When WebM format for YouTube Videos

All new videos uploaded to YouTube is encoded in the open format Webm, says Google.

Flash has long been a thorn in the side of open source enthusiasts. Virtually all streaming media on the Internet has required the propritära software but now we can see an end to it.

Google announces that all new videos uploaded to YouTube now encoded in the open format Webm. New browser from Firefox, Google and Opera have built-in support for Webm making Flash superfluous.

Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari Web browser supports Web, but so far only by a plugin to be installed separately.

All films are on Youtube, however, not converted to the new format. Google says that about 30 percent of all material on YouTube has been converted to Webm.

Hot! Skype patches Android vulnerability

The vulnerability in Skype’s Android app that threatened to leak user data has now been repaired. At the same time extended support for VoIP over 3G.

Skype announced that they have developed, tested and rolled out an updated version of the software for Android, which is no longer liable to leak any private user information. All users are encouraged to upgrade their software to version 1.0.0.983 is now available for download from the Market.

The update comes less than a week after Skype itself confirmed the vulnerability . In addition, Skype has taken the opportunity to include more support for VoIP over 3G. With earlier versions have it, including the U.S. has only been possible with some operators.

Some software that uses the vulnerability has not yet been reported, and as Android Police Blog who first drew the attention of the security hole will update work fine. However, vulnerability remains of concern to the leaked version of Skype also allows video call.

Mozilla launches Firefox 4 for Android

A week after the launch of the Firefox browser 4 for client computers, Mozilla launches final version of its browser for mobile operating system Android. But critics are many.

Mozilla informed about the upcoming browser in August, when the company showed the first version of the software, code-named Fennec. Later gave Mozilla the program a name that is in accordance with its browser, Firefox 4 for Android.

Mozilla likes to talk about a new and improved interface, faster performance and better synchronization with the Sync feature, which allows users to keep track of bookmarks, passwords and open tabs on several desktop and mobile PCs.

The browser contains an interface for managing multiple tabs, with the help of the same features found in desktop version, which automatically receives the URLs that visitors have been on before. According to Mozilla’s Firefox 4 three times faster than Android’s own browser, thanks to the Java-based scripting engine Jaeger Monkey which is also used to run Javascript in the desktop version of Firefox 4th

Since its launch, however, users criticized the poor performance and lack of support for Flash media player.

They say that it is faster than the built-in browser, but it takes twice as long to open, according to a user who identifies himself as Andy in an evaluation on Google’s official Android Market App Store.

Google Chrome is blocking the downloads of malware

The new anti-malware tool built into Google Chrome should allow the browser to identify and block malicious file downloads initiated by the user. Google announced on its Chromium blog, its browser Chrome would soon integrate a tool capable of detecting malware in downloads.

Google’s web browser already incorporates the Google Safe Browsing API, allowing it to warn the user about the danger of a website and possibly block it.

This tool will soon be extended to download initiated from Chrome. The files lead to malicious sites integrated into the blacklist maintained by Google will then be reported to the user as possibly containing malware. The user will then decide whether or not to continue with the download.

This new security tool is currently being tested and can be tested from the development version of Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox withdraws 4

The latest version of the Mozilla browser, Firefox 4, has a serious bug that it now withdraws all downloaded copies.

The browser Firefox 4 which was released almost two weeks ago has already been downloaded over 10 million times. On Thursday discovered a security researcher at North Pennsylvania Institute a serious bug in the browser’s core module, which may be operating system to crash immediately when certain pages are visited. The bug is triggered if the HTML code on a website containing two levels of table elements, then a table in another table.

Researchers also warn that hackers can take advantage of the bug. By injecting the tables via the database on a site, a so-called SQL injection, a hacker can cause the crash site visitor’s computer.

