Apple's patent for an optical stylus

Apple is working on a pen equipped with a camera ...

If Steve Jobs was highly critical of the use of the stylus at the presentation of the iPhone in January 2007, Apple engineers have worked on the subject yet as shown in this patent filed in November 2010 . It describes the operation of a pen using an optical sensor such as a camera placed in the stylus. The latter is used to determine the position and movement of the stylus as a function of the screen. It detects elements imperceptible to the eye on the smartphone's screen and communicates wirelessly with the device. This technology also allows taking into account the tilt sensor and a pen in this would support the notion of pressure. This pen could also pick one or more position sensors such as an accelerometer or a gyroscope to further improve accuracy.

Obviously, nothing says that Apple will offer in the near future a usable product with a stylus. However, this type of patent shows that engineers are interested in the issue of the stylus which can be useful in certain situations and especially for certain professions such as architects, designers and artists in general for that doodle is essential. There are pens compatible with capacitive screens of iPhone and iPad, but they do not take into account the pressure, which could be possible via a simple pressure sensor and the integration of Bluetooth 4.0.

PATENT WEBSITE HERE

Finally subscriptions for Google Apps Play

Google introduces new Way of monetizing for developers of Android apps, the ability to offer a subscription to their customers.

Google has added an important component to its Android application store, Google Play (formerly Market), allowing developers to offer their customers a subscription. The idea of ​​course is to provide another string to the bow of monetization of applications to open new opportunities for developers. This underwriting system can be leveraged by game developers and applications of all kinds, but of course the news publishers can now offer subscriptions to their magazines, with automated sampling. Samples that the user will of course be able to configure as it sees fit, in order to prevent abuse. Base, they will be automatically renewed.

After the in-app purchases successfully introduced by Google in March 2011 (23 of 24 applications are the most profitable Freemium Play on Google), so its Android catches up behind iOS in terms of subscriptions and now offers almost exactly the same monetization opportunities for application developers. Glu Mobile is the first company to have thrown on this subscription system for his game Frontline Commando.

FireFox 13 beta is Out for Download

Mozilla Has already started to offer downloading of FireFox 13 ,Even though FireFox 12 was released just few days before.

This new edition of the red panda browser offers several major new features in the GUI first with a default home page that provides quick access to key features via icons at the bottom of the screen (downloads, bookmarks, history, modules, browser settings), then opening a new tab appear blank is now a mosaic of nine thumbnails of most visited sites it is possible to rearrange the want by moving, deleting or pinning easily.

Google Drive: just launched and already over?

Google has (finally) launched its Google Drive. An expected service, helpful and well thought out, but already overtaken by the competition for space and rates.



There were so many rumors we finally stop the relay, tired of writing that Google Drive would be available "within one week." Rumors dating back several years for certain! But guess what, Google Drive is finally launched and with it arrives on Google in the storage market "in the cloud" where incumbents are already many (DropBox, Hubic, SkyDrive, Box.net, etc..).

Windows Store Now in More than 38 countries.Waiting For Big Launch

Microsoft recommends that developers of 33 new countries to submit their applications for the launch of Windows 8 and its Windows Store.

We are still waiting for Microsoft to formalize the release date of the various versions of Windows 8, detailed this week , the firm takes the lead on a major new brick system: The Windows Store. The application store, which, like the Mac App Store, will download and install "apps" on Windows 8, which will run on new metro interface.

AnonPaste: Anonymous Launches Pastebin like service

Since pastebin wants to clean and remove sensitive content it hosts, Anonymous launches the equivalent.

Pastebin is somehow has become a landmark of hackers where they are hosting and publishing sensitive information they collect during their attacks. This does little to please visibly site administrators who have recently indicated their intention " to clean "in the sensitive content. In response to these statements, the group Anonymous has decided to put its own online backup site online text. Called AnonPaste , it is based on open source platform ZeroBin and launched in partnership with another group of hackers, Peoples Liberation Front.

Skype soon in HTML5 in the browser?

Microsoft is reportedly trying to put forward Skype into browsers.

Skype would be interested in the Web. This is what implies from recent jobs at Microsoft. Videoconferencing in a browser requires the use of plugins, something that many people dont have. The company could then turn to HTML5 and its advanced capabilities which is almost common everywhere.

