital library from Amazon it will go through Safari, the Seattle firm exonerated and the percentage typically taken (30%) by Apple on each sale.

It is still not clear the  application is also available in European market but since the versio kindle for iPhone is available , it should be the same.  If the eBookstore will not compete  the iPad, from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.   Apple looks forward to allow access to its products.

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Hear What You Write

By on March 22, 2010

An interesting information which i want share with you now you can hear what you write. For doing this first of all install the plugin and add its icon in the status bar of your browser i.e Mozilla Firefox. When you click the icon, the text which you want to here is sent to the service of vozMe. Then media player will play the text.

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The sound quality is very nice  and you can here selected text in English or any other language supported by vozMe. It is very interesting plugin, it would be even better if the service vozMe was integrated within the same tab where you select text.

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5.4% mobile users browse Internet

By on March 20, 2010

Percentage of mobile internet users are growing steadily. Although worldwide internet  users of mobile,  the number of daily mobile  users who browse internet is still small, the trend is toward Mobile Online. The Survey was conducted for mobile internet trends by Media Magazine HORIZON  in February 2010.

5.4 percent of  daily broadband  mobile users go to Internet sites from their mobile.Survery  shows in 2008, it was at 3.4 percent . Even then 6.6 percent use their cell phone for emails. Even the cell phone as a media player replacement gaining popularity. MP3 listen to 20.3 percent at least once a week. The most popular application, however, remains the SMS and MMS costs. 30.7 percent of mobile phone users to write short messages every day.

Among the promising applications is to guide the mobile front. To navigation services and location-based services is the greatest interest. Potential users can be seen especially in services, which provide added value, such as Mobile Banking or the possibility of Facebook and to use other mobile social networks. Persuasion is, however, nor provide for the mobile use of newspapers or books. Although publishers launch apps to their print titles, remains of interest.

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10 Most Expensive Games Ever

By on March 15, 2010

The list for perect games goes on but there are only few we can count as best games like wise are most expensive games. According to Digital Battle list of 10 most expensive games ever. Grand Theft Auto IV works well at top position with 100 million U.S. dollars and based on its size and what succeeds, the merit and the above. Second polykathysterimeno the Gran Turismo 5 in production costs 80 million U.S. dollars and the memorable third Shenmue, the production cost 70 million U.S. dollars. Details the list below.

Here is the list

1. Grand Theft Auto IV – $ 100
2. Gran Turismo 5 – $ 80 million
3. Shenmue – $ 70 million
4. Too Human – $ 60 million +
5. Metal Gear Solid 4 – $ 60 million
6. Halo 3 – $ 55 million
7. APB – $ 50 million
8. L.A. Noire – $ 50 million
9. Final Fantasy XII – $ 48 million
10. Killzone 2 – $ 45 million

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YouTube gets subtitles

By on March 6, 2010

YouTube mkaes it more easy  to with subtitles (speech to text)   in videos. The feature is still in trial phase and only works on videos in English, but subtitles are available in various languages. so while you are watching video from different language  there is potential for subtitles, there is an extra menu in the bottom right corner where you can turn it on and off and select the language to be translated into.

The system is not perfect, since there may be errors in speech recognition, and additional errors if one chooses to translate into another language. However, it is possible to suggest corrections to the generated text. Another option is to use a feature they call “Automatic Timing”. To use this feature, you must upload the video with a text file with everything that is said in the video, YouTube will automatically attempt to find out when it is stated in the file that is said.

Beyond that could provide subtitles for those who have difficulty in English, so it is expected that especially the deaf will enjoy the feature.

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Apple & Google tops World’s 50 Most Admired Companies list

By on March 5, 2010

When it comes to list the top notch companies Fortune magazine is the most reliable to name them and according to their recent survey  Apple leads all for the third consecutive year. For the 50 most admired companies overall, FORTUNE’s survey asked business people through a poll involving 4,200 business leaders and analysts.

Besides this was Apple also ranked as the most innovative company, and Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, was named the best CEO in the list.

Having the best locations were also among other technology companies Amazon.com, Microsoft and IBM

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Here is the list

Rank Company
1 Apple
2 Google
3 Berkshire Hathaway
4 Johnson & Johnson
5 Amazon.com
6 Procter & Gamble
7 Toyota Motor
8 Goldman Sachs Group
9 Wal-Mart Stores
10 Coca-Cola
11 Microsoft
12 Southwest Airlines
13 FedEx
14 McDonald’s
15 IBM
16 General Electric
17 3M
18 J.P. Morgan Chase
19 Walt Disney
20 Cisco Systems
21 Costco Wholesale
22* BMW
22* Target
24 Nike
25 PepsiCo
26 Starbucks
27 Singapore Airlines
28 Exxon Mobil
29 American Express
30 Nordstrom
31 Intel
32 Hewlett-Packard
33 UPS
34 Nestlé
35 Caterpillar
36 Honda Motor
37 Best Buy
38 Sony
39 Wells Fargo
40 eBay
41 Nokia
42 Samsung Electronics
43 Deere
44 L’Oréal
45 AT&T
46 Lowe’s
47 General Mills
48 Marriott International
49 DuPont
50 Volkswagen

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Sony displays 11 Gbps wireless system

By on February 8, 2010

Gone are the days of  high speed  internet its 2010 you can have much more that that. Sony has just announced a new wireless communications system that can reach transfer speeds of up to 11 Gbps, a technology that is used for internal communications in electronic devices.

