Amazon does not prevent the clash with Google and released "four five tablets soon" as a manager

No, Amazon does not amedranta with the launch of Google Nexus 7, which seeks niche now occupied by his tablet Amazon Kindle Fire. That is, if Google wants war, then war will be. This seems to think at the offices of the company with the largest online store.
And what is the response that prepares Amazon ? Well, as an officer of the company, what will happen is that in not much time "arrived between four and five tablets of Amazon to market" . There is nothing. Would you like soup? For two cups. So they spend Amazon, notice to mariners.
As is also reflected in MovilZona , it has been known also that the different ranges to be launched will be segmented with the tablet's screen size, which all indications are that there will be models 7, 8, 9.7 and 10.1 inches . Therefore, it "attacks" to all market segments and, thus, Amazon is positioned as one of the companies with the largest mobility. And, remember, which has its own application store and the operating system used is Android (tweaked by their developers, I must say, have been confirmed to have a new design and development headquarters in London, suggesting that the landing of the tablets from Amazon in Europe is imminent).

If this arrival is accompanied by prices as those offered by Amazon so far, that is tight and competitive , we have a serious rival to all existing companies, including Samsung and Apple.
What has not been able to confirm the arrival of the rumored phone from Amazon , which will almost certainly appear. But for now, nothing is confirmed. Anyway, this company is increasingly well positioned and, sure, that in less than a year lies between the four most important as far as mobility is concerned. Money has, and what you see, the attitude lacks.

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Explore with Chrome and the Tate Modern in London "This exquisite woods"

In collaboration with the museum Tate Modern in London, launched an online art experiment called " This Exquisite Forest "(" This exquisite forest "), which allows them to collaborate with others to create animations and stories using drawing tools based on technologies web. Seven renowned artists in the collection of the Tate, including Bill Woodrow , Dryden Goodwin , Julian Opie , Mark Titchner , Miroslaw Balka , Olafur Eliasson and Raqib Shaw , have created a first animation or "seed" to start an exquisite forest . From these seeds , you can add new animations to extend the story or to make branch into a new direction. They could even start your own tree of stories with friends. The more sequences are added, the animations will grow in the form of trees , creating a potentially infinite number of outcomes for each animation.

Besides the website, an interactive installation will open on July 23 in the gallery Tate Modern Level 3. The trees initiated by the artists of the Tate, as well as the contributions of all form part of the exposure through large-scale projections. Visitors to the gallery can also contribute using digital drawing stations.
  "(" This exquisite forest "), which allows them to collaborate with others to create animations and stories using drawing tools based on technologies web. Seven renowned artists in the collection of the Tate, including Bill Woodrow , Dryden Goodwin , Julian Opie , Mark Titchner , Miroslaw Balka , Olafur Eliasson and Raqib Shaw , have created a first animation or "seed" to start an exquisite forest . From these seeds , you can add new animations to extend the story or to make branch into a new direction. They could even start your own tree of stories with friends. The more sequences are added, the animations will grow in the form of trees , creating a potentially infinite number of outcomes for each animation.

 

This exquisite forest uses  Google Chrome features like advanced HTML5 and JavaScript to produce an experience of creation and exploration only. For example, the API Web Audio allows them to generate music to accompany your animations. This project also uses technology and services of Google App Engine and Google Cloud Storage to exist in the online world, in the cloud. 

We invite you to try it on ExquisiteForest.com and contribute to an animation that allows the forest to grow. By Aaron Koblin, Google Creative Lab, Data Arts team
 

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Customize your Blogger entries by permanent links

A few months ago we introduced a new package of SEO to help your blog entries and images are accurately indexed to display correctly in search results. Today we are pleased to introduce new functionality that allows them to customize their search preferences more effectively: the custom permalinks. When writing a post, Blogger automatically generates a permanent link based on the post title. So far, the authors of a blog had no control over the permanent link, ie on the web address of your publications. Custom permanent links offer more control over your blog and its entries. These new custom links also provide readers with more information about the entry while viewing search results.

