Chrome Store recommended content information through Google +

 

Google has announced a new option in Chrome Store to find applications, extensions or content recommended by Google contacts +. Users can access a section in which the contents appear in your Google Contacts + have +1, thus allowing to know the tastes of people nearby.

Since Google has explained that it is very common among applications or contacts ask interesting extensions. It is a widespread practice, which may allow to find compelling content easily. Two people who have contact usually have similar tastes, so this way of finding new content can be highly effective.

Google engineers have thought of a way to facilitate the connection between users, using Google + for it. The company had anticipated I wanted to enter the information from Google + to improve the rest of their services and offer more personalized information. Chrome Store is a service of the company receive the personalized information.

Through the Chrome blog, Google has stated that a new section in the store Chrome Store will allow users to see the recommended or highlighted by their circles of Google +. If a contact button gives' +1' Google + content and contact can be viewed in this section. This is an indirect way for users to share content of interest, in this case Chrome Store.

Besides this option, Google has also created a section in which the levels recommended system will be similar, but this time will applications or extensions that have been of interest to outstanding individuals from the social network.

The aim is to facilitate the discovery of interesting tools for users, so you have more options besides the usual ranking of the most downloaded content.

Related links:

- Blog of Chrome (http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/07/find-perfect-app-with-little-help-from.html)

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Bill Gates make eReaders rejected because "it looked like Windows"

The president of Microsoft, Bill Gates, first saw a prototype electronic book in 1998. However, the second richest man in the world, dismissed the idea that Microsoft will develop and market them as "not at all like Windows" and because he believed a touchscreen device would never be able to compete with physical keyboards .

Considering that Bill Gates is number two according to the Forbes list of richest men in the world, Microsoft has not come into the market for eReaders is not affecting him too much in your bank account, although it is an industry that moves billions of dollars worldwide. However, it was one of the first he had in his hands the possibility to check what it was an electronic book, but did not quite convince.

In 1998 a group of engineers Gates showed a prototype of eReader, but Bill Gates rejected the idea because "it looked nothing like Windows," according to an article in Vanity Fair picked up by the British newspaper The Telegraph. Gates also said that it was a device "unimportant" because he thought the touchscreen devices would never be able to compete with physical keyboards.

Gates told his engineers to forget about this project and should focus on other more important, as they rejected other ideas as to develop a system of microblogging like Twitter, says the paper.

Years later, in 2007, the first eReader, Amazon launched included a physical keyboard, so Gates was not misguided in their thinking. However, Microsoft also has yielded to the touch screens, yes, not for electronic books but for 'tablets', launching her own range of 'tablets' called Surface.

Related links:

- The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/9374751/Bill-Gates-ereaders-wont-catch-on.html).

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NEC LaVie Z, powerful and ultra-portable 13.3-inch laptop

The people of NEC has just introduced its latest laptop model, a 13.3-inch ultrabook known as NEC LaVie Z. The new laptop has an Intel Core i5/i7 third generation under its shell, weighs only 875 grams and its thickness is 14.9 mm.

NEC says the team comes with Quick Power On, which allows you to start ultrabook in only 2 seconds when in sleep mode.
The full specifications of the NEC LaVie Z include, besides those already mentioned, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 256GB solid disk, 13.3-inch LED-backlit 1600 × 900 resolution. The machine also provides us with Bluetooth, WiFi, HD webcam and a battery of just over 8 hours.

The operating system is Windows 7 LaVie Z and the team will go on sale in Japan on August 23 for about $ 1,700 dollars. In my opinion, they overdid it with the price.

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Samsung takes Windows Azure for its Smart TV

The company Samsung Windows Azure take to manage its infrastructure of Smart TV. Windows Azure will give Samsung the ability to help secure the server and storage resources you need, giving Samsung the time to focus on delivering software and high quality services to its customers. With this agreement, South Korea has been reduced to ten times their costs by choosing to manage their cloud infrastructure.

Samsung Smart TV offers its services in 120 countries around the world. Has assured the company, Samsung needed a solution that could support the service and its continued increase in traffic. Samsung would not depend on specific providers so chose Microsoft as Windows Azure for service infrastructure "offered the responsibility required to meet their mission critical and expansion of scheduled service," he assured the company.

"After extensive testing, Windows Azure is the only offering in the cloud that meets our exact conditions", stated a representative of the Visual Display Division of Samsung.

Compared to the cost of expanding its internal IT services, Samsung has achieved with this agreement a reduction of up to ten times their cost, choosing to manage their cloud infrastructure. Samsung, the statement, attributed this success to the scalability of their IT infrastructure, including Windows Azure, which offers a progressive and fast.

