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Archive for March, 2010
Microsoft released free site with series and TV shows
Mar 12th
In England, Microsoft launched an interesting experiment to compete squarely with the BBC. This is a significant change in the MSN Video Player, changing the format and including more than 1,000 hours of television programming.
Unlike the BBC iPlayer, the service promises to display content the same day they are issued and without paying a penny. The islanders who want to see a series of TV advertising will be only a first noninvasive 30 seconds.
According to the director of Microsoft in the UK, Ashleu Highfield, the system takes more than six months to test everything went well. Like any project of the Redmond company, use Silverlight to play the content, so technology that seeks to promote the company.
The trouble is that, as in many such services, is that content is filtered geographically and can only be seen in the UK. What one can see from anywhere are the movie trailers, some of them in HD.
6 Tips for creating an audio podcast
Mar 8th
Create and publish a podcast is simple. For podcasting, an old computer, it is enough need not be the latest and greatest hardware. Be equipped with microphone and sound card, your computer must, of course. The software to be downloaded for free on the Internet. Anyone can podcast with simple means from the comfort of your home. A podcast is something of a post or a whole show on the radio, which is offered on the Internet. Even with very simple technical means can produce professional-sounding podcasts. Almost every computer has a sound card or onboard sound, which is fully sufficient for voice recording. A simple microphone can be bought for little money, is in many notebooks and webcams have a microphone built in, incidentally. We produced a podcast: More >
Hack: How Google Android 2.1 can be installed on Windows Mobile Phones
Mar 3rd
The mobile phone operating system Windows Mobile is in comparison to competitors such as Android, iPhone OS and webOS as complicated and outdated with the new Windows 7 Phone Series later this year. Although Microsoft will bring an entirely new operating system on their Smartphone’s which scored after their presentation at the Mobile World Congress last week of kud
But who wants to wait as the owner of a Windows Mobile phones and no longer wants to give his old cell phone new skills, interests, perhaps the instructions, such as Android can bring on some Windows Mobile 2.1 Smartphone. The XDA-Developers forum will detail how to do it, but the whole thing is just something for people who know technology.
The four smart phones HTC Tilt (also known as HTC Kaiser), Niki, Vogue and Polaris are eligible for the hack. Still has the whole beta status are the two biggest bugs massive problems with Bluetooth and functioning after installing the new ROM.
Otherwise, the Windows Mobile Smartphone with Android will work pretty well. The chopped Smartphone are thus the first HTC phones with the new 2.1 version of Android
Google also dominates the mobile search market
Mar 2nd
A study of Opera whose browser version Mini has 50 million users in the U.S., more than 9% of the pages that are visited via the mobile comes from Google searches. Although this is a study conducted by users of Opera Mini in the U.S, the results could be very similar in the European continent. Opera has taken into account more than 50 million users who are using a browser for mobile devices as the company says. Thus 9% of all Web pages that are visited via the mobile comes from the results of a search through Google.These are data from January and recorded a total of 23,000 million Web pages visited. Opera Mini was not yet available for the iPhone in this period, so the searches come from devices such as Nokia, RIM BlackBerry, Android, etc. In second place is situated Yahoo!, with 4.3%, while the search engine Microsoft Bing has only been used in 0.03% of the pages visited.
The percentage of spam grows in February
Mar 2nd
Almost 90% of emails are spam, while its size is shrinking, reducing especially those messages with attachments. Symantec has released its Message-Labs Intelligence monthly report which announces diver safety-related data and the amount of spam generated worldwide. As shown in the study during the month of February there has been an increase in spam reaching 89.4% of all email generated. This is 5.5% higher than found during the month of January this year. Symantec attributes this growth to increased activity of Grum and Rustock Bot Nets, especially the former, only the month of February has increased by 51% and generates 26% of total spam traffic.
As for types of messages, the report shows that pharmaceutical copan offers 65% of all spam. Moreover, the tendency of these messages is to reduce its size. This is the case of images, increasingly embedded in emails themselves but linked to external servers. This is because this way the creators have more control over active email accounts and also can generate more spam in less time. In this regard it is essential to configure mail clients to not display images by default. Of the 5 Kbytes per average spam message in October 2009 has gone to 3.3 Kbytes in February 2010. Finally, only 0.56% of these messages contains a file attachment.