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.

Hot! China has won the prize for hacking?

While the U.S. and China work together on a regular basis on the economic front, both countries have also intensified cyber-espionage against one another. But the advantage would be on the Chinese side.

Growth of major nations cause an upsurge in acts of espionage. But now, they are more costumes in the James Bond who are on the front of the stage.

Indeed, espionage involves above all the telecommunications networks and information systems. According to U.S. investigators, China had stolen terabytes of sensitive data – ranging from user names and passwords of computers from the Department of State specifications (drawings, plans) of weapons systems of several billion dollars.

Diplomatic cables revealed by Wikileaks also show that Chinese hackers are particularly active. A cable dated April 2009 even claims that the attacks are directed by a specific unit of the People’s Liberation Army.

Relations between the Chinese government and the pirates, however, remain unclear.And U.S. officials, despite many suspicions have never been able to demonstrate a real commitment of that government and its army.

Finally, official figures do not include intrusions into computer networks business, which are part of a campaign of cyber espionage attributed to China, according to current and former U.S. officials of national security and computer security experts.

Asked by Reuters, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The U.S. State Department also refused comment.

Wow! Toshiba unveils first 3D notebook without glasses

Toshiba announced the imminent arrival of the first 3D notebook Dynabook Qosmio T851/D8CR without special glasses to view.

After television or video game console, it’s the turn of the computer to enter the world of 3D. Toshiba has indeed presented the first 3D notebook that does not require the use of special glasses .

There is nothing to spoil this Dynabook Qosmio T851/D8CR as it has a good hardware configuration. This 3D laptop from Toshiba  has a screen of 15.6 inch Full HD and includes an Intel Core i5 with 2.4 GHz coupled with a 540M GeForce  GT.

This laptop also has 8 GB of DDR 3 memory, a 750GB hard drive, an HDMI port, three USB 2.0 ports and one USB 3.0 port.

To work without 3D glasses, Toshiba has incorporated a webcam to your computer can detect the eye movements, allowing him then to generate three-dimensional effects specific to 3D.

This notebook also incorporates the Spurs Engine processor, a derivative of the Cell chip built into the PlayStation 3 game console. The Dynabook Qosmio will be marketed from next July in Japan and to return to Europe, but its price is still unknown.

Sayonara Goodbye Google Videos

The Mountain View Company has announced that Google Video, platform for watching streaming videos, which does not weight compared to YouTube, will disappear from April 29.

YouTube, owned by Google since 2006, has grown largely in recent years. YouTube is providing shade to Google Video, with more than two billion videos viewed daily.

With the indentation, the platform for watching streaming videos, Google Video will close its doors on April 29.

Customers who posted videos on the site of the Mountain View Company will, in turn, be available until May 13 to retrieve content stored on the servers of Google Video.

After this date, the videos still exist on the servers of the U.S. group will be deleted. Google encourages users to repost their video on YouTube which are being retrieved from Google Video.

This closure announcement is not surprising: Google does not already put forward its video platform for several months. Thus, since May 2009, it was not possible to post videos on Google Video.

The platform should, from the end, turn into video search engine available on the Web.

Hot Blackberry Playbook release

Blackberry Playbook even have a chance against Apple’s iPad.On April 20 Blackberry Playbook will be released in the United States. It is one of many surf boards that will try to compete UBB.threads dominant market position. The first reviews that have been published, however, is anything but positive about the new surf board.

Blackberry Playbook may be good reviews for the hardware and the ability to play Flash. The screen of 7.6 inches can play full HD and the CPU has a clock speed of one gigahertz and consists of dual cores.

Working memory is a gigabyte and surf board has two high resolution cameras. There will also stop the positive rating.
One big drawback with Blackberry Playbook is to surf the plate lacks fundamental programs such as e-mail client, calendar and contact list. According to RIM so, these programs will be added in a future update of the operating system.

Moreover, no explanation Playbook with 3g, instead claiming that RIM users can use their Blackberry phone and share the Internet connection. In addition, there is not the previously promised support to run Android apps. Although it will be added at a later stage.

Almost all of the major newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Wired discourage consumers from buying the Blackberry Playbook before RIM fixes the current limitations in the software.

PCs for Everyone’s sister magazine, PC World, have looked at the Blackberry Playbook to give you a better insight into the operating system looks like and what features are offered.

In the U.S, Blackberry Playbook 16-gigabyte costs $ 499 or more depending on storage capacity, which is about the same price as iPad2.

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.

Billion-dollar lawsuit against Facebook

A lawsuit against up requires a billion dollars in compensation because of one side with Israel Criticism.

A former candidate for the U.S. Senate has filed a lawsuit against both Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. The lawsuit accuses Larry Klayman the social network for not acting quickly enough and turn a page on Facebook, which was critical of Israel.

This page on Facebook calling for struggle against Israeli oppression of Palestinians was closed after complaints last week. According to Larry Klayman acted recklessly when up side managed to get half a million adherents before it was shut down.

Up at first refused to turn the page on which the topic was about peaceful protest. After discussions on the changing nature and began to call for violence was, however, the decision to close the page.
The lawsuit claims Larry Klayman to Facebook’s slow actions created a threat against him and other friends of Israel. He therefore calls for damages of a billion dollars in compensation.

Facebook has dismissed as irrelevant the atmosphere. Although we have not yet received any official complaint, we will strongly oppose these charges if the case would lead to court, “said a spokesman.

On Friday last weeks announced Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Daniel Ayalon, the country opted to use up the country’s main platform for public relations.

The decision came after a meeting between Daniel Ayalon, together with Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s global head of advertising, David Fischer, who is also the son of the Board Director of the Bank of Israel.

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.