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What kind of OS for mobile are you using.

With my iPhone and my old Nokia N95 I am on two different OS. Appels “Los 4″ and for Nokia a old version of Symbian.

According to a new study leads Iphone operating system is still over Android.

The study is conducted by Chitika ad network based on figures from over 80 000 sites, mainly from the United States. The study was conducted during the first two weeks in July recorded about 9 million handsets in Ios, compared with about 7.7 million phones running Android.

Android growth is impressive given that the iPhone and Ios has been around for almost two years before Android was released. Android has the advantage that it’s on handsets from a variety of manufacturers so that it had a rapid growth.
According Chitika so run now almost exactly half of all iPhone Ios 4, Apple’s latest mobile operating system, released last month.
Among Androidtelefoner majority Android uses a 2.1 with a share of 55 percent. Android 2.2 (Froyo), released a few weeks ago running as yet only 3.3 percent of all Androidtelefoner. As 40 percent of Android-users still running on Android version 1.5 or 1.6.

The number of Facebook users of mobile phones has increased 50 percent since April this year.
From April, til end of June the number of Facebook users has grown from 100 million to 150 million.

The mobile phone is thus the fastest growing access tool for Facebook, says Eric Tseng, director of mobile products on Facebook
- We see it as a key platform for the future, he said, during a speech he delivered at the conference Mobile Beat 2010 in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Facebook had 500 million at year-end users and inoficiella assessments to track the border exploded 600 million at the end of the year. This means that more than one in four users of Facebook Mobile.

After several months of stagnation, the Microsoft search-engine Bing has grown marginally at the expense of Google. Microsoft Bing is still well behind Google in terms of market share and is currently the third biggest search engine after Google and Yahoo. In June, however, Bing grew more than Google in the U.S. market.

Microsoft Bing, who celebrated the first anniversary of the end of May this year saw an increase from May to June from 12.1 percent to 12.7 percent market share. During the same period, Google lost its foothold slightly from 63.7 percent to 62.6 percent of the market. Like Microsoft Bing, was Yahoo also increased slightly in June and went from 18.3 percent to 18.9 percent of the market compared with May. According to research firm ComScore U.S. Internet users did 16.4 billion Internet searches in June, an increase of three percent the previous month.

Microsoft Bing was launched in late May last year and is a revised version of Microsoft’s previous search engine, Live Search. Microsoft increased its market share slightly after the launch of Bing, but has since not been a major threat to Google or Yahoo. According to industry analysts, so most users choose Google as a result of habit, and it takes a lot for them to change the search service.

Much has happened since we started using the data and the Internet regularly.
Here are some history………..

July 5 years ago.

• Microsoft and IBM agree in court, which means that Microsoft must pay $ 775 million in cash and $ 75 million in software
• Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.2
• IBM announces that support for OS / 2 will end at the end of the year
• Microsoft is launching what they call Windows Genuine Advantage. in a step to try to stop piracy of their programs

July 10 years ago

• Microsoft releases. Internet Explorer 5.5, MSN Messenger 3.0 and service pack 1 for Windows 2000
• Intel released 1.13 gigahertz Pentium III
• On the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference presented an early beta version of 64-bit Windows 2000

July 15 years ago

• The first worm to infect data when visiting a Web page is discovered
• Amazon.com opens officially
• IBM completes their buy of Lotus Development Corporation at a price of $ 3.5 billion
• Seagate delivers its millionth Barracuda hard drive

Today, Thursday, July 15 Motorola released their new smart phone Droid X.

First up in the U.S. to begin selling Droid X is in the U.S. operator Verizon Wireless
The Android-based handset has received good reviews after a series of previews.

With a 4.3-inch screen, good multimedia features and a relatively long battery life compared to many competitors. Although it is unlikely to be so Droid X comes up in sales levels for the iPhone, but it have been showing signs of a great interest in Motorola’s new mobile. Zeus Kerravala, who is an analyst at Yankee Group, says that the earier release of Droid X that is to use all the bad publicity Iphone 4.
Verizon has not been slow to exploit antenna problems of Iphone 4, as a consumer magazine Consumer Reports recently warned. In the ads, the company produced exclusively to Droid X “dual antennas” which allows the user to “hold the phone how you want” and use it from anywhere to call.

Given that the iPhone sold four of 1.7 million copies the first three days, it is clear that it is the product of focus when it comes to competitors. U.S. retailer Best Buy have stopped all advance orders, and Verizon Wireless expects that the mobile phone runs out of stocks.
Droid X are using the operating system Android 2.1, an one update to Flash 2.2 and 1.10 later this year.

Are you gay and dreaming of a job at Google?
It will be a good deal.

