Microsoft buy the maker of screens Perceptive Pixel

 

TORONTO (Reuters) - Microsoft will acquire Perceptive Pixel, a company that develops large touch screens and whose clients include the cable television channel CNN said Monday its chief executive, Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft also said it plans to launch the latest version of its flagship operating system Windows in October, launch Ballmer painted as the most important for the company based in Redmond (Washington) since the release of Windows 95 nearly two decades.
"This is a year epic" Ballmer said more than 16,000 business partners at a conference in Toronto. "It is a year of unprecedented opportunities," remarked the executive.
The next 12 months are critical to the software giant, which has prepared a multi-pronged attack against the dominance of Apple and Google in the crucial segment of mobile computing.
The company is making several bets important in this period: its new operating system Windows 8, aiming for launch in late October, the first tablet "Surface", a new version of Office, and a new and improved software for telephony.
"The main products not only enter into a new wave, but for years to know if Microsoft's bid for Windows 8, which links to the tablets and PCs will be a success or a failure for the company," said IDC analyst Al Hilwa.
Microsoft said that Windows 8 will send its hardware partners in the first week of August, and will be available more widely to late October.
"This will be the biggest year in the launch of products and services in the history of our company, creating huge opportunities for our partners grow their business," Ballmer said in a statement released simultaneously in annual Worldwide Partner Conference.
Microsoft, which recently agreed to buy the online social network Yammer by 1,200 million dollars in cash (about 975 million euros), did not disclose the value of what you plan to pay for the acquisition of Perceptive Pixel.
Perceptive Pixel was founded in 2006 and launched its first workstations and large wall screens in 2007, according to its website, where presumed to "transform the way CNN covered the historic U.S. presidential election of 2008 ".

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55% of users feel "uncomfortable" if you can not access Facebook

 

A new study says that 55 percent of users feel "uncomfortably or upset" if you can not access their Facebook profile during the day, and more than 60 percent of users surveyed feel compelled to shut down the computer and other mobile devices to have a break.
Social networks have managed to occupy much of the time users spend online. In addition, because mobile devices connection times increase as users can access social networks anytime, anywhere. However, too much time users spend on Facebook or Twitter can bring a number of problems.
A new study by the School of Business at the University of Salford in Manchester (UK)-picked up by the British newspaper The Telegraph, says that 53 percent of respondents who use social networks have changed their behavior and 50 percent believe that change for the worse.
Generally, those who suffered a negative impact of social media say their confidence fell after comparing their achievements with their friends online.
Two thirds of users surveyed say they have found it difficult to sleep after spending time on these sites and a quarter said it has had difficulties in their relationships or their place of work after having had discussions online through social networks.
The study also reveals the addictive power of the Internet, and that 55 percent of users say they feel "uncomfortable or upset" when they can access their Facebook profiles or your email account.
More than 60 percent of people said they felt compelled to put their devices in order to have a break and a third of respondents said even those devices on and off several times a day.
To perform the study, researchers at the University of Salford has made 298 surveys of Internet users.
Related links:
- The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/9383609/Facebook-and-Twitter-feed-anxiety-study-finds.html).

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Amazon claim to an employee for stealing 729 HP iPod and 49

 

An Amazon employee has been accused of stealing 729 HP iPod and 49 stores of the company. The alleged thief falsified records unloaded trucks to keep the material. In total it is estimated that the iPod and add stolen equipment worth $ 160,000 (130,367 euros).
Amazon is a company that popularized online commerce due to its effectiveness, its large catalog and commitment to customers. The Internet retailer has earned recognition from users, for which it has had to develop a complex and effective system of shipments and inventory of materials. Despite their best practices, failures sometimes occur outside the organization.
The last problem with Amazon's warehouse system has been due to an employee who allegedly stole a large quantity of products. Specifically, the employee had developed a system of falsifying shipping documents which would have been appropriate of 729 HP iPod and 49, reports the Lexington Patch Portal.
The employee in question has been identified as Todd Anthony Cofield and faces charges of grand theft in America. The incident occurred in the store in Cayce South Carolina, where Cofield would have proceeded to steal all the equipment in less than a month.
Authorities continue to investigate the system used to get to steal a huge amount of equipment. At the moment it is not known whether he had accomplices and how it took the HP iPods and computers. What does seem clear is that for theft notifications are distorted trucks unloading in the company. The alleged robber signed documents that stated that I downloaded did not subsequently stored materials.
The total materials stolen amounted to $ 160,000 (130,367 euros), Anthony Cofield that Todd will face charges of grand theft.

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Jolla resumes where it left Meego Nokia

The operating system Meego continues its development through Jolla, a company founded by former employees of Nokia who worked on the N9. This new company, also based in Finland, could launch its first devices this year.

Nokia and Intel announced MeeGo at Mobile World Congress 2010, with the intention of creating a Linux-based operating system that worked in 'tablets', laptops and smartphones. The goal was to compete with Android. However, a year after Finland decided to abandon the project and focus on Windows Phone as a platform for their devices.

As a result, the N9 and N950 has been stalled without updates and with a low range of applications available on the team who worked Meegan.

However, despite the setbacks, Meego is not dead. Engineers who worked in the operating system have founded Jolla. As stated by the executive director of La Jolla, Jussi Hurmola: "Nokia created something wonderful, the best product for smartphones market, and we believe it deserves continued." They also claim the expertise of engineers better able to Meegan and Linux for this project.

