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.

OH! Facebook now has 250 million Mobile users worldwide

With more than 250 million mobile users, Facebook has decided to offer a version of its unique mobile social network, optimized for all mobile phones and smartphones.

Facebook, which has more than 550 million members worldwide, has a Mobile version which also attains a great success, with over 250 million users now, 50 million more than last November.

These mobile users access the network share from traditional mobile phones (m.facebook.com) or smartphones (touch.facebook.com).

To see more clearly, Facebook has decided to unify the mobile versions of existing social network. This unique mobile version is available at m.facebook.com and is optimized for the vast majority of mobile devices in circulation. Thus the mobile version of Facebook only fit on the screen and its size.

The decision to deploy a single interface, regardless of the mobile to access, should allow Facebook to be more easily integrate with the new functionality.

The community site of Mark Zuckerberg looks increasingly to the world of mobility. This interest has recently materialized in particular by the acquisition of start-up Snaptu, offering to fit any website with dedicated application for mobile devices regardless of the host platform.

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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.

iPad – Master of the tablets

According to IDC, it has sold 18 million tablets in 2010. Even if competitors of Apple tumble at full speed on this sector, the iPad, the market leader, would not be threatened this year.

Nearly 4.5 million units were sold in the third quarter and more than 10.1 million units during the fourth quarter alone. It was the true Christmas shopping product in Western countries and the increase in sale was also because of expanding distribution channels with telecom operators.

Not surprisingly, Apple has led the show with its iPad, which alone occupies 83% of the market with 14.8 million units sold. Launched in April 2011, the slate of the Cupertino company has nevertheless lost ground later this year from 93% market share in the third quarter to 73% in the fourth. More than a drop in sales, the iPad has especially impacted by dilution of the competition season.

In this regard, it is Samsung, with its Galaxy Tab, was best able to establish itself as a credible competitor for iPad. But the Korean manufacturer has caught only 17% market share in the fourth quarter.

Competition is likely to impact primarily Samsung and the dilution effect should not be felt on the offer from Apple that should keep between 70% and 80% of the market in 2011, according to IDC.

It is true that the iPad 2 enjoys an excellent start with 600,000 units sold in the first 24 hours according to initial estimates, doubling sales of the iPad first generation.

According to analysts, Apple could sell more than 35 million of its slate on a market estimated at more than 50 million tablets in 2011.

Note that the digital tablets are also facing competition from eBook readers. In 2010, nearly 13 million eReaders have found their audience, an increase of 325% compared to 2009.
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Twitter increases security

Micro-blogging service Twitter makes it easier to encrypt the login and other traffic to the site. Users of the micro blogging service, has previously been able to use https://twitter.com to encrypt their user names, passwords and other data for communication with the site. Now it should be easier, when the user through the settings may choose to bend in that traffic by default to be encrypted.

“This increases the security of your account and protect better information if you use Twitter over an unsecured Internet

connection, as a public wireless network, where anyone can eavesdrop on your activity at the site “, reads the company’s blog.

For connection to the mobile site is still required that the user enters the https site, ie https://mobile.twitter.com, but as Twitter are to be aimed at that, just increase the safety there as well.

One might ask themselves what the point is to encrypt the publication of Twitter Posts, which nevertheless are posted publicly. According to Paul Ducklin of security company Sophos, the risk that the cookie Twitter sends to your browser intercepted. This means that if someone intercepts your cookie so it can publish posts to your name.

To activate the setting, go to the “Settings” and choose to tick the “Always use HTTPS ‘, then you click” SAVE “and then” Save changes “.

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.

AT&T Buys out T-Mobile

The U.S. operator AT & T participates in the consolidation of the American mobile market by buying out T-Mobile USA (Deutsche Telekom). The transaction Amount is observed as $ 39 billion.

It’s a brilliant stroke on the part of AT & T in the landscape of mobile telephony in the United States.

On Sunday night, the U.S. operator has announced the acquisition of T-Mobile USA, owned up by its German counterpart, Deutsche Telekom.

AT & T is willing to pay $ 25 billion in cash form and the remaining as the stock in the netted $ 39 billion deal.

According to the statement, the boards of both companies have agreed to this merger which is expected to be completed by March 2013. But the merger must be approved by the concerned regulatory authorities.

The external expansion of AT & T would be placed under the sign of the business of mobile telephony in particular with the promising 4G being deployed in the United States.

Rival Verizon also displays inclinations in that direction.

The U.S. operator, which boasts a base of 95.5 million mobile customers, intends to cover 95% of the U.S. population with this new generation network enabling the mobile broadband Internet.

“This will improve the quality of our network and will expand LTE coverage to a pool of 294 million people,” said Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T.

Also according to the purchasing group, this consolidation will raise the sales of its mobile activities of $ 58.5 billion to 80 billion.

T-Mobile is considered as the fourth mobile operator in the U.S. with 33.7 million customers. It displayed a turnover of 21.3 billion dollars in 2010.

According to Reuters, the withdrawal of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA will reduce group debt of 13 billion Euros.

A first calculation of return on investment shows that the German operator does not generate added value through this agreement with AT & T.