IT giant Google will pay its U.S. employees who are homosexuals higher salaries than those with hetrosexuell orientation.
They want to offset the higher taxes that lesbians and gay people under U.S. law need to pay. Google is already known to be a benevolent employer. Employees are offered free food and free laundry, medical treatment and five months’ maternity leave with full pay. Longer duration than many other U.S. companies offer their staff, according to The New York Times.
Besides all these benefits they are now raising the salaries for homosexuals.
When an employee’s partner is offered health insurance through the employer is a tax-free benefit – but only for married heterosexual couples. For homosexuals to the insurance benefit taxed. Therefore, will Google raise their salaries, to make their net income equivalent to heterosexual. On average, it becomes a rice of the wage 750 €/year.

The new wage was introduced after lifting one of Google’s hiring pointed out the injustice of the human resources manager Laszlo Boch. Still, he can not estimate how much it will cost the company.

While wages are increased for homosexuals also offered the same favorable parental leave as heterosexual couples. U.S. Google has 20 600 employees and still do not know how many people are affected by the new rules, but their internal gay-club has 700 members.

Everybody write about it, so do I, but I honestley dont know why, this is not the first time, and will not be the last time, Microsoft, need to put out updates to recover their own misstakes………..

Ten things that fixes a total of 34 deficiencies in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office. Three of those ranked as “critical” and the other seven considered “important.” All vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious people who are out to take control of a computer. At least two of the ten demands that you restart your computer. Deficiencies exist in Windows 2000, Windows XP (32 and 64 bit), Windows Server 2003 (32 and 64 bit), Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit), Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and Windows Server 2008 R2. All versions of Office that  currently provides support are include one or more deficiencies.

Wave is the name of a new mobile phone from Samsung that is worth attention for several reasons.

The phone is the first to be based on Samsung’s own operating system Bada. In the same time that phone is launces, they also launche their own application business Samsung Apps where you can download games, ebooks, and various utility functions to the phone.
Wave is equipped with a 3.3 inch super large AMOLED display at 800 x 400 pixels, 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 3.0, USB, WiFi, 2GB of internal memory and a processor at 1 Ghz.

Canon have sold 40 million EOS-cameras.

EOS stands for Electro Optical System, but is also the Greek name of the dawn goddess. The production of EOS, started in 1987 and total production is therefore now more than 40 million units, which EOS digital models stands for half, 20 million.

Here you can see the history of the  EOS system:

• 1987 produced the first EOS SLR – EOS 650 – Canon’s plant in Fukushima, Japan
• 1997, production of EOS cameras passed the 10 million copies.
• 2003 reached 20-million mark.
• 2007  Celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the EOS series, and also reached 30-million mark.
• 2009, The company’s 50 millionth EF lens was produced.
• 2010 April, Canon reached the current 40 million milestone.

Notable is that Canon sold in the first 10 years, 10 millions EOS-system between, 6 years after (2003) the reach 20 million, 4 years after (2007) reaching 30 millions. And only 3 years after that (2010) reach 40 million, so what will it take to reach 50 million? 2 years……or less?

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Is Google responsible for giving out bad directions through its Google Maps service?

We’re about to find out. After Googling walking directions for a trip in Park City, Utah, Lauren Rosenberg claims she was led onto a busy highway, where she was struck by a vehicle. She’s now suing Google for damages.

The case, Rosenberg v. Harwood, was filed in Utah, in the US District Court’s Central Division (Gary Price of ResourceShelf tipped us to it today). Harwood is Patrick Harwood, the person who actually hit Rosenberg, according to the suit. Both Harwood and Google are being sued in the same case, for damages “in excess of $100,000.”

Rosenberg used Google Maps on January 19, 2009, via her Blackberry, to get directions between 96 Daly Street, Park City, Utah and 1710 Prospector Avenue, Park City, Utah. Google provided these, telling her as part of the route to walk for about 1/2 mile along the calm-sounding “Deer Valley Drive.”

That’s an alternative name for that section of Utah State Route 224, a highway that lacks sidewalks, the case says. Rosenberg wasn’t warned about this, putting Google directly at fault in the accident, the case claims:
Defendant Google, through its “Google Maps” service provided Plaintiff Lauren Rosenberg with walking directions that led her out onto Deer valley Drive, a.k.a. State Route 224, a rural highway wit no sidewalks, and a roadway that exhibits motor vehicles traveling at high speeds, that is not reasonably safe for pedestrians.

The Defendant Google expects uses of the walking map site to rely on the accuracy of the walking directions given….