The brand has announced the creation of its own line of smartphones that will bring the base of Meegan, but have a new interface. They promise a range of high quality smartphones follow in the footsteps of the N9 and expect the faithful support of this operating system developers.

According to the company said on Twitter: "La Jolla-based smartphones will have a bright new future." Reach the market later this year.

In front of Jussi stands Hurmola Jolla, ultimate responsibility of Meegan. Still have offered more evidence on the characteristics of the new smartphones or on its market price.

Nokia is another setback after only a few days ago, the developer Sotiris Makrygiannis Meego chief, announced his resignation along with a group of designers and engineers to undertake new projects independently. Finland has so far avoided comment on the development of La Jolla.

Related links:

- Press Jolla at Nokia Conversations (http://nokiainnovation.com/2012/07/first-official-jolla-press-release/).

- Twitter Account Jolla (https://twitter.com/JollaMobile).

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SeedRocket Launches 'Summer Internship Program' for university students to work in Internet companies

 

SeedRocket has released the second edition of 'Summer Internship Program' to work on major Internet companies, an initiative that provides entrepreneurial training, counseling and funding, three key elements in the early stages of business development, as reported by the entity.
The objective of this initiative is to promote the employment of "young talents" that have 50 vacancies to start your career in the ICT sector companies, a sector composed of experts and entrepreneurs, who create their business online and increase their project incorporating students who want to start your career.
Thus, the program is aimed at university students of Engineering Computer, Digital Marketing, Web Design, Communication, or ADE, which offered a paid internship program to work in Barcelona or Madrid in companies of ICT sector as Idealist , The Cocktail, Coches.com, JolieBox Spain, Offerum, Cyberclick, IMASTE, Pricebets or Deporvillage, among others.
Since last year received over 200 applications from qualified profiles in Europe, with which covered more than 80 percent of the vacancies available. Thus, more than half of students who began work in practice last year, continues to work today in the company.

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Twitter incorporates auto

 

Twitter has added new features on its website that will improve the user experience and to make Twitter the easiest way to find out what's happening in real time. These include the auto-complete in the Web version of the microblog network.

Many Internet search services, such as Google, and incorporate features that make it easier to search usuariosla content on the Web For Google, the company's Mountain Instant View gives Google, which allows auto-searches before the user has finished writing the content to be searched. Twitter now also includes its own auto-complete for microblog network.

With the new autocomplete feature, users just have to start writing a 'hashtag' or the name of a Twitter user and network microblog in a drop down menu will offer all the options available before the user finished typing . After entering the search, the user will find the 'tweets' most relevant articles, images and videos available.
But users have also made other improvements to enhance search experience. On the one hand, Twitter has introduced spelling corrections, so that if the user misspells a word, Twitter automatically shows possible alternatives. On the other hand, the computer network has also introduced microblog suggestions related, ie if the user searches for a topic for which people use various terms, Twitter offers suggestions for terms that occur in most the conversation.
Other new features of Twitter to search for a username and the user will see not only the Twitter account of that person but also the results mentioning the actual name of that user.
"These changes make it easier to search on twitter.com," says the company's official blog. In addition, the Twitter team ensures that the suggestions, auto-complete and the corrections are also available in versions of IOS and Twitter for Android.
Related links:
- Blog Twitter (http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/simpler-search.html).

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BlackBerry App World reaches 3,000 million downloads

 

For a change, some good news on the platform smartphones from Research In Motion, whose future is in question so much lately. Canadian firm announces proudly that his catalog of applications App World has exceeded 3,000 million cumulative downloads since its launch in 2009. There are currently over 90,000 apps for sale on BlackBerry’s App World service.

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Main steps to keep your Internet connection by DNS Changer

This Monday is definitely intended disconnect the servers controlled by the FBI in the operation of DNS Changer control virus, bringing hundreds of thousands of computers infected by the virus could no longer have access to the Internet.

For this reason, IT security firm Sophos Data Protection and explained the main steps to keep the connection.

DNS Changer has the ability to change the DNS settings (which translates Internet addresses into a language understood by the servers and, therefore, absolutely necessary to make a connection to the Internet) by an illegitimate with which you can redirect to other sites undesirable.

In November 2011, the FBI took control of the false DNS servers were being used by cybercriminals. These servers reoriented computers infected with malware DNS Changer to a variety of scams designed to get money.

The FBI took immediate steps to DNS servers harmless, but remained online and means that 350,000 computers are being used to connect to the Internet. On Monday, July 9, the servers shut down permanently, which means that computers that still use false DNS servers will no longer be able to connect to the Internet.

In this regard, Paul Teijeira, Sales Manager Iberia Sophos, said: "The easiest way to check if a computer is contaminated is to use an updated antivirus to, if infected, proceed to remove the Trojan. After that, We recommend checking the computer's DNS, as though a computer is not infected is possible that the DNS itself has been corrupted. You do this manually verified that is not on the list published by the FBI, and if so, change it which provide the ISP for each user. Finally, when using router, you must also make a check of it. "

Tejeira explains these steps, point by point, on his blog. For example, an entry explains what the corrupt DNS, as published by the FBI, and how to check them.

In addition, Sophos has created a video to explain the history and impact of malware DNS Changer, why so many people are at risk of losing the connection, and how users can check the settings to make sure will not be affected.

Related links:

- Security Blog Paul Tejeira

- Video of Sophos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl7d6cDFDHo).

- Disabling the DNS Changer Trojan can leave computers without Internet

- Infected machines will be connected to Monday

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