"Smart TV leverages the unique capabilities of Windows Azure," he assured the corporate vice president of Windows Azure at Microsoft, Bob Kelly. "Windows Azure gives Samsung the ability to focus on your business instead of having his crew trying to problem-solving issues."

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Microsoft recorded an expense of 6,200 million

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft acknowledged Tuesday that its largest acquisition in the Internet sector is almost devoid of value and erased any benefits from the last quarter as the company announced an expenditure of 6,200 million dollars (about 4.922 million euros) to amortize the value of an online advertising agency that bought five years ago.

The announcement was an unexpected but not really surprised investors who had largely forgotten the purchase of aQuantive in 2007. At first, it was expected that the deal would strengthen the online advertising revenue of the company and counteract the purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick by rival Google.

Microsoft shares fell slightly to $ 30.28 in trading after the close, after closing at $ 30.56 on Nasdaq's current operations.

The largest software company in the world said in a statement that "the acquisition did not accelerate the growth of expectations, contributing to the depreciation."

Microsoft bought aQuantive for 6,300 million dollars in cash, in an attempt to catch its rival Google in the race for graphical advertising revenue related to the searches. At the time was the largest acquisition by Microsoft, and has been surpassed only by the purchase last year of Skype by 8,500 million dollars. However, he was never a success and the senior management of a Microsoft Quantive soon stopped.

Following its annual assessment of goodwill - the amount paid by a company in excess of its net assets, Microsoft said Monday it would take a noncash expense of 6,300 million, indicating that the acquisition of aQuantive and has no value.

Spending is likely to erase any benefit from the company in the fourth quarter of fiscal year. Wall Street had expected Microsoft to submit quarterly net income of about 5,250 million dollars, or 62 cents a share, on July 19.

In addition to depreciation, Microsoft said its expectations for future growth and profitability of its online services unit, which includes Bing and MSN web portal, are "lower than previous estimates."

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Nexus 10 could be in development

Not yet a week after the official launch of Google Nexus 7 and already there are rumors on the web about a new version of the tablet but larger. For some, it seems a logical step, and if so, Google would be doing the same as Samsung did, premiering first a 7-inch tablet and later one of 10 inches (Tab 10.1). Can this strategy be applied to the Nexus family of Google?

We do not see why not, and indeed seems to have already been applied, because the company reportedly has ordered 10-inch touch panels to Wintek, and no doubt the same will be designed to be incorporated in tablets. About what we know is if Asus will also work on this project. We assume that the latter depends mainly on the success you achieve the new Nexus 7, which certainly can be seen in the picture above.

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Apple pays $ 60 million to use the name iPhone in China

Proview Technology claims to have the right to the name in the country.
Since 2009, the company sold computer that was called IPAD.

Apple agreed to pay $ 60 million to end a dispute and have the right to use the name iPhone in China, announced a Chinese court, which closes a legal conflict of several years of American business in one of its major markets.

The company Proview Technology, which by 2009 had sold a computer with the name "IPAD", denounced the Apple in various Chinese courts on the grounds that it had rights to use the brand in China and tried to ban the sale of the iPhone in the country.

After an agreement reached on June 25 between the two companies, Apple paid $ 60 million and last week asked the court of the city of Shenzhen (southern China) to apply the decision.

On Monday (07/02/2012), the court sent the Shenzhen branch of Chinese industry and commerce the decision to transfer the mark to Apple iPad, which means that the Proview Technology will no longer have the right to use the name.

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Pendulum Studios commitment to 'crowdfunding' for your next game

The Spanish study Pendulum Studios is already working on a new game, after the recent success of New York Yesterday and Computer Crimes IOS. It will be a title that goes "one step beyond" in terms of narrative and bet on the 'crowdfunding' to finance.

Yesterday he served Pendulum to win four awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences in Gamelab last week. This is a pretty groundbreaking title for the study, taking into account that neglects the mood to tackle a more mature plot and full of tension.

In this regard, Javier Garcia Appointment, Pendulum Studios programmer for seven years, has advanced to the next set of study "aims to go one step further developments in this narrative." In addition to this change in the game, there will be news about how to finance the project.

Pendulum Studios wants his next game is bigger and it will rely on collective financing. "What we can say for now is to be called Day One and we are going to embark on a crowdfunding to pull it off," said Garcia Portaltic. The developer has said that Pendulum are "excited and acojonados equally" with the project, but have "very excited because it succeed."

The study has not given more information on the project, apart from this issue more mature and the financing system that has given such good results to other developers. In this sense, they invite those interested in participating in the financing http://uk.lab.gamesplanet.com/ visit.

Garcia concluded that thanks to 'crowdfunding' can make a game with his players "as key partners." "The reason we have set the crowdfunding is that in the usual way we would not be able to get the money needed to make the game we want to do," he explained.

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