The bug is in all Windows versions of Firefox 4, and Linux variants. The Mac version will however not be affected.
Since the bug is too deep in the Firefox core module can not fix with a regular update. Mozilla will therefore withdraw any downloaded installation files manually via a form on their website. Later on Friday afternoon you should be able to upload their own copy of Firefox 4th

If you do not have internet access will be possible to transfer the installation files on a storage card and send by post to:Mozilla Corporation, 650 Castro Street, Suite 300, Mountain View, CA, 94041-2021, USA. Mark the envelope “Firefox 4-team”.

Both Google and Microsoft are now investigating whether their browser can be affected by the same bug.

Dotnet Moving to Android

Now you can run Dotnet Applications on Android. This is done with Novell’s Mono, an open version of Microsoft Dotnet Platform.

Novell Launches Mono for Android. It is a variant of Microsoft Dotnet Platform that works on Google’s mobile operations. Mono is already available in official versions for including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux distributions of SuSE and Red Hat.

Dotnet Applications for Android can be written in C # language, and also with other Dotnet Languages, for version 4 of Dotnet. You can use either Microsoft’s development tool Visual Studio 2010 Professional or Novell free tools monodevelop.

Novell has previously Mono Touch range. There is a solution to run Dotnet Application on Apple’s operating system IOS.

The statement indicates that Novell is focused on the use of C # to create Dotnet Applications for Android, although in principle, it ought to work with other Dotnet languages, like Visual Basic.

It is possible to make use of Android’s API, in addition to APIs for Dotnet. The use of Android’s APIs should mean that the possibilities of developing for multiple operating systems reduces.

In the process of creating Mono for Android, the product has been called Monodroid.

Larry Page back to the Google helm

It’s official now: the co-founder of Google, Larry Page, became the CEO of the Internet Group, replacing Eric Schmidt.

Eric Schmidt is no longer the CEO of Google and Larry Page, co-founder of the firm in Mountain View, takes this role and therefore the reins of his company. The circle is complete.

Eric Schmidt joined Google in 2001 and has resigned because of the new strategic direction taken by the Google Group. However, he retains the chairmanship of the board of directors. This system eventually led to operational difficulties at a time when Google has become a huge machine to manage, with 25,000 employees and a market capitalization of about $ 200 billion.

Larry Page, through the role as CEO, will take charge of Google’s technology strategy and product development. But Eric Schmidt is not the only one to disappear. Another key element of Google, Jonathan Roserberg, product manager and vice president of the Mountain View Company, has announced his resignation.

Jonathan Rosenberg joined Google in 2002 and his tasks was to control the development of all product groups in the Internet, like Google Docs, Gmail or Google Apps. His departure, scheduled for June would be linked to the arrival of Larry Page at the helm of the company.

Google & HP deals with mobile printing

HP now offers a service for mobile printing, which works with Google’s print services Cloud Print.

With the service, for example, to print documents from smart phones and surf boards, from Gmail and Google Docs.

Users, via remote printing to print documents from select HP printers, by using the E-print. It operates as an e-mail with the transcript is sent with instructions directly to the designated printer.

For the service to work, the mobile software used to support Cloud Print.

Google Chrome OS comes in July

Launch of Google’s cloud-based operating system in the second quarter of this year.

Google’s Chrome operating system OS is ever closer to launch. A source on Google confirmed to the technology website Pocket-Lint that the official launch will occur sometime during the second quarter of this year, which means the latest in July this year.

According to sources, Google is currently fully occupied with connecting major computer manufacturers to themselves and that computers with Google Chrome Operating system could cost from $ 250 and up.

In mid- May we will take Google’s conference room and we get to learn more about Google’s plans for Chrome OS.

Wow! Google is too weak on the business side – Microsoft

Clouds The fight between Microsoft and Google continue. “Several clients to provide Google Apps and return to us,” said Tim O’Brien of Microsoft.

Microsoft and Google are bitter enemies in the cloud. Now Microsoft sharpens tone and tells of several customers that have left Google Apps to go back to Microsoft.

Google is far too weak on the business side, “said Tim O’Brien, director of platform strategy at Microsoft.
We will win back customers from Google. And it is clear. Everything is allowed in love and war and this is a war on many potential cloud customers. Meanwhile, Google has indicated that their App Engine for companies that can offer business software in the cloud comes in the second quarter.