As a direct and proximate cause of Defendant Google’s careless, reckless, and negligent providing of unsafe directions, Plaintiff Laren Rosenberg was led onto a dangerous highway, and was thereby stricken by a motor vehicle…

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Despite the recent reports about safety on Facebook, which I think is a joke, and therefore refused to comment before.
Facebook is an open comunity, and all those that are stupid enough to posting private things may simply blame them self.

According to the new measurement data from Google, Facebook received 540 million visitors in April, which is equal to 35.2 percent of all people who surf the net in the same period. These users clicked together at 570 billion Facebook pages.
Facebook is thru this the most popular site in the world.

Google has stopped using Windows.
A security question, according to their press release

Google’s 10 000 employees worldwide will have their Windows computers being replaced by Linux or Mac computers.

The reason is the concern about safety and more hacker attacks that the company suffered from China.
- We do not run Windows anymore. It is a safety issue, “said an employee of Google to the newspaper.

Google has not commented on its policy, but as recently as January, employees use Windows on their laptops, but not on the desktop. Now require approval from the company’s IT manager to install Windows.
One reason is that Windows is known to be more easily attacked by viruses.
But another reason could be that the company want more people to use their own forthcoming operating system, OS Chrome.

I personally have never understood people who have not left hotmail in favor of Gmail.

Hotmail launched this week their “new” e-mail client …… And, now they beginning to reach the same standard like Gmail, they proudly announces “news” that already exists in Gmail for a long time back.
I have always recommended people to move to Gmail but keep their Hotmail account and check it periodically, and to use Messenger, which, although must admit is much better than Google’s Gtalk, even if I dont use any of them.
But the Gmails Email, Calendar and Office are much better, and Gmail’s spam filters, which probably should be seen today as the best spam filter of all email clients.

I should perhaps be added that this is my personal views

And once again, these guys at ThePirateBay have open up again.

After lot of pressure from movie-companys and a German court, internet service provider Cyberpunker was shuting down The Piratebay. PirateBay responded was simple “the site would soon be up and running again. and they were right, this time it took not even 24 h and also with a greeting and a picture of a cat giggling, the message is simple, no one should control the Internet.

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Concept CTRUS ball is loaded with sensors that feel of their position on the pitch accurately using GPS.

Concept CTRUS ball, prepared by the design firm of agents has the potential to completely eliminate the risk of homicide convictions miss the match-winning moments.

The ball is itself built in a completely elastic material which simulates a conventional football. The need, therefore, never inflated.

Furthermore, it is fitted with a GPS chip that keeps track of the ball’s position on the pitch. The signals can get the ball to change color in different modes depending on the game situation – such as red for offside, and green when it crossed the goal line.

The ball is still in concept stage, and it is impossible to say whether – and when – we can expect to see it on a football field.

HP buying Palm for $ 1,200,000,000.

HP plans to launch new mobile products with the operating system Web OS. What happens to the Palm brand is unclear at this writing. HP says that Palm’s CEO, Jon Rubenstein, will remain in the company.

HP has big plans for the mobile operating system Web OS. The company wants to build it into smart phones and other connected devices. If this means that they will abandoning Windows 7 in his Slate PC series that Hp have on the market remains to be seen.

Todd Bradley, executive vice president, have said in a statment.
- Palm’s innovative operating system is an ideal platform to expand HP’s mobile strategy.

Palm’s planned product launches, will be left unchanged, according to the website Engadget.

As the last major manufacturers, has now Sony decided that it will shut down production of 3.5-inch floppy disks at the end of March next year. This although  last year sold over 12 million discs.

It was Sony, who was first to use 3.5-inch diskettes, the first unit arrived in 1981, before that was the 5.25-inch floppy disks that was used. The space on 3.5-inch floppy disks is limited to a maximum of 1.44 MB.

Long into the 2000. Was it standard among computer manufacturers to delivered computers with a 3.5 inch floppy disc reader, and as late as 2002 was Sony’s annual sales figure of disks  47 million pieces.

Departmenten of defends worldwide are concern about the Taliban in Afghanistan starting to use smart phones like the iPhone.

The Taliban once again started to gain ground in Afghanistan.
According to Matt Yanopoilos of the Australian Department of Defence and he claims that this is because the Taliban have begun to invest in modern information technology.

Matt Yanopoilos says that the Taliban use the iPhone and various apps to collect relevant data.

It is well known that the Taliban, like Apple’s mobile. A year ago you could read that Mullah Zaif (known Taliban) used his iPhone to all sorts of things, Mullah Zaif should have said “it is easy to use and modern and I love it”

U.S. Army has now also become curious about the iPhone and other mobile solutions from Apple. High generals and military researchers have cautiously try to begun a partnership with Apple.