Windows 8 will be Kill XP, Vista, and Windows 7

A good point was made by Ed Bott of ZDNet when he wrote a post that said that businesses were going to use Windows 8 as an excuse to get Windows 7. Sounds like crazy logic, but it makes sense. Businesses are not on the forefront of the technology revolution. They like to play it safe. Right now XP is safe.  Windows 7 is not. Next year, presumably in April when Windows 8 is released, it will make Windows 7 safe. Windows 8 will be looked upon as cutting edge technology, but untested.

With the majority of businesses still using XP the growth towards Windows 7 will intensify into acceptance. The result is inevitable. XP and Vista should breathe their last sometime in 2012.

The Economy and The Cloud
That said, the big IF is whether the US economy will improve enough to give businesses sufficient confidence that they can spend money. With the real estate market in the doldrums, jobs moving overseas, inflation, and high debt, businesses are worried that spending too much money may in fact kill their chances of profitability, if not the business itself. So one big issue is whether or not the economy will rebound.

Another issue that is starting to manifest itself, which was not a player when Windows 7 was released, is the Cloud. This allows software and hardware upgrades to be less important, because a company can lease the latest software and hardware from a Microsoft Data Center and make the transition to the most current technology. With Windows 8 coming, it may even supplant the Windows 7 element. All that Microsoft has to do is show that the legacy applications will run on Windows 8.

There is also fact that Windows 8 may have many features currently seen today in tablets and mobile smart phones. So the view that the technology is untested may not applicable, which in turn will allow businesses to make the transition to the most current OS.

Windows 8 Will Be Hardware Backwards Compatible

In the past, one of the biggest drawbacks to OS migration has been the problem of upgrade compatibility. IT managers were frequently worried that a new OS also meant an upgrade in the hardware. That was the stopping point. According to the economics of this scenario, you had to spend money on the new operating system and money on the hardware needed to run the operating system.

t the Microsoft Partner Conference, officials addressed this concern.

“In both of our Windows 8 previews, we talked about continuing with the important trend that we started with Windows 7, keeping system requirements either flat or reducing them over time. Windows 8 will be able to run on a wide range of machines because it will have the same requirements or lower.” In other words, the upgrade issue should be flat and non-existent. Provided, of course, that the system meets the following minimum requirements.

• 1GHz CPU
• 1GB RAM (for 32-bit systems) or 2GB RAM (for 64-bit systems)
• 16 GB hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver.

IT managers will still be concerned about the upgrade. The “What Again?” problem will be there. That is, if they have recently upgraded, will they be willing to make another upgrade so soon? Remember, that an upgrade is not just about an OS and hardware. It also means upgrading the skill set of employees. After all, why do the upgrade at all if they do not know how to use the new OS to its full capacity? Furthermore, there have to be re-assurances that the existing software will port over to the new OS. That means days, or weeks of testing. Sometimes this occurs simultaneously with the existing OS to make sure that the software in question will work.

For now, though Microsoft is making the effort that at least one upgrade problem will not occur, that is that IT managers will not have to upgrade their hardware.

Review BlackBerry Storm 3

The handset is touted as the BlackBerry Storm 3 began teasing the world gadget enthusiast. In a video, a gadget that has the nickname Monaco was trying to show off.
Sightings Storm 3 itself actually has been known since some time ago. But this time, the presence of the handset feels more real because of the present in video format. Because earlier still limited to photographs and illustrations.
Because carrying the family name 'storm', the BlackBerry Storm 3 course is designed with full touch screen navigation. Unlike the first version that relies on Storm SurePress technology, Storm 3 in the video can be seen already switched to a capacitive touch screen technology.
As a result, when the touch screen capabilities on display, running so smoothly follow the direction of sweep of the fingers is running.
Research In Motion (RIM) complete the Storm 3 with a trackpad and four basic buttons at the bottom of the face, namely that serves to lift and close the phone, menu and back buttons.
Quoted from detikINET, Tuesday (22/02/2011), Storm 3 comes with 3.7-inch screen, carries a BlackBerry OS 6 and reinforced with 1.2 GHz processor. The cameras are buried is still limited to 5 megapixels, but it is claimed can record video with 720p capability.
Want to try out soon? Unfortunately, you still have to be patient. Because, according to news circulating, new RIM will be releasing this handset in September 2011.
Here are the specs and features of the BlackBerry Storm 3 version BGR:

    * Processor 1.2GHz
    * Capacitive touch screen 3.7-inch 800 x 480
    * Quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE
    * Tri-band UMTS / HSPA
    * 5-megapixel camera
    * 8GB eMMC (storage for apps and data), 512MB RAM
    * MicroSD slot
    * Magnetometer
    * Proximity sensor
    * Accelerometer
    * Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
    * 2.4GHz b / g / n and 5GHz a / n Wi-Fi + UMA
    * 3G Mobile hotspot
    * Optical trackpad
    * 1230 mAh battery
    * BlackBerry OS 6.1
    * OpenGL ES 2.0

Samsung asks to see Apple's next iPhone, iPad

In an interesting turn of events, Samsung's legal team has asked Apple to hand over next-generation versions of the iPhone and iPad to make sure its own future devices will not be subjected to the same infringement claims the company currently faces as part of Apple's lawsuit from last month. 

The motion, filed on Friday with the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., and discovered by This Is My Next, asks the court to make Apple provide samples of the "final, commercial version(s)" of the iPhone and iPad, along with whatever retail packaging those products come in. Again, these aren't announced products, they're named in the filing as the "iPhone 4S," "iPhone 5," "iPad 3," and "third generation iPad." 

The news comes a week after Apple filed a motion to see final production samples of a number of announced, though unreleased, Samsung products, including the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 tablets, and smartphones like the Galaxy S II, Droid Charge, and Infuse 4G. The idea behind that was to evaluate whether these devices would fall under the same intellectual-property infringement claims Apple had already placed on Samsung devices like the Nexus S, Captivate, Continuum, and Mesmerize in its original court filing. 

Nilay Patel, of This Is My Next, notes that as with Apple's handling of the request to see Samsung's unreleased products, the Samsung request asks only that Samsung's lawyers, and not the company's product teams, be allowed to see the Apple devices. That said, the retaliation preys on the element of surprise, historically one of Apple's biggest strengths when introducing new products.

Apple's lawsuit against Samsung (PDF), back in April, alleged that Samsung had copied Apple's mobile devices both in terms of user interface and design features. Apple also alleged that the Samsung devices in question infringed on Apple's patents, and resulted in Samsung practicing unfair competition. Samsung fired back by launching a wave of patent infringement lawsuits targeting Apple's products in multiple countries. 

The case continues to generate intense interest from tech onlookers. While the two companies compete, Apple and Samsung have historically been close business partners, with Apple making use of a number of Samsung components across the range of its devices. Nonetheless, the relationship has not kept Samsung and its telecommunications group from being targeted.

Twitter gives up details of anonymous tweeter

One of the fun aspects of Twitter is that you can pretend to be someone else--or just make a name up for yourself--and express your true feelings about so very many things. However, if your feelings happen to be seen as libelous, you might now have a problem.

For the Guardian reports that Twitter has revealed the name, e-mail address, and telephone number of a person who tweeted some rather critical notions about a local council in the U.K. The council of South Tyneside, in the rather chilly north of England, decided to petition a court in California in order to secure these details.

Twitter's privacy policy does state the following: "We may disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect Twitter's rights or property. It seems that, in this case, several Twitter accounts had been the repositories of rather severe accusations. And the Guardian reports that suspicion had fallen on one of the council's own members, Ahmed Khan, who reportedly admitted that Twitter had contacted him to inform him of his unmasking. Khan reportedly said, though, that he was not the author of the material that is alleged to be libelous. Khan told the Guardian: "It is like something out of 1984. If a council can take this kind of action against one of its own councilors simply because they don't like what I say, what hope is there for freedom of speech or privacy?"

Well, now, talking of freedom of speech and privacy, where does this leave the distraught mind of world famous soccer player Ryan Giggs and the rippling muscles of his lawyers? Should you have missed seeing Giggs' Manchester United humiliated by Barcelona in yesterday's European Champions League Final, you might also have missed that Giggs reportedly tried to sue thousands of tweeters who revealed some slightly humiliating information about him. Giggs is one of many wealthy--but, perhaps, not ultimately wise--British people who took out a so-called superinjunction preventing a woman from publicly revealing details of a personal relationship with the married player.

What resulted was that thousands of tweeters--some famous, some not--took to Twitter to reveal his name, until, ultimately, a member of the U.K. parliament decided to make it official by standing up and blurting it ou tloud. (U.K. MPs can say what they want in the confines of their quaint little chamber.) The question is whether Giggs--and anyone else who feels that they have been illegally besmirched on Twitter--will now go through with the idea of simultaneously suing tens of thousands of people, something that would surely make a fine subject for the next John Grisham novel.