Tim O’Brien says that Office 365, with Lync, Sharepoint, Exchange and Office are going well. But one problem that Microsoft is still struggling with is to convince their partners of the cloud . Microsoft knows that they will lose partners, with pricing models that cloud brings.

We expect to lose any partners in this, but also have some new, “he says. Microsoft goes through the 37 criteria when choosing a location for their data centers.

Tim O’Brien talked about having an open platform. To cloud platform Azure will get as many people as possible can be developed in more languages ​​than, say, C # and dotNet environment. He mentions, for example Java, PHP, Python and Ruby.

No one should have to learn a new language just for the development of a cloud platform. Java and other dynamic languages ​​to be able to use Azure, he says.

Growing fast of Windows 7 Phone

The latest figures show that there are now over 11 500 apps on Windows Phone Market.

According to Microsoft, the company’s new mobile operating system Windows 7 Phone achieved great success among developers. In one year the development tool for the platform downloaded 1.5 million times and over 36 000 developers are now members of the Microsoft development team for Windows Phone, Microsoft said.

The number of apps for Windows 7 Phone has now grown to 11 500 since Windows Phone Market opened in November last year. The marketplace consists of 7500 beta patches.

Users love our apps, love them. Users of Windows Phone charging an average of the bottom twelve apps a month. Given that the operating system only existed for just over four months, it is very healthy numbers, writes Microsoft’s director of Windows Phone, Brandon Watson.

Although analysts have expressed that Microsoft has managed quite well to launch development around Windows Phone.
I am very impressed with the growth in both number and quality of apps for Windows Phone. I would say that Microsoft succeeded faster than Google did with Android when it was launched, “said Al Hilwa.

Despite progress in the development of apps for Windows Phone, Microsoft has not disclosed how many phones sold since the operating system was released in October last year.

Amazon offers to test applications from computer

Amazon offers to test for 30 minutes on your computer via its web browser before downloading applications available on Amazon Android App Store.

Amazon imagines new ways to communicate with mobile users and Internet users with the new platform applications App Store Amazon. It has a catalog of about 3800 apps available on the Internet via an application for Android Smartphone.

In its retention strategy, Amazon intends to test it on its computer from a remote interface via emulator mobile with Android OS using the Android applications downloaded from its App Store for 30 minutes, passing through the feature “Try Now”. But this feature is currently restricted to Americans

This test period on the computer is made possible through the use of the Amazon EC2 cloud infrastructure, which returns the display of the Android emulator on the PC Web browser.

A little extra time saving is there when compared to what Google offers in the Android Market, where it is also possible to test applications, but for a period of only 15 minutes after buying them on the platform.

Note however that this functionality test before download is not yet integrated into all applications available on the App Store Amazon.

Samsung Nexus A: The new Google Mobile

Nexus S phone is closest to the original Android without frills and proprietary interfaces. That it is fast and has good screen makes it even better.

Just over a year ago released the first so-called Google phone Nexus One. It was a phone that HTC-developed, but which ran Android in its purest form without the interface a la Sense and sold by Google. About a year later launched the sequel Nexus S, this time manufactured by Samsung, but the same principle: one as Android near the interface as possible.

Nexus S was first released, among other U.S. and then with one super-AMOLED display, but was changed to one super-lcd when it came to Sweden. And even if the Super-AMOLED is considered to be better, so is the Super-lcd-screen really well. The intensity is high and the viewing angle is virtually unlimited. The colors are good, even if they are more neutral about it and maybe cold side than the other scale.

The Nexus S , there is also an NFC chip. NFC stands for Near Field Communication and the idea is that you can use your phone wirelessly to the NFC reader and thus, for example, pay bus fares or open doors. The technology is not widespread yet, but the potential is quite clear.

Quality of Nexus S very stable although it is mostly made ​​of plastic. No metal parts reinforce the impression, but it will not plasticky though.

