2.08 billion users
January 31, 2011
International Telecommunications Union has confirmed that at the end of last year, the number of Internet users was around 2.08 billion people. Overcoming twobillions limit was announced in October. Up to 1.2 Billion Internet users are now from developing countries, where the number of users accessing the Internet increases mainly due to the connection from your phone. And as mobile telephony, at the end of the year was 5.28 billion active mobile numbers.
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FF4 again below 100 points
January 26, 2011
The last two beta versions of FF web browser and also the latest stable version of Firefox 4 did not reach 100 points in the Acid3 test. FF 4 gets only 97 points and a test for testing the support for SVG 1.1 fonts, which FF does not support. FF seems such an implementation intention, and perhaps because the full implementation of SVG fonts in your web browser to be very difficult and it occurs in many problems.
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Improved Gmail icon
January 26, 2011
Unread message icon has its new extension, which yesterday unveiled Google. Thanks to this extension icons display Web the number of unread email messages on top of the Gmail favicon, which makes it easy to view the number of unread emails when several tabs are open or when using the Google Chrome ‘Pin Tab’ feature. If the number of unread conversations is more than a few dozen, is shown round ten times and the plus sign, for example, 70 +, 80 +, 100 +. Extension is functional only for Chrome version 6 and above and Firefox 2 and above.
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Google Cloud Print
January 25, 2011
Google launched this service back in April last year and allows you to print documents on printers attached to the user's Google account from Google web services but also other potential sources. Yesterday the company announced support of this service for smartphones for their web Gmail and Google Docs. Specifically, it relates for smartphones with support of HTML5, such as running on iOS3 + Android 2.1 +. Printed can be documents from Google Docs, text of emails from Gmail and some types of attachments to email, such as PDF and DOC.
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New Chairman for Google
January 21, 2011
55-year executive chairman Eric Schmidt leaves his position CEO of Google. From 4 April replaces him at this position one of the co-founders of Google, 37-year-old Larry Page. Schmidt will remain at the forefront of the Management Board and will be responsible for external communication, significant partnerships and communication with governments, will also be responsible for large customers. Page will be except of the position CEO in addition to directly manage product development and technology strategy, has held the position of CEO in 1998 and 2001.
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HTML5 with its own logo
January 18, 2011
New version of HTML, HTLM5 has now its own logo, which unveiled the World Wide Web Consortium. This organisation is responsible for standardizing HTML. Logo HTML5 is still not official, will become official only after its acceptance of the community. In addition it has been published and logos for different groups of technologies that are part of HTML5. For example there is logo for CSS3, for directly rendered and accelerated graphics and so on. All logos can be seen on the official website of the W3.
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Wikipedia celebrates birthday
January 17, 2011
The free encyclopaedia Wikipedia celebrated ten years of its existence on Saturday, 15 January 2011. It operates on the open principle and so that any visitor can add and edit content on the site. Exactly ten years ago, added his first article Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, along with Larry Sanger. Wikipedia reached 500,000 articles in 50 languages. Now, at 17 million articles in 270 languages and growing. According to recent statistics, Wikipedia is the most visited website in the world.
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Chrome has paid its ‘Elite’ Award
January 14, 2011
A year ago, Google launched a program designed to reward people who find critical security bugs for the Chrome browser. During that time several people were awarded, but only for base bugs with amount of $ 500. But now for the first time the company has already paid the highest award received by Sergei Glazunov. Precise details of the errors, which revealed not been published yet, but we know that Sergey got reward in the high of $ 3133.7.
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End of support for H.264
January 13, 2011
On Tuesday, Google announced that from their web browser Chrome will remove support for the HTML5 video compression standard H.264. For this step, the company decided in an effort to promote openness. For H.264 support is needed more than one patent application. H.264 uses the web video sharing service YouTube, but information about how the company plans to solve this situation is not known. Abolition occurs only several months, but Google announced the following information for webmasters.
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fb.com for 8.5 million dollars
January 12, 2011
The company providing famous social network site Facebook has purchased a domain fb.com from the organization American Farm Bureau Federation. This store was probably closed with the amount of $ 8,500,000. AFBF acknowledged during the annual meeting that in last year received this sum from the sale of domain. Information about other domains owned by this company is not known. While the domain is now only used internally as a domain for email addresses staff Facebook. With such a sum would have been domain fb.com the fifth most expensive in history.