Microsoft could well follow the path of Mozilla. The foundation has indeed experience through its browser, communications and real-time without plugin. Using the API WebRTC (Real-time Communication), the browser fox could successfully establish a videoconference between two clients.

Good news: SkyDrive ,the file size limit raised to 300MB

Up to 25 GB of files of 300 MB online without paying a dime on Microsoft's SkyDrive.

While it is one of the most generous online storage, SkyDrive, Microsoft cloud service that offers 25 GB online to holders of a Microsoft Account ( formerly Windows Live ID ) is not that we hear about most. Recently, it was Hubic or Cubby who have made ​​headlines, always compared to the inevitable Dropbox. But SkyDrive will become even more interesting than it was previously ...

Indeed, perhaps the prospect of landing Google Drive on this burgeoning market, Microsoft has decided to increase the maximum file size accepted. The limit increases from 100 MB to 300 MB, which makes a beautiful difference and puts SkyDrive at same position as Dropbox, even if some find this limit still a little low.

Finally, Sergie Brin admire's Apple and Facebook

Sergei Brin says his remarks were misinterpreted by the Guardian and retracted his statements about Apple and Facebook.

Earlier this week, Sergei Brin, co-founder of Google, had said in substance that the policies of Apple and Facebook threaten the open Internet . In his interview with the Guardian, he declared: " You are forced to play by their rules, which are very restrictive , "which did not fail to react by many in the Web.

He therefore wished to clarify his thoughts by posting a note on his  Google+  page in which he explains that the interview in the Guardian is " a short summary of a lengthy discussion , "and that his statements" were particularly modified " .

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich focused on x86

Some developers try to bring the latest version of Android for x86 processors.

Recently, a version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for x86 circulating on the Internet. A first port whose code is primarily intended for developers to make some tests more or less promising tablets and netbooks. Obviously, the optimizations in this version pre-intended mainly to processors AMD , better used.

Chih-Wei Huang, one of the developers who made his name in bump on porting Android on x86, explains that this release supports WiFi and multi-point touch. However, GPUs are not put to use for acceleration OpenGL ES. Same, speakers, photo sensors and Ethernet are not yet recognized.

Top Most common Passwords online

123456 - A list of the worst passwords on the Internet

"Password", "123456", "monkey" or "michael". Here are the passwords of the most used by users of the web for email addresses and other accounts on social networks. This is the Telegraph, which reports a list of 25 passwords established by the American Splashdata application.

The daily notes that these accounts are therefore at high risk of piracy and said that hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts are hacked every day, as recognized by the firm .

Also, note a consultant interviewed by the Telegraph, 35% of people use the same password for each of their various accounts making it possible for a hacker to control all your web identity even greater.

If any of your passwords is listed below, it is time to change.

1. password

2. 123456

3.12345678

4. qwerty

5. abc123

6. monkey

7. 1234567

8. letmein

9. trustno1

10. dragon

11. Baseball

12. 111111

13. iloveyou

14. master

15. sunshine

16. ashley

17. bailey

18. Passw0rd

19. shadow

20. 123123

21. 654321

22. superman

23. qazwsx

24. michael

25. football</div>

In Sweden, the fiber up to 120 Gbps ...

In Sweden, a new record is being built around fiber optic ...

In Sweden, a scale experiment is taking place right now. Cisco and Telia (Swedish ISP) test a fiber network to go up to 120 Gbps! They even made an application for deposit in the Guinness Book to be recognized as the largest LAN parties in the world ...

To be eligible, it will exceed the 20,000 customers who are connected to the first phase and 750 000 for the second phase. This fiber will be drawn to a length of 300 km between Stockholm and Jönköping, thus taking all subscribers of this operator between the two cities. Telia is responsible for the fiber and equipment such as Cisco CRS-3, high-speed router that can handle up to 322 Tb / s.

Chrome and Android OS in the same HTC, to save Chromebooks?

HTC is not cooled by the failure of Chromebooks and would work on a terminal mixing Chrome and Android OS.