To create your own URL for a specific entry, simply select "Custom URL" and enter the new URL in the field below. If you wrote the entry in July 2012, the new URL will look like:

www.nombredelblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/ URLCUSTOM . html

The part in bold ( URLCUSTOM ) is the portion of the URL that can be modified before posting your entry. This will allow them to include in the URL a few key words of the title that may not appear in the URL generated automatically. This may be more descriptive URLs that best represent the content of your post. If the custom permalink chose already exists, Blogger will seek one that is free, or may modify it yourself to make it unique. For now, the characters allowed in a custom URL are limited to: az. AZ, 0-1. The only special characters available include the underscore, the dash and period. can find more information about the custom permalinks our Help Center .

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Forty years of satellite images of our planet

We are celebrating today the 40th anniversary of the Landsat satellite program . This program is the acquisition of satellite images of Earth with the longest continuous operation. Over the years, Landsat has collected petabytes of images, offering a historical perspective of change that our planet has undergone. This information can help researchers and independent nations, make informed decisions about their economic and environmental policies. In conjunction with the USGS and the Carnegie Mellon University , we are working to make parts of this huge collection of publicly available images form of sequential video (taken at time intervals) from the surface of the Earth . With them can travel through time, from 1999 to 2011 to see the transformation that has taken our planet. Will see changes such as deforestation of the Amazon, urban growth in Las Vegas or the difference between the snow country with the change of season. Below are some examples:

 

The sequential scan through the Amazon rain forest shows the spread of deforestation between 1999 (left) and 2011 (right). 

 

The rapid growth of Las Vegas, Nevada between 1999 (left) and 2011 (right) is visible on Landsat sequential scan. 

 

A seasonal sequence created using MODIS images , where each video frame represents one week, shows the differences between areas covered by snow in the U.S. between February and August 2002. 

We believe these are the largest video frames that have been created. If you could see the video in full resolution, a single frame would terapixeles 1.78, ie the equivalent of 18 football fields of screens placed edge to edge. In 2008 the USGS opened access to full Landsat archive for free . Google Earth Engine allows access to this information and makes it useful for scientists and people around the world. In the following video may learn more about the history of the Landsat program and how Google Earth Engine was used to process and analyze this huge archive of satellite images of the planet.

Landsat congratulate these 40 years. We are proud to make this coarse file available to the general public, and for deep analysis of scientists and policymakers around the world. Visit the site Google Earth Engine to experience all the interactive tours through the videos sequentially. By Eric Nguyen, a software engineer for Earth Engine, and Randy Sargent, a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

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Solar, a nice application, simple and useful to know the current weather

Solar is probably one of the best apps for iPhone to find out exactly what the weather in our city. The app not only has a striking design, but also quite simple and easy to use, in addition to its job very well. It can tell when there is fog, when it is cloudy, when it is clear, and so on. Besides this has a tutorial on how to use it, although not necessary, but never hurts.
Solar costs $1 in iTunes .

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Jasper, the new mid-range phone Samsung

 

The mobile phones that Samsung has been released lately are mostly high-end and often have high prices. For Samsung customers with fewer resources can also enjoy what the company offers, is being launched as the new Samsung mobile Jasper, who has just filtered.
What we know relatively little about him, but at least have a dual-core Snapdragon processor at 1.5GHz and a screen WVGA 800 × 400 pixels. In addition, the OS will be Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and surely will have 4G LTE. As you see in the image, it also has a camera, but do not know how powerful is the sensor.
No data on the price of Jasper, but surely we will know in a couple of weeks.

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This small LED to notify us of the arrival of a tweet, mail and more

 

A group of programmers have created this LED that serves as a kind of notification system.
The device is called Blink (1) and is an LED that is connected to our computer or laptop via a USB port. We can program it to notify us of the arrival of mails, notifications of new tweets and Facebook, we also know when a download is completed and it will show us the change of weather. They have designed several apps to complement the device and the user can be notified of the things they think are important.
Blink (1) cost $30 and available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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Pocket Planets: Explore the galaxy using your Android phone

 

Pocket Planets is a wonderful application that will undoubtedly be a delight for any astronomer and passionate about the stars. The app allows us to explore the galaxy through our mobile phone or Android tablet. It has very good three-dimensional graphics and has many interesting facts and information, all of which makes it the perfect application for the amateur astronomer or for which it is still amateur.
Pocket Planets has a free version and a paid one that costs $ 3.

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