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API for goo.gl
January 11, 2011
One of the known companies, Google Company, announced yesterday that for its URL shortener goo.gl finally makes the program interface. It will now be possible for people to integrate goo.gl into their applications and web pages. Users can extend or shorten your URL address using the API, to gain access to the history or statistics of clicked. According to the available tests goo.gl is fastest shortening and Google used it first in its web services in late 2009.
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App Store for Mac OS X
January 10, 2011
In December Apple promised to launch App Store for Mac OS X and fulfilled it on Thursday 6 January. App Store is a store and catalog with more than a thousand applications (paid and unpaid), now they have access to the users of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, who must first download and install the new 10.6.6 update. Applications are available to purchase via iTunes account. Apple has this way about trying to increase the marketability of paid apps for Mac OS X.
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New browser for tablets
January 5, 2011
At Consumer Electronics Show 2011, the company Opera Software should introduce its new browser, which is designed for tablets. The company released only video, in which browser is shown. According to the video should be called Opera Mobile. Video also reveals a very smooth panning and smooth zooming functions, loading less than a second. It is also not known whether this version will be available for other operating systems as Android. For more information we have to wait.
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Lending e-Books
January 3, 2011
Even during last week the biggest Web retailer of books and probably of e-books, Amazon, came with the possibility of lending purchased e-books. Now users can lend e-book, which was purchased by them, to other users. One user can lend one e-book once and for up to 14 days. The lender will not be able to read the book during the loan period. The borrower does not need to own a Kindle - Kindle books can also be read using our free Kindle reading applications for PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android devices. While not all books are available to lend and also only users from U.S. can lend e-books.
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Firefox 4 with a changed view
December 31, 2010
Even the Firefox developers have decided to save vertical space when the window is maximized. They move the list of tabs to the level of menu button, so to the level of system icons for minimize, maximize and close the window. Tabs are shown just below the title bar and so is unnecessary unused space. Probably the most welcome change users netbooks and notebooks, but yet still not appear in official development version of Mozilla FF 4. The experimental build also improves in discoverability with automatic display of submenus for Firefox menu items.
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Known the cause for the failure
December 30, 2010
Skype, in its official report informs the public about the causes and course of P2P network Skype outage, which occurred two days before Christmas. The main cause was a bug in Skype 5.0.0.152 for Windows, which was the last time the current version and used it about 50% of all users of the software. Skype will also be reviewing their processes for providing automatic updates to our users so that they can help keep everyone on the latest Skype software. They believe these measures will reduce the possibility of this type of failure occurring again.
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The third Beta of FF 4.0
December 27, 2010
On Wednesday Mozilla released their third beta version of Firefox 4.0 designed for mobile operating systems Android and Maemo. The new version of Android has clearly improved user interface, has also been simplified connection with Firefox Sync accounts used for synchronizing data with desktop version of FF. The browser uses the notification system, native style menu for Android and better supports Android keyboards. There were also solved problems in opening websites in FF from other applications.
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Skype has problems
December 23, 2010
Since early evening Wednesday is the largest VoIP software Skype outage. Skype is mostlz enrolled in the network, so cannot reliably make calls. Skype uses P2P network for providing their services, which on Wednesday began about 5 p.m. to report problems and the number of 20 million registered users (as is usually) rapidly began to decrease. Today in the early hours was online only from 300 to 400,000 users. Such failure will be a big blow to Skype’s reputation.
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Firefox 4.0 and its 8 Beta version
December 22, 2010
Since yesterday is available already the eighth beta version of Firefox 4.0 web browser released by Microsoft. The new version also brings several new enhancements such as improved manager, improved speed, functionality and compatibility WebGL, the interface further to allow web applications to hardware-accelerated rendering scenes. Some very significant news here is not because they were summarized in the previous seventh beta version of FF 4.0.
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Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0
December 20, 2010
Late last week, Microsoft made available for download a new version 2.0 of your antivirus program Microsoft Security Essentials. The new version of this popular program offers several improvements over previous versions. For example, is based on the core with better efficiency, better ability to eliminate malicious code and even better performance. MSE 2.0 is closely integrated with Internet Explorer, is available free for individual users and companies with more than ten computers.
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