These days, the news is pretty grim for Chromebooks , these netbooks running Chrome OS - the operating system centered on Google's web browser. Indeed, the first two partners in Google on this one point, Samsung and Acer, saw sales currently very disappointing and agree reductions on these machines to try to sell on the end of this year from 25 to 30,000 parts delivered .

Nevertheless, the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC is not discouraged by the bad news and would be in the process of developing a terminal capable of running in both Chrome and Android OS.

An Amazon Android Phone for late 2012?

Amazon could, according to some informed sources, launch its own Android smartphone by end 2012.

The giant e-commerce is booming in multimedia terminals. After launch of reading light Digital Kindle. cheap Kindle and Table Fire with Android, here we talk about the arrival of a smartphone by Amazon scheduled for late 2012.

This is a study prepared by analysts at Citigroup, which reveals information and they said Amazon had entrusted the design of its smartphone Foxconn - already responsible for Apple's iPhone - and will consider proposing a terminal environment array processor (TI OMAP 4, modified version of Android 2.3) that manufacturing costs would not exceed $ 170. And that in order to offer the unit to a very aggressive price, even losing money on it as with the Kindle Fire Tablet .

Skype is compatible with Facebook accounts

With the new beta of Skype, Facebook accounts can easily do video conferencing.
Skype, a subsidiary of Microsoft player in the world of VoIP, now accounts for more than 30 million members permanently connected. To continue to increase its user base, the service announced a partnership with Facebook, the first global social network. A boon for Skype when you know that Facebook is approaching slowly from one billion members, although the 200 million Internet users remaining to pass this course are obviously hard to find.

Available in beta version, Skype 5.7 makes it possible to connect directly with their Facebook account on the software before placing video calls. Being short registration via Skype using the Facebook Connect module should indeed encourage users to use the service. Especially a list management allows friends "Skype" easily one of his contacts.
Note also the appearance of this version of another improvement (reserved for the PC version of the software at the moment) which is to enrich the screen sharing now available to many "viewers" simultaneously. Remains an option fee.

>> Download Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows 
>> Download Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac

PayPal: a gift via Facebook

How to avoid seeking a gift idea? Send a card with PayPal money directly through Facebook!
Paypal, a global leader in money transfer on the Internet, recently introduced an application using the Facebook API to send gift cards containing an amount of money chosen arbitrarily.

 
Moreover, the application page , called Send Money, is quite clear that it targets those in search of ideas for a birthday, for example. For the transfer function requires that both players have a Paypal account and live in one of 65 countries.

A tablet From Nokia having Windows 8 by June 2012?!

If Rumors are to be believed Nokia is coming up with New Windows 8 tablet by June 2012
(Update:-Now officially Confirmed)


Everyone wants to know when will the release of Windows 8.In 2012, of course, but earlier this year, before summer, fall like Windows 7? Any info that seems to give a good indication to be taken. As such, statements by the CEO of Nokia in France, Paul Amsellem, made ​​to the Echos, will not fail to sink the ink. Indeed, the latter said that Nokia was preparing a tablet on Windows 8 (probably under ARM) for "June 2012".Revelation when he spoke of the launch of Lumia 800 , the first Windows Phone from Nokia.

HP launches a mouse button with Facebook

HP launches new wireless mouse with touch wheel and a touch Facebook 

HP today introduced a new mouse, called Touch X7000 WiFi. This is the second mouse from HP to receive a Wi-Fi interface. Except that it does not adopt an ambidextrous design, unlike the WiFi Mobile Mouse, an ergonomic shape but clearly intended for right-handed. HP has opted for a glossy black plastic on top and a flat coating "soft-touch" under the thumb, to provide better "grip".

Its range is 10 meters, and its autonomy is announced at 9 months, while the WiFi connection has the advantage of direct free a USB port, sometimes valuable for laptop users. Another specific, this mouse offers - in addition to its five programmable buttons - one button dedicated to Facebook(not Re programmable)! A button is impossible to re-configure (re-!) who will run the social network each time. Note also that the scroll wheel is replaced by a touch strip, as in mice in the range of Microsoft Touch.

X7000 WiFi Touch This should land in stores in the coming days to about 60 dollars, and as many euros?

As Far as india is concerned Launch date is not yet announced hoping for it to come soon.