Google's top five standoffs--from Apple to Yahoo

When PayPal filed its lawsuit against Google yesterday for poaching a key executive for its mobile-payment business, it got us thinking about the growing list of enemies Google has made over the years. Sometimes Google takes heat for doing the right thing, as it did in China. After wrestling with censorship, the company chose to shut down its Google.cn site and redirected users to the uncensored Chinese-language Google.com.hk domain in Hong Kong.

But Google has also managed to alienate regulators, both in the United States and abroad. And as the company pushes into new markets, it's found a passel of new rivals with which to do battle.

So here, then, are the top five confrontations (not scientifically selected) in which Google has managed to mire itself: Apple: While Google's then-CEO Eric Schmidt sat on the board at Apple, Google developed its Android mobile phone operating system. It may not have seemed like a conflict of interest to Schmidt for the three years he served as a director. But the Federal Trade Commission raised some questions, even after Schmidt resigned. And Apple? It's CEO, Steve Jobs, felt betrayed enough that he reportedly railed on Google at an internal meeting, saying, "We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake, they want to kill the iPhone."

Yahoo deal: In 2008, Google was forced to back down from plans to create a search advertising partnership with Yahoo. The defeat, a rare one in Google's brief history, came as the company overreached, according to regulators and advertisers. The deal would have further strengthened Google's already massive lead in search advertising. It misjudged the opposition the deal engendered.

Street View: Shortly after launching Street View in 2007, Google caught flack from governments and privacy advocates for displaying photographs that included people's faces and car license plates. It creeped out users, showing people walking into adult bookstores and inadvertently flashing their underwear at Google's cameras. The company even acknowledged Google collecting e-mails, passwords, and URLs from Wi-Fi networks while the company was snapping images for its Street View service. The company continues to address the fallout from privacy concerns sparked by Street View.

Google Books: The company boldly sought to digitize every book ever written, making the world's literature available to anyone interested in any title. Quickly, the ambitious effort took heat for attempting to profit from books without the permission of copyright owners. When Google reached a settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, another batch of opponents stepped forward, complaining that Google would amass too much control as the only organization in the world with a license to scan and display books that have gone out of print but were still protected by copyright laws. In March, Google lost a round in that fight when a New York federal judge rejected the settlement.

Rogue online pharmacies: Earlier this month, Google disclosed a $500 million charge in its first quarter to cover the potential cost of resolving an investigation by the Department of Justice, reportedly for accepting ads from rogue online pharmacies in violation of federal law. The eye-popping amount suggests to some legal scholars that Google knew it was taking business from companies that broke the law. Google took steps to curtail advertising by illicit pharmacies in February 2010 and even won praise from the Obama administration in December for making efforts to block those ads. Now the company just needs to resolve the lingering dispute with the Justice Department.

(Source : http://news.cnet.com)

Smart software cracks sound-based CAPTCHA security

Efforts to make the web more accessible have unwittingly made it less secure, according to computer scientists who have developed software to crack the audio CAPTCHAs used by websites as part of their sign-up process.

You're probably familiar with traditional CAPTCHAs, the obscured words used to verify that a new user is a person rather than a bot, but the image-based security measure is difficult for visually impaired people to use. To help such users websites also offer audio CAPTCHAs, in which a computerised voice reads out letters or digits distorted by noise, but their security hadn't been as extensively studied as the visual versions.

Now, researchers have used software called Decaptcha to crack commercial audio CAPTCHAs used by eBay, Microsoft, Yahoo and others, with success rates from 41 to 89 per cent. The system known as reCAPTCHA - developed by the original inventors of the CAPTCHA and now owned by Google - was more resilient to attack, with only 1.5 per cent of CAPTCHAs broken. Even such a low success rate renders audio CAPTCHAs useless, as an attacker in control of a large botnet of infected computers can easily afford to make 100 attempts for every successfully created account.

Decaptcha uses a number of audio-processing techniques to remove noise and identify the individual digits in an audio CAPTCHA. The software has to be trained for 20 minutes on each type of CAPTCHA and can then solve tens of CAPTCHAs per minute on an ordinary desktop computer.

The researchers say their techniques leave most modern audio CAPTCHAs unusable, and alternatives must be developed. Decaptcha struggles only with CAPTCHAs that include semantic noise, which are sounds that share characteristics with spoken digits such as music or vocal tracks. For example, reCAPTCHA uses background conversations to obscure the digits, making it hard for the software to pick them out.