Another interface like HTC’s Sense is quite different and offers a lot of extra features. But mostly, you can still fix the apps in the form of second Launchers, widgets and the like.

Nexus S is fast. Android 2.3 further enhances the experience of reports compared to previous versions. We can not say that we notice any difference with a dubbelkärning phone Optimus 2X in common usage.

Compared with the previous Google Mobile Nexus One, we are a couple of minus: the absence of the slot that we have mentioned earlier, and that it has no LED for communication. In addition, it can not record video at 720p which we expect from a phone in this price range.

If you want a clean Android phone without any superimposed interface, and also get the latest updates first, this phone is for you. But remember that you can not expand memory.

Amazon's Cloud Drive faces music industry backlash

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While ostensibly beating Apple and Google to market with its music locker service, Amazon's new Cloud Drive online music streaming service was launched before licenses from music owners were in place, threatening a new legal battle. 

According to a report by Reuters, Sony Music spokeswoman Liz Young said her company "was upset by Amazon's decision to launch the service without new licenses for music streaming."

"We hope that they'll reach a new license deal, but we're keeping all of our legal options open," Young said.

Sold before the deal was struck

The report cited a source "close to the discussions" between Amazon and the music labels as saying that "music labels were alerted of the plans last week," and that Amazon only addressed "the issue of negotiating licenses" after the fact.

Amazon's move was described as "somewhat stunning," leaving some media industry members to view the service as illegal.

"I've never seen a company of their size make an announcement, launch a service and simultaneously say they're trying to get licenses," the source said, who was described as a music executive requesting anonymity.

Amazon appears to have jumped the gun in a bid to get ahead of Apple. While Amazon entered the music download market in late 2007, offering both slightly lower prices on MP3s and bargaining with the labels to offer DRM-free music before Apple, its music service still hasn't significantly encroached upon Apple's dominant position with iTunes. 

Online storage held up by music negotiations

Amazon's Cloud Drive provides users with 5GB of free storage (or 20GB for $20 annually) that can be used to upload music for playback via an Android app or through Amazon's Cloud Play website, which organizes music into playlists. 

Since last July, Apple's iDisk feature of MobileMe has similarly enabled users to upload their music (and other files) to the cloud for streaming playback (even in the background) from mobile devices via Apple's free iOS iDisk app, but the company doesn't promote the feature due to ongoing negotiations with the labels. 

iDisk is also not depicted as a music cloud service, and does not provide any special display of metadata; music files simply play in place from the online storage just as they would from any web server. Music files can also, like other iDisk documents, be shared with other users.

Music labels have long insisted on special "streaming licensing" for users that want to copy their own music to the cloud for their own mobile playback, something that has held up efforts by Apple, Google, and others to deliver legally legitimate cloud music services.

When! China denies blocking Gmail

China accuses Google of lying to the authorities of blocking e-mail service Gmail. China denies Google reports that the country is behind the e-mail service Gmail has been blocked. The Chinese foreign ministry is now to counterattack.

It is unacceptable, “said Jiang Yu, spokesperson of the ministry, the news agency BBC News. The statement came after Google on Monday reported that many users had difficulty using Gmail, as a result of the Chinese authorities’ blocking. Google’s data came after the company found that the service was not working as it should, but that it still could not find any technical problems.

Previously, Gmail suffered from attempts by hackers to steal accounts used by Chinese dissidents, attacks, traced to China. Google now claims that China is blocking Google in a way that makes it look like the service have access problems.

There are no technical problems on our side. We checked that very carefully, “said a spokesperson from Google, which concludes that the blocking by the Chinese authorities are structured such that it will look like a problem with Gmail.

In the past, inter alia, YouTube and Blogger have been blocked, as well as including Twitter and Facebook. This is in contrast to Chinese social media, on the other hand, closely monitored by authorities.

A user from China, which CS has been in contact with the state that Gmail for him is only accessible through specific URL-hacking, or via a VPN connection, not over the regular Internet. Lots of foreign VPN vendors have been blocked last few days, finds the user, who wishes to remain anonymous.