The high speed achieved by using a frequency range between 30 GHz to 300 GHz. The disadvantage of such high frequencies, the transmission distance, measured in millimeters.

Sony says that the maximum distance is 14 millimeters, but it is enough for the purpose of the system to communicate at high speed in an electronic product that requires a large internal bandwidth.

It takes up less space to do a radio based communication system than making a similar line systems.

By replacing physical circuitry in electronics products with high speed wireless connections, this new data transfer technology reduces the number of wired connections and IC Minimizes use, two simplify the IC package and printed circuit board.Sony press release

The technology presented in these days of ISSC 2010 (International Solid-State Circuits Conference), held in San Francisco.

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Microsoft sales figures high

By on January 29, 2010

microsoft windows sales is going hight with Windows 7 butthere is much more than those figures. According to Microsoft  latest quarterly sales figures, there is a  sharp increase in profits compared to same quarter last year. The surplus was at 6.7 billion U.S. dollars, or 35.6 billion dollars, an increase of no less than 60%, mainly due to the launch of Windows 7

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Turnover for the period stood at 17.3 billion U.S. dollars, or 92 billion kronor, an increase of 4%. The nice result has not had much impact on stock prices, since it is in line with what analysts expected.

So far, Microsoft has sold no less than 70 million copies of Windows 7, making it the fastest-selling operating system ever.

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YouTube testing HTML5 player

By on January 22, 2010

A week ago we could tellThat YouTube in the near future will make some changes in their service, and that in this context have asked users to what they wanted improvements. The absolute high jumper the list of the hundreds of suggestions for improvement was the implementation of HTML5 support for displaying video. The proposal has many who have not believed it would be something, but now YouTube can introduce an experimental HTML5 video player.

The advantage of using HTML5 is that it has been an HTML5-compliant browser, so there is no need to download a plugin to view a given video.

Since there is still a very early version of the new player, there are a number of limitations. First and foremost, the browser, in addition to support HTML5, also support h.264 encoded videos. P.t. only Chrome and Safari, making it, or Internet Explorer with ChromeFrame.

Google will continue to improve the player in the coming months and look forward to helping to promote the HTML5 standard.

You use one of these browsers, you can try the new player here.

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ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards predicts high sales

By on December 28, 2009

Consumer Market motherboard giants Asus and Gigabyte has shown their of 2010 sales forecasts, Asus and gigabyte sales  figures look much brighter than in 2009. Both ASUS and Gigabyte Technology expect a sales increase of 10% as seen from year to year and China is said to be the hottest market in the next year.

ASUS expects to ship 20 million motherboards in 2009, while Gigabyte Technology will manage to get away a total of 14-15 million cards before the New Year. Next year is expected to be even better and we look forward to seeing both new motherboard and processor platforms.

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Chrome crawls Safari

By on December 21, 2009

There is not much tension on the top spots on the browser top 5. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still at top in the lead. At  Number two on the list in November / December is also, as usual, Mozilla Firefox from the company, but down in third place its Google Chrome.
According to the latest measurements from the company NetApplications monthly for measuring the different browsers use shares, Google’s Chrome browser has sur passed  Apple Safari. It is admittedly not much separating the two newer browsers, but third place is Chrome now 4.4 percent, while Safari is pushed down to fourth place with 4.37 percent of all Internet users.
It is CNET.COM who is out with new figures, and although the percentages are small for the bottom of top 5-list, so the number of users is very high.

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Dell brings more revenue through twitter, Surpasses $2 Million

By on June 15, 2009

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Last December Dell make it headline when its showed its twitter based  sales According to Dell it has been able to to achieve 3 million dollars in  sales through twitter. Dell analyzed its sales data which leads to poeple who responded to  its Twitter posts ( Remember that online  twitters account has more than 630,000 followers). Dell’s online sales through twitter is   a perfect example for corporate marketing and sales departments

Dell started its tweeting activity in June of 2007 however this time it has seen a drop of $12.3 billion. Currently, Twitter is not charging companies for using its service to promote and make sales, but something like that could indeed be underway as the social network is reportedly soliciting feedback from Dell while testing out some new features together. Twitter is also said to be looking into real-time search advertising to make a profit.


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