Humans can also find these CAPTCHAs difficult to understand, however, which means reCAPTCHA has a high failure rate. The researchers suggest using music rather than vocal tracks could create CAPTCHAs that are still hard for Decaptcha but easier for humans, because we can tune in to the correct sounds. They presented their work yesterday at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, California.

Google App Engine goes for Go language

Go, Google's experimental programming language, is coming to the company's App Engine cloud-computing service--and a bit closer to reality in the process. Google hopes to use Go to tackle modern programming challenges such as getting useful work out of chips with multiple processor cores. Getting new languages to catch on is difficult, though--it took Sun Microsystems years with Java, and its Fortress never really caught on widely. 

But incorporating Go into App Engine could help make it more relevant, or at least easier to test out, by reducing the hassles involved in trying it. App Engine is a service for running software on Google's infrastructure--a higher-level foundation than the nuts and bolts Amazon Web Services provides, but a lower level than full-fledged applications such as Google Docs. 

The company announced the Go move last week at the Google I/O show and released a new Go software development kit (SDK) to let programmers try it out. So far, though, the SDK is as far as the average person can get, because Google hasn't publicly released the service. "You don't even need to have Go installed beforehand because the SDK is fully self-contained.Just download the SDK, unzip it, and start coding," said Go team members David Symonds, Nigel Tao, and Andrew Gerrand on the Go blog. "We will soon enable deployment of Go apps into the App Engine hosting infrastructure...Once full deployment is enabled, it'll be easy to push your app to Google's cloud." 

App Engine started with the ability to run software written in Python, a popular language within Google. Second came Java, which is widely used to run server software. Go, while not the fixture of mainstream computing the first two languages are, has attracted a very active programming community. The language is an open-source software project. 

Go on App Engine can handle the full go language and, when programs run, they can tap into most of the standard suite of libraries of pre-built tools that come with Go. In addition, Go is adapted for several App Engine features designed to let applications run at large scale, such as the Datastore interface for storing information in a database. 

However, some elements of Go are missing for now--including one part of the Go sales pitch, the ability to spread jobs more easily across multiple threads that run in parallel. "Although goroutines and channels are present, when a Go app runs on App Engine only one thread is run in a given instance," the Go team members said. "That is, all goroutines run in a single operating system thread, so there is no CPU parallelism available for a given client request. We expect this restriction will be lifted at some point." 

Even in its preliminary form, Go should appeal to some coders, said

"It's...an interesting new option for App Engine because Go apps will be compiled to native code, making Go a good choice for more CPU-intensive tasks," said Google's Scott Knaster in a Google Code blog post. "Plus, the garbage collection and concurrency features of the language, combined with excellent libraries, make it a great fit for Web apps."

Via launches Quad-Core Processors New Most Powersave

VIA announced the launch of a new QuadCore processor, quad-core processor with the most rencah power needs in today's market. QuadCore processor is natively 64-bit compatible and comes with a number of additional performance features including Adaptive Overclocking cache, 4MB L2, 1333MHz Bus and V4. 27.5 watts TDP. At first speed available is 1.2 + GHz.

 

VIA latest quad-core processor is built using 40nm manufacturing technology and to use a package VIA 21mm x 21mm NanoBGA2 of the die size of 11mm x 6mm. These processors also include support for VIA VT virtualization technology and VIA Padlock with Advanced Cryptography Engine. QuadCore processors fully pin-to-pin compatible with VIA Eden, VIA C7 and VIA Nano E-Series, and VIA Eden processor X2.

Apple Beats Google

Apple managed to beat Google as the world's most valuable brand. According to the research institute Millward Brown's global brand, Apple has beat the performance of Google's search engine positions in the last four years.  Peter Walshe, Millward Brown Director of Global Brands, said Apple managed to pull the market through careful attention to detail. It also supported increasing the presence of various gadgets Apple in the corporate environment. The iPhone and iPad market share as a trademark of Apple has now reached U.S. $ 153 billion, nearly half of Apple's market capitalization.  Of the 10 top brand in the report on Monday, May 9, 2011, six positions occupied by technology and telecommunications companies. Under the Apple is Google in second place, IBM in third, Microsoft is at number five, AT & T at number seven, and China Mobile in ninth position.  In addition, McDonald `s moved up two places to number four. `Looks like fast food experience the fastest growth, 'says Walshe.  He said demand from China is a major factor in the rise of fast food brands this. `China has found a fast food according to the market. Brand Starbucks, McDonald `s, and Pizza continues to grow in China,` he said.  In another position, Coca-Cola dropped one place to number six. Marlboro also dropped one notch to number eight, and General Electric are in position 10. Walshe said nineteen of the 100 top brands from emerging markets, up from 13 years ago. While the search engine Baidu's rise to number 29 from 46.  Score a total of 100 big brand rose 17 percent to $ 2.4 trillion. That was caused by global economic growth continues to shift.

YouTube Founder buy Yahoo's Delicious

Social bookmarking service, Delicious, recently acquired avos, a company owned by co-founder of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Yahoo said in an official statement, that they will continue to run the Delicious service until about July. The user information will then be submitted to avos. The new owners say they will continue to run the site as before.

On the frequently asked questions page on Delicious, Yahoo said "there may be an adjustment period when avos relaunched Delicious, but the company's intention to add new features and expand its services as a whole." "We are very excited to work with this community. Naturally Delicious is fantastic when taken to the next level, "said Hurley, CEO avos in his official page.

Hurley stated that they saw a tremendous opportunity to simplify the way users store and share content wherever they find on the Web. As part of the transition, Yahoo said, bookmarks public and private users will be preserved. To facilitate these changes, Yahoo asking users to agree to information they have moved to a new company. Those who do not agree with the terms avos will not be able to access your bookmarks or service Delicious.

Yahoo acquired Delicious in 2005. However, several years later, Yahoo plans to close as part of its parts. Yahoo later revealed that Delicious tercata no longer strategic in Yahoo and they will seek an outside company to get it. "We talk to various interested parties to acquire the site, then chose Chad and Steve on the basis of their enthusiasm and unique vision for Delicious," said John Matheny, senior officials and the community of Yahoo's communications in their official pages.

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Spread the word Scam, Beware Dislike Links on Facebook

Do not be too quick to click the link labeled "Enable Dislike Button" on Facebook, because the scam will spread rapidly and can cause problems for users of social networking. Messages that contain the button has appeared in various wall users. According to security firm, Sophos Security, scammers have replaced the "Share" in the bottom wall post with a link that reads "Enable Dislike Button".

However, the fact that the link "Enable Dislike Button" does not appear on the core message, but in baswah "Link" and "Comment ", which is used to fool users who believe that the link was real. By clicking on the link, it will automatically forward a false message about the "up Dislike Button" to all friends wall of users, but also will run a Javascript on the victim's computer.

According to Sophos, there are no buttons Dislike provided by Facebook, just a trick for distributing malware, so that the user would then paste the JavaScript into the browser address bar, and the survey would appear dangerous.

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Google Gmail Lab is the perfect email service Gmail to make it more efficient. Today, Google added a new feature in Gmail Background Send for a user to do other tasks while dikiriman via email or background behind the scenes. Background Features Send this can be enabled by accessing the Gmail Labs options in the Settings. When it is activated, which should be done when it will send an email, click Send and then proceed to check other email.

The important thing is, the browser window must be active when sending email. In this case, you must login and Internet connection is active. Enabling Background Send, press the Send button, but then turn off your PC or Mac does not guarantee whether your email sent. When email addresses are incorrect or there is a problem in sending mail behind the scenes, Google will give a warning message at the top of the inbox of users. The warning message will give choice to users, if you want to fix it now or later. When sending emails successfully, the user will receive a text message that the message has been sent, at the top of the inbox.

Smart Phone Electronic Paper

Prototype smart phone made ​​of electronic paper has been made ​​by Canadian researchers.

PaperPhone can do anything like in the smart phone such as calling, sending short messages, play music and includes an electronic book.

This gadget will perform different functions and features when folded and bent at the corners and sides.

Everything''could be seen and felt like this in the next five years,''said the creator of Dr. Roel Vertegaal.

This smart phone comes from collaboration between researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queen's University, Canada and Motivational Environments Research Group at Arizona State University.

This computer''looks, feels and operates like a small interactive paper,''so the question Dr. Vertegaal.

You interact with a folded''into a cellphone, fold corners into a book or write with a pen,''he continued.

The prototype was made ​​a few millimeters thick e-ink technology used in electronic book Kindle from Amazon. And then combined with a flexible sensor technology and touch screen to draw or write.

This prototype was made to investigate how easy it is to the folding and expanding a tool like this.

Version originally linked to a laptop computer for translating and recording.

Dr. Vertegaal predicts the use of wide version PaperPhone possibility of creating a paperless office closer to realization.

PaperPhone prototype will be shown May 10 at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Vancouver.

At the same time the research team will show off a device called a Snaplet. This tool will feature different functions